Chris Down 🏳️‍🌈

Thank God there is a political leader finally speaking up loudly for basic bloody decency and not following Farage down his racist rabbit hole into whatever hate-filled hell he wants to drag Britain. We all need to stand with Zack and say "enough" before we end up in the same mess as America.

This will make multi-property private landlords and property investors shit themselves.
Good.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

The NHS and social care would cease to function under UK govt’s new rules on foreign staff.

Workers will have to wait – from 5 to 10 years – before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain, claim any benefit, childcare, or housing support, despite paying taxes

Govt appeasing Reform.

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

It's funny because London has a much lower homicide rate than any major American city, including those in red states.

Nice disinformation though, and of course it's being spread by Elon Musk, the world's biggest spreader of disinformation

Jewish and Palestinian people gather in London for peace People join together in central London each month to share their hopes for peace.

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St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
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New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

The curious case of the tombstone of Sextus Congenius Veras and it’s journey to a New Orleans yard

Romans used glass for crockery, hairpins, windows, and more. Glassblowing made production fast and cheap, and constant recycling is why Roman glass can feel rare today. What draws your eye here - colour or creativity?

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Fragment of a Roman jug handle in deep cobalt blue glass, photographed on a white background. A moulded face medallion sits at the base where the pulled handle begins; two raised ridges run up the handle and the edges are broken.

Complete jugs with attached medallions are uncommon, so fragments help us read Roman taste and technique. Colchester holds one of Britain’s best Roman glass collections, rich in first-century finds linked to Boudica’s rebellion.

Cobalt blue Roman glass fragment from a jug handle, the base decorated with a small moulded face medallion, probably Bacchus or Silenus. The thick pulled handle rises from the medallion and spreads into two wing-like flares where it would have joined the vessel wall. Surface shows bubbles and wear; object is propped on a clear mount against a bright background.

A Roman jug handle in deep blue glass with a stamped face medallion. A small disc of hot glass was pressed into a mould, then applied to the vessel before the handle was shaped. Many faces are generic. This one is probably Bacchus or Silenus rather than Medusa.

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club
Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

RIP John Woodvine. He, Jenny Agutter & Brian Glover reprised their movie roles in our BBC Radio ‘An American Werewolf In London’. In rehearsal I took him through an extra scene I had written (with John Landis’s permission). “Don’t worry Dirk”, said John W, “I’ll do my best to improve your writing…”

Just dug this up as a clear example of fitting a complex nuanced narrative into a single social media post for my masterclass in public science engagement using online tools

Kemi BudEnoch?

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

Turns out: Some of these T-pillars *do* have faces. 🙌

Courageous political leadership means telling an audience what they don't want to hear. Zack Polanski will never do that.

Or is it that I'm saying things the Telegraph doesn't want to hear?

I suggest they might want to avoid our Party Broadcast this evening!

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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

This is the "it was Agatha all along" theory of the UK Constitution. We were distracted by the EU, and the ECHR was the real big bad! Leaving it will fix everything!

Leaving will not magically change any of these issues IF the UK still wants to be a liberal democracy:

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I now want to buy a tiger, an oil rig, and huge tracks of the countryside to fly a drone over. 🙂

There are no words for the cruelty of this.

The latest edition of the Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog is a look at concerns about Myths, Media & Money - the dangers of what can happen when cash gets involved in stories about ancient buildings...

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📸 Sinai Park by Historic Houses

We are all only walking each other home. The better people would understand the fragility and brevity of life, perhaps they'd appreciate letting others live in peace too. Deeply upset about Manchester, for families of the murdered and the family of the killer. No winners in bloodshed

I wish people could understand its very possible and should be the norm, that you can despise anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at the same time. It's not either/ or

I notice that the tributes to Dame Patricia Routledge are divided roughly along the gays retweeting the Kitty monologues from Victoria Wood while the straights are mostly doing Keeping Up Appearances (at least on my FB feed anyway) 😄

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025 YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

@zackpolanski.bsky.social speech at the Green conference will be live at 13.30 today (Friday).

Link to watch 👇

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I imagine a lot of us were blissfully unaware that we hadn't actually had a Archbishop of Canterbury since Justin Welby stood down (whenever that was)