Claire Thurwood
@clairethurwood.bsky.social
Musician, classical guitarist, book lover and some politics.
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And this morning the Shed is a memory of the sheds of yesteryear: their sumptuous fashions; their valiant deeds…
May 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
And this morning the Shed is a memory of the sheds of yesteryear: their sumptuous fashions; their valiant deeds…
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Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
May 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
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‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
'Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage' - Andy Burnham
At a time when Labour needs more straight-talkers and clearer messaging, Andy Burnham has popped something in the suggestion box.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 357:
If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.
If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.
May 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 357:
If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.
If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.
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The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues
May 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues
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Absolutely, Labour should call out the Reform leaders greatest weakness - Brexit
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
If Brexit is so unpopular, why is Farage winning?
Labour are unwilling to attack the Reform leader’s greatest weakness
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Absolutely, Labour should call out the Reform leaders greatest weakness - Brexit
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
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And this morning the Shed is a sleeper train, bound for the distant mountains…
April 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
And this morning the Shed is a sleeper train, bound for the distant mountains…
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Brexit has never looked quite so ruinously insane as it does right now. And it’s always been idiotic. Alone, outside the EU, needing to improve our relationship with our own continent but also terrified of the wrecking-ball lunatic in the White House. Cornered by our own ‘sovereign’ stupidity.
April 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Brexit has never looked quite so ruinously insane as it does right now. And it’s always been idiotic. Alone, outside the EU, needing to improve our relationship with our own continent but also terrified of the wrecking-ball lunatic in the White House. Cornered by our own ‘sovereign’ stupidity.
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And this morning the Shed is a Paris cafe, with a table set for breakfast under a flowering linden tree…
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
And this morning the Shed is a Paris cafe, with a table set for breakfast under a flowering linden tree…
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If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves
April 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves
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Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals.
And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.
You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals.
And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals.
And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.
You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals.
And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.
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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
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We love this country with every fibre of our being.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
March 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We love this country with every fibre of our being.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.
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RMT responds to Chancellor's Spring Statement
General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy."
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General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy."
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rmtunion.org/4hNkAhZ
RMT responds to Chancellor's Spring Statement
General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy.
rmtunion.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
RMT responds to Chancellor's Spring Statement
General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy."
Read More
rmtunion.org/4hNkAhZ
General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy."
Read More
rmtunion.org/4hNkAhZ
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It’s genuinely pointless asking a Tory politician what they think of Labour’s Spring Statement. These are the people who smashed up the economy and our public services, imposed a ruinous Brexit and delivered rampant inequality and govt debt.
Arsonists tutting at Labour while the fire still rages.
Arsonists tutting at Labour while the fire still rages.
March 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s genuinely pointless asking a Tory politician what they think of Labour’s Spring Statement. These are the people who smashed up the economy and our public services, imposed a ruinous Brexit and delivered rampant inequality and govt debt.
Arsonists tutting at Labour while the fire still rages.
Arsonists tutting at Labour while the fire still rages.
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And this morning the Shed is a postbox, filled with letters to the dead…
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
And this morning the Shed is a postbox, filled with letters to the dead…
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Thursday’s @theguardian.com front page: Reeves accused of balancing books at expense of the poor www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
March 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thursday’s @theguardian.com front page: Reeves accused of balancing books at expense of the poor www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
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I know both the Labour and Tory leadership want to conspire in drawing a veil over it, but today will be yet another reminder that Hunt and Sunak's decision to push through completely unaffordable pre-election tax cuts was the most blatant act of fiscal vandalism.
March 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I know both the Labour and Tory leadership want to conspire in drawing a veil over it, but today will be yet another reminder that Hunt and Sunak's decision to push through completely unaffordable pre-election tax cuts was the most blatant act of fiscal vandalism.
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Liquified gas is a disaster for people's health where it's drilled, processed & burned, a disaster for the climate at every stage, and a disaster for people's energy bills
Scrambling to get off Russian gas, politicians are happy to develop new dependencies on other dirty sources
Build renewables!
Scrambling to get off Russian gas, politicians are happy to develop new dependencies on other dirty sources
Build renewables!
Protesting LNG outside the Dáil today with a coalition of activist groups. Nobody wants this dirty fossil fuel in Ireland! #lngfree #stopshannonlng
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March 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Liquified gas is a disaster for people's health where it's drilled, processed & burned, a disaster for the climate at every stage, and a disaster for people's energy bills
Scrambling to get off Russian gas, politicians are happy to develop new dependencies on other dirty sources
Build renewables!
Scrambling to get off Russian gas, politicians are happy to develop new dependencies on other dirty sources
Build renewables!
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When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism.
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
March 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism.
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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And this morning the Shed is a spinning top, blurred into frantic momentum…
March 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And this morning the Shed is a spinning top, blurred into frantic momentum…
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And this morning the Shed is a creature of curious demeanour: sniffing in ditches, exploring paths; collecting stones and shiny things from the dry riverbed…
March 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
And this morning the Shed is a creature of curious demeanour: sniffing in ditches, exploring paths; collecting stones and shiny things from the dry riverbed…
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16134:
Don't waste valuable writing time looking for shortcuts. There aren't any. There's only one thing that will ultimately make writing easier for you. Practice. Not AI, or a qualification, or a new piece of software, or a special writer's hat. Just practice.
Don't waste valuable writing time looking for shortcuts. There aren't any. There's only one thing that will ultimately make writing easier for you. Practice. Not AI, or a qualification, or a new piece of software, or a special writer's hat. Just practice.
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16134:
Don't waste valuable writing time looking for shortcuts. There aren't any. There's only one thing that will ultimately make writing easier for you. Practice. Not AI, or a qualification, or a new piece of software, or a special writer's hat. Just practice.
Don't waste valuable writing time looking for shortcuts. There aren't any. There's only one thing that will ultimately make writing easier for you. Practice. Not AI, or a qualification, or a new piece of software, or a special writer's hat. Just practice.