John Haines

If you don't say it people will assume you support Reform. Can you live with that?

Shouldn't that be "Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells MPs she is meeting with North Sea industry leaders tomorrow to discuss the fact that, because the price they can charge will go up, they'll be taxed more."

Hardly "winning hearts and minds".

So, Trump's so annoyed by Zelensky saying that Putin's started WW3, that he's trying to steal that credit!

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms over traditional ones Proponents say relaxed uniforms make life easier for children and are much more practical for physical play.

I would guess that schools adopting more "active" uniforms is now being reported because it's just happened at a school where a BBC reporter is a parent. My daughter's school did this about 35 years ago!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Obviously not a photo, although may be based on one.
What's your point?

Wasn't Ash Wednesday about smokers burning their stock of cigarettes so they could properly abstain during Lent.
Many fewer smokers these days.

Government abandons plans to delay 30 council elections Ministers had planned to delay the polls until 2027 to help deliver a major reorganisation of local government.

Massive own goal by Government. They've just made Reform look like champions of democracy - which they aren't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Celts: Damn Anglo Saxons coming over here and taking our jobs.

Great report here on Zack Polanski pointing out all the broken manifesto pledges from Starmer's government. From tuition fees to supporting genocide, it makes a strong case for a broken election mandate.
#votegreen
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@cheltgreenparty.bsky.social

Similarly, vampires couldn't be photographed as the sensitive component of film was silver nitrate.
Digital cameras don't use silver so it should now be possible to photograph them.
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Perhaps we can't because they don't exist?
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That's what they want you to think.

The Outsider, by H P Lovecraft YouTube video by Nunkie Films

This Saturday at 8pm(UK) there's a live telling of H P Lovecraft's influential short story, "The Outsider." Just click hereL
youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO...
It's free-to-view, and available to watch anytime after the live broadcast. But... 1/2

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I suspect the GMC would have something to say about that.

Grave of James Manby Gully in Kensal Green Cemetery. Upright stone with gothic style outline. "In memory of James Manby Gully MD formerly of Great Malvern." Also commemorates his wife, Francis, daughter Fanny; Sarah, Anne and Ellen, who appear to have been his sisters.

I've heard a story that he wrote plays/acted after his disgrace but the dates seem to indicate that it was before.
I'm sure you know he was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Ofcom launches investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery Ofcom has today opened a formal investigation into X under the UK’s Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in ...

Yes: www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Less than a week to go until this great event... register here dollshousehaunted.eventbrite.co.uk

The Americans are aiming to repeat the moon landings. We need repeats of this.

Labour seem determined to alienate their traditional support. I hope they loose the by election because they have to put some nobody in as candidate.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

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Why the US is buying icebreakers from Finland The Nordic nation leads the way when it comes to both the design and construction of the vessels.

Perhaps he's realised that the contract the USA has with Finland to buy icebreakers will collapse if he takes any hostile action. USA probably needs icebreakers more than it needs Greenland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I initially read that as the university enabling Copilot to access all students and staff. Probably not what they intend - but accurate.

List of reasons why we don't use AI in class

I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

First Look: The Bazalgette Embankment At Blackfriars Lots of history in this new Thames-side structure.

More pics and our thoughts here: londonist.com/london/great...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Gormenghast Castle Automata YouTube video by Keith Newstead

OK, this is amazing. An automata of Gormenghast.

youtu.be/v3fyV06D1gk?...