@martinbeddoe.bsky.social
Supporter of justice, the rule of law and a united Europe. Seeking to protect my grand-children from tyrants, kleptomaniacs and polluters. Studying Classical Art and Archaeology.
Mind the snakes!
10.10.2025 09:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m looking forward to the message of congratulation from POTUS. as the Nobel committee chairman put it, “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”
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This is a piece from a little while back, co-authored by two of our Trustees, Mike Coxhead and Jim Chamberlain, in @philosophersmag.bsky.social reflecting on the huge value in doing philosophy in prison tinyurl.com/4jyxavd9
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Our Chair @mmmccabe.bsky.social writes on @theguardian.com about the equalising power of philosophy in prisons when done in conversation www.theguardian.com/education/20...
16.09.2025 19:22 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1If Trump really wanted to sanction Putin, he could. It would be no problem. Congress would go for any sanction he wanted. So any time Trump puts a condition on sanctions, it’s just another piece of evidence that he is protecting Putin from sanctions and helping Russia in the war.
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Excellent article in Sri Lankan Mirror today by Ameen Izzadeen on the ridiculous US proscription of Francesca Albanese: “the powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless is not a sign of strength but of guilt.”
18.07.2025 08:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gutless!
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NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors as supplies run low
I cannot give again before 1st July, but maybe you can?
Was he surprised? He gave no indication of course that he had tried or will do something to stop Putin killing more Ukrainians. Are we surprised? These are very dark days for a Europe to whom the US remains deeply indebted. Slava Ukraini.
04.06.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow! Absolutely à point.
15.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She’s right. I was there!
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Cambridge Station today….
23.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 99 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0… I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. . . .
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Ooh yes please, could do with some spare ones.
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New map application from the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill: The Geography of Pliny the Elder
"The Geography of Pliny the Elder compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database, available for download from the ISAW website, includes some 6,500 […]
The moral vacuum that is Trump: Putin is ‘doing what anyone else would do’. Think again Mr Trump: murderous invasion is not on the list of options open when a moral agent asks herself ‘ what should I do now?’
08.03.2025 08:44 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Even Corleone has some principles… brilliant analysis of Trump’s worse-than-the-mafia approach to power and responsibility.
08.03.2025 09:04 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Zelenskyy is my hero. A true anti-fascist. A man with more bravery and dignity in his other finger then most of his detractors will encounter in their lifetime
28.02.2025 20:17 — 👍 4270 🔁 570 💬 62 📌 24As soon as the US withdraws military aid, satellite and intelligence support Putin is emboldened (“encouraged” a better word) to launch more assaults on 🇺🇦, killing more children and civilians. If further proof that 🇺🇸 is morally bankrupt were needed, we have had it. They are no friends of Europe.
07.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For every Ukrainian death at Russia’s hands now Trump is liable. He is a moral monster.
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New issue of Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 37, No 2. (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeup.bsky.social @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social @archleblanc.bsky.social @alex-dardenay.bsky.social
06.03.2025 19:35 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
