Alison Branagan

YouTube video by University of Chester Dame Patricia Routledge, Doctor of Letters, University of Chester

Patricia Routledge 6 years ago, speech to University of Chester graduates.
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NATO Secretary Mark Rutte:

The whole day yesterday,we had the Kremlin saying, "No,we are not a paper tiger.We are a bear."Well,..if you are a bear,you don't have to announce yourself to be a bear because everybody will notice.This shows a lot of weakness on the Russian side
(The 📹is from yesterday)

I don't think I need to remind anyone here how vehemently Russia denied its plans to invade Ukraine before the full-scale war.

Good afternoon! This week's theme is Printmakers of London
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'London Snow' (from 'Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children', 1932) by Gwen Raverat

Now it's whinnying, whinnying, whinnying...

Hex board game of bar with 2 drinker figures and 1 bar keep behind a little paper bar

Getting to the Bar game made with parts made

So maybe the problem wasn’t with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

Being a freelancer is knowing what’s in your bank account and what /could/ be in your bank account at any time, but not exactly knowing when you’ll see that money from various clients

As many as 100 Epstein victims will attend Washington rally Wednesday The rally comes as lawmakers Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) want a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Epstein files.

As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.

The photo is titled ‘Oak in the Mist’ and is taken at the grounds of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. The photographer is on Flickr as ‘marrow62’ 🙂

Protests in Anchorage, Alaska against the Trump and Putin meeting and in support of Ukraine against the fascist invaders. #3E #StandWithUkraine #AlaskaWithUkraine

A UK court has dismissed Icelandic artist Odee’s final appeal to retain a satirical website critiquing fishing giant Samherji’s alleged role in the Fishrot scandal. The work, described as a “living sculpture,” mimicked the company’s site to issue a fake corporate apology.

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Spanish humanitarian Sister María Lucía Caram Padilla,
representing the Santa Clara Monastery Foundation, Barcelona, has addressed President Trump with a call to help Ukraine.
I have decided to translate her appeal.

Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 81

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter

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Thank you Clive Lewis 👏

The Kremlin's regime has intensified its strikes on #Ukraine.

Putin stopped discussing diplomacy&now dreams about the feet of Russian soldiers on new lands.Russia launches ballistic missiles,drones on Ukrainian cities,on the center of #Kyiv, on hospitals,universities, residential buildings.

So Greg Stillson was a prophecy about Trump, after all.

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

@stephenking.bsky.social God, I hope your book doesn't end up as a prophecy.

Today is Day 68.

Mark Pawson obituary Other lives: Artist and maker of collectible badges, posters and stickers whose work found homes in the Tate and V&A library collections

I am incredibly sad to find out about the death of anarchist artist Mark Pawson 1964-2025. Total legend. (Pawson Novelties on Instagram)
#markpawson #artist #badges #art #mailart #illustrations
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Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall Did the mystery poop artist strike again? Signs point to yes.

The artists responsible for last year's poop statue appear to have struck again. This time with a work called “Dictator Approved,” an 8-foot-tall sculpture showing a gold-painted hand with a thumbs-up quashing the sea foam green crown of the Statute of Liberty on the National Mall.

What does Macron know...

Judge Breyer:

"If you could point me to something in this little book called the Constitution of the United States, I’ll look at it."

Yu gonna see pig after flying pig, you gonna see so many pigs up there. It's gonna be awesome👌

Isn't his own face on his profile icon covered over with a digitalised flag?

It's here, and it's bloody scary.

Zelenskyy had an ace up his sleeve...

The Deserted Factory by Algernon Newton 1941
Oil on Canvas
(National Gallery of Canada)

Ah, man, can they stop dragging their feet? If there is more they can do, then they should get on with it.