@thelegalseagull
Noisy and annoying and will probably steal your chips. Enthusiastic amateur, member of the Great War Group, Great War Aviation Society, Western Front Association and Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, CWGC volunteer. Views my own.
We're revealing the details for nearly TWENTY talks available at our online conference on 26th April. Pick and choose your favourites, or load up with snacks and settle in for a marathon!
Full details:
greatwargroup.com/product/online
Hunter!
like to think I lead complex emotional life but then the sun comes out and i am happy. i am functionally no different from a big leaf
I think about this a lot
I'd hoped to make it along but couldn't manage, hope it all went well! ♥️
Mango Mussolini can get tae.
Still amazed by the time I pointed out on a work course that some of the materials were not neurodivergence-friendly (audio only with no transcript), and the host cheerfully informed me she was a neurodiversity coach. After she'd also insisted I put my camera on.
Ooh, that's just along the road from me!
I still do that! I'm a naturally quick reader, and if I really enjoy something on a first read I'll go straight back to the beginning and start again.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Slightly terrified, but this is shaping up to be an excellent day of WW1 nerdery at a bargain price!
I would also like people to swear properly on here so it gets picked up by SwearSky
BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
Shaping up to be an excellent weekend already... 🤩
As one commenter wrote:
May they outlive us by a million years!
Indeed.
100% would watch.
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
more or less my reaction too 😂
A screenshot from the Telegraph's Facebook page, with a still from the film Oliver and the headline "In defence of child labour", as might be seen in any extremely normal newspaper in the 21st century.
I see the Telegraph are having a normal one.
The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants).
‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
how very old-fashioned, to think that law students should actually be taught to exercise and develop their own critical thinking skills instead of using AI... 🙄
www.scottishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Half our village is currently up in arms about it. I'd be amazed if it adds more than 30 seconds to the time it takes to get from one end to the other, you'd wait longer at the traffic lights! Absolutely baffling.
have a heart, none of the Reform councillors actually live in the areas they claim to serve, so they've got a much longer commute than everyone else... 🙄 (sarcasm, for the avoidance of doubt)
Watching The Guns of Navarone, and I'd completely forgotten just how much David Niven steals every scene he's in...
This is a great thread showing why AI is...not great. At best, it is not great, actually. At worst, it's going to kill us all.
Last chance!
Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform
Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc
That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …
We seem to be having another influx…
For those looking to shortcut to some military history nerds…