Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports.
Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."
Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.
We’ve raised the alarm about how the new rise of Christian Nationalism, imported from the US, threatens the progress that generations of women fought so hard to secure. By seeking to impose religious dogma on public law, these movements endanger women’s freedoms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And there was Margaret Knight, whose seminal radio broadcasts about ‘morality without religion’ led to her being castigated by sexist tabloids as a foolish woman allowed to run wild by the lenient men in her life. You can learn more with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social. youtu.be/0LCTHGm1-lg?...
For over 130 years, women in the humanist movement have been a radical voice for progress. This #WomensHistoryMonth we celebrate all brave the women who risked everything speaking up for humanism or challenging the influence of religion in society. 🧵
I don’t think Constantine did either. He never set foot in a church, as far as we know.
We are all human. But what are we capable of and how best might we use our capacities? @profaliceroberts.bsky.social provides an insight into a humanist understanding of our potential and how we can support everyone to flourish in the one life we have. understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_films/hu...
It seems that leaders and congregations might be reading different bits of the bible…
Constantine on the eve of battle in 312 - as a sign appears in the sky. His biographer said that Jesus visited Constantine in a dream that night, telling him to carry a cross into battle to ensure victory and further his imperial ambitions.
And still it goes on…
Covid deaths by poverty of postcode from ONS, with dark blue bars the most deprived
Poverty was itself, in the parlance of that time, an “underlying condition”
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
So sorry to hear that. Thank you so much David.
I’ve held that little mammoth in my hand. He’s beautiful. His feet are scratched - recalling the deeply grooved texture of elephant’s feet!
*History professor profits from sale of historical artefacts*
Another headline fixed
Can someone remind me again how many pay rises MPs have had in the past 15 years? 12? 13? Meanwhile, look at this (from the Nuffield Trust: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ho...)
While climate collapse or war seem to be the greatest problems of our time, the loss of darkness is a subtle yet consequential issue. By losing our access to the starry skies, we are losing a piece of Us that has been with us since forever.
My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients.
If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful.
www.justgiving.com/team/grittyg...
Been there, done that.
DO NOT GOOGLE IT
Slightly less, but edgier!
I’ve made it into Private Eye!
Hello—Is a River Alive? is published in paperback in the UK today.
It’s dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Thanks to all who’ve supported its journey into the world: read it, talked about it, got in touch.
It’s @waterstones.bsky.social book of the month.
“Hope is the thing with rivers…”
Covers of the four books reviewed (Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries, Uist Unearthed, Picture Worlds and Readers of the Lost Ark).
This #WorldBookDay read about the power of storytelling in archaeology in our latest #NewBookChronicle, exploring how people told stories in the past and how archaeologists can continue to tell their stories in the present 🏺
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
I *think* Kemi Badenoch is currently arguing for a first strike approach to nuclear war.
*SAVE THE DATE*
Annual Archaeology Day
Saturday 28th March
10am - 4pm
Stanton Drew
A morning of talks with guided tours of the Stanton Drew stone circles in the afternoon.
Tickets £25 (including refreshments and buffet lunch)
Booking essential - please email office@sanhs.org or call 01823 272429
Looks perfect to me. 😂
A piece on the last two of the #ASL signing #chimpanzees Tatu and Loulis
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimpanzee-sign-language-experiments
Such a fabulous archive - and wonderful to have it on site, with a team of archivists who know their collection inside out!
More medicine and history coming to a small screen near you this evening!
Alice Roberts: Our Hospital through Time,
8pm on Channel 5!
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
I remember thinking… why are they moving their embassy to Jerusalem? That seems weird…
