B Flood @bpfld

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ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1

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A lovely view of London caught through an open window in 1951. Men in suits and bowler hats walk past with their canes and briefcases, women in dresses and smart coats, while classic London buses drive by.

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Veterans’ Foundation @VeteransFdn

3 weeks ago

83 years on from the Dambusters' Raid, we remember Wing Commander Guy Gibson and all those who served alongside him. Their courage, teamwork and sacrifice remain part of our shared history, and a reminder of the commitment shown by those who serve their country. Today, we honour their legacy and remember those who never returned. ❤️🇬🇧

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Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh

3 months ago

Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.

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Raise The Age @RaiseTheAge16

3 months ago

Listen to parents. Listen to teachers. Children need protection online - MPs must raise the age to 16 today.

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Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh

2 months ago

Rare great news about the government finally banning phones in schools. Enraging champagne and hand clapping emojis all round. Next step - get rid of screen based learning. It’s crap, it’s stealing the children’s data and it deepens their screen addiction. Here below is me ranting with the great Prof Jonathan Haidt and Sophie Winkleman on this.

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

Hugh Grant and Jonathan Haidt share parents' concerns - BigTech is ruthlessly addicting our children to screens. For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh, Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati… Filmed by @PostcodeFilms

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The Associated Press @AP

4 weeks ago

Kids in Lower Merion school district in Pennsylvania get iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade. Hundreds of parents signed a petition asking to preserve their ability to opt their children out of using digital devices during the school day. The school district has pushed back, saying it’s not feasible to let hundreds of students opt out of technology that is essential to the curriculum.

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Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey

4 weeks ago

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.” Here’s something to wrap your head around. The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May. PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK

2 months ago

"At his funeral, six people came. He had helped start two revolutions." 💀 Thomas Paine was born in 1737 in Thetford, Norfolk. His family made corsets. He failed as a corset maker, a sailor, a tobacconist, a tax collector, and a teacher. England had nothing for him. At 37 he met Benjamin Franklin in London. Franklin handed him one letter of introduction and told him to go to America. He arrived in Philadelphia in November 1774 with almost nothing. 🌍 Two years later the American colonies were on the edge of revolt but most ordinary people still couldn't imagine breaking from the Crown. Paine sat down and wrote a pamphlet in plain English aimed at ordinary people, not politicians or kings. Common Sense. Published 10 January 1776. 100,000 copies sold in three months. 500,000 by the end of the year. In a country of two and a half million people. General Washington had it read aloud to his troops. Six months later, the Declaration of Independence. 🇺🇸 Paine gave away every penny of royalties to fund the Continental Army. Then he went to France. Wrote The Rights of Man in 1791, a direct challenge to hereditary power. The British government charged him with treason. He was already in Paris. The French Revolutionary government elected him to their National Convention. Then Robespierre had him arrested. He spent ten months in a Luxembourg prison cell waiting to be executed. He survived by chance. He came home to America in 1802. By then he was despised by the very establishment his ideas had helped create. He died in 1809, largely alone, in poverty, in a small house in New York. Six people attended his funeral. Half of them were formerly enslaved men who came to pay their respects. 🇬🇧 Human rights. Universal suffrage. The welfare state. Progressive taxation. All of it traces back to a corset maker's son from Norfolk who failed at everything England offered him. This history has no budget. No broadcaster. No institution behind it. Just the people who believe it deserves to exist. Support the channel: proudofus.co.uk/support 🇬🇧 Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧