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albertpweale.bsky.social
This is excellent from @chrisgiles.ft.com who as usual dispels myths with the strongest solvent: the facts.
chrisgiles.ft.com
Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 15h
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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vwfndn.bsky.social
Lots of VWF-funded projects have been included in this year's nominations for The Ivors Academy Classical Awards 2025 - Including our very own trustee Richard Causton! Congratulations to all 👏👏👏

Winners to be announced on Tuesday, November 11, at BFI Southbank.
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assisiproject.com
"Remember that you have only one soul; you have only one death to die; you have only one life to live which is short and lived by you alone; and there is but one glory which is eternal. If you remember this, there will be many things about which you will care not at all." #SaintTeresaOfAvila
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chrisgiles.ft.com
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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kai-arzheimer.com
In case you missed this: the well-known right-wing extremist 'Tommy #Robinson', who has several convictions to his real name (Stephen Yaxley Lennon), says at the start of a new trial that Elon #Musk is paying his legal bills. Wouldn't be a huge surprise if true 1/2
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
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uclei.bsky.social
“It looks like we are heading back to a period where the great powers divide the world into spheres of influence without much regard for what ‘ordinary people’ want. But it is ordinary people’s lives that are at stake, so we ought to hear their voices.” - @kristinmbakke.bsky.social
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drannaclark.bsky.social
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, influential German philosopher, born #OTD 1844.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse 1886 | Portrait by Edvard Munch 1906, Thielska Gallery
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drannaclark.bsky.social
Founder of modern anatomy: Andreas Vesalius, Flemish physician, died #OTD 1564; author of groundbreaking work De Humani Corporis Fabrica, published in 7 volumes in 1543.
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans | The Wellcome Library, London
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artherstory.bsky.social
Art Herstory's Judith Leyster Self-Portrait Note Card

Artwork held at: The National Gallery of Art; currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

etsy.me/3W4sStq via @Etsy

Usually $3.95, this autumn Dutch or Flemish women artist cards are now $2.57 (w/ free shipping).
Portrait mode note card, open face down to show front and back covers. The front reproduces a self-portrait of a C17th woman artist in a purple gown with many gold buttons up the visible sleeve, a white head covering and a large disc of a white collar that extends out over the dress in all directions. She is seated; her right elbow rests on the post of her chair, and her right hand holds a paintbrush. Her left hand rests in her lap, holding a palette. A painting is partially visible on the easel in front of her. On the back of the card is a thumbnail of the uncropped painting, plus text about artist and artwork, and branding info/icons.
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uclei.bsky.social
📢 Two weeks to go until the 2025 UCL Europe Lecture! 📢

Don’t forget to register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-f...

Reserve your spot in person or online.

#UCL #Europe #AcademicFreedom
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vwfndn.bsky.social
The VWF funds the performance, commissioning or recording of music by professional British/Irish composers, projects in the UK creating developmental opportunities for composers, or those promoting wider awareness of British/Irish music of the last 100 years.
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drannaclark.bsky.social
New Worlds: The Geographer, 1669 by Johannes Vermeer, possibly inspired by Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Textiles & cartography reflect East Indies trade & exploration, with wall chart by Blaeu & terrestrial globe on cabinet by Hondius the Elder, born #OTD 1563.
Städel Museum Frankfurt
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wineecon.bsky.social
Fritz Rumpf (German, 1888–1949) Poster for the wine restaurant “Fledermaus”, Berlin, Unter den Linden 14. Opened in 1912 at one of Berlin’s prime locations, the Fledermaus changed ownership in 1921 and reopened as a cabaret under a different name.
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chrisgrey.bsky.social
This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
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drannaclark.bsky.social
Tender portrait of 1758 of his wife Margaret Lindsay of Evelick (they had eloped in 1752) by eminent Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, friend of Samuel Johnson, born #OTD 1713; painted Bonnie Prince Charlie, Hume, Rousseau.
National Galleries of Scotland
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drannaclark.bsky.social
Brera Madonna: early Renaissance altarpiece 1472, of faultless architectural proportion, with symbolic suspended egg; for donor Federico da Montefeltro,Duke of Urbino (kneeling) by Piero della Francesca, whose mastery of perspective drew on mathematics & geometry; died #OTD 1492.
Pinacoteca di Brera
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janinegibson.ft.com
Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights in threaded gift link form. Each is free x300 and then it's gone but if you miss out you can pop out and buy a paper! It lasts all week! Enjoy!
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artherstory.bsky.social
One of (at least) five lots by women artists in the Dorotheum Old Masters auction coming up on October 23 -
www.dorotheum.com/en/a/117863/

Portrait of Lady Anne Simpson, née Lyon (1746–1821), c. 1773, by Angelica Kauffman (Lot 192), www.dorotheum.com/en/l/9799592/
A C18th portrait of a white-skinned, brown-haired woman in a pale gown with gold trim and a light blue cloak, in an outdoor environment
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artherstory.bsky.social
One of (at least) five lots by women artists in the Dorotheum auction coming up on October 23 -
www.dorotheum.com/en/a/117863/

An old woman holding a money bag beside a youth, n.d., by Giulia Lama (Lot 180), www.dorotheum.com/en/l/9799556/
A painting depicting, close up, the bust of an old woman (gray hair, wrinkles, a wen) holding a money bag; and the face of a boy, gazing greedily at the bag.
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wineecon.bsky.social
"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`
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drannaclark.bsky.social
The anatomy lesson: painted by Rembrandt in 1632, depicting annual dissection at Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, conducted by celebrated City Anatomist & later Mayor of Amsterdam, Dr Nicolaes Tulp, born #OTD 1593.
Mauritshuis, den Haag
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johnbone.bsky.social
Just now on ITV quiz show The Chase.

Host: “What animal features in Van Dyck’s equestrian portrait of Charles I?”

Contestant: “A duck.”
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Canada vs. America
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johnbone.bsky.social
#wato
Sarah Montague, interviewing Helen Whately re (proposed abolition of) Stamp Duty:
“Is there anything that’s going to replace it? Perhaps a tax that the seller would pay?”

Sigh. Econ101.
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europeanmovement.co.uk
The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.
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vwfndn.bsky.social
New opera!

In Dublin Jack, Conor Mitchell & The Belfast Ensemble delve into the seedy underbelly of Victorian London…

🎶 October 9: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

🎶 November 14: Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast

VWF supported - we wish them a great run! 👏
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drannaclark.bsky.social
The Uffizi Madonna, c 1465, tempera on wood, Renaissance masterpiece by Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine artist, teacher of Botticelli, patronised by Cosimo de’ Medici, died #OTD 1469; the tender intimacy & purity of Madonna & child, with rugged landscape of rocks & sea beyond.
Gallerie degli Uffizi
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wineecon.bsky.social
Poster for 4th Alsatian Wine Fair in Colmar, Alsace, 1951
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bremaininspain.com
The advice received by Kemi Badenoch shows clearly that leaving the ECHR will come at great cost. It will end at minimum all security co-operation with the EU and probably the TCA itself with all the economic implications that come from this.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
@dominicgrieve
Leaving ECHR breaches Good Friday Agreement, says Grieve
Leaving the Convention "plainly in breach of the Good Friday agreement" says former Attorney General.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
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cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Where not #OpenAccess the latest issue of the Journal of Policy History is free to read until the end of October 2025 -

Volume 37 - Issue 4 - https://cup.org/4mxcRaj

#jph
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