Lesley McDowell

Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.

I really must visit Pisa!!

Too late to join the Epstein Wars!

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This weekend, we're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay! ✨

#Economic history is often told as a story about men. Dr Victoria Bateman uncovers the forgotten stories of female producers, bankers & economic revolutionaries who helped shape the fortunes of nations

Watch 👉 https://gres.hm/economy

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Several years from now, a thoughtful scholar will write a book called “Trump’s Willing Executioners” about how a nation of 340 million descended into abject depravity.

The games afoot, Watson! #JeremyBrett and #EdwardHardwicke are Holmes & Watson in...

🔎 SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1988) 8:05pm #TPTVsubtitles

Trump Ignored Grim Warnings Before Starting His War The president was told that his plan for Iran probably would not work before he launched the deadly assault.

The president was told that his plan for Iran probably would not work before he launched the deadly assault.

Warm Hearts Nuseirat Three winters enduring genocide, literally living in the streets without shelter or warmth. How can this be allowed to happen, and still continue to this day. Three winters of children sleeping in tor...

And the children in Gaza are still suffering on an unimaginable scale. This is a lovely charity>> Warm Hearts Nuseirat chuffed.org/project/1578...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.

if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.

Live updates: Drone strike near Dubai airport as Iran’s president apologises to Gulf nations for attacks President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran won't attack first - but Qatar defence ministry says it has intercepted a missile.

Influence this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

She Advocated for Intersectional Feminism – in the 19th Century Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist and prolific writer.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Advocated for Intersectional Feminism – in the 19th Century thestoryexchange.org/frances-elle... She toured the U.S. giving lectures and speeches promoting the equal rights of African-Americans, but also African-American women. #bwhm

Let’s get a blue plaque for Rebecca West. (Why isn’t there one already?)

Ooh, I wrote about her, and her relationship with Wells in my book Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 120th C Women Writers. Very happy to endorse! There's a blue plaque for her in Edinburgh, if that helps the case

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.

I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.

I'd welcome help building a strong application.

Thank you 💙🙏

I hope it was slow, terrifying and painful

Totally agree. Tho I do quite like the idea of 'the odd cruise missile' over her head, have to say

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

‘I bit Trump’s penis after he abused me’ The Daily Telegraph - Saturday7 Mar 2026By Poppy Wood US authorities have released new details of a sexual assault allegation against Donald Trump in the middle of their war on Iran. The trio of interviews was previously flagged as missing from the Epstein files and were released on Thursday night after pressure on the White House. The unidentified woman told FBI agents in 2019, shortly after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, she had been sexually assaulted by the paedophile and Mr Trump while a teenager in the 1980s. The release outside official publication windows and in the heat of the US conflict with Iran will raise serious questions over the US justice department’s handling of the Epstein scandal. Her central allegation is that Mr Trump hit her after she bit his penis when he attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him, according to FBI summaries of her interviews. The woman’s allegations have not been verified and the FBI never brought charges related to her claims. She alleged that when she was aged between 13 and 15 Epstein drove her to either New York or New Jersey to be “introduced to... Donald Trump”. Mr Trump then put her head “down to his penis”, the woman alleged to the FBI. She said she “bit the s--- out of it”, prompting Mr Trump to lash out, the FBI summary of one interview alleges. Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing in relation to allegations against Epstein and there is no evidence in the material released that he took part in the paedophile’s sex-trafficking operation. The small piece sits alongside a much large image of Tourists admiring the spring scenery while being treated to hotpot in a sea of blooming rapeseed flowers in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

The Telegraph, 'just protecting women and girls' by burying this on page 15

Why Labour is so scared of the Green Party | The News Agents New polling shows the Green Party closing on Reform’s lead in popularity with UK voters, despite growing right-wing attacks on the party and its surging numbers. Is Labour struggling to respond to a…

Keir Starmer describes the Green Party as extreme – but that might make sense if Hannah Spencer hadn't won the recent by-election on a cost of living message.

"When it was Reform winning, he treated those voters with respect," says Lewis Goodall

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This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.

Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Counting the coverage: The UKs media war on trans rights Data reveals the scale of the UK media's focus on trans issues: 6,450 articles in 2025 and more than 1,146 in the first two months of 2026.

UK mainstream media published 6,500 articles about trans people in 2023. It published a similar number in 2025, almost none of which were written by trans people

Reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann & others like him becoming “experts” on The Jewish Question in 1930s Germany

Exactly! It's pathetic, it really is

Susie Boniface can barely keep her face straight with Kwasi Kwarteng. He's a complete idiot 😆 @news.sky.com

Wars Often Lose Public Support Over Time. Trump Started This One Without Much.

Americans skipped the rally-around-the-president stage this time. JFK gained 13 points after Cuban Missile Crisis, LBJ 8 after bombing Hanoi, GHW Bush 18 during Gulf War, GW Bush 8 after Saddam captured, Obama 11 after OBL killed. Trump gained 0 since Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then happy Friday:

Oh, and there was this too. #TheViolentHour