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This for War Child #NickLowe #ElvisCostello
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More music.
#whatssofunny
This for War Child #NickLowe #ElvisCostello
jonhorne.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...
For those who know that US-Israeli indiscriminate attacks on Iran & Lebanon are beyond the pale. AND support the Iranian people's rights to live in peace free of brutal oppression by their government. A bit of noise in the cacophony. #MusicForIran
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"How can one well-meaning scientist counter scientific misinformation? Or even a million? The other side is bankrolled by dead-eyed billionaires."
My latest blog post #AcademicSky
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Having a passionate opinion about whether jam or cream goes first as a distraction from the simple fact that scones are perfect baked goods is quintessentially English. See also arguments on Eccles cakes v Bath buns v lardy cakes.
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Last bit... Churchill - at least in the 1920s - briefly bought into the "globalist conspiracy theory" that was getting put about by antisemitic loon Nesta Webster. Citing Adam Weishaupt— who he wrongly believed to be Jewish he briefly went full "Illuminati new world order" on things.. a complex man
Yes - he showed grt wartime leadership but it's also a myth that he was some champion of freedom because he was a dyed in the wool imperialist who fought tooth and nail against independence movements in India and elsewhere.
As Tory leader rejected by voters in 1945, 1950 - and lost pop vote in 1951
In his lifetime, a lot of people viewed him as a self promoting, entitled chancer. He was often horribly out of his depth and famously had some disastrous turns - most famously as a disastrous Chancellor and First Lord of the Admiralty.
Frequently rejected at the ballot box he bounced back.
Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.
The gold standard of leadership.
A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other
It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3
@edinburghminute.com tries to get the real story out. Apparently #Musk and #YaxleyLennon have been spreading malicious lies. #edinburghpolice put record straight. #notamassstabbing
Wait a minute, didn't #Thatcher start absentee voting to harvest #Tory voting tax exiles living overseas? I certainly got an absentee vote when I moved to USA in 1990 - specifically to bite the biter as I was registered in a #marginal seat & could vote to kick them out.
Thank you. Interesting - I have not seen that previously.
Really? - Can you share a link? I'm surprised to hear that an apple propagated from grafts has mutated significantly. And most of the Bramleys in stores near me look authentic. The apple in the article did not.
The greatest cooking apple in the world. And I have tried dozens from the USA to Belgium. But the photo in the article does not look remotely like a Bramley. #fakeBramley
Original Bramley apple tree ‘at risk’ after site where it grows put up for sale www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Reason makes a rare appearance in UK public life.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Needs full analysis. Is your friend's marriage in the period where they buy "world's best husband/wife" mugs for each other? But have not reached slippers stage. Is one of them either a wildly underrated golfer, high on their golf ability, OR Rory McIlroy - pace #JohnFinnemore There can be reasons.
It makes grim reading and indeed speaks of things that sadly persist. May I be permitted a small smile at the possibility that when asked about the transcriptionist, he replied, "That's no lady, that's my wife". Music hall comedy, now known as "banter" that really should also be in a dusty archive.
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
Is it too early to nominate the people of Minneapolis for this year’s #NobelPeacePrize?
📢 The US has shaken up its dietary guidelines causing media headlines around the world.
Watch our webinar featuring Professor Mike Rayner of
@ox.ac.uk and Food Foundation Executive Director Anna Taylor to hear why it matters for UK food policy.
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Not spotted any new #labit for some weeks - I really need to sit & trawl the interweb for a morning this week! however if you spotted any - realistic scientist(s) in [non-scifi] novels, esp. 2025/6, do share! #booksky
It's a joy to listen to on vinyl ... @hamishhawk.bsky.social Now that I have finally bought a copy...
😃 Particularly the idea of staying healthy by walking in safety to shops...
#BurnsNight For #Minnesota
"Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s comin yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man the warld o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that."
Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Here is what to know. n.pr/3Z191gf
How bad is #Starmer 's crew's reputation mgmt? Laying out policies they can't or won't sustain if challenged. Ignore the 'keep yer friends close & yer enemies closer' principle. No sign of prior consulting or risk planning. Since they're career politicians no surprise where Jo Voter turns. #Burnham
Minnesota is the best of us.
Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”
