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So, May was summer and Jume is autumn in Glasgow, yes?

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We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life. Items include…

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If people were slaughtered at a food bank in Leeds it would make headlines for weeks. 27 starving Palestinians cut down by tank and drone fire at an aid distribution point in Gaza barely makes the front page. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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NEW: Scotland has the best access to culture of any part of the UK, according to a survey, but statistics indicate a class divide still exists

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NEW: Labour minister Diana Johnson left MPs dumbfounded after refusing to reveal what evidence had made her U-turn and oppose drug consumption rooms when asked by SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn

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19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year: Lowe's Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Toyota Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo PepsiCo Nissan PricewaterhouseCoopers Citi Mastercard Booz Allen Hamilton Deloitte

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NOW PLAYING: Episode 15: The Heavens Fall The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

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The submission window for the Library’s scholarship programme opened on Monday 2nd June! Due to the generosity of those who endow the funds, there are 21 scholarships in total, covering areas such as theology, arts and humanities, and the nineteenth-century. 1/3

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🚨"Old-fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a v warped sense of what the average voter thinks & explain just why ministers are still being exhorted to defend a #Brexit the nation no longer supports."

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Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women | Laura Bates

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Reporter: He said Zelenskyy didn't have the cards when they met in the oval office a few months back. Does Zelenskyy possibly have some cards that the president hadn't known about?

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At the Sherlock Holmes Museum this morning where a worrying number of visitors seemed to think he was real and these were really his things

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The resurgence of antisemitism, on the right and putative left, is terrifying -- and those who deny it repulse me -- but Jews are not being aided by Trump, who has played a key role in normalizing antisemitic conspiracism in the GOP, as I wrote here back in 2024.

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The story of war is one of kidnapping, slavery and rape. And what we talk about is strategy and territory | Zoe Williams

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Tomorrow is the day! OMG I'M SO EXCITED! I hope you all really enjoy it. It's my best book yet, I think. And a page-turner, too, so get comfy on your couch, bed, or hammock to enjoy this thrilling tale about one of history's most intriguing women: La Maupin! #queer #yafantasy #historicalfantasy

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This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

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Hello London

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youtu.be/x--N03NO130?... Only Monsters Play God…

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A thread containing a few more thoughts on the Unbound disaster: When - after a long time of making late payments - Unbound first began to not pay their authors at all, it soon became abundantly clear they were very keen for me not to talk about it publicly. It was tricky...

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Pure AWESOMENESS…👇 Pass. It. On. 😎✨

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Looking along Mitchell St to the distinctive tower of the former Herald Building, designed in 1895 by a young draughtsman named Charles Rennie Mackintosh. #Glasgow

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‘What the Nazis did to Warsaw, we did to Glasgow’: the tragedy of a great city’s rise and fall I explore the history of Glasgow through its buildings, from its foundation 850 years ago to its glory days as a leading world city and on to its sorry decline today www.heraldscotland.com/news/2520557...

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On the #Curae prize There'a trumpet to blow and Imma gonna blow it. In terms of prizes it provides the BEST in the #publishing #writing industry (I will get to £ in a moment). 1. Solidarity & support. A year. Forever 2. It's free to enter 3. Entries are anonymised 4. Judges are THE BEST 5. 3 x £500!

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Calling care partners/companions of people living with dementia. We have 7 spaces left on our study evaluating a mobile text messaging service offering psychological support during the month of June. Contact [email protected] for further info.

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You up, Jake Tapper?

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How it is possible to be aware of the impact of Israel’s year-and-a-half war on Gaza and yet to look away? @josiegz.bsky.social’s on the complicity of many Israelis. www.prospectmagazine...

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Another glaring example of nepotism. X AE A-12 should have joined the end of the queue…

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Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

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The Unbound fuck-up is specifically awful, but generic. The creators of “content” being the last people to get paid, while the people who own the pipe do fine. It’s the new normal. It’s Spotify’s CEO taking home millions. It’s AI stealing our work. It’s that. Again. Which is exhausting.

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Good grief. The Garrick has let three women join in a year, to be part of its roughly 1,300 existing members. Great work boys on.ft.com/4mw7Lw2

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‘Something had been loosened worldwide,” Ardern says, with rage everywhere, public servants being followed and attacked, as if they were “somehow distinct from being human” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Reform has five MPs, the Green Party has four, and the LibDems have 72 Do you think the media coverage of each of those parties has been proportional to their representation in parliament?

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