Cassandra

Well said. It was clearly a well planned, disciplined demonstration and the brave people there knew what they were doing.

Arresting any of those peaceful protesters was daft and immoral. Had you chosen to engage in civil disobedience and the police said "Well we won't arrest you; you are in a wheelchair" what would you have said?

If you read about Wisteria Lodge it's always the home of the bluff ex India colonel or the awful upwardly mobile middle class lady. Whereas it should be "that ruined house where the plants broke in overnight, throttled the inhabitants, and took out the roof."

Nice flowers though.

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which is when both neutralise and turn into saltwater.

London ❤️
National march for Palestine 🇵🇸
We won’t be silent ❤️
#stopgenocide #stopstarvinggaza #stoparmingisrael #freepalestine

200 of the people in this photo have been arrested for terrorism offenses for holding these signs.

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Photo of the book God's Ghostwriters Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss

Finally finishing this. I'm enjoying it. Read a chapter when I first got it, then put it down and didn't pick it up. Don't know why. It's really thought-provoking.

By the author of the hugely successful 'The Thorn Birds' It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who loved PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will want to know what happened to the Bennet sisters... Twenty years on, Jane has a happy marriage and large family; Lizzy and Mr Darcy now have a formidable social reputation; Lydia has a reputation of quite another kind; Kitty is much in demand in London's parlours and ballrooms; but what of Mary? Mary is quietly celebrating her independence, having nursed her ailing mother for many years. She decides to write a book to bring the plight of the poor to everyone's attention. But with more resolve than experience, as she sets out to travel around the country, it's not only her family who are concerned about her. Marriage may be far from her mind, but what if she were to meet the one man whose own fiery articles infuriate the politicians and industrialists? And what if when she starts to ask similar questions, she unwittingly places herself in great danger?

I haven't read this but I highly recommend The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCollough of the Thorn Birds for a really different look at all the sisters. The blurb gives some idea but you also see Jane and Lizzy's marriages quite differently in it.

Two groups clash on immigration outside Bristol hotel About 400 counter-protesters collect outside a hotel housing asylum seekers and refugees.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Thank you to the good people of Bristol who showed up today to counter the far-right protestors at a hotel housing asylum seekers. I should have been there too. #RefugeesWelcome #StandUpToRacism

It’s not just charlatans like Farage, deliberately spreading misinformation to inflame tensions

It’s Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech. Theresa May’s “go home” vans

It’s every politician who has taken up “stop the boats” as a campaign slogan

This is where it’s led us. And it has to end here.

I used to have a dog terrified of balloons, blimps, kites etc. This was in LA and there wasn't much room to run away from the Goodyear blimp passing above the park. Current dog doesn't even notice the giant Bristol balloons that come over our garden.

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

Back in 2023, @katz.theracket.news published a piece in The Atlantic about Substack’s Nazi problem, which led to us launching the Substackers Against Nazis campaign. We both subsequently left the platform, but many insisted the problem wasn’t *that* bad. Katz’s follow-up report finds it def is.

British farmers lost 30% of their pea crop UkrAgroConsult https://ukragroconsult.com › news › british-farmers-lost... 3 days ago — A shortage of green peas is looming in the UK after an unusually dry spring and the hottest June on record. Farmers are reporting the ...

Someone please tell me I will lose all my remaining friends if I respond to the "Weather will be great on Sunday" on the group chat with an article about the pea shortage due to atypically hot/dry weather this year.

The NHS recommends woo on its webpages.

My British husband says fanny is on par with willie--not terribly offensive. Just descriptive of genitalia. But a female friend just said it is not a word used with children. I've lived in UK 15 yrs and still confused.

BA English 1991! Signed and shared

I just signed this as a proud alum of UCLA (B.A. 1992) Time to stand up for the future of academic freedom and free speech in higher education.

I love Herbert. One of my favourite poets.

Met arrested woman after Facebook posts about ex-partner – a serving officer London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The Met doing what it does best: abusing its power to intimidate women.

‘Cat-sized’ rat found in Teesside town puts focus on pest control cuts Rodent said to be 22in (56cm) long from nose to tail found in Normanby, where rat problem is said to be worsening

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... A Rodent of Unusual Size

It's worse when they use it at the subject of the sentence. "Myself and David talk to Sarah about..."

My sister came to visit me for the first time in the 15 years I've lived in England. Today I said goodbye and put her on a train to London. It's very sad. [She doesn't leave the country until Tues but as much as I love her, one Heathrow run was enough for me. Let her have a day or so in London]

7 in 8 of all prisoners in the UK were born in Britain. Filthy criminals.

Purple silk shift dress with exquisite embroidery including flying heron cherry blossoms dragonfly and butterflies

1920s dress at Trowbridge museum Wiltshire @everyheron.bsky.social @isabellarosner.bsky.social

@mrhenrymorris.substack.com There are other platforms out there that don't push white supremacist materials the way substack does. I mean, it fits with this particular column but in general do you want to keep supporting them?

Thank you so much for posting this Lula. My favourite player. I saw he had made one and hoped someone would post it.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I love Zhang!

seems really bad!!