Theresa Musgrove
@BrokenBarnet
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Theresa Musgrove is a writer & blogger living in the London Borough of Broken Barnet. Also @theresamusgrove.bsky.social
Joined January 2011
Painted in 1886 after his honeymoon, Anders Zorn’s 'Summer Delight,' depicts his wife Emma waiting for her husband who is rowing the boat; this is a study of the finished work and shows an influence from the French Impressionists but with a distinctively Scandinavian palette.
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Any Reform voter - or councillor - who blinds themselves to the reality of Farage's character needs to read this:
NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers". Read on for more https://t.co/rL2fSEpxI0
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"At least 15 English sewage plants use plastic beads spilled at Camber Sands." So @Southernwater's toxic plastic bead pollution now extends from Eastbourne all the way to at least Folkestone, that's about 50 miles of coast. Polluted by something introduced 34 years ago as a
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Exclusive: Experts urge water companies to update plants to avoid another catastrophe, as analysis reveals scale of use
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New story: I found where all the sewage plants which use toxic biobeads are, a dangerous & outdated technology. They're nearly all on the coast, perilously close to our beaches https://t.co/yKjTfIEd14
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Exclusive: Experts urge water companies to update plants to avoid another catastrophe, as analysis reveals scale of use
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No. We must educate people and stop encouraging them to think that migration is the cause of their dissatisfaction, or difficulties. Pandering to Reform isn't going to save anyone's seat, or this government.
This won’t smack as very Labour with some of our colleagues, and I get it, but it isn’t very Labour either to allow communities to breed resentment through ignoring their fears and concerns that they happen to have. We must unite what is divided!
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So who do you think is on the right side of history? Someone with lived experienced of persecution and seeking refuge, or a politician seduced by populist opportunism?
In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people. Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
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Well no: it is Reform that is controlling the narrative, dictating the narrative - and a cowardly government following suit.
Labour is, for the first time, controlling the narrative on immigration. This is how politics is done, whether you like the policies or not. It is also progress, unless you would like Farage as PM and Lee Anderson as Home Secretary. None of it is easy.
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“Everything that we are is reflected in place and we reflect everything that is in the locations that are around us” – Alan Moore
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“Everything that we are is reflected in place and we reflect everything that is in the locations that are around us” – Alan Moore “All this is about place and about intersections of place, people,...
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London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect. A city where a council estate kid with immigrant parents can become Mayor. That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.
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“I am the child of immigrants.” A disgusting invocation of her identity to defend an anti-immigrant, anti-refugee cruel plan that is winning her praise today from Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage. Shameful.
I am the child of immigrants. Illegal migration is creating division across our country. It is a broken system and we have a genuine problem to fix. My job is to find a proper solution that can unite a divided country.
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Hans Gude painted this remarkably detailed depiction of Sandvik Fjord (1879) from above Sandviken, now the northern suburbs of the Norwegian city of Bergen, looking to the west and the island of Askøy.
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🚨 NEW: Peter Mandelson is now being investigated by Kensington and Chelsea Council for urinating on a public street [@zoenora6]
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Labour MP Steve Witherden tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans to make refugees wait 20 years to apply for permanent status is "deeply concerning" "Our government should lead with compassion.. not forcing the most vulnerable in our society to live in limbo for two decades"
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Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
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Listened to Home Secretary speak on her asylum reforms & expressed my distress at impact on families with children facing years of uncertainty & insecurity. Children who’ve already often been traumatised in their lives will be hurt.I’ll not support inflicting further harm on them
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Alex Norris - Labour MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley. Alex is also a Minister of State for Border, Security and Asylum. Alex’s wife is Emma Foody - the Labour MP for Cramlington and Killingworth (near Newcastle). Alex has been in the news today giving notice in various TV
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Good for them: the rest of you should hang your cowardly heads in utter shame. You know this is morally wrong, totally in contradiction to Labour values - and politically stupid as well.
👮 More than a dozen Labour MPs have expressed criticism of the government’s radical reforms to Britain’s asylum system. https://t.co/uCgajvflu1
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It is apparent that she has no moral compass. Pandering to the far Right makes her part of the problem. Expect massive voter defections to the Greens, Lib Dems, SNP & Plaid.
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There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights
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