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This is truly inspirational. It’s what we need to hear right now. Thank you Bishop Mariann Budde ❤️
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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One of my blindspots as a political journalist is economics, I make no secret of it, but can we not just tell the markets to chill the f out

The UK is not suffering another Truss shock 👇
www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...
The UK is not suffering another Truss shock - Central Banking
The increase in gilt yields is a long way from the turmoil of 2022, writes Jagjit Chadha. But it does highlight flaws in the use of fiscal rules
www.centralbanking.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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One of the richest countries in the world
People struggling to pay energy bills whilst companies make record profits.

Sewage in our waters whilst water company CEOs & shareholders make billions.

People skipping meals whilst Labour Government refuse wealth taxes or to invest in our country.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
One in six UK workers skipping meals to make ends meet, says TUC
Trade unions body finds 17% have skipped meal in past three months, and as many as 10% do so most days
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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United Utilities releasing sewage into Lake Windermere using a permit that has not been updated in more than 30 years.

Fraud - customer pay for proper sewage disposal. companies dump it in rivers/lakes.

Govts/Ofwat let water companies boost profits by fleecing people.
archive.ph/dYjct
Water firm allowed to pour sewage in Windermere using permit from 1989
Treatment works that release sewage into a stream connected to Lake Windermere is 'decrepit, primitive and inadequately maintained', say campaigners
inews.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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December 27, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Nothing is worth more than this day.

Goethe
December 22, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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December 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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THIS makes me think
December 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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This from @sophyridge.bsky.social is so perfectly right. I have been thinking the same but couldn’t put the right words together.
December 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice. I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through.

Virginia Woolf
December 20, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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@humblyjay.bsky.social Be Kind ☺️
December 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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I’ve spent the last 18 months writing about the Roman Empire. In some ways, we’ve progressed immeasurably far in the last 1500 years. But there are still too many things about contemporary politics that I think would have felt all too familiar to them. I persist in my optimism that we can do better.
December 8, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️
December 3, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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You can do Farnborough to London in 40 minutes for £20 on the train. Yet it's the most popular route for private jet travel in the UK. Let's not pretend this is normal www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Why it’s time for the ultra-rich to abandon luxury—and their private jets—to save the world
Do you fancy chartering a private jet for a £1m world tour? Perhaps £62,000 on a new watch, or £89,000 on a bracelet? There is a magazine to cater to ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Writing about Northern Ireland this morning, I am thinking about something the novelist Glen Patterson told me when I was in Belfast in October:

"Politics monopolizes language. Literature can try and claim it back.”
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

🙏🏼🌍🕊️
December 1, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Journalists writing puff pieces about the joys of private jets isn’t a great look in the middle of @COP29_AZ . We may have a small role in halting the climate crisis - but cheering it on is different. My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Why it’s time for the ultra-rich to abandon luxury—and their private jets—to save the world
Do you fancy chartering a private jet for a £1m world tour? Perhaps £62,000 on a new watch, or £89,000 on a bracelet? There is a magazine to cater to ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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The moon disguised as Saturn
November 28, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM