Andrew Richards

A family of five goes for a walk high up on the snowy Downs. Dad is pulling a sledge and the family salute another family sliding down on a sledge, pursued by a dog

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A view over a rural scene dotted with winter trees, as the early winter evening casts a grey sky orange yellow, illuminating hard frozen ploughed fields

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin

On a snowy day, a small figure with his dog shines a torch as he walks past a snow-topped barn. This barn has strong echoes of ‘the repair shop’

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold sued the FBI and DOJ for the files as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.

SNOPES: True. "FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show"

www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.

Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

“The voice of Zia Yusuf, was heard (on his fourth appearance this year) for roughly double the time afforded Zack Polanski…this clear political imbalance was partially contrived by host Fiona Bruce interrupting Polanski twice as often as Yusuf (and by encouraging audience members to do the same)”

If there's ever a free election again, and a Democratic President elected in it, will that President be able to use the unitary power to sack the entire Supreme Court?

Clean it out and start again?

This is beautifully put:

"LLMs are tools that “emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning.”"

Lawyer's have to *think* - "the entire common-law system is a form of distributed cognition" 3/

The guy who during Covid was happy to let the bodies pile high, who wasn't worried that asymptomatic people were spreading Covid amongst the population, as long as his mates were coining it in.

And now he's surprised by the long term consequences of his own failure to protect the country.

Eoin Clarke has handily put together a list of 100 Green policies and it’s pretty astounding anyone can type all these out and not work out the economic collapse they would bring on

Drumming up support among those for whom VAT on school fees means only 12 Grands Prix this year.

Lui, il est le Parti

The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

And for which he has received his Peace Prize.

Thousands flee Thailand-Cambodia border after deadly clashes and air strikes Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border after alleging deadly firing by Cambodia.

Remember: this is one of the eight (or is it nine?) wars that Trump says he has ended. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.

Sunrise in Bristol (UK) today is 08:03 (GMT).

At this time of year I curse those who are working to make it 09:03 (DST).

GMT is our natural timezone in the UK.

There's no point having daylight saving time in the depths of winter as there's less than 8 hours of daylight per day.

Marjorie Taylor Greene told me to go back to my country and kicked our then-18-year-old communications director.

And then sent an army of trolls and death threats my way when I called her out.

She doesn’t get to play victim now.

Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.

#ReformUK #Reform #Farage #Russia There may be tRoubles ahead..

If the picture looks like a submarine crashing into the water from the air in front of some rocks, that's because that's what it is!

“Farage has been reported to the police over claims of falsifying election expenses…a former Reform councillor submitted documents to the Metropolitan Police…falsely reporting local expenses in Clacton as national spending, which would amount to a breach of electoral law” archive.ph/2025.12.07-2...

This lady was the Steve Jobs of the Online Death Threat Industry for like 10 years. Not to be a dick, but fucking spare me.

The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.

And the BBC prefers controversy over fact.

I have made your recipe very successfully.

If somone is nervous of uncooked egg, I would try adding some milk to the butter sugar egg mixture, and then heat in a bain marie to make an unthickened runny custard.

Trump buried his first wife on one of his golf courses so that he could get a tax break.

Where would be an appropriate place for Trump's burial site?

Historians will look at how far we've fallen, and come to the conclusion that it all began with the rise of Reality TV in the 1990s. Giving huge platforms to people with no real talent or expertise created a unique era – one that soon gave birth to a political movement based on idiocy and ignorance.