Wholesale electricity was nearly free overnight because of wind power. Why isn't that headline news on #r4today?
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Wholesale electricity was nearly free overnight because of wind power. Why isn't that headline news on #r4today?
#PoliticsLIve
Farage criticised over investment in bitcoin business run by failed Chancellor
Water Lilies isn’t one painting—it’s a series.
Monet returned to the subject again and again, creating over 250 canvases. One pond, endless light.
Meanwhile Ukraine continues
This is a poignant new radio doc on the man who delivers the worst news to parents and partners
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🌍 It’s the #InternationalDayOfWomenJudges!
Today, we honour Fidelma O’Kelly Macken, who was appointed the first woman Judge at the Court of Justice in 1999. ⚖️
Her legacy continues to inspire new generations.
#WomenInLaw #EULaw #CJEU
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
Morning everyone!! Up and at it because…
We’re deeply concerned that private equity is moving in - attracted to the idea of making money from the NHS waiting lists 🚨🚨🚨This is deeply alarming, so EveryDoctor wants to investigate what’s happening💙
..and we’re £230 away…
If you heard the Victims Commissioner on #r4today or watched the MP on #Newsnight you’ll know that Rape Survivors are calling for this to happen. Waiting years for their cases to be heard is causing great harm and distress. It’s not about making a political point!
Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.
Labour will today set out how UK exporters and importers are expected to benefit from the new Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU!
Announced last May and negotiated since, it aims to make trade between the EU and UK easier, cheaper and quicker.
It will cut paperwork....
No mention of the neonicotinoids that kill bees, sugarbeet farmers lobby the UK government to allow each year. Banned in Europe On this sympathetic to the farmers but not our #bees and biodiversity on this week’s
#Countryfile
Exhibitions at Lambeth Palace showcases women priests and female literature
➡️ ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exh...
At the moment, there are two female-led exhibitions at Lambeth Palace's library, looking at women in the Church of England and old books owned or written by women.
The real Brexit story isn’t just politics.
It’s media power.
For 30 years parts of British press helped create the Brexit narrative.
Now the consequences of that narrative are reshaping the very institutions that promoted it.
History has a long memory.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-05...
Egyptian prince Thutmose was entombed with his companion cat Ta-Miu (aka “little mewer”). Here’s the cat’s sarcophagus ~ the inscription says “I myself am placed among the imperishable ones that are in the Sky / For I am Ta-Miu, the Triumphant” (1,500 BC)
Strategic voting against Reform will often mean voting Labour. Depends on the place…
BREAKING: “We need to act with clarity, with purpose and with a cool head.. what I was not prepared to do on Saturday was for the UK to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable thought through plan. That remains my position
Keir Starmer
#PMQs
Media must stop normalizing the far right
Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences
www.politico.eu/article/medi...
#MorningPrayer
Lord Jesus,
you open your heart to all people,
calling us your brothers and sisters,
people made in the image of God.
Prevent us from closing our hearts to others,
from choosing to see our differences
rather than all that we have in common.
May we love as you love.
1️⃣ The #climate & #nature crisis isn’t a future issue. It threatens all aspects of British life now and demands urgent action.
Ten top experts briefed MPs and other influential people at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster.
Clips from each talk in this thread. 🧵👇
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
How do we pay for the NHS, etc. if we don't pay taxes?
This whole argument about tax is that rich people don't need the services most of us rely on and they don't want to pay towards something they don't personally use. The concept of one for all doesn't matter to them.
#r4today
A despicable decision from Blue Labour's Mahmood. It underminds the very concept of "refuge". It also causes unimaginable mental distress to people already suffering trauma. This only makes sense if you've bought into the far-right conspiracy theory that all refugees are "faking it".
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Come to our great event in Wembley. Home not just to football but also to poetry! Listen to wonderful poets Jane Clarke & Jessica Mookherjee - with the chance to share a poem in the open mic @janeclarke.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
The Wisbech to March railway line, opened in 1847, was once a vital corridor for passengers and freight | John Elworthy
🟨 Print Edition — ‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’
Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across…
I'm delighted to be lecturing at Oriel Môn/Anglesey Gallery in March about the incredible Iron Age remains on the island, including about recent work with @richardosgood.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach & our #RCAHMW recording of coastal forts.
See you there!
www.orielmon.org/en/events/dr...
Honored Artist of the USSR since 1970, People's Artist of Ukraine. Pablo Picasso once said after visiting a Prymachenko exhibition in Paris, “I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian. The year 2009 was declared the Year of Maria Prymachenko by the UNESCO. This miracle of colour and invention had her bast shoes planted firmly on the soil of her native land. Maria Aksentievna Primachenko (1908–1997) was a Ukrainian peasant. Her astonishingly fertile picture plane was located in the flat limitless horizon of the Ukrainian steppe. Primachenko lived her life in the village of Bolotnya in the Kyiv region. She contracted polio as a child. Her already empathetic character became heightened into a profound sense of universality that in earlier times might have been seen as almost pantheistic. In the Ukraine of the immediate post-Revolutionary period this would, of necessity, find more nuanced modes of expression. Pigeon and Dove, 1982
Autumn is riding on a horseback, n.d.
I give my little stars to children, 1983
The Threat of War, 1986
Maria Prymachenko
(Ukrainian, 1908-97)
Maria was a self- taught Ukrainian village folk art painter, representative of naïve art. The artist was involved with drawing, embroidery and painting on ceramics. Laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine named after T.G. Shevchenko.
I remember hearing Happy birthday Sweet Sixteen on my 16th birthday. Lovely songs. RIP Neil Sedaka
Zack Polanski, "If you have a migrant worker who comes to this country"
"They are more likely to pay more in tax, than they ever take out in benefits"
"We very rarely hear this reality"
"The Government should ensure that all relevant policies, including those applicable in the workplace, are fully consistent with equality and human rights obligations.”
sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/un-human-r...
