@stephenswan
Lawyer (non practising). Constitutional law, criminal law, EU & international law. Legal history, Astronomy & astrophysics, planetary geology, climate science & biodiversity, classics & ancient history, the supernatural & folklore.
So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity!
#Archaeology 🏺
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
Yes!
“The Clangers”, “The Herbs” oh and “The Magic Roundabout” (the last choice would particularly annoy some :) ).
Hello, rest of world. Today in Britain the leaders of mainstream political parties have been debating whether putting native woodland creatures on our banknotes is emblematic of our tragic decline as a patriotic nation, and we hope things are equally weird with you.
Kyiv post
March 10
Russia’s advanced radar was called Gravestone. Ukraine just gave it appropriate sendoff over Crimea.
Without it, the S-300 can’t see.
Magyar Birds destroyed Russia’s valuable Nadgrobok
Radar, eyes forVS-300 & S-400 air defense systems increment
There is no working air defense
1st batch of Mandelson vetting documents points to 2 things. The Government knew plenty (if not everything) about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein, sufficient for Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s NSA director to raise a 🚩. McSweeney’s opinion was preferred
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/peter-...
We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note
I’ve just watched a video made by someone who appears to be an adult and who wishes to be PM suggesting that a badger is an unfit successor to Winston Churchill and I now formally give up.
Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
I think I’m more interested in knowing what happened when Blair met Epstein than in knowing what Blair thinks Starmer should do when faced with a warmongering president who doesn’t care about international law
A black-and-white montage portrait of pioneering American virologist Charlotte Friend (1921–1987), who discovered the Friend leukemia virus and advanced understanding of retroviruses and cancer. The main image shows her in her laboratory, seated at a compound microscope in a research setting lined with shelves of scientific books and journals. She is a middle-aged woman with short, neatly styled dark hair, wearing round-framed eyeglasses, a pearl necklace, and a white lab coat over a patterned blouse with a floral collar. She smiles warmly and confidently at the camera, one hand resting near the microscope's stage, conveying dedication, intelligence, and approachability. In the lower right corner is a smaller inset close-up portrait of a younger Charlotte Friend, smiling brightly with softer features, short wavy hair, and a simple white blouse, highlighting her earlier career. The composition blends her professional lab environment with a personal archival photo, celebrating her groundbreaking contributions to virology, leukemia research, and women's roles in science during the mid-20th century. The overall mood is one of scholarly achievement, warmth, and historical significance.
Virologist Charlotte Friend (b. #OTD in 1921) proved viruses could cause cancer (1957) & revolutionized virology (& helped define modern retrovirology).
She later pioneered differentiation therapy, showing cancer cells could be "reverted" to health, defining a new path to treat cancer. #WomenInSTEM
The US administration wants Putin to win, and Ukraine to surrender. The US let’s be clear is the enemy of Ukraine 🇺🇦, the UK, the EU, and Europe.
Except for Vladimir Putin, is there anyone or any group of people who Trump hasn’t ripped off, lied to, or thrown under the bus?
Good, we’ve got to destroy Russia economically (and militarily) 👏
Bravo 👏
Labour government: hmmmm, should we introduce proportion representation? Or should we just focus our attention on bashing the Greens, hmm, its a tough one
Well Churchill was a racist too, and against the creation of the NHS. He’s had his time on a banknote. Happy to see him replaced by a hedgehog (other animal species are available).
Like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. #NothingEscapesShakespeare National Post @nationalpost . 3h From Churchill to hedgehogs: U.K. animals to replace historic figures on British banknote
Fifty-five years ago #OTD we sundered ourselves from our fathers, replacing our handsome and ancient coinage with a decimal system
👉 On the left, Dan Hannan lamenting Bank of England's decision to put animals and plants on currency.
👉 On the right, Dan Hannan ... a month ago... demanding a return to coinage - much of which - featured er... animals... and plants.
Jeez. This is damning
“There you have it in black and white. The Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned in the clearest possible terms that Peter Mandelson maintained his relationship [with Epstein] after the conviction.. there is no escape from this"
the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes
For example,
Ada Lovelace
Caroline Herschel
Rosalind Franklin
Janet Taylor
Beatrice Shilling
Give me a hedgehog any day over a bunch of politicians and ‘national heroes from British history’. A few inspirational women written out of history by men would be helpful though .
Hedgehogs are woke now
Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
Ukraine has regained more territory than at any time since 2023 and this moment is the exact moment when Trump decides to drop sanctions on russian oil, the profits of which putin will use directly for attacking Ukraine further.
No.
Failing to apologise means your country IS immoral.
This isn’t about optics.
Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
BREAKING: Major escalation in Iran conflict.
Iranian military command says it will target US banks and financial institutions in the Middle East.
🚨It tells civilians to keep a distance of 1km from all US banks in the region.
[SOURCE: REUTERS]
I should perhaps point out that banks and financial institutions are not legitimate military targets, and targeting them would be a breach of international law, not that this will worry Iran. That said the US is no better than Iran (and is the aggressor here).
