Gerard Clarke

The Beatles at Stowe School | British Library On 4 April 1963, The Beatles played a unique live concert at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire, having accepted a booking by one of the pupils.Present on the

Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...

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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. #MariaCallas

A parade through the streets of Mega-City One sees floats of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Judge Fish and more! From Judge Anderson: The Parade of Death, by Maura McHugh, Joe Currie and Rob Steen.

Hope you all enjoy the Big Parade today, Earthlets.

(Also, The 2000 AD Annual is out now! shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB...)

"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.”
William Goldman, who died on this day in 2018

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I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas

Unlike its domestic rivals, Chrysler opted not to design its own small car for North America at the start of the '70s. Instead it imported the Hillman Avenger from its UK subsidiary, rebranding it as the Plymouth Cricket. A fairly short-lived model, it mainly sold as a 4-door sedan. #weirdcarbs

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time Of the three collaborations jazz singer Cab Calloway made with cute cartoon legend Betty Boop, this 1933 Dave Fleischer-directed “Snow White” is probably the most successful.

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time

Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal £41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. And that's on top of another whopping £65m the Government paid the scandal ...

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Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal £41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. And that's on top of another whopping £65m the Government paid the scandal ...

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...

The Public Constitution This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

📢 The Public Constitution
🗣️ Prof Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
With UCL Laws’ Prof Oliver Gerstenberg, @nataliamoralesc.bsky.social & Ronan McCrea.
📅 13 Nov 2025 | 🕚 1pm | 📍 In person & online
🔗 Book for free:

Referring to the BBC reports is repeating myths. The reports were mendacious. Please watch the video I posted. Facts are boring, but they remain facts.

Please watch the video. Tge contemporary BBC reports were a bad faith hatchet job about something that had happened some time before the reports.

Both, I think, plus trying to get hot dates with Hitler in the case of Unity; but Yorkshire has no need of evil autocrats with personality cults. It's already got Geoff Boycott.

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I have to feel what I do. I have to like people to be with them. I just cannot learn the art of being a hypocrite. I wish I could. #MariaCallas

Gin and tonic? Not Happy Shopper Valu Vodka? Sounds like the sort of thing the Mitfords would get up to.

Saw someone strutting through town today, ostentatiously swigging Perrier straight out of a litre bottle. Very aggressive act - white cider is appropriate on Briggate, NOT Perrier.

Hey, we've all done that.

This is a hate crime.

This is the oppression ladder in action. A black lesbian counts for less than a white man who claims to be a woman.

BTW: this man has served time for drug dealing and has domestic abuse on his record.

How can anyone think this is OK?

The power of pub myth!

YouTube video by Grand Thrift Auto The REAL truth about the Lancia Beta

It is disappointing to see you repeating long debunked pub myths. The Beta survivor rate is greater than that of its rivals.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Rc...

YouTube video by Grand Thrift Auto The REAL truth about the Lancia Beta

m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Rc...

Beta myths debunked

The Combat, 1939, by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902–1979).

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Love is so much better when you are not married. #MariaCallas

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More To imagine ourselves into the time of Leonardo da Vinci, we must first imagine a world without such things as helicopters, parachutes, tanks, diving suits, robots. Yet those all existed for Leonardo h...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More

Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy One often hears about renovation projects that tear up linoleum, shag carpet, or some equally unappealing flooring to discover a pristine (and now much more attractive) layer of hardwood or tile benea...

Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy

A horrific massacre in Sudan The US and UK should put pressure on the UAE over its alleged role in enabling the conflict

A horrific massacre in Sudan on.ft.com/47IKjFs | opinion

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

How Japanese Kintsugi Masters Restore Pottery by Beautifying the Cracks A few years ago, we featured here on Open Culture the Japanese art of kintsugi, whose practitioners repair broken pottery with gold in a manner that emphasizes rather than hides the cracks.

How Japanese Kintsugi Masters Restore Pottery by Beautifying the Cracks

So the Renters' Rights Bill completed Parliament today. It has taken some time and I think we've forgotten what an important and really substantial piece of legislation it is. A huge and valuable change is coming (even if we don't know exactly when yet).