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Social Anthropologist. Interests in social history; photography of Sebastiao Salgado; good books, good company and open minds. Europhile 🇪🇺 Be kind to one another folks 🌻
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Lovers on a Moonlit Lane, by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) #Art #painting #illustration

More than half of US adults say they approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing in his first month in office, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday.

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com

Deep in the arid lands of northern Namibia, a miraculous artery of water traces the western and central border to Angola, and graces one of our planet's most beautiful waterfalls in a desert environment.

The brutal reality of Elephant bullying in India!! A tusker in his musth cycle who emerged from the Apalchand forest in Northern Bengal was swarmed by a frenzied mob. The tusker was injured by a construction vehicle that the driver revved up to intentionally agitate the Elephant. 🎦 Credit: VFAE.

It's my pleasure to feature the exceptional photography of the very talented Gabriel Stankiewicz! His beautiful work covers the grand landscape & includes striking intimate scenes. The image below is one of the most unique & beautiful I have ever seen! Please follow Gabriel & learn from the master!

Lincluden Collegiate Church, built in the 1400s by Archibald the Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas, to replace an earlier priory of Benedictine nuns; and an unexpected find on the northern edge of Dumfries. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Lincluden #Dumfries

I despair at the UK ‘justice system’ it just doesn’t exist. When the world changes the Law needs to respond and evolve. I have no faith in sentencing. I sometimes think there is more sympathy for the murderer than the murdered. #RIPMussieImnetu

@channel4news.bsky.social is not really a news channel it’s all commentary and agenda bias. I like the presenters but wish they would tell all elements of an issue. I don’t know if any news programmes that are objective and don’t spin the information. Too much to hope for I suppose.

In 2024 - The Top 10 countries for International Book sales. UK Ireland Germany USA Italy Indonesia Norway France Australia Hungary. Marvellous! @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social @thebookseller.bsky.social

Unforgettable Sunset. Indian Ocean. #sunset #beaches #ocean #sand #clouds #thephotohour #stormhour #seascape #traveladdicts #tropical #paradise #travel #coastalphotography

If Government were to approve #Rosebank oilfield, it would be an unforgivable act of environmental vandalism & simply can’t be squared with #climate commitments. Anyone else recall Reeves’s pledge to be first Green Chancellor? How long ago it seems now…@stopcambo.bsky.social

My Lady’s Garden (1905) Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1853 - 1922) #Art #painting #illustration

The State of New York receives about a $100 billion from the federal government. President Donald Trump is claiming that he has the absolute authority to create a $100 billion hole not only in the budget of New York but in the lives of New Yorkers. The Bronx is taking a stand against Trump.

Trevi Fountain, by Bernini

There's something about this shopfront on Dumbarton Road near Partick Cross that really appeals to me. I think its a mix of its unusual nature and its old-fashioned charm. That and the slogan Glorious Geggies - so very Glaswegian! #glasgow #shopfront #architecture #partick #gloriousgeggies

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten. The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

#resistance #fightfascism

Shot of a lifetime. 📸: Ian Turner

I went to Brooklyn to stand in solidarity with the owner of Miriam, an Israeli restaurant that became the target of antisemitic vandalism. Jew-hatred will find no refuge in the City of New York. A hate crime against the Jewish community is a hate crime against all of us.

The UK is haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans for change don’t go far enough Anand Menon and Joël Reland Https//:www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/the-uk-is-haunted-by-johnsons-botched-brexit-deal-and-labours-plans-for-change-dont-go-far-enough

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Collared Owlet. Taichung, Taiwan. Fun Fact: they are the smallest owl in #Asia #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #nature #taiwan #owls

What voters want Mr Starmer

George is spot on. Much more attention is needed on the demand-side drivers of the housing crisis. Excited to say I've just started work on a new collaborative project looking at how we CAN tackle the housing affordability crisis, without trashing the environment. Watch this space...

“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.

Two Van Gogh paintings to be shown in London for first time

Dear Ministers in America, Bishop Budde did something awe-inspiring, something sadly rare, and something you are also capable of doing. Sunday is here. May you greet it with courage. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-let-b... #Bishopbudde

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