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Madame Alfred Carriere is blooming. Now that is a proper name for a rose! She is a rampant climber and is thriving on my north-facing wall, where a lesser plant would struggle. I saw the huge one Vita Sackville-West planted a Sissinghurst on a north wall and copied her. She is thornless and lovely!

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‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...

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‘Dog Rose, Foxglove, White Campion’ British Wild Flowers, 1957 Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

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Hell yeah! 'But there’s no environmental justice without racial, social and economic justice, too.'

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Proud Sadiq Khan supports our call to make access to a safe and legal abortion a human right in England and Wales as it is in Northern Ireland. Standing up for abortion access has no gender - please ask the men in your life to sign our petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

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A new large study suggests gene FOXP4, which helps control our lungs, is involved in long covid . It’s a different gene than the one linked to severe Covid, showing that Long Covid is its own condition, not just a “slow recovery”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LongCovid #LongCovidScotland

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Don't spend one minute feeling sorry for the law firms that capitulated. They prioritized their own profits over the rule of law, decency and democracy. They deserve the ridicule and scorn they are now receiving. History will remember them for the cowards they are.

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I AM ON A BUILDING ✨

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Since Sen. Joni Ernst has doubled down on her nihilism, I’m re-upping my column: “We all are going to die” is punchy. It’s deflating, in a way that will surely tickle spirits as GOP leaders try to get Americans to sit back and tolerate cruel and draconian cuts. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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🚨 A statement: Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita

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Clear thinking: "Trump’s US: one that no longer defends its allies with hard power, but subverts and undermines those among them that it finds ideologically wanting" www.ft.com/content/dc43...

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What is ecocide, and could it become a crime under international law? 🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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People see you having a good day just once and think you faked your illness this entire time.

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Taking sheep back to the fell

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"British 16-year-olds spend more time in exam halls than almost anyone in the world." At enormous cost, to #MentalHealth and the quality of education: #ExamFactories are no place to grow up observer.co.uk/news/columni...

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The "appalling Brexit betrayal" of...making it easier to sell British goods to Britain's largest export market

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ICYMI: Congressman Al Green Featured in Newsweek Article for Filing Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald John Trump. The article is available on Newsweek’s website by clicking here: www.newsweek.com/al-green-tru...

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Performative hysteria. That’s what it is.

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It's become almost commonplace to say that the promise of democracy is that it will deliver higher standards of living. But that was never the claim made by the Chartists, the women's suffrage movement or those who struggled to win democracy in the past. And it's a bad test to set for the present.

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I know folk want to forget about #Covid, but another pandemic WILL happen. Setting up & funding pals to do things cost lives. It disgusts me. We must learn these lessons for next time.

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While I'm not involved in any political party, I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social's analysis is correct. Thanks to Labour's multiple, infuriating failures, the Greens could become huge here, but only if they are bolder, more assertive and, yes, "eco-populist". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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🧵 Over 76,000 people signed a petition to give adult trans ppl the right to transition, if they wish. They did so as part of a UK parliamentary process where, if a certain threshold in numbers is met, there must be a reply or a debate on the petition. The response was an exercise in gaslighting [1]

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"There were four or five enormous explosions, no pre-warning... Smoke filling the air... A huge crater right outside the entrance to the hospital." Dr Tom Potokar speaks to Matt Frei about the aftermath of strikes on a hospital in Gaza. Read and watch:

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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree," Martin Luther King Jr.

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I left my phone on a train like an idiot and someone handed it in at lost property like something out of the 1950s, not bad for an island of strangers (also, thankyou)

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Quoting Enoch Powell is never a coincidence. The Prime Minister knew what message he was sending — and who he was sending it to. Disgraceful.

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Frida Kahlo, Mexican (1907-1954), Allá cuelga mi vestido (My Dress Hangs There), 1933, oil and collage on masonite, 45.7x 49.5 cm, Hoover Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

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A mural in Barcelona featuring Frida Kahlo: “Donde no puedas amar, no te demores.” “Where you can’t love, don’t stay too long.”

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You haven't heard of my disease...Don't worry, neither have most doctors.

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Politicians seem to have conveniently forgotten about what essential workers went through during the pandemic and now apparently this government wants to basically vilify the same people that actually helped this country get through the pandemic . Absolutely shameful

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Czechia knows what it’s doing.

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An Island of Strangers? More like an Island of Kindness This is my History, and this is My England - and of so many other people I know. From Byline Times six years ago bylinetimes.com/2019/12/18/t...

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Painted during WWII, this peaceful work takes us far from conflict 🚂 Read more 👉 buff.ly/194eoNa It's one of the top 20 railway artworks, vote for your number one 👉 buff.ly/L9Q9xhz @railway200.bsky.social 'Train Landscape' by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) 📷 Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

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Just published this wonderful and essential book on the various murals by the artists associated with Great Barfield in Essex. Including work by Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Kenneth Rowntree and others. Copies are available from @neiljenningsfineart and [email protected] and good bookshops

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If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.

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“But some worry” is two people in this article.

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'Adventures in Time and Space' at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery (UK) - great fun for Dr Who fans!

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COMMENTARY: From car seats and cribs to strollers, sippy cups, and baby clothes, Trump’s tariffs are hiking prices on essentials for families with new babies.

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Standing in the Cathedral archway – looking one way than the other … #Peterborough

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"Beachy Head". Eric Ravilious. 1939.

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Today’s London flypast reminded me of my photo taken on 16 June 2019 … I heard the Lancaster flying over the Heritage Festival, St John’s Church , whipped out my phone and pointed it into the sun/sky. Lucky chance. Thrilled that the pic appeared in The Guardian two weeks later.

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It was a privilege to help tell the stories of U.S. scientists whose lives have been upended during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration in this recent piece for @science.org

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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