Belle de jour

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Full House. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam on George Harrison’s importance to the film being made at all. MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)

Kemi Badenoch and Jacob Rees-Mogg, both Conservatives, criticised Andy Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox Here's Boris Johnson appearing on Eastenders when he was Mayor of London The double standards are extraordinary.

Magnificent fan vaulting above the choir and altar in Bath Abbey. built in the time of Henry VII by Master Masons Robert and William Vertue. #ceilingsonsunday #tudor

The long barrow at All Cannings, seen here from 400ft.

🧵Now in the custody of Hull Museums the five Roos Carr Figures were discovered by labourers in 1836 near Withernsea. Carved out of Yew the figures were radiocarbon dated to between 606-508 BCE, making them 2,600 years old, and from the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age. The eyes

Tyne Pride at Wallsend, 1976, photo by Chris Killip. Biggest ship ever built on the Tyne, but also one of the last.

#OTD marks 60 years since the tragedy at #Aberfan, when 144 people lost their lives, including 116 children, after a coal tip collapsed onto Pantglas Primary School and nearby homes. Today, we remember those lost and ensure their stories continue to be passed on to future generations:zurl.co/xBX4c

Yet another brilliant comeback. Women are better at this than you sexist, misogynistic dipshits are, Fellas. Just quit talking.

It is funny when one of the fascists realizes ”wait this is all simulacra guys chill out”

Tomen-y-Mur #Roman auxiliary fort in #Gwynedd was built c. AD 78 and abandoned by AD 140 It had its own amphitheatre, providing entertainment and a place to train Today it is largely frequented by sheep 🐑 📷 Aug 2008 Reconstruction by John Hodgson for the on site signboard #RomanSiteSaturday

The Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina is an early 1900s German orchestrion that uses a rotating bow and pneumatic fingers to play three violins and a piano from a perforated paper roll, dubbed the “8th wonder of the world” at the 1910 Brussels World's Fair. IG: @andreridd ~ Netherlands

Sad but true.

"An 82 year old Grandma from Leeds has declared WAR on corporate greed by setting up a stall outside her local Morrisons selling her collection of second hand carrier bags, after being enraged at the supermarket charging an extortionate 60p per bag! " via Youkshire Humour

Allowing this dead-company-walking to be bailed out again, instead of taking it into Special Administration and then permanent public ownership, would be a disgrace and a betrayal by the Andy Burnham government Enough is enough.

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Two of the Lewis Chessmen currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Discovered in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the chessmen date to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen

Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.

It turns out that man-of-the-people Nigel Farage is as racist and foul-mouthed as his most violent & far right supporters Read More: trib.al/4BHgc6S

A knockout archaeological discovery! 🥊 Rare Roman leather boxing gloves used for sparring, so remarkably preserved that a boxer’s knuckle imprint is still visible in the smaller glove! Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, near Hadrian’s Wall 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: “They have said I only took questions from conservative outlets. However, The Daily Mail is not known to be a conservative outlet or friendly to conservatives.” Brits everywhere: *hysterical laughter*

Two wine strainers and a trulleus from the 1st Century CE Kingston Deverill hoard in Salisbury Museum. The spouts on the wine strainers looked very familiar to me as I painted something similar from the Chettle hoard back in 2008. Local maker, possibly? #FindsFriday

Arches galore and an incredible ceiling - stunning! 🤩 ❤️ Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire.

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

On this day in 1066 the Battle of Hastings took place and was later immortalised in the famous Bayeux Tapestry. In 1816 the Society’s historical draughtsman Charles Stothard was commissioned to copy the entire Bayeux Tapestry.

A.A. MILNE, his son Christopher Robin, and the real Winnie The Pooh — in 1926. The first collection of his stories was published 100yrs ago today. (Milne was inspired watching his son play with a stuffed teddy he called "Edward Bear” & also by an American black bear named "Winnie" at London Zoo)

World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... None of the ship survives but there are traces of the contents of the storage jars…

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

This made my day

Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Is there a coat of arms more suited to the Halloween season than this one?! This image comes from a German manuscript made up of a collection of coats of arms which relate mainly to the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably written in southwest Germany or Switzerland, around the early 16th century.

🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social

I've been having a look at the comments on The ACTUAL Oldest Pub in England video (a thread)... youtu.be/RlyvHJtptbc?... #NeverReadTheComments #BottomHalfOfTheInternet #Architecture #Buildings #Archaeology

Kane and Unable: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch's decision to conduct her broadcast interviews as a tribute to Jeffrey Archer. thecritic.co.uk/kane...

Wales’s archaeology from the air! Discover this summer’s remarkable drought discoveries with @drtobydriver.bsky.social in Current Archaeology and the Time Team Podcast. 📖 zurl.co/vrp3d 🎧zurl.co/s7ff7 #Archaeology #Wales #hanescymru #yagym

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

Honestly her brain should be studied. Why is she incapable of going 'this nuts politician has said something nutty and vile?'

Further details emerge of the new “Iron Dome” Storm Force system from the Tory Party conference. To remain within budget, they are proposing to buy a multi lateral, fully integrated system around the 7th of November consisting of the most powerful unsold Lidl rockets still on the shelf.

We have more information about Harold Godwineson's defensive strategy in 1066 than we do about Kemi Badenoch's today.

New post: Burnham has opened the door to a "rejoin" manifesto pledge. The politics make more sense than a lot of people seem to realise. I look at what it would involve at every step from pledge to referendum. There are significant barriers but it can be done. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

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