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localnotail.bsky.social
local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo taking notes, library & research assistant English. From Norfolk, via Bucks, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth 🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed the alt-txt & you'd like it
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"The Defiance Monument"

Since the 2024 General Election, Reform UK have only managed to win 14 of the 235 Council seats that were available (6%) and they've lost an MP. Why does the media pay them so much attention?

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First time in Newcastle, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, academic conference and presenting to non-OU folk. Grateful to @openuniversity.bsky.social for the chance to champion EHE children and give them a voice in research. But, the project belongs to my co-researchers: Ell, Ann, Lori and Ari. #BCUR2025

“The reporter from MyPillow asked the White House press secretary why the president looks so healthy and robust” is a true sentence that exists in our current reality.

🇪🇺 was the Flag of Europe before there was a European Union, and it remains our flag we didn't leave Europe 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺

#Housing

"wokery" 🤦

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

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@wwfc.com CALEB TAYLOR #chairboys

This is awful news. He arrived in UK last October, moved in with family in Huddersfield last month, wanted to be a doctor, enrolled in college, started to settle. Syrian refugee, 16, killed in Huddersfield had lived there for only two weeks, uncle says www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

TIL the House of Commons has been recalled on 35 occasions during a recess since 1948. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/re...

Nationalise British Steel because it offers a clear way forward. Keep the furnaces hot. Buy time. Launch a green steel transition with public oversight, investment in new technologies and workforce planning. This isn’t about ideology, it’s about economic security. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...