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Chris Wickham’s death. I’m very sad. Chris was my tutor, he sat through undergraduate seminars with grace & enthusiasm & came to a fancy dress party I hosted dressed as Zapata. Not just a medievalist. He credited his mother’s photos in his early books. A delight of a human. “Always ask, why now?”

Why don't #CryptoBillionaires want to give away their money for things like libraries, hospitals & joy-filled things? Carnegie's legacy is one that benefits us today. These #CryptoChaps like to fund stuff that breaks things or rockets. We need neither. They are far too rich and far too lawless.

Published today and available in all good bookshops or so I'm told! geni.us/TheBoyWithTh...

#StarterPacks is there a surge? Perhaps we just need one mega pack so we can all follow everyone and be utterly befuddled.

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1886, in Matfield, Kent, England From ‘The Last Meeting’: “I know that he is lost among the stars, And may return no more but in their light. Though his hushed voice may call me in the stir Of whispering trees, I shall not understand.”

Oysters in a shed with various forms of Guinness as large amounts of money to be laundered was chatted about.. Deeply wrong, deeply depressing and deeply corrupt. And deeply tacky. #Farage #Reform #Corruption

Can’t explain it either but people can sign my parliamentary petition to which the government will have to respond. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Yesterday’s quote but true today and yesterday, ever was and will be. Enrichment comes from taking someone else’s money. Someone less powerful. Looking at all of you billion and trillionaires. #Balzac

Give me strength to face another day of nonsense whilst the world burns.

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#Odyssey an old translation by E V Rieu. Odysseus is ‘a resourceful man’.

Honestly, start paying more attention to the women. They've been in the finals of the last three major tournaments and won two of them, plus it's genuinely decent football.

In wearisome hope. Not that I condone the impaling of reptiles. #George #Dragon #England #Norway

Enormous cardoon, another in my #thistle family series.

The world is burning but I couldn’t help noticing that teasels lose petals leaving rings behind. Faintly echoes of McEnroe’s unfortunate headband era.

Happy expiry of delegated powers under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act Day to all those who celebrate. May your revocations, restatements and replacements henceforth be delivered through other enabling Acts.

1961 aquatint, Stonehenge, Julian Trevelyan

1/ Eighty cities just told Flock to take its license plate cameras and go. No viral moment, no executive order. Just residents reading contracts, showing up at council meetings, and voting the dragnet out. Here is how they did it. You can do it, too🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocrac

Striking fact about the Makerfield election: left-right divide has barely budged in the last three GEs (7 years). Lab+LD+Green have gained 53-56 per cent of the votes each time; Con+Ref+Restore 43-47. All the action has been voter movements within each tribe. (Table from @peterkellner.bsky.social)

Rashford. My lovely boy. Set up by Saka, my other lovely boy.

The moon and the star. #Hackney #LightNights

In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:

A calming #wildflower meadow in my local park to help you start your day right.

Here in our bit of North London we hate #ThamesWater with both a fiery passion and a deep level of contempt. They are greedy polluters for sure, but they also dig up roads and wander off for days on end. @jessshankleman.bsky.social

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

The biggest, deepest, most in-depth guide to the London borough elections you will find. @lewisbaston.bsky.social and I have gone ward-by-ward. It is a journey through the whole of the city: londondecides.lowickhedry.com #london

Sir David Attenborough is about to have his 100th birthday so here’s a petition to honour him with a permanent statue. Celebrating those who make a world of difference seems absolutely right. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

The shame of it. In both senses, the pity and the deep cringe at my country’s capacity to the wrong thing.

@channel4news.bsky.social thank you for the sad and enraging piece on the withdrawal of #UKAid from Sierra Leone’s maternity services. The cuts are immoral and deeply cruel.

Good morning, Tom @tomemurtha.bsky.social & how lovely to see you here: I hope all's well with you both. Here's one that you may not have seen before that came to light at auction last autumn: this is "Railway Sidings" by Walter Steggles from 1930 along with his preparatory sketch for the painting.

Happy clock change weekend. Here's to lighter evenings.

Good morning, Miranda @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & thank you. Yes, Elwin Hawthorne had a great talent & style. As you say, his work is so atmospheric. Here's his view of "St Mark's Church, Victoria Park" which also dates from 1930 along with his sketch for it which, interestingly, is dated 1929.

☕💡Independent investigations into corruption and abuse of power don’t come easy—they require time, resources, and risk. If you’d like to help me keep going, you can support here:

I’ve always particularly liked the “I was simply doing research to help inform government #chemsex policy, Officer” and this is a premier example. #CrispinBlunt and a key part of his defence was that all drugs should be legal.

just plainly evil.

Has Trump noticed that Russia is arming Iran?

Hello @eastlondongroup.bsky.social I wondered if you’d seen these #Steggles ? auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/956...

This is "Coborn Street, Bow" by Harold Steggles from 1931. The view was taken from the school yard where some of the evening art classes were held, behind the black gates that one can see in the Street View image. Harold would still recognise the view as one can see in my photo. #HaroldSteggles

#Madeye #Mountbatten I’m still livid that this is because of state secrets rather than women victims.

Before USA folk suggest that the UK is doing the right thing remember that, at the moment, Police officers are only investigating the flow of confidential and protected information from #AndrewMountbattenWindson to #Epstein gained as a result of his job creation scheme appointment as a trade envoy.

Oh for absolute sputs sake

Love In A Puff apparently. I hope #Valentine’sDay is treating you well. @rbgkew.bsky.social

Such an eloquent and important piece from #SiriHustvedt in today’s Observer on what we do with angry despairing feelings that are too painful to carry. Put them into someone else and hate them for just those things. #Projection explained simply by her. A native Minnesotan, nice.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

What I’ve just heard about a #Hackney secondary school makes me weep. Not Mossbourne. A child in their first term with more detentions than days attended. Lavatory access so rigid children are in danger of wetting themselves, and rules everywhere about everything. This is #bullying & unkindness.