Dr Lynn
Dr Lynn.
Ph.D Historian of Society & Culture. Theories of control within public space: Parks, Gardens, Cemeteries and Sunday Schools.
Autoimmune warrior.
Plays 🎹, loves old books, and enjoys gardening.
Married to MacRunner
- Reposted by Dr Lynn"Nothing but silence from these other great defenders of justice either Ruth Smeeth, John Mann, Iain McNicol, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Jon Ashworth, Luciana Berger, Joan Ryan, to name a few. Nothing from Mandelson friend & protege Morgan McSweeney. All keeping their heads down" via Daily Politik
- Reposted by Dr LynnNot only has the Prime Minister confirmed he was aware of Mandelson's ongoing friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein before he was appointed Ambassador, it was actually flagged by official security vetting
- Reposted by Dr LynnPleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr Lynn🚨Gorton and Denton by-election PLEASE DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM
- 🚨Gorton and Denton by-election JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
- Reposted by Dr LynnGoodnight. Camera d'Albergo, Leonardo Devito. #Caturday
- Reposted by Dr LynnSaturday plans. 🖼️ Ophelia Redpath #Caturday
- Reposted by Dr LynnStarmer: Mandelson should be stripped of peerage Former ambassador to the US has brought Lords ‘into disrepute’, says Downing Street www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by Dr LynnThanks for all the messages of hope from my leaders interview with @bbclaurak.bsky.social This is it. This is our moment. We're taking on Reform. Join.greenparty.org.uk
- Reposted by Dr LynnOur MA has gone online. Exciting.
- Reposted by Dr LynnSo Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein “Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year …”. Working right on across the edge, he then became obsessed with the idea that only Muslim men in the UK operate child grooming gangs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Dr LynnBest novelist in PMG's 1885 '10 Greatest Living Englishmen' poll throws up more surprises, for a paper of the London clubland. Wilkie Collins on top (346), only just ahead of William Black, & Walter Besant. Hardy a distant 9th (a mere 20 votes), Meredith (9). 5 in desperation for the dead Trollope.
- Reposted by Dr LynnOn this day 30 January and tomorrow the 31st 1606 York born Guido (Guy) Fawkes and the surviving conspirators from the Gunpowder Plot were executed (The executions took place just outside Westminster Hall, in Old Palace Yard (31st) and in St Paul's Churchyard (30th).
- Reposted by Dr LynnMan and dog on a country lane at night, painting by Newcastle-based artist Pete Rumney (b.1974).
- Reposted by Dr LynnMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by Dr LynnHere’s the lesson of the Andy Burnham saga: Labour needs a new leader. Even Toynbee is abandoning Starmer Need policies not cults. Pledges that mean something. Inclusivity not authoritarianism. Redistribution, not trickle-down. Public ownership of essentials. Public welfare over corporate welfare.
- Reposted by Dr LynnMore and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
- Reposted by Dr LynnWilliam Morris
- Reposted by Dr Lynn“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works” @trusselluk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr LynnMaister House has stood on Hull's High Street since Georgian times. Today, the Grade I listed building, which is owned by the National Trust, is entering a new era as a music school. But its history has been shaped by trade, tragedy, loss and survival. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr LynnHuge mistake’: Labour in turmoil as Burnham blocked from byelection race. Under Starmer everything is centralised. Local party emasculated, candidates parachuted by hierarchy. Conference resolutions ignored, unions alienated, left purged, poor policies.
- Reposted by Dr LynnQuarter of the 300,000 children in England waiting for 12 months for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy & disability support. Human cost of fiscal rules, lack of public investment. Lives ruined by political choices. A better world is possible.
- Reposted by Dr LynnNational insurance hike and energy bills behind food price rise, say UK retailers. No mention of the role of private equity ownership of supermarkets, restaurants and pubs. No mention of profiteering, exec pay, dividends or profit shifting to dodge taxes.
- Reposted by Dr LynnI mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees.
- Reposted by Dr LynnSalutary reading for those who persist in claiming that Britain did more than any other nation to free Africans from slavery. 1. Most “Liberated Africans” - 700,000 - were forced into state-supervised indenture. 2. Portugal & France “freed” more Africans in this way than Britain.
- Reposted by Dr LynnI know I keep writing about this,but the level of delusion is staggering. How do so many people think Reform will 'save the country' when it’s led by defected Tories from the worst cabinet in UK history?It’s not change, just same failures,new logo,and people cheering like it’s a revival,not a rerun.
- Reposted by Dr LynnFarage welcomed Suella ‘Cruella’ Braverman into Reform UK Party Ltd today.
- Reposted by Dr LynnAlex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
- Reposted by Dr LynnBlocking Andy Burnham leaves Keir Starmer isolated This is a decision that will be entirely put at the door of the Prime Minister www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
- Reposted by Dr LynnThe people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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- Reposted by Dr LynnFreedom in America appears to be the freedom to be shot by ICE and then have the Government cover it up.
- Reposted by Dr LynnA touch of folklore for a Saturday afternoon. The Bradford Boar story is a local legend about a giant, ferocious boar terrorising 14th-century town. Its slaying by a man named Northrop became a symbol for Bradford depicted on its crest without a tongue 1/2
- Reposted by Dr Lynn“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️ RIP Barbara Aronstein Black www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
- Reposted by Dr Lynn‘The things which happened in that garden! If you have never had a garden, you cannot understand and if you have had a garden, you will know that it would take a whole book to describe all that came to pass there.’ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Maria Louise Kirk
- Reposted by Dr LynnA new book acquisition. Simon Young's "The Witches and Fairies of Nineteenth-Century Ilkley".
- Reposted by Dr LynnRather than build alliances with the left - creating a united front to combat the far right, this joke of a government is spending all its time attacking them. It’s beyond betrayal - it’s calculated cowardice.
- Reposted by Dr LynnMaybe the reason the Green Party has had so much success in taking the left is because Labour abandoned it.
- Reposted by Dr LynnStarmers worried about the Green Party challenging this governments failures. He's right to be. Join.greenparty.org.uk
- Reposted by Dr LynnIf you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
- Reposted by Dr LynnDo schools know what THEY are for?
- Reposted by Dr LynnDonald Trump's plan for Gaza includes everything but Palestinians. We call that Ethnic Cleansing.
- Reposted by Dr LynnReminder of who Reform really are.
- Reposted by Dr Lynn$9,114.99 in the USA to give birth, with full insurance. No wonder no one is having children.
- Reposted by Dr LynnLet me make a very important point. We keep being told we can't lower house prices because that will 'hurt boomers'. But boomers don't sell their houses until they die, so the price is irrelevant. And even if they do it is to buy a smaller house, which would get cheaper.
- Reposted by Dr LynnBamburgh Castle, Northumberland, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.
- Reposted by Dr LynnThe Ryanair CEO is cooking Elon Musk and all Musk could come back with was he's some 'special needs chimp'. The R word is all this loser has got.
- Reposted by Dr LynnIt's not an error that Donald Trump keeps calling Greenland, 'Iceland'. Iceland is the next country on the USA's list, and then it will be Ireland and the UK.
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- Reposted by Dr LynnUK tourist Becky Burke was arrested by ICE in the USA and kept in handcuffs and chains for 19 days before being deported back to Wales. Her 'crime', doing unpaid work in return for accomodation (which isn't illegal). This is the evil of Donald Trump's USA, DON'T GO.
- Reposted by Dr LynnGoodnight. Moonlight by Emile Pierre Branchard.
