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It's one reason why I can never vote for Labour, even tactically. I do not want them to believe they have my support at all.

Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials.

*They did not do this

Tiny extract from a railway employment register, with a column headed 'Cause of leaving' and underneath the single word 'dead'. The next column, 'time-keeping', has the entry 'Good.'

A stark reminder of the bureaucratic logic of work & how we're all just so much productive efficiency ... until we're not.

Nice to know that he was good on his time-keeping though.

Presumably until he was dead.

From an LNWR employment record, 1920s.

I have his book on Edward the Confessor in my TBR pile. What to do...

I've never been in TK Maxx anywhere either 🤣

A 'Today in the lane' from July 2024.

It's the last book I'd give up. I've had it for nearly fifty years!

Or St Mary Redcliffe. I should hand in my church crawler's badge...

Wasn't even close... To my shame, despite working in Bristol for twenty odd years, I've never visited Bristol cathedral... shocking I know.

Read the blurb for a soon to be published folklore book. Lost me at 'Celtic rites'. Not everything is bloody Celtic, whatever you mean by that. So that's one I won't be buying.

Solar and wind.

That's energy security.

It’s nonsense. 75% of our gas imports come from Norway, 17% from the US & just 1-2% from Qatar, so trying to squeeze a tiny bit more from North Sea fields that’ve been declining for decades will make no odds to security, global prices or tax receipts. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a09...

a blurry photo of a smiling young woman, holding a pet dog on the dockside in happier times. The only known photo of Madeleine.

black and white photo of a single stack, ex-merchant RN vessel

To mark International Women's Day, meet Lt Cmdr. Madeleine Barclay. First Officer on HMS Fidelity.

To my knowledge, the first woman to officially serve as First Officer on a Royal Navy vessel deployed on combat duty. Achieving this involved a three-way war between Navy, SOE and the WRNS /1 🧵 #IWD

When we caught sight of this building we thought it was a bastle or some kind of defended tower. It's actually what's left of Ridsdale Ironworks, Northumberland.

Missed Earthsea on Jackanory. Bought it on the strength of the cover illustration and the blurb. Really glad I did. (£4.95 was a lot of money in those days 🤣)

Loved Ivor when I was little. (Still do....)

Earthsea or Ivor? 😃

Mahmood is a cosplay fascist who isn't actually cosplaying.

This is disgraceful.

And there it is... Next to, er, Ivor the Engine...

For #InternationalWomensDay, the book I'd take to a desert island with me. Bought with my pocket money from a bookshop when I was 14, still on my bookshelf, re-read every couple of years and still wonderful. Life changing in fact. Thank you Ursula le Guin!

Blair is a politician who joined a political party not because of principle or belief but for advantage. Whatever he has done since is just a continuation of that.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

Phoenician coin donated to museum.

That's what to do with them.

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A 'Today in the lane' from June 2022.

No, he belongs in prison.

Guessing wildly - Frome?

Thought it wasn't a war?

Warship graffiti by a British prisoner of war, Tour de la Lanterne, La Rochelle for #SailsOnSaturday

La Rochelle for #SailsOnSaturday

And, because I was looking at them, Whitby Abbey again.

You see it, most ironically, in the Domesday Book. In 1986, the BBC marked the 900th anniversary by making a modern version. It conducted a new census of the nation, taking down thoughts, feelings and occupations, all recorded using a technology lIth-century scribes would have marvelled at. A technology that was, a few years later, defunct: the LaserDisc. A few years after that, no computer could read it. The original Domesday Book persisted, unchanged, on vellum. The modern one barely lasted a generation.

Books will outlast your puny digital technology
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