Lindsay
@linziw.bsky.social
History - Military and Garden. Especially all things 17th Century. Often found on a battlefield. Bit of a photographer. Oh and Leeds United.
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In the age of politicians breeding hate and division, hope and kindness is a rare thing to be nurtured and shared.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In the age of politicians breeding hate and division, hope and kindness is a rare thing to be nurtured and shared.
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"Russia must not be readmitted to the G7. Putin is a war criminal who is also hell-bent on destabilising Europe and the rest of the international order. A ceasefire in Ukraine would not change those facts"
- Calum Miller, Lib Dem 🔶 foreign affairs spokesperson
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Calum Miller, Lib Dem 🔶 foreign affairs spokesperson
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – UK politics live
West Midlands police’s assistant chief constable says threat of violence by Maccabi fans was more important consideration
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Russia must not be readmitted to the G7. Putin is a war criminal who is also hell-bent on destabilising Europe and the rest of the international order. A ceasefire in Ukraine would not change those facts"
- Calum Miller, Lib Dem 🔶 foreign affairs spokesperson
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Calum Miller, Lib Dem 🔶 foreign affairs spokesperson
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Key points from statements by Putin's aide Ushakov on the "peace plan".
As I've predicted, Russia is not interested in real sustainable peace. They are playing for time and continuing the war:⤵️
As I've predicted, Russia is not interested in real sustainable peace. They are playing for time and continuing the war:⤵️
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Key points from statements by Putin's aide Ushakov on the "peace plan".
As I've predicted, Russia is not interested in real sustainable peace. They are playing for time and continuing the war:⤵️
As I've predicted, Russia is not interested in real sustainable peace. They are playing for time and continuing the war:⤵️
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‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
Great thread.
1/7 #Ukriane #Russia #US #Europe
TrumpAdmin clearly needs help.
Their policy is 100% unsuccessful in the Russo-Ukrainian war, which only continues to escalate.
Here is @jd-vance-1.bsky.social 's post about the admin's "peace proposal"👇, and my comments on this.
TrumpAdmin clearly needs help.
Their policy is 100% unsuccessful in the Russo-Ukrainian war, which only continues to escalate.
Here is @jd-vance-1.bsky.social 's post about the admin's "peace proposal"👇, and my comments on this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Great thread.
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Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking
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“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Wise advice
Today’s #NotRothko
I was thinking, as I walked into a wide expanse of mum’s Deprivation of Liberty assessment this afternoon, of aunt’s heart problems, of limitations in physical freedom, of curtailment by circumstances….
Make good use of the days, folks
#Dartmoor
I was thinking, as I walked into a wide expanse of mum’s Deprivation of Liberty assessment this afternoon, of aunt’s heart problems, of limitations in physical freedom, of curtailment by circumstances….
Make good use of the days, folks
#Dartmoor
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wise advice
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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I think this so often these days...
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I think this so often these days...
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Show of hands please.
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Show of hands please.
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
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It's not perfect, but we need to fight for the BBC. We'll be effed if we end up with only news sources like the grotesque GBNews.
"Trump says he will take legal action against BBC despite apology".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Trump says he will take legal action against BBC despite apology".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It's not perfect, but we need to fight for the BBC. We'll be effed if we end up with only news sources like the grotesque GBNews.
"Trump says he will take legal action against BBC despite apology".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Trump says he will take legal action against BBC despite apology".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Wes taking the fight right to Reform.
Farage and Reform promise to make you pay for your health care and worry about the bills.
Labour promisee to keep the NHS publicly funded and free at the point of use, with no worry needed over the bill.
Thanks Wes!
www.instagram.com/p/DRCrZEPCCT2/
Farage and Reform promise to make you pay for your health care and worry about the bills.
Labour promisee to keep the NHS publicly funded and free at the point of use, with no worry needed over the bill.
Thanks Wes!
www.instagram.com/p/DRCrZEPCCT2/
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wes taking the fight right to Reform.
Farage and Reform promise to make you pay for your health care and worry about the bills.
Labour promisee to keep the NHS publicly funded and free at the point of use, with no worry needed over the bill.
Thanks Wes!
www.instagram.com/p/DRCrZEPCCT2/
Farage and Reform promise to make you pay for your health care and worry about the bills.
Labour promisee to keep the NHS publicly funded and free at the point of use, with no worry needed over the bill.
Thanks Wes!
www.instagram.com/p/DRCrZEPCCT2/
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Have we had the budget yet 🤷🏼♀️🤔
I’ve never ever heard SO much about a non-existent budget before
I’ve never ever heard SO much about a non-existent budget before
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Have we had the budget yet 🤷🏼♀️🤔
I’ve never ever heard SO much about a non-existent budget before
I’ve never ever heard SO much about a non-existent budget before
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As ever, the loathsome Farage rubs his greedy little hands with glee as he hopes that GB’news’ will profit from the ‘scandal’ he helped to whip up…
Honest to god… why do we have to be so kicked about by these ultra-cynical right wing hysterics?
(iPaper)
Honest to god… why do we have to be so kicked about by these ultra-cynical right wing hysterics?
(iPaper)
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
As ever, the loathsome Farage rubs his greedy little hands with glee as he hopes that GB’news’ will profit from the ‘scandal’ he helped to whip up…
Honest to god… why do we have to be so kicked about by these ultra-cynical right wing hysterics?
(iPaper)
Honest to god… why do we have to be so kicked about by these ultra-cynical right wing hysterics?
(iPaper)
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One would’ve hoped ”never again” had meant exactly that.
9 November 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl Jenny Trui Spier, was born in Amsterdam.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One would’ve hoped ”never again” had meant exactly that.
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Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
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Yesterday, Reform said it would lower the minimum wage, affecting the younger workers in society. Today, they are going after the older members of society
Millionaires showing that they don't give a damn about ordinary people
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Millionaires showing that they don't give a damn about ordinary people
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Reform's Richard Tice warns pension triple lock is 'unsustainable'
Reform's Richard Tice has branded the long-established policy of the state pension triple lock, which guarantees pensioners' incomes rise in real terms each year, 'unsustainable'.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yesterday, Reform said it would lower the minimum wage, affecting the younger workers in society. Today, they are going after the older members of society
Millionaires showing that they don't give a damn about ordinary people
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Millionaires showing that they don't give a damn about ordinary people
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
😢
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
😢
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The @scottishgallery is looking handsome this morning ahead of my talk ‘From the Forest to the Forge’. Here’s a short tour of the hang which the team worked so hard to install for you. Open today and until 22nd Nov
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The @scottishgallery is looking handsome this morning ahead of my talk ‘From the Forest to the Forge’. Here’s a short tour of the hang which the team worked so hard to install for you. Open today and until 22nd Nov
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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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These daily polls are IMHO dangerous because polls like these tend to lead the agenda, they encourage the media to give Farage even more airtime and the media and self styled analysts to spend hours bashing Labour and Starmer. They're a danger to our democracy.
Seat Projection [It's Just 1 Poll Caveat]:
A 15% Reform lead against a hopelessly split opposition would deliver them a landslide majority of 130 seats.
RFM: 390
LDM: 72
LAB: 51
SNP: 43
GRN: 41
CON: 20
PLC: 6
Others: 8
A 15% Reform lead against a hopelessly split opposition would deliver them a landslide majority of 130 seats.
RFM: 390
LDM: 72
LAB: 51
SNP: 43
GRN: 41
CON: 20
PLC: 6
Others: 8
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
These daily polls are IMHO dangerous because polls like these tend to lead the agenda, they encourage the media to give Farage even more airtime and the media and self styled analysts to spend hours bashing Labour and Starmer. They're a danger to our democracy.