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Artist, printmaker, cartoonist, creative loose cannon, b 1st half 20thC. Likes baking bread. Lives in Cumbria. His imagination is often elsewhere. #FBPE
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RIP Alfred Brendel 🎹 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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Cartoon for football fans from When Saturday Comes @wsc.co.uk

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Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Risk of death increases even more if hit by a SUV on 30mph road.

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Uninviting. But very interesting.

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“In the hatred of science and medical research, MAGA resembles the Maoist hatred of the "intellectuals" during the Cultural Revolution. But instead of Mao's little red book, we have Trump's big red ball cap.”

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Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Republican lie aged worse than Joe Biden.

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When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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Ooh. Liverpool at Deepdale. ⚪️⚫️🔴🔴 #pnefc #lfc Note: It’s Deepdale, not Deepdale Stadium

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Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery & local communities www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Spanish police’s plea for respect backfires over photo of old women alfresco www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

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What have I seen in Liverpool this week? Kindness in person and conspiracies online | Liam Thorp www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Research continues…

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Barry Fantoni was a brilliant caricaturist! RIP Barry Fantoni obituary Cartoonist, illustrator, TV show host, playwright and detective novelist whose greatest love was poetry www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Best pie at Morecambe. Best fan zone at Carlisle. Both clubs relegated out of the football league. 🙁

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Morecambe Bay quicksand warning issued www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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‘It wasn’t meant to end this way’: Lineker signs off from Match of the Day www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Jerzy Dudek: ‘Carra said to do the spaghetti legs like Grobbelaar but I needed to study my book’ #LFC www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Liverpool urge fans to keep pyrotechnics away from Premier League victory parade Yes please. Flares are best used in emergencies at sea not in packed football crowds. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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“An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction” Jenkins has changed his tune too. He was anti-EU before. It was not a mistake. It was a deliberate treasonable act by malign politicians.

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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

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The Brexiters are the past now. They must be left there, for the good of the country inews.co.uk/opinion/cant...

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And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2025 are... Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian. #PaulFootAward2025 www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

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In the never-ending Brexit Wars saga, reality is finally fighting back | Rafael Behr

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