Bob Griffiths

“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.” #BookSky #Books #Fantasy #MagicalRealism #Memory

That last para is pure Trump

Agreed. I also think that most British people, rightly or wrongly, imagine the sort of people who go to political rallies to be frankly, a bit odd.

This chap seems like a charmer to work for.

This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line. His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth. Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years. Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize. True heroism.

Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social is right. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK and Nigel Farage knows it

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

#AcademicSky #Universities #UK

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

🚨 NEW: Labour is investing £874m to tackle rough sleeping, with a target to end it by Christmas. The plan funds emergency accommodation, outreach, mental health support and tenancy help, while housing associations pledge 2,000+ homes and bed spaces. Angela Rayner says tackling root causes is key.

Sliding polls, zero by-election wins, empty events. Money can’t buy you love, Nigel.

Hi Robert Jenrick, how are you going to make up the ~£17bn revenue that policies 4, 6, 34 and 60 are going to lose the exchequer? Your plan has zero proposals for how you will balance the books. It’s a plan that will break Britain.

Nigel Farage is clearly really enjoying his so-called "Shadow Chancellor"'s speech

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: 🛍️ iKEA blue bags 🪢 Cable ties 📚 Copies of The Streetnames of Edinburgh by Stuart Harris

🪹🍻The Robin's Nest is in the news for the wrong reasons. Built in 1936 by Mrs Johan Thom as the "Greenend Inn". An "improved pub", it was an anachronistic arts & crafts-style take on an English country tavern to try counter the success of the Temperance movement threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/25/t...

Gunilda was built in Leith by Ramage & Ferguson, whose main business was luxury steam yachts. She was launched in 1897 for the Sladens, wealthy heirs of Cleeve Howe, Windermere and sold in 1903 to William L. Harkness, one of the largest shareholders in Standard Oil threadinburgh.scot/2024/05/02/t...

Thousands turned out to celebrate in the Serbian capital after the country's student protest movement ousted Aleksandar Vucic from power in a landmark election. reut.rs/4BqRvns

A Girl of the Sixties, c. 1900 by Bessie MacNicol, Scottish painter #Womensart

"It is a disturbing and shameful abandonment not only of a would-be ally in need, but of the best and noblest traditions of American foreign policy dating back centuries."

"How do you reconcile the disconnect between the vibes and the polling? What are your outcome scenarios? How do you rank them probabilistically?"

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

From the 8th-15th centuries, 600+ years, they dominated the study of math & astronomy. Arabic numerals. The decimal system. Algebra. The astrolabe. Trigonometry. Geometry. 60% of stars we can see with the naked eye have Arabic names. Neil DeGrasse Tyson praises them all the time. Rfk is an idiot.

Searchlight overhaul, by Harold Herbert, 1941. AMW ART30082

Men of the Royal Welch Fusiliers advance through the snow in the Ardennes, 7 January 1945. IWM (B 13503), Sgt Carpenter, AFPU

A Howitzer Gun in Elevation, by C.R. Nevinson, 1917. IWM (Art.IWM ART 514)

The remains of anti-tank defences in the High Street in Cranleigh, Surrey.

Briefing room, by Ivor Hele, 1953. AWM description: Australian pilots from 77 Squadron RAAF, Kimpo, Korea, being briefed before a sortie. AWM ART40320

Damaged Tanks being Lowered into the Hold of a Merchant Ship, by Bernard Hailstone, 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4051)

Sgt Norman Midgley of the AFPU strikes a pose with his Super Ikonta camera in a Jeep in Normandy, 24 July 1944. IWM (B 7947)

Privates Winston Williamson (kneeling) of Talke and Leonard Keeling of Lichfield choose books in a mobile library, 7 November 1944. IWM (B 11785), Sgt Midgley, AFPU

Sunset on the Beach, Normandy : June 1944 troops cooking their evening meal, by Thomas Barclay Hennell, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4214)

RAAF padre at the grave of a fighter bomber pilot, Italy, by Alan Moore, 1944. AWM ART24352

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick face rows of empty seats as big speech falls flat www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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