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New Durham Cathedral review just dropped; thank you Mrs. Calderwood of Polton - you do you.

4am on a Saturday morning seems a queer time for the BBC to publish this two-day old story. Probably just deliberate, I guess. * www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the UK, 3,500 people have been arrested and more than 2,250 formally charged under terror laws for peacefully protesting the ban on Palestine Action. They were not, like Sarah Helm, Brahmins, but merely pig-people. So it goes. * www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Invite the ballroom donors to a grandstand view of it being demolished in, say, February 2029.

On October 10 2026, The Daily Telegraph (7am), Daily Mail (5.20pm), and GB News (12.25pm) all published news reports that a University of Oxford lecturer had been charged with possessing indecent images of children; three classed as category B (the second most serious category)

Noticeable that you've deleted your Gove/Salem post, @henrymance.ft.com, much as the Mail and Torygraph deleted their stories. All very odd and Streisandy. Is this how journalism works these days? Blink once if you've been got at, twice if you're okay.

Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary constituency carving out the Holy Trinity Church (west side, notch below Regent's Park) because why exactly?

Parades Commission - which had exactly one job - now learning, too late, exactly why the Parades Commission was established.

A very useful new CVAT lidar visualisation layer has been added to the England snd Wales coverage area on the National Library of Scotland Maps website. News and links here maps.nls.uk/additions/#205

Pascal Groß, German player for Brighton and Hove Albion, today giving what could be mistaken for a very deliberate & prolonged nazi salute to celebrate scoring a goal.

Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man?

tfw you're commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt to write a travalogue of his 1853 steam yacht voyage, but you're John Overton Choules, a hopeless bigot. * archive.org/details/crui...

Suspect this'll be the best Dolly analysis you could watch, should you crave that sort of thing. Lindsay Ellis takes no prisoners, but in this case found she didn't have to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

Fuck's sake. This font change is not an improvement. Does not HES have more important fish to fry, such as reimplementing functionality it removed as a result of the transition from Canmore to Trove? * www.trove.scot/place/41326

So a thing I learn is that printers of old, not having a superscript c, instead inverted a comma when dealing with your Scots person. (Also known as a turned comma or "6-quote" ... I did wonder why so many Scots I encountered were M'Leods and M'Kenzies.) * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostro...

The Met moved out of that building in 2016, and it was demolished in the 2016-2017 period, but other than that, BBC, finger on the pulse for a 2026 crime / investigation.

Shall we listen to The Toy Matinee again? Probably time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69D...

Kame of Isbister: not monastic; martial. Probably.

My new #UrbanPrehistory blog post reporting on the horrible fate of the Bogleys Stone of Fife - Barn Storm. This contains a trigger warning for anyone who thinks our heritage - and megaliths - matter. With thanks to Sam McKeand theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/b...

Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. Why have you not sacked Arif Ahmed yet? Why have you not resigned? The High Court is clear that the OfS's actions were a travesty, politically motivated and a fundamental breach of academic freedom.

No two ways about it: if you scan/steal a historic photo - someone else's work - and watermark it so as to claim ownership, then you're a bad person with a broken moral compass.

Wikipedia daily pageviews for Avignon Papacy, for the 30 days ending 8 April 2026. Truly unhinged country. * pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w...

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

There are only 11 organisations listed on the UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme public register. * foreign-influence-registration-scheme.service.gov.uk/public-regis... #chocolateFireguard

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