To be fair the policy of not chasing the polls has been a complete success
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To be fair the policy of not chasing the polls has been a complete success
Who needs Churchill or a bloody beaver on a crisp £5 note?😤
I have been designing some alternatives which I think you’ll agree are infinitely more superior. 👍
nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
John Aubrey is 400 today! In his Natural History he quietly suggested the earth was ancient, Noah's flood was a myth, and Genesis was not a geology textbook. Find out what else he said — and why it was suppressed for nearly two hundred years.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
This was a speciality of a certain Mr Johnson….
A rare thing, a really great cover version….
First Farage, now Badenoch….😂
My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples
The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.
A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay
She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Brilliant in these increasingly dark times
Folklore practices continue, some grievances won’t let lie…
#knitting for #revenge @InternationalWomensDay
Opera is not dying, Timothée, it's thriving. In Europe alone, 14m a year attend (2.5m under 25s) worth €10bn. Since 2000 La Traviata had 30,000 performances. In its lifetime it's been seen by half a billion people and recorded 291 times. Check back in 180yrs to see how Marty Supreme is doing, yeah?
It would be a really good thing for the competition for Scotland to win it - it needs that unpredictable edge. Remember, most pundits were predicting this would be between England and France at start of competition, with one of them winning a grand slam…..
The game in Rome wasn’t bad, either…. 😂
I think Steve is doing just fine. I support Wales….😂
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I had no shadows from fence posts (or broom) but missed lack of number plate on the car…)
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Knocking Dan « no-one will die of Covid - they really won’t « off his perch takes some doing….but I am confident Maurice will give it his best shot…..
My photo shows a Roman fresco of a brown rabbit with long ears, curled on the ground, with a rounded, soft-looking body. Its head is lowered as if nibbling at three figs placed in front of it. The figs are small and round with short stems, painted in dark reddish and bluish tones. From Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
Here’s a charming Roman fresco of a little rabbit eating figs 🐰❤️
From Pompeii, 45-79 AD.
Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. 📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Easter bunnies arriving early 😂
🎯🎯
Detail of a Roman tomb wall with a semicircular painted lunette showing faded red and blue figures on a white background.
New discovery: A large burial ground dating from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity has been uncovered in Rome’s Ostiense Necropolis during pre-construction works.
cultura.gov.it/comunicato/2...
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
He's obviously right. The Tory position on this is nuts. Why on earth would you want to tie yourself to a President who is clearly not capable of rational decision making and has no idea what he's doing?
It's already not a popular conflict + it's only going to get less popular if it drags on.
That was 'I hate Manchester anyway' by Matt Goodwin and the White Supremes, from his Bitter Loser album.
Sent to me by one of my brothers
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
The very same lady who is periodically enraged at the disappearance of our democracy…doesn’t want MPs she dislikes having a vote in parliament ?
Right, so the Conservative Party has given up on international law AND #democracy
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...