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Facade of a small cinema, with an old-fashioned street-facing box office window at the entrance. The facade is largely black, with the name ‘Penultimate Picture Palace’ in white above the entrance. Above that is a caricature representation of Al Jolson, comprising a painted face and shirt front, flanked by pair of sculpted white gloved hands projecting into the street.

How it looked in my day.

Interior was a bit spartan. Toilets labelled ‘Pearl’ and ‘Dean’ as I recall.

Didn’t know it was owned by Oriel.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet Charles on Monday ..
He told reporters on Thursday that the monarch had engaged in a "fulsome" discussion with the chiefs, adding: "There are many subjects for him and I to raise."

@mark-carney.bsky.social really taunting the language police there.

But they’ve had the guidance of a Fellow of @royalsociety.org, no less.

But they’re so good at it.

‘I knew I had some responsibility’: Clyde Best on being English football’s first black superstar Clyde Best left Bermuda at 17 and joined West Ham, with Bobby Moore among his teammates, but he also faced horrendous abuse, he tells Jacob Steinberg

Nice piece on the legendary Clyde Best.

Nice also to glimpse Johnny Ayris in one of the photos. Nippy winger whose fledgling career sadly took a downturn following an infamous crunching encounter with Ron Harris.

#COYI

Life returns to normal ... the Long Room at Lord's during the 1st Test v India, June 23rd 1946, the first Test on the ground (or anywhere) for almost seven years (Picture Post)

Quite. All the current lot are prone to doing that, but Emma Barnett in particular.

canal fixation

Did Vikings drag ships over land to avoid choppy Scottish waters? Archaeologists have been gathering evidence of places where warships were dragged across land.

How about some portage?

The simple point is that she’s framing it as the abandonment of a long-standing policy of freezing the duty. In fact it’s, in the first instance, merely the reversal of their short-term *cut* in 2022.
And more generally the completion of their own plan at that time.

Really miss Mishal Husain btw.

Not that complicated imo. Especially for a lawyer.
And as an answer at (say) PMQs would have had the unusual benefit of actually addressing her question.

Really miss Mishal Husain.

And you make it easier for the interviewee to evade the real questions.

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Female tech leaders slam Elon Musk at Royal Society event.

Former Twitter executive and leading computer scientist lament Musk’s impact on social media.

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Not sure why they’re letting her frame it like this anyway.
The current policy is to reverse, by next March, Chancellor Sunak’s 2022 cut of 5p, which he had then announced would last only one year.
And thereafter, also as initially planned by Sunak, to revert to tracking RPI.

Ruins of London, 1947, by Albert Rothstein.

Courtesy of the Allister Heath Headline Generator: “Britain’s cowardly capitulation to my tax-dodging friends will haunt us for a century”

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The Spin | How a small town near São Paulo made Brazil a standard bearer for cricket’s global growth A chance romance helped Poços de Caldas become a hotbed for the sport that, from East Timor to Nigeria, is spreading its wings like never before

“That cricket is growing internationally can be seen from the number of associate member nations – the ICC receives between five and 10 applications each year and tends to admit a couple. Zambia and East Timor joined last year.”

The protocol seems to be “The BBC understands Lord Mandelson to believe …” which if anything is worse.

thank you for your attention to this butter

if his are pinching then maybe he could swap with Rubio or Vance

Hancock's Half Hour - The Missing Page (11th March 1960). A master at work.

Have they considered bombing them forward to the 21st, or even 22nd century?

A carved wooden unicorn on a bench end.

All Saints Church, Honington, Suffolk

A #unicorn on a 15th Century bench.

#Medieval
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday

The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company [Official Music Video] YouTube video by The Dead South

Crazy day deserves a crazy type video. Makes us smile ..
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From the Allister Heath Headline Generator: “The Left’s unhinged hatred of the Boat Race is driving us towards a terrifying abyss”

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Looking from the chancel to the nave through the medieval chancel screen at North Leigh, Oxon.