Andy Sage

Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust is searching for an Evaluation Consultant to help support their exciting project to repair, reopen and revitalise Bursledon Windmill, a Grade II* listed historic landmark! Find out more on our website: buff.ly/KUZWT7Y

Ruin a song by adding “in my pants” to the title. The Schickel Shamble In my pants. IYKYK.

🧵Historic England have published a new report that shows how repairing and reusing existing historic buildings across the country could provide up to 670,000 sustainable new homes, particularly in areas of Yorkshire and. historicengland.org.uk/research/her...

Being Black in America like being on The Truman Show...

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

Without prompt, vigorous, costly attention, the 21stC will see the utter devastation of England’s reputation as a world leader in higher education, presided over by Tories, Labour, and Lib Dems, with hardly a word of protest from other parties.

For all the fawning over convicted perjurer Jeffery Archer across mainstream media this morning this article should help jog memories of his actual character. www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

Before and after photos. The first was taken a week ago of pavement plants with Clouded Yellow butterfly (not in anyone’s way) - the second taken today after the West Sussex Council glyphosate spraying machine had been around. The dead plants will not be removed. #banglyphosate #pavementplants

Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

I’m sure that @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social will be able to spend lots of airtime justifying the “legitimate concerns” that has led to this. OR it could start educating people that thugs are just thugs and racists are just racists.

As well as the damage to artists, the tidal wave of AI is totally drowning out educational and good travel accounts. We are being buried alive by it. For me to do one post for @tuatha.ie I have to visit the site, edit the images, research info and write a post balanced to a general audience...

Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...

The “it’s just like 1976” crowd seem to have gone awfully quiet.

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

'...a flexible-use scheme that draws people back into the town centre for the food entrepreneurs, artists, small businesses and community events...'> great to see Buttermarket in Redruth up for a RIBA award. Exactly the type of project that can revive our town centres. www.riba.org/news/uks-lea...

Apparently the Commonwealth Games started in Glasgow last night, who knew! The irony of the King arriving in a BBC flagship but none of us get to see it as it’s behind a massive paywall on TNT! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

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The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

When is the British government going to get it? We don't have an ally in the White House. We have a regime that is opposed to every decent value people in Britain stand for. These people can't be appeased. They have to be beaten. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Post-truth nonsense from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. Some facts: - employment is up over 800k since the election - employment rate is near the highest on record (look at this chart) - inactivity rates are lower than all but one year under the Tories

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Historic England's response to the Proposed Reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and Other Changes to the Planning System - February 2026 historicengland.org.uk/content/docs...

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The finale of #TheNightManger seems to be the BBC telling us all clear as day that the world is fucked, the oligarchs have won and decency is a dead ideal.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Please consider signing this petition calling on the BBC to balance their coverage of opposition parties. Currently, 60% of BBC coverage of opposition parties goes to Reform, which has 4 of the 250 opposition MPs. : www.libdems.org.uk/bbc?emci=e0b...

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

WelshGov releases July 25 report on the first 18 months of the "award winning" default 20mph limit for urban and village roads. Speeds down, 26% fewer casualties and little change in journey times. Lives saved, liveability increased bit.ly/40rfUZl

ITV Cycling closers 🎶🧵

I support Palestine Action. I hate all forms of violence. I wish no harm on anyone. I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world. Apparently this makes me a terrorist. But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

Whatever you may think of Palestinian Action unless we all stand and say we support them and shown how nonsensical and hysterical the Home Secretary’s decision is it won’t be long before the meaning of terrorism has been redefined to mean anything the govt of the day finds inconvenient.

I support Palestinian Action and urge others to do the same. They are non-violent, direct action campaigners, not terrorists. At time of writing this is still a legal statement.

It’s a hot day to be having to play jungle gym on site visits!

'Morning Light,' (1916) is considered by many to be Elioth Gruner's masterpiece of his wartime pastorals. Enveloping light, technical brilliance, and pictorial perfection are the hallmarks of the best of his work.

Thrilled with our new arrival this morning.

You can feel what you like politically about the loss of hundreds of Conservative & Labour Councillors today but what is certain is a wealth of understanding of how local government works is being lost today to be replaced by people with no interest in civic society.

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

www.change.org/p/defend-the... I can’t remember the number of times I have found the Internet Archive a hugely useful resource when undertaking research as part of my studies and subsequent work. The corporations are determined to copyright the commonwealth of our past for profit.

The country’s biodiversity is collapsing. Underfunded authorities, understaffing, and empty promises leave nature protection hanging by a thread @westenglandbylines.co.uk

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

On this day, April 10 1848, the last great Chartist rally took place - on Kennington Common in London. Here, almost unbelievably, is a photograph of the event.