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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 41m

They did similar things with Great Western, merging Thames trains into it and calling it the Greater Western franchise.
But Great Western was obviously a well-known name, so the "greater" name stuck only for Greater Anglia.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 43m

"Greater Anglia" stemmed from the process by which the then Strategic Rail Authority created the franchise. There used to be separate local and long-distance franchises on the routes out of Liverpool Street. But they decided to merge them.
Working title: Greater Anglia franchise.

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Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 2h

There is a simple question that all interviewers should ask when people say this: do you think the statue of Jimmy Savile in Glasgow should have remained in place after details of his crimes were released? If they say 'yes' then at least they have a consistent position. But of course they won't.

historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 2h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Your Dad Yells At Hotels @yellsonpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Alas, the humourous dog eating a delicious cake video is ai

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I see now he actually issued a ruling on the subject earlier: bsky.app/profile/twll...

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

Also, just on a technical note, god will not be putting together “a hell of a band” featuring anyone from the lostprophets because aside from anything else, they were fucking dogshit

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I hope it went well at Tate Modern.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I think @twlldun.bsky.social’s rule is that for the “hell of a band” joke none of those concerned should be primarily known as musicians. So this joke is, fortunately, banned.

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Paul Frightlaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 1d

Farewell, Diane Keaton. She was wonderful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32O...

Annie Hall (11/12) Movie CLIP - Seems Like Old Times (1977) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

www.youtube.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

It’s outside the building where I work.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 2d

In fairness, if the media won’t just accept their bags of chips and cash and shut up, it’s very hard to know what he can do.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2d

That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 2d

Blue Monday: Fats Domino 9/10
Blue Monday: New Order 10/10
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 2d

I see @jamesrball.com is worried about looking like a weedy nerd. Well, I'm 55, last week completed a challenging 100-mile bike ride with lots of climbing and on Saturday was described by a stranger as looking "frail". So welcome to the club, James. Weedy nerds power the world.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 3d

BREAKING: In what seems to be a deliberate snub of Trump, Nobel Peace Prize goes to the woman who was yelling, "Leave 'im, Dave, 'e ain't worf it!" in the Dog & Strangler car-park at 11:45 last night.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Milngavie

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Like probably most people of a centre-left inclination with ties to New York, I’ve been entranced by Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable rise. But this piece tells me an almost perfect point I didn’t know: he formed citywide friendships as a teenager through cricket:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

www.newyorker.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Because I know Hungarian, I feel obliged to read him in the original, as I did with Imre Kertesz. But this sounds like it would be particularly forbidding.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 5d

“People who mix less and fewer”.

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 5d

‘The 2025 Conservative Party Conference’

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 5d

“Give it some minge!” he exclaimed.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 5d

Heavily Hindu seats in north-west London are now the Tories’ safest seats.
While I take on board @roberthutton.co.uk’s point, I think a lot of their voters there love their tendency to say disobliging things about Muslims.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 5d

I like your current sketching-with-a-purpose persona.

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Gavin Shuker @gavinshuker.bsky.social · 5d

I could write for a long time, and never produce an intro as good and, crucially, important, as @roberthutton.co.uk.

‘The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something.’

thecritic.co.uk/rob-whistle/

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the...

thecritic.co.uk

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