Not been closely following today's discourse on replacing Churchill with an otter, but feel it would have been a mistake to do this before the cabinet crisis of 27/28 May 1940, unless you were also thinking of replacing Lord Halifax with an otter.
"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"
Never has a nation been as dominant on the battlefield as the USA.
But this war is yet more evidence that tactical mastery has stopped them thinking about strategy.
Cat “innocently” winding round legs causing victim to fall and impale themselves on chisel?
I feel like a murderous cat would be more subtle. Poison perhaps. Or a cleverly staged accident.
Oh absolutely. And I must say a lot of what you describe regarding endless cuts leading to even more inefficiencies feels very familiar here in local government.
We are reading it this month in our WI Book Group. Looking forward to the discussion. One of our ladies is an actual magistrate!! I’m just about to read about the Innocence Tax and bracing myself to be furious.
PUT SWEEP ON A BANKNOTE, COWARDS
The 2026 Headline of the Year contest is heating up
Five orange bean shaped bees. Bumblebeans.
Bumblebeans.
#art #beans
As ever, the Great Pottery Throwdown was a haven of lovely creative people amidst <gestures wildly> all this. Would have been happy to see any of them win to be honest. Lovely stuff.
This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.
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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
An insect bouncer checks the ID of a caterpillar. The ID shows a butterfly. The caterpillar smiles enthusiastically showing his braces.
Almost annoyingly clever Tommy Siegel cartoon.
It’s like the phrase “delusions of adequacy” became a person.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
Listening to things getting under way at the local football ground and remembering fondly the time before the drum wankers. 🙄
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.
they’re just begging for a car chase
It's almost like billionaire agents of discord and hate have created a narrative that is starkly at odd with the reality of life in Britain isn't it.
Next head of the Department of Homeland Security…
I just ordered a so-called ‘All Day Breakfast’ and finished it in well under half an hour. How do these fraudsters sleep at night.
It is absolutely sub optimal. Even worse than when I had it in Egypt. 😱
Just popping in from my sick bed to say food poisoning is the absolute pits. Hoo boy. Thank you for your attention in this matter. 🤢🤮🚽
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
On Starmer, Iran and the impossible dilemmas that arise when your closest defence and security partner is also a rogue superpower www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Image is an extract from the FT which reads: An executive at a large global hedge fund with a presence in Dubai said: "We have been exploring how to evacuate people but it's not easy." He added: "It's pretty scary - this is going to have implications for some of my guys... The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new."
Ah yes, the Middle East, famously not remotely prone to any sort of geopolitical activity.
Purple crocuses congregate at the base of a tree trunk lit by pale spring sunshine.
At last beginning to feel like Spring.
