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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 57m

Unfortunately, the Tony Warren interview won't load from YouTube but it's worth a watch.

rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 1h

As a fan of strong female characters you would have loved the northern writer/creator of long running Brit soap "Coronation St" who said during a script conference peppered with homophobic remarks "Let me remind you gentlemen without a puff non of you would be in work.."

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 3h

Doris Ulmann.

Born in New York City, she became interested in photography when training to become a teacher in New York City, while Lewis Hine was an instructor there.

Her photographs of people in Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina between 1927 and 1934 are her best-known works.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing news for ex- postmaster 92 year old Betty Brown - FINALLY she has been awarded close to 100% of financial redress after losing £50k thro Post Office Horizon IT scandal

We’ve followed her story on #Newsnight & she wanted to be live on the show tonight so that’s what’s happening :)

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 2h

Photographer Tim Hetherington was born in Birkenhead. His first job was that of a trainee at The Big Issue, in London.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I taught the documentary Which Way is the Front Line from Here? In class.
Heartbreaking.

www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...

‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his ...

www.theguardian.com

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone who p*ses off Trump gets my metaphorical vote.

rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine if a socialist Mayor got elected in Britain promising to help the working class.

Probably not in my lifetime.
#r4today

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 2d

"When we want the rich to work harder, we pay them more. When we want the poor to work harder, we pay them less."
John Kenneth Galbraith
#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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robinjmac65 @rjmac65.bsky.social · 2d

Chapel Street. #bluehour #dawn #liverpool #merseyside @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @stratusimagery.bsky.social

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 2d

How does 12 jobs Nige find the time to make speeches?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 3d

Comedian Godfrey having a laugh with some of the troops in DC. 🤣

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The WH did not disclose several donors to the ballroom who have business before Trump:
▶️Jeff Yass, investor in TikTok parent company: $2.5m+ to ballroom
▶️BlackRock, trying to buy Panama Canal ports: $2.5m+
▶️Extremity Care, Medicare reimbursement issues: $2.5m
▶️Vantive, Medicare reimbursement

Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito

www.nytimes.com

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 4d

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St Louis Atheists @stlouisatheists.bsky.social · 15d

Church Trap by Rebekah Waites, artwork displayed at Burning Man 2013 @ffrf.org @rsslmo.bsky.social @atheists.org @richardcarrier.info @ethicalstl.org @godlessprimate.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social @atheist-memes.com @stltoday.com @washumedicine.bsky.social

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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 5d

Sefton Park really is a magical kingdom and captured brilliantly here. 👇

robinjmac65 @rjmac65.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn. Sefton Park. #autumn #seftonpark #liverpool #merseyside @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @stratusimagery.bsky.social

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 4d

“I gave him a barley sugar sweet, which I had in my pocket, and he went away, licking it. I went off and spoke to a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor, and I felt someone take hold of my hand. It was the boy. It made me feel so bloody guilty.”

theguardian.com/artanddesign/n…

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Theresa Musgrove @theresamusgrove.bsky.social · 5d

This wonderful shop is in the bottom of the house where Charles Dickens once lived as a boy:

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

In an unprecedented move, Austria is regulating rents for the entire country.

All apartments that already have government regulation have seen a total rent freeze this year.

All formerly unregulated units are also getting rent stabilization to limit landlord rent hikes.

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 5d

Because our country is run for the benefit of greedy billionaires who feed off the poor like ravenous fishes?

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 5d

First they told us CCTV cameras would reduce crime.

Then they cut Police numbers & said it wouldn't affect crime.

Apart from China, we must be one of the most surveilled populations on earth.

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 6d

🚨LIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION IS EXPANDING

The Home Office told us they’d consider a legal framework to govern it’s use.

But what we’re seeing is a rapid rollout - and no safeguards to protect us.

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rjcruthers.bsky.social @rjcruthers.bsky.social · 5d

In corrupt little Britain the back hander is king.

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Russell Scott @russellscott1.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.

Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

bylinetimes.com

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 5d

RIP the brilliant Nabil Shaban.

Ferocious self-belief and activism.

apple.news/AWRMS9pC8QmW...

Nabil Shaban obituary — The Guardian

Actor and founder of Graeae, a theatre company and platform for disabled and neurodivergent performers

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