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07.03.2026 18:52
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Two really enjoyable games.
A simple story, beautifully told.
#BookerPrize #1984
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Country 17: Palestine
Men in the Sun and other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
#readtheworld
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Just awful
#134 #readtheworld #booksky
A good story with great characters and an insight into life in #Cuba
The Good Systems Agreement: This agreement sets out the principles that a new fair voting system must deliver, and calls for a citizen-led, deliberative process to choose a new system. Please support. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
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Oh come on @duolingoverde.bsky.social this isn't English!
Such fun, so funny, so much fun.
On this day in 1943, a 97 year old Dutch Jewish woman arrived at the Sobibor extermination camp where she was murdered in the gas chamber. Her name was Jannetje Philipse-van Buren
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"Numerous MPs across parties called for a move to PR, or at least a National Commission on Electoral Reform, arguing FPTP is unfit for a multi-party political landscape.
@appgfairelections.bsky.social and Make Votes Matter are among those planning to keep up the fight."
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social
It's Osulaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! #NUFC
Ye mad bastard.
Reading these on #WorldBookDay #readtheworld
#Cuba #Benin #BookSky
Another perfect illustration of what is wrong with our media and just what the government is up against!
In this case, omission of details and fact twisting which makes people blame Labour rather than the Tories.
Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.
Did you see this headline?
Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?
Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷♀️
Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?
Course you would!😜
Let's take a look
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On this day in 1896, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 4 Jul 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and son (16). On the 6 Sep 1943 they were deported to Auschwitz where they all perished. Her name was Alice Steckelmacher
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I am thanks. Just ordered 8 more books!
#Readtheworld #Cuba
"If we stick with First Past the Post under an increasingly fractured multi-party political landscape, we have a very real risk of the next general election results looking much like a random number generator."
Well said @rozsavage.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Social care
Image thanks to ITNinjas Adult social care is something I have had very little to do with, until very recently. It has been a steep learning curve, everything has been new and there have been many twists and turns. Whilst the subject has been new, the experience has not. I have been…
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
An enchanting book of poetry and an insight into #Dominica
#133 in my attempt to #ReadTheWorld #BookSky
A hugely entertaining, inventive and provocative book. So glad o read it #BookSky #BookerPrize 1978
Just passed half way of quite a long book. Great so far. #Booker 1978
With three candidates standing a good chance of winning today in Gorton and Denton, small changes in the vote could decide the winner – but whatever happens, there is a good chance that two-thirds of voters will end up with an MP they didn't vote for. buff.ly/gUjPNaQ
Drawing faces
If I say so myself, my drawing is coming along quite nicely. Ever since taking lessons, my confidence has grown. My eldest daughter bought me a little book for Xmas, encouraging me to sketch something every day. I’m over fifty days in and have managed to keep up so far. That is me…
On this day in 1928, a Jewish girl, of Polish decent, was born in Metz. On the 31 Jul 1944, she was deported, alone, from Drancy to Auschwitz. Her parents and sister had been deported to the camp in Nov 1942. Her name was Marguerite Gruszka
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#132 #ReadTheWorld #Cyprus #BookSky
An amazing book full of twists and turns that hold you to the last page.
