This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Basil Seal retweeted
Very sad. There are many causes - such as high energy prices and Labour’s tax on jobs but there is something even bigger. In Tesco you can buy Chinese made plates which look unnerving like Denby - knock-offs effectively - at a fraction of the price.
We continue to delude ourselves that ‘free trade’ is fair trade. It isn’t and the long-term costs to our society of this wanton de-industrialisation is devastating.
This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery
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Evening, hope you’re all well
So, what have I missed?
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Basil Seal retweeted
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“Still they stand, the churches of England, their towers grey above billowy globes of elm trees, the red cross of St George flying over their battlements... schoolmistress at the organ, incumbent in the chancel, scattered worshippers in the nave...”
Sir John Betjeman
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🚨NEW: Birmingham Stand Up To Racism call for people to take down Union and St. George's flags
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Basil Seal retweeted
8 Aug 2025
First slum of Europe: a role
It won’t be hard to win,
With a cast of crooks and tarts.
And that will be England gone
Philip Larkin, born 9th August 1922
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