sophie atkinson
@SophEAtkinson
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RT @McilhaggaSamuel: I recently wrote about one man's plan to build a 51 metre high folly next to the M6. English eccentric, tragi-comic….
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California, concrete and charismatic Christianity: one man’s 20 year mission to honour God on the outskirts of Birmingham
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are you based in glasgow. or are you elsewhere and simply enjoy a perfect Yarn. May i direct you to today's @theglasgowbell's look at how beef over fencing in Cathkin Park has escalated to court battles; a loo civil war and manspreading allegations 💯
glasgowbell.co.uk
Locals say a football charity is mounting a hostile takeover of a Crosshill pitch. What’s the truth?
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Wrote about retrofitting, which has been sold to us as a luxury extra - but is inevitable, and something that needs to happen at scale!! Especially in Manchester, for all the reasons the article outlines. .
"Saying to clients: 'yes, it’s fine to consume as much material as your gloriously Instagrammable open plan kitchen requires' while doing nothing to make the house less consumptive, felt fraudulent": we spoke to architects here about why retrofitting needs to happen NOW. 🧵.
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RT @_TheLondoner: These are pictures of the conditions at two new blocks of flats in Barking. The firms that built them were given tens of….
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RT @joshi: This is one of the wildest stories we’ve ever published: two senior university executives agreeing a deal to divert student fee….
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RT @abi_whist: My investigation in today’s @liverpoolpost reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual….
livpost.co.uk
A Post investigation reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual and domestic violence against its resident historian
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RT @joshi: @molssimp This PR man Joseph Wheeler's company has been paid £8.2m over the past six years and he seems to have acquired enormou….
manchestermill.co.uk
The strange story of how a marketing man from Milton Keynes turned a university into his poison-filled fiefdom
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RT @junethomas: I have to admit, @SophEAtkinson's piece about the eternal teapot exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery has made me want….
manchestermill.co.uk
‘So this is…the temporary collection?’
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verrrry specific query that i thought would be easy to figure out but am hitting a wall with: who is the uk's leading experts on libraries? who would have a good overview of how british library and other big libraries across the country have evolved over recent decades?.
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They wore spandex. They did a workout routine on camera. They smashed their fundraising target - but who were these uniquely generous donors? @jackdulhanty on the jazzercise fundraising miracle of 2020 is unmissable
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One had filed an application for a controversial tower just before
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RT @joshi: 🚨New on @_TheLondoner: David Lammy's special advisor Ben Judah wrote a strange and disturbing book about London, littered with r….
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RT @AndrewKersley: EXCL: Landlord and Labour MP Bayo Alaba recently evicted a mother of two, making her homeless. The former councillor re….
the-londoner.co.uk
"I don't even know what is going to happen to me. They could move me to Birmingham."
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RT @milesellingham: For my first @_TheLondoner story, I went back to uni.
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‘There is no shortage of TikToks of crying students warning prospective enrollees to go somewhere else’
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enjoyed all of @mlothianmclean’s essay on dating in london, but the pirate anecdote said it all,,,you know the pickings are slim when someone talks to you like jack sparrow in real life & you go home with them anyway. Full essay here:
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RT @joshi: I haven't been single or lived in London for ages but reading @mlothianmclean's hilarious/horrifying dating essay that line from….
the-londoner.co.uk
Is dating in London really a special hell?
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"In other words, if you don’t reproduce you’d better produce, and vice versa." Great review of 'Mother State' by @AnnaCoatman in Frieze today.
frieze.com
Writer and academic Helen Charman’s debut non-fiction book tracks the cultural fixation of mothering in art and literature
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RT @joshi: 🚨 Major story from our new title @_TheLondoner: The Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of an appalling private care home where….
the-londoner.co.uk
The home is run by a friend of his, whose company received millions from the council Athwal ran
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