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#MedievalMonday The Alfred Jewel A 9th-century masterpiece of goldsmith's art. Linked to king Alfred the Great by an inscription ‘AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN’ / ‘Alfred ordered me to be made’. Cloisonné enamel and rock crystal encased in gold. 871-899 AD. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

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The courage of those Georgians and especially of this woman is just amazing.

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We need an urgent inquiry in the UK into foreign interference in our politics & media. …one which needs to advise rules for Parliament to enact before the next General Election hits.

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'No sign Steve, I think we've lost him.....' #birds 🪶

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Beautiful! #SignageSaturday

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This is both sad and infuriating. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

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Relief for travellers as suspicious package at Euston Station found to be empty bag of bollox. #Farage

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Today's analysis by @DanNeidle.bsky.social of the changes to farm inheritance taxation is worth reading if you're interested in why this is so contentious. An unintended side-effect is to reinforce the impression that the Treasury rushed this without understanding it. taxpolicy.org.uk/202...

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Tis the season… 😂

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Identifying piles of Roman coins at the weekend. I really know how to live, laugh, love. This design, on a nummus struck at Trier for Constantius II, c. 353, is appropriate enough for a Sunday, I guess… #RomanBritain

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We are ok here - localised power cuts and standing water on the roads - but it's awful in the Valleys proper :( #ClimateChange www.bbc.com/news/article...

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When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

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X-ray tech's hand showing damage from radiation exposure, c.1900. This photo from the Royal London Hospital demonstrates just how damaging the effects of radiation exposure can be. X-rays were first discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, but their dangers were not yet understood. #histmed

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Must be Friday, just been given a present. Though when I asked what it tasted like, the description was "it's challenging", so I'm not sure if I should be thankful or not yet. Treacle wine, made from Hannah Woolley's 1670 recipe in "The Queen-Like Closet" quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A6684...

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Ta-da! 😀 #birds 🪶 #Thedailypuffin 🐦

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We just had beef or salmon at ours.

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The world is on fire. Obvs. But can I just say I love I mean really love bbc’s wolf hall the mirror & the light . Thank you to all who brought this into my life. Awesome

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Face to face with a Neolithic leopard. High relief on pillar 27 at Göbekli Tepe, photo from 2009. 9th millennium BC. #Archaeology

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Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

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Marie Curie's notebooks are among some of the most fascinating and deadliest artifacts in archives within the world of science. In the world of conservation and preservation, the precautions that are needed to store and to handle these precious notebooks including the lead-lined box, are well noted.

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The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion. The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ. Exempt from all.

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Jeez. Boris Johnson is now on French radio saying “We forget all this now because it was two or three years ago but when we had the pandemic, thanks to Brexit we had the chance to do the vaccinations in England much earlier” I’ve debunked this absolute boll**** many times👇

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The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...

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Three fabulous people: Mike Galsworthy, Caroline Licas and Dominic Grieve. I am a member of European Movent UK - are you?

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The G20 felt like the closing of a chapter. Left leaning liberals are making way for populists. The next story will be written by the “strong men”-Trump, Jinping, Modi. Who will Starmer’s natural allies be?Or maybe the better Q: which of his unnatural allies will Starmer be able to do business with?

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A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss. She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’ Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️

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🔥 OK, let’s REALLY test out the power of this new Bluesky community. All of you #Rejoin folk out there… You saw that we just appointed Dominic Grieve & Caroline Lucas as co-Presidents… And you know our 23,000 membership is now growing fast… So - are we doing this? Are you IN? Then join! 👇👇

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#insects embedded in amber never cease to amaze me - the sheer age!

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I've been on the board of @sussexpast.bsky.social forquite a while now and have just be elected to serve another three years. They are a 177 year old charity preserving and sharing the heritage of Sussex. Please give them a follow and help them build their presence here! 🏺 bsky.app/profile/suss...

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Yesterdays BBC report that schoolchildren from struggling families are pretending to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food is exactly why I’m joining @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW👇

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🦉🦉 @andrewhollinrake.bsky.social

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Swooping female Chaffinch! 😀 Taken this week at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. #birds 🐦🪶

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