Alan Matthews #ClimateCrisis #FBPE

Image shows Sian Berry stood to the left of campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, and surrounded by a group of clean air campaigners. All of them are smiling and holding a copy of Ella's Law - the Clean Air (Human Rights Bill).

Image shows Rosamund Adoo-Kiss-Debrah sat next to Sian with a copy of Ella's Law on the table in front of them. They are both reading the Bill that is named in memory of Rosamund's daughter Ella who died aged nine due to exposure to air pollution.

Ella’s Law has been published 👏

No child should have the growth of their lungs stunted because of dirty air where they live and play, yet this is the reality of air pollution in England. Ella’s Law would change this.

My thanks to Rosamund and all the hard-working campaigners demanding change.

Someone in the Commons really does need to ask to what extent Palantir — supposedly involved in saving lives in the NHS — is simultaneously ending them in the Middle East.

The most challenging aspect of a limited two-week military action is the first several years.

Just ask Putin.

The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇺🇦 The US and Qatar are in talks with Kyiv to acquire Ukrainian Shahed drone detection systems and electronic warfare systems, — Reuters

Ukrainian delegation visited Doha and Abu Dhabi this week to present countermeasures to Iranian drones and discuss potential supplies.

For 50 years, the entire energy world has gamed out this exact scenario, and yet, there doesn't seem to be a plan? Seems bad. rdcu.be/ehooz

Circular stone font with dentil course, foliage & 13 arches with carvings of preachers, men fighting & a baptism.

St Mary’s Church, Wansford, Near Peterborough.

Font (c. 1120)

13 arches of carving, including a preacher (evangelist?).

“A quite exceptional piece of carving” - Pevsner. @yalepress.bsky.social

Found at Sibberton & placed on the base of another font in 20th Century.

#FontsOnFriday #Romanesque

Heaps of blue and white 'delftware' dishes, stuck together and with broken edges. The decorations appear to be individual designs, with flowers and foliage, geometric patterns, birds and brushstrokes. Several of the ceramic trivets are visible, intended to separate the dishes and prevent them from sticking together. These were in the Museum of London before it closed in order to reestablish as London Museum in Smithfield Market, planned for later in 2026.

#FindsFriday
Stuff that's discarded tells a tale too.
These stacks of fused plates w trivets resulted from a Rotherhithe pottery kiln overheating disastrously c.1620-30.
Near Pickleherring site in Southwark, a London delftware production centre from c.1618.
Will they be in new London Museum 2026?

Some gold from the Staffordshire Hoard which was discovered in 2009 near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire - the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold & silver metalwork ever found. This item is from the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

Yes yes yes! I'm a docent in an art museum, and it's great, but I really get just as excited (or maybe even more) about the tiny little things that are from the daily life of someone who lived hundreds of years before I was born.

I sew. A person 13k years ago sewed with this needle. Blows my mind.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

M.L. King

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

Starmer stands by decision not to join US-Israeli strikes on Iran The PM said the best way forward was a

PM stands by decision not to join strikes on Iran & sends more jets to Qata And #IStandByStarmer ✊🏼✊🏼

On this he’s been 100% right.. we aren’t Trump’s b*tch at his beck & call to break international law & pander to his ego..

He was right not to join initial strikes & to defend UK bases & citizens

Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

Nigel Farage is in Mar-a-Lago tonight (not Clacton, obvs). Via Politico: "What Farage should be doing: Sorting out his Reform documents with Companies House. The party is overdue on submitting a [legally mandatory] statement."

More on Hungary's detention of Ukrainian bank workers and vehicles.

Ukraine's Foreign Min, Andrii Sybiha describing it as hostage taking and stealing money.

The armoured cars contained
♦️$40 million
♦️€35 million
♦️9kg of gold

Love in the bin - girl with a balloon being shredded.

For context, Banksy - Girl with a balloon being shredded during sale.

PSRM piece by Bayer, Crippa and Genovese on energy transition, financial markets and the Ukraine crisis

It turns out that institutions CAN move energy markets and make their vision more credible at the onset of a shock like a war. Markets are looking for institutions to lead. Not leading is a choice.

It’s just like the regime in Iran! You remove one awful official, and another one pops up!!!! Trump’s administration is a multi headed hydra 😱

Commanders Accused of Framing Iran War as Biblical Mandate, Jesus' 'Return' More than 100 complaints were made by military officers between Monday and Tuesday, totaling over 200 in total across every installation.

One theologically obsessed regime fighting another…..🤦‍♀️ www.military.com/daily-news/2...

The Trump administration is doing more harm to America in months than the Iranian regime has managed to achieve in decades. Destroying the country’s standing at home and abroad.

Hegseth & My Lai Lt Calley have something in common - no rules of engagement.

‘The Justification for the War against Iran Has Changed from Day to Day, with No Clear End Goal or Exit Strategy’ From Washington DC, former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall assesses the arguments used to justify the attack on Iran

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‘The Justification for the War against Iran Has Changed from Day to Day, with No Clear End Goal.’

From Washington DC, former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall assesses the arguments used to justify the attack on Iran.
Alexandra Hall Hall
Mar 06, 2026
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Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London

Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At the end of a London bus top, there's a photo of a smiling Trump being shredded, akin to the Banksy auction artwork. The bus stop is opposite the US's moated embassy at Nine Elms.

Outside the US Embassy, at Nine Elms, last January 😏

Billboard - NO MATTER HOW MANY COUNTRIES YOU INVADE, YOU'LL STILL BE A NONCE

London, UK

Gas prices are skyrocketing thanks to Trump’s illegal war. And that’s just the financial cost.

Everyone spare a thought for Nigel the Poodle as he’s reunited with his owner in Florida today!

#NigelThePoodle

1/ A Russian army officer who briefed Vladimir Putin yesterday on the evils of Telegram has been exposed as being a premium Telegram user who doesn't even have an account on the state-approved messenger MAX. Russian warbloggers have erupted in outrage. ⬇️
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