Thanks for that info Sue - neither my wife nor I knew about it either. And just in time for our Victorian History class tomorrow!
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Thanks for that info Sue - neither my wife nor I knew about it either. And just in time for our Victorian History class tomorrow!
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Yes - and just for the record
Labour 1004
Reform 786
Green 95
Cons 61
LD 38
Electorate: 7979
Ballot Papers Issued: 1991
Turnout: 24.9%
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.
Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...
But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic
If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.
Important elections news via Unlock Democracy:
The government has announced it will repeal controversial Conservative changes that granted ministers a new power to influence the elections’ watchdog. Big win for democracy campaigners.
Oh, hello.
[From a Labour Gorton & Denton campaign video]
There has hardly been any publicity or press behind Welsh film Fires Of The Moon/Tanau’r Lloer (2025) since its release back in November.
But there’s a chance to see it next Thursday (5th March) on Channel 4, 10PM. We haven’t had chance to see it (hardly anyone has), but it looks very interesting.
A powerful force for good - The Open University labourlist.org/2026/02/the-...
Mirror front page, pic of Farage and Goodwin, text “why we must stop Reform” by Gordon Brown
Big intervention by Gordon Brown
If you have a vote in Gorton and Denton tomorrow - use it for Labour and to stop Reform
Simply anybody could win it. There's no such thing as tactical voting with this much uncertainty.
Excellent news as Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has STOPPED a study funded by the Trump administration that aimed to evaluate possible side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine like autism or dermatitis despite NO research evidence suggesting it does this 🧵 #HepB
I’ve been working with Enzo, his family and his lawyer since last summer hoping we would see this decision happen. 🧵2/3
Enzo’s British citizenship means that having been a fixture of Welsh football for many years, representing our country on the international stage at the junior and youth level, he will now be eligible to represent his country of birth in the mens’ team.
Congratulations and good luck Enzo. 🧵3/3
I’m absolutely thrilled that Enzo has been granted British citizenship.
It’s such great news for Enzo, his family and Welsh football. 🧵3/3
We can build it better but only if we recognise who is trying to tear us down first - link for tickets to Sunday 8th March here: sohotheatre.com/events/walth...
@alexdaviesjones.bsky.social responds to Reform UK's decision not to act on councillor Simon Evans sharing a post calling for a female Labour MP to be shot.
lancashire.thelead.uk/p/lancashire...
Reform UK is refusing to suspend a councillor who reshared a post calling for a female Labour MP to be shot. Given the history of violence against MPs in the UK, calling this an “honest mistake” is indefensible. There can be no excuses.
national.thelead.uk/p/exclusive-...
Suspension of Matt Goodwin campaign manager (due to alleged racism and antisemitism) confirmed - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you want to know how Farage's Reform will govern if they take power after next UK election, see how they govern in local areas
Against poll preferences of locals, the Reform Mayor of Lincolnshire cultivates fracking companies to see if they can come & operate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Decency. A quality in short supply.
Might not have the required soft skills of a modern Prime Minister but he possesses a moral core.
A giant of a man.
Class by numbers. 62% of judges went to public school compared with 12% of union leaders
wp.me/p15p2Q-gch
Why should we visit when the people in the picture are obviously fleeing?
Cartoon:
21st Century <something> man
And before they try to wriggle out of this, Suella Braverman served as a minister for 82% of the last parliament (2019–24), while Robert Jenrick served as a minister for 66%.
So much for not being ministers for "very long" under the last Conservative government.
Reform UK = More Tory failures.
Having read the government's Local Power Plan, it looks really cool. For the first time, communities will get help to set up their own clean energy projects. This will genuinely improve people's lives and will help national security too.
It was perhaps unwise for Matthew Doyle to believe his friend’s insistence of innocence so completely that he campaigned for him. But if you’re talking unsavoury and unsuitable types elevated to the Lords in recent years, I doubt he’d even be in the top 30.
“wholesale power prices would have been 46% higher in 2025 if there had been no windfarms generating electricity.
This is because windfarms push the most expensive gas plants off the system, reducing average wholesale prices.”
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-uks-...
