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HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

Simply obscene.

‘Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society’.

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Fabulous! Where did you spot that one?

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

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Marble bust of Antinous depicted as Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head.
The bust, found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, was part of Marquis Giampietro Campana's collection and was regarded as one of his finest sculptures. Emperor Alexander II of Russia bought it in 1861 for the Hermitage.

The Texan National Guard roll into Illinois.

Given I have been teaching students about Lipo's walking moai for nearly 10 years, I do wonder how this is 'news'

But I'm delighted to see it getting more airtime. It's a brilliant piece of work

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’ Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

A step in the right direction.

‘The Danish prime minister says the country will ban social media for under-15s, as she accused mobile phones and social networks of “stealing our children’s childhood”’.

YouTube video by Rose Willow The Air That I Breath - The Hollies

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 8: a love song without "love" in the title.

The Hollies ‘The Air That I Breath’.

Robert Peston @Peston Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.” 4:26 PM · Oct 7, 2025 · 16.2K Views

Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥

Partisans derail military cargo train in Leningrad Oblast, paralyzing St. Petersburg-Pskov route A locomotive and several cars carrying military cargo left the tracks on 7 Oct. after partisans blew up a railway section near St. Petersburg, paralyzing a major transport route

Ukrainian partisans derailed a military cargo train in Russia's Leningrad Oblast this morning, shutting down a major St. Petersburg-Pskov route

The same railway stretch saw 15 freight cars derail three weeks ago on 14 September
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit North Korea this week China's premier will pay an official visit to North Korea this week, Beijing said Tuesday, announcing the high-level diplomatic engagement to the isolated nuclear state.

CRINK in da house.

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

'Not in Poland's interest,' to hand over Ukrainian in Nord Stream probe, Tusk says "From our point of view, the only people who should be ashamed and should remain silent on the issue of Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

⚡️'Not in Poland's interest,' to hand over Ukrainian in Nord Stream probe, Tusk says.

"From our point of view, the only people who should be ashamed and should remain silent on the issue of Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Four researchers stood with a drill extracting a sediment core. In the background stand the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple with large obelisks reaching upwards.

NEW Karnak, at the ancient #Egyptian capital of Thebes, is one of the world's largest temple complexes. The first geoarchaeological research there suggests the complex may have been constructed to recall the 'primeval mound' of Egyptian creation myths.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Thanks! Her voice isn’t quite my cup of tea but a cracking video.

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Les belges qui regardent la France :

Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act as Bondi faces Senate – US politics live Legal wrangles over troop deployments continue with attorney general also likely to face questions over Epstein files

Invoking the Insurrection Act was always part of the plan.

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Waving a fire dragon adorned with burning incense sticks, volunteers pump up the festival atmosphere in Hong Kong ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the city's Tai Hang neighbourhood. The ritual is said to have originated in the 1800s to ward off the plague. Video: AFP.

Urban scenes

São Paulo, SP, Brasil
#fotografiaderua #art
#cityscape #urban #graffiti #streetphotography #photography #fotografia

YouTube video by Dj D Crispim KEY - MATIC - BREAKIN' IN SPACE BY DJ D

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 7: Relating to space or the ocean.

Key-Matic “Breakin’ In Space”.

This from the guy who fomented an actual insurrection on January 6 and is trying to rewrite history.

*Now* he’s going to use the Insurrection Act to circumvent any judges that dare go against him as he pretends to fight imagined enemies and consolidate power.

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Close up of about a square foot of reproduction Roman/Iron Age mail armour.

Lorica hamata.
Iron Age / Roman mail armour.
Every other ring individually riveted.
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Wittenham Clumps at sunset yesterday. This is the view from the steps on the iron age hillfort of Castle Hill, looking towards Round Hill. #Oxfordshire