Christine R
@chrisr49.bsky.social
Archaeology, local history, genealogy, environment and Scottish independence
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2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Festive Bargains!
2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
Please *Like* & *Retweet*
2 – 4 – 1 Sale!
25 UK places, decades apart, £3.50 +post!
Subscriptions!
LIVE - #Exeter (starting Jan) & #Cambridge (starting Dec) - £33!
SOON - A new batch of #London Large Scale maps!
Check out our web-shop - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
Please *Like* & *Retweet*
Findings from the Covid enquiry are not surprising. In particular the lack of communication between the UK and devolved governments. This should have been a priority in the emergency facing the country. Uk politicians especially did not set a good example.
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Findings from the Covid enquiry are not surprising. In particular the lack of communication between the UK and devolved governments. This should have been a priority in the emergency facing the country. Uk politicians especially did not set a good example.
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This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or food bills. So why are they paid less?
700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.
700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.
A fair living wage should be given to all regardless of age - Lorna Slater
The cost of food, energy, housing and living is soaring, and the financial insecurity is far from over for those relying on foodbanks or being forced to go hungry.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or food bills. So why are they paid less?
700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.
700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.
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“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Brexit bonus for Rosslare Europort has seen a more than six-fold increase in direct European sailings since Brexit, with many freight and delivery companies shifting from using the UK landbridge to more direct sea routes with the European Union.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
@grassrootsforeurope.org
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
@grassrootsforeurope.org
New customs control facility opens at Rosslare Europort
A new customs control facility and border control post has been officially opened at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford.
www.rte.ie
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Brexit bonus for Rosslare Europort has seen a more than six-fold increase in direct European sailings since Brexit, with many freight and delivery companies shifting from using the UK landbridge to more direct sea routes with the European Union.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
@grassrootsforeurope.org
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
@grassrootsforeurope.org
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The Budget is due on 26 November.
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If You Were Chancellor… - 99%
Now is your chance to see if you would deliver national renewal The Budget is due on November 26. Like all Budgets it will enable the Treasury to set the […]
99-percent.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Budget is due on 26 November.
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
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The 5 brutal stats that blow Reform’s austerity plans out the water
We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
The 5 brutal stats that blow Reform's austerity plans out the water
Reform have made it clear they want to bring back austerity. Here are a few stats to point out why this would be a disaster for Britain.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The 5 brutal stats that blow Reform’s austerity plans out the water
We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
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Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights. goodlaw.social/v3qy
Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights | Good Law Project
The Reform leader is unveiling legislation to leave the ECHR. His arguments are wrong – and that move would be a disaster.
goodlaw.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights. goodlaw.social/v3qy
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Farewell to the Earl of Inverness bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/20/f...
Farewell to the Earl of Inverness
It looks like the moves this week to strip Prince Andrew of his titles were a defensive act ahead of more revelations, and not a final act to draw a line under his disgraceful behaviour. The action…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Farewell to the Earl of Inverness bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/20/f...
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My latest blog piece, the mounting scandals surrounding Reform UK and the party's idiotic climate change denialism
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
The short sighted stupidity of Reform UK’s climate denialism
A number of recent opinion polls have found that the hard right Anglo-British nationalists of Reform UK are on course to win the next Westminster general election. That alarming prospect is still f…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My latest blog piece, the mounting scandals surrounding Reform UK and the party's idiotic climate change denialism
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/t...
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Time for the leaders of all 4 Nations to come together,
end the current ‘union’
re-write an agreement on
trade and defence
that suits all 4 INDEPENDENT
Nations.
4 Nations, 4 votes.
end the current ‘union’
re-write an agreement on
trade and defence
that suits all 4 INDEPENDENT
Nations.
4 Nations, 4 votes.
Exactly right @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "we support subsidiarity - power should be at the most local possible level. And that has to include a country"
Talking to @adamramsay.bsky.social
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Talking to @adamramsay.bsky.social
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence
The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.
substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Time for the leaders of all 4 Nations to come together,
end the current ‘union’
re-write an agreement on
trade and defence
that suits all 4 INDEPENDENT
Nations.
4 Nations, 4 votes.
end the current ‘union’
re-write an agreement on
trade and defence
that suits all 4 INDEPENDENT
Nations.
4 Nations, 4 votes.
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Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.
Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.
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Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.
October 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.
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Posted without comment.
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Posted without comment.
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I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
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Sounds like some of you are waking up to how much BBC News is just a right wing mouthpiece. Has been for years. The Scots raised the alarm with Indyref, but you didn’t listen. And here we are
September 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Sounds like some of you are waking up to how much BBC News is just a right wing mouthpiece. Has been for years. The Scots raised the alarm with Indyref, but you didn’t listen. And here we are
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Nigel Farage has been warned his "morally repugnant" plans to scrap the main route to citizenship for migrants could push the NHS to the brink of collapse
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage's 'repugnant' migrants plan torn apart as NHS would 'collapse'
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been warned his 'morally repugnant' plans to scrap the main route to citizenship for migrants could push the NHS to the brink of collapse
www.mirror.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Nigel Farage has been warned his "morally repugnant" plans to scrap the main route to citizenship for migrants could push the NHS to the brink of collapse
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner
Last year Nigel Farage announced he had bought a house in Clacton, Essex, but in fact it was his partner Laure Ferrari, 46, who shelled out almost £900,000 for the property
www.mirror.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
September 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
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The stench of hypocrisy reeks from all directions as Angela Rayner is driven from office. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/05/t...
Two Tribes of Hypocrisy
The stench of hypocrisy reeks from all directions as Angela Rayner is driven from office. The UK gets a vacancy for the post of deputy prime minister, and the so-called “Labour Party” n…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
September 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The stench of hypocrisy reeks from all directions as Angela Rayner is driven from office. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/05/t...
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Even The Times is sickened by Farage's behaviour.
September 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Even The Times is sickened by Farage's behaviour.
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“The dense interconnectedness of the human family… means that in terms of our biology, there are no different races. We can all claim ancestry from across the world. Nevertheless, our politics is obsessed with distinctions based on national identity…” Gaia’s article more relevant than ever:
Something I wrote a year ago that’s infuriatingly relevant
Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: it’s here for good | Gaia Vince
It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done, says author Gaia Vince
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“The dense interconnectedness of the human family… means that in terms of our biology, there are no different races. We can all claim ancestry from across the world. Nevertheless, our politics is obsessed with distinctions based on national identity…” Gaia’s article more relevant than ever: