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BBC News - Water firm admits six years of illegal pollution
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Arrived today - "The New Flesh - Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation", edited by Mark Morris. Lates in the British Library @blpublishing.bsky.social "Tales of the Weird" subscription. Stories by Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Mary Danby and many more. Good stuff!
Some photos from the 2026 Lloyd George Society Weekend:
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Image of Georgian house with text: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' RHS Lecture with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester) Royal Historical Society Lecture Friday 1 May 2026
If you can't get to the University of Warwick on 1 May, booking for online attendance at our next lecture is also now available: bit.ly/3P5pqOZ
'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester).
All welcome #Skystorians
13 March 1915 - Intimations of December 1916.
Lloyd George, Riddell, and Rufus Isaacs discuss Asquith's war leadership, with a Churchillian interjection. #OTD #OnThisDay
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Please sign Richard Foord's petition against government plans to make it easier to build in flood plains.
Sir Alfred T. Davies, first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, author of "The Lloyd George I Knew, and the Story of the Welsh Department", born this day 1861 #OnThisDay #OTD He also wrote on John Calvin, Robert Owen, and O. M. Edwards.
Disappointed to see Labour MPs vote down @libdems.org.uk proposals to cap the cost of branded school uniform. We want to put ££ back into parents' pockets and give schools freedom to set their own uniform policy. The Government's approach risks putting up uniform prices.
Thank you for coming, and for bringing such fascinating material for us to pore over.
Lloyd George Society banner
Man looking at exhibition
Archives on display
Two people standing by the exhibition
Wonderful day with the @lloydgeorgesociety.bsky.social yesterday with a small exhibition. Diolch am y croeso!
William Cobbett, activist, pamphleteer, MP, born this day 1763 #OTD #OnThisDay
"A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty-thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts"
Described as "The most powerful tribune that the English poor have ever known" by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond.
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
Whilst there are many matters I may disagree upon with Sir Keir Starmer, I agree with his decision on the legality of the US actions against Iran. Defence is legal, but not be allowed to extend beyond defence.
www.theguardian.com/us-nebws/202...
Anyone who makes Trump unhappy can't be all bad.
There were about 3600 public libraries open in the UK in 2020.
This is about £40 for each of them.
La pêche au cormoran, probably slightly less disgusting than peche a la frog. archive.org/details/lapc...
Caught this on the radio the other day - fascinating, very good fun. Cornishman A. L. Rowse interviewed for "Conversation Extra" in 1985. Rowse reminisces about Ernest Bevin, Clem Attlee, Churchill, H. G. Wells, and others he knew as a politician, historian, & poet. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Senile Nazi with GPI makes terrible foreign policy decisions shock.
Dad's GP sent a prescription to a supplier who don't supply the product. So far have been in queue for over 18 minutes to surgery to try to talk to someone about it.
Wrongful arrest due to racist AI tech illustrates the disaster that is Labour’s AI ‘justice’ initiative
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AI facial recognition — Wrongful arrest
@marisharay.bsky.social @voicenewspaper.bsky.social @maxwilkinson.bsky.social @thecanaryuk.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social
27 February 1957 - Gwilym Lloyd-George, former Minister of Fuel and Power, Minister of Food, Home Secretary, and Minister for Welsh Affairs, takes his seat in the House of Lords as Viscount Tenby. #OTD #OnThisDay
Sharp's Brewery closing down. #Cornwall #Beer #DoomBar www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
Snowflakes
I'm really enjoying the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library. Good mix of anthologies and neglected novels. #TalesOfTheWeird
Tonight! The new series continues at 9pm! THE CELLAR CLUB with host #CarolineMunro presenting #BillieWhitelaw & #IanHendry in SUPERNATURAL: Countess IIona (1977) and #MichaelGreer in MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974). Don't be late! #TPTVsubtitles
Sorry not to join you tonight, but Genesis of the Daleks is on telly. #TheFilmCrowd
Noisy building works in the flat above. Started 8:20 yesterday, 7:50 today. Apparently will go on for a month. I was given no notice at all. As well as smashing and bashing things, the builders seem to need to speak to each other at the top of their voices to cover up any quiet moments.
We cannot allow the Government to cancel elections on a whim ever again.
Starmer should back the Lib Dem amendment to strip ministers of this power.
