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It’s a good day to be a Michigan Ave tulip 🌷

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The government has been busy making new laws. Lots of them. Across rail, education, planning, environment, housing... But most people have not noticed. So, here’s a very handy roundup of progress/changes, including a full list of those new laws and which ones have already had royal assent. 👇

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Rewilding efforts lay foundations for Dalmatian pelican comeback in Europe rewildingeurope.com/news/rewildi...

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The final post of our testimonial week is the most powerful yet. Here's Nima to tell you how @bylines.scot gave him the freedom of speech he was denied elsewhere in the world. Wow, amazing stuff! Help us help more people share their voices: bylinesnetwork.co.uk/donate/

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,'Tulips in Norfolk' Reduction Linocut designed and hand printed by Louise Stebbing, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

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As every schoolgirl knows, the Bayeux Tapestry also contains more penises than women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I created the London Borough of Culture to bring communities together. The Strictly Wandsworth event in Battersea delivered in spectacular style, with 200 dancers from local organisations taking part in the biggest dance event the borough has ever seen.

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hypnovizion.lnk.to/contorted I imagine your speaker-box pumping in your chest so a good one for volume-up #newmusic

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drop.cobrand.com/d/SebastianI... #musicsky #newmusic

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orcd.co/massano-natu... ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🧨 🔥…boom

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Indian artist Rekha Rodwittiya,The Guarded Megalopolis of the Feminine Heart, 2012 #womensart

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Pay package of UK CEOs grown faster this year than those of their US rivals. FTSE1 00 CEO median pay up 11%. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008. Govts say wage rises for workers are inflationary; ignore rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Its class war. archive.ph/wtgAn

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www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi... EU youth mobility scheme is 'no-brainer', German ambassador to UK tells LBC. Unless, of course, you are a government minister.

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A new youth mobility scheme with the EU would give our young people the opportunity to develop vital skills, experiences and friendships across Europe. I’ll keep pushing for more opportunities like this for Londoners.

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Babs Pease, contemporary artist printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

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Which is more important for UK trade? ONS figures: 🇬🇧 goods exports: 16.2% to,🇺🇸 48% to 🇨🇨 🇬🇧 goods imports: 9.7 % from 🇺🇸, 55% from 🇨🇨 🇬🇧 services exports: 27% to 🇺🇸, 36% to 🇨🇨 🇬🇧 services imports: 19.5% from 🇺🇸, 45% from 🇨🇨 Rachel Reeves is right on this

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Single white bluebell doing its best to stand out from the crowd. Never give up your individuality!

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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay

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Soubhiye, from Lebanese Arabic, is the enjoyment of a quiet moment of peace before everyone else is awake. Gökotta is a Swedish term for waking up early to enjoy the birdsong. For the rest of us, there is hurkle-durkling, from Scots: lingering in bed long after it’s time to get up.

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"The amount the government is seeking to cut from the benefits bill is colossal: £4.5bn every year by 2029/30. To put this in context, the government currently spends £48bn on health-related benefits, so this is a cut of just under 10%."

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This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating rural for Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social Here's one of our favourite Winifred Nicholson paintings - Hallbankgate (recto) 1930 from their own collection

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Donald Trump is turning his back on free trade and, with it, the €1.6 trillion transatlantic trade relationship. That's motivating the European Union to do trade deals with just about everyone else.

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People in North of England and Wales would be the hardest hit by disability benefit cuts. They will suffer three times the economic impact and with twice as many affected residents as London and the south-east. Deprived areas have more people with disabilities. No impact assessment from govt.

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Which way Canada?

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Trump administration officials are attempting to block the world’s most important energy research agency from producing data that the US government argues favors renewable power over fossil fuels.

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🚨🚨 NATO SG Mark Rutte said the alliance agrees that Russia is a "long-term threat" to Euro-Atlantic security following his visit to the White House on April 24. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/nato-views-r...

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🔴 LATEST | Zelensky may have to give land to Putin for peace, says Kyiv mayor Klitschko

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President Trump's signature trade achievement may yet be the passing of the EU-Mercosur FTA after 25 years... If India does trade deals with the EU and UK then he can also take some credit. Opposite of his intent of course... www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Our volunteers have moved around 150 tonnes of spoil from Gallows Wharf to Gallows Reach, and used it to build a new temporary path across the canal. This will allow us to dig out the current path (by Fishface) ready for the new lift bridge to be installed this summer. #WeDigCanals #Lichfield

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London’s diversity is not a weakness, it’s one of our greatest strengths. But there are some who seek to sow division and spread hate in our city. This is what we’re doing about it ⬇️

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there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊

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The EU is looking into whether Hungary’s plan to deploy facial recognition technology to identify people attending LGBTQ+ Pride events is illegal.

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US and European officials have denied over and over again that the US commitment to NATO under President Donald Trump is wobbling and that Washington is mulling withdrawing troops — but few doubt the moment will eventually come.

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Polish folk embroidery, woman's bodice, hand and machine-sewn, c.1920 #womensart

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Trump wants to slash suicide lifeline for LGBT+ kids – despite it being the second biggest cause of death for American youth

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Happy Birthday William Shakespeare! Thanks for all the music 🎶 and all those many friends I keep close to my chest…🖋️ #booksky #words

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Using embroidery, yarn, and wool, Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates textile art depicting land and seascapes #womensart

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LATEST | Rachel Reeves insists Trump is ‘keen to do a deal with the UK’ ahead of crunch talks

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Do IMF projections show the UK is ‘still the fastest growing European G7 country’?

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#Booksky📚💙

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The MSM is ignoring the fact that US and UK Zone Fever is here to stay. Freeports, SEZs, FEZs, EPZs FTZs, Free Zones, Enterprise zones, whatever you want to call them, are stepping stones to Charter Cities/Free Cities, what used to be known as Company Towns. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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OPINION: Just last week, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party adopted a bill that would allow the government to temporarily strip dual citizens of their Hungarian passports, should they be deemed to have acted “in the interest of foreign powers.” The ambitions of this bill are clear as day.

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What a fantastic first day of our #GreenMatchFund Big Give appeal - we've raised £15,947 so far. Please support us if you can - we've got a long way to go to unlock all of the match funding. Donations will be doubled with six days left: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #Lichfield #Staffordshire

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Let’s celebrate the real England England is not the far-right fringe—it's a nation of compassion, protest, and progress. The people show who we are @northeastbylines.co.uk

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LATEST | Trump’s tariffs raise chances of U.S. and global recession to ‘almost 100%’, economist warns

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UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves arrives in Washington today for a pivotal IMF summit to discuss the precarious — and completely avoidable — global economic situation. The fact that the IMF slashed the UK’s 2025 growth forecast yesterday hasn’t made things any easier. London Playbook has more 👇

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