Manchester-based lefty dad, folk singer, board gamer, bicyclist. Woodcraft Folk volunteer and staffer. He/him
Owen Sedgwick-Jell
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An aircraft with a sting in the tail, clearly:
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Only a few hours left to vote for your favourite British butterfly species 🦋
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With its ragged wings and mottled colours, the Comma is a master of disguise. But will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?
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Bernie Grant entered Parliament at the June 11th 1987 General Election. Below is his maiden speech made, appropriately, in a debate on a Tory Local Government Bill on July 6th 1987. The themes…
In my line of work I’ve had plenty of conversations with teens about this issue - the thing that comes up again and again is their concern about older generations’ irresponsible use of social media, and who’s going to police *that*.
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My son’s great grandfather was one of those 4,000 Basque children. Number 3227, to be precise:
Hullabaloos, amirite @aransome.bsky.social?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most of the best people on this site reveal themselves at some point to be Dorothy L Sayers stans: discuss
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an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"
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K M Flett
This is a cat checkpoint: hand over the most recent cat photo on your phone
BOOP BOOP
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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One for #WorldBeeDay, which is apparently today.
1944: at a bomber airfield in Yorkshire, local beekeeper Mr Webster is brought in after a bee swarm is found inside one of the vertical stabilisers of a Halifax heavy bomber.
IWM CH 13291 / 13292 / 13294 / 13293
[1] This banning of social media, for minors, really irks me. It’s indicative that democracy is being usurped by tech barons. I know plenty of children less impressionable than journalists, for instance. Previously censorship was of the publication, now it’s of the people. The correct…
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Ireland will go it alone if agreement is not reached at EU level to ban social media for children under 16, the Minister for Communications has said.
More on The Curse of Bullseye turning its eye to Cambridgeshire. Poor Bully would be turning in his casserole dish.
Our archives contain an Attenborough link but not, perhaps, one you might expect...🧵
In the wake of the 1937 bombing of Guernica, nearly 4,000 Basque children were evacuated to Britain, escaping the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. The children were supported by a national network of volunteers...
A cabin cruiser is dumped overnight at the side of a narrow rural road.
Happy Pride month everyone 🏳️🌈
Pride is a time to celebrate love, as well as a reminder that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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Callum Anderson MP
Angry People in Local Newspapers
This is a cat checkpoint: hand over the most recent cat photo on your phone
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Rereading “Murder Must Advertise,” and am struck by how much less sexist Pym’s is as an institution than the firm in “Mad Men”. (It’s also a somewhat more politically diverse office).
