Hilary Fawcett

Gordon Brown says he has submitted a five page letter to UK police forces, providing new information about the Epstein files, in order to help "secure justice for trafficked girls and women"

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Boris Johnson is very quiet in these days of reckoning….

Painting featuring black and white flowers line.

Intake, 1964 by Bridget Riley, UK artist and one of the founders of Op art #WomensArt

Literally the first hit on a google of her name:

Mandelson next? Whole house of cards…

Absolutely

Surely today’s events make the prospective royal state visit to the USA even more invidious. Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of ‘misconduct in public office‘ and there are those in power in the US who could be accused of the same, but are allowed to continue in their abuse of power

I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.

Edward McKnight Kauffer, Winter Sales, 1924 (detail) © TFL FROM THE LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM COLLECTION

An exhibition at the London Transport Museum is celebrating 100 years of the Underground’s Art Deco design heritage.
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Satirical cartoon accompanying an article from a broadsheet of 1815, entitled "The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square". Shows an elegantly dressed lady of the Regency period with the head of a pig, eating out of a silver trough. Horniman Museum collection

It’s the 211th anniversary of an editorial in The Times which “deplores the credulity of Londoners”. Apparently, they’d fallen en masse for a rumour that there was a gentlewoman living in the capital who was unremarkable but for the fact she had a pig’s head 🧵

Mary Swanzy (1882-1978)
The White Tower, c.1926.
Oil on canvas. #Cubism

And/or the view of men who want take us back to the 19th c, for women to be subservient, stay at home and leave the workplace to men…

The UK was declared measles free in 2017.

Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.

Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

...have transformed the dark sanctuary into a dramatic
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Dating 2nd/3rd cantury AD.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain (Official Audio)

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I hope you are suitably grateful …..

Absolutely

Absolutely. It’s only quite recently that they have begun to describe it as such. Its insulting

Had a letter from DWP notified me of changes in my benefits. My State Pension is not a benefit. I paid for it

Me too. An unexpected joy

No. It’s wild up here !

Starting E3 now. I suspect I will watch the rest today.…

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Bloody hell

The Id forgotten about Brentfordnylons. Remember as a teenager having sheets from there and when I got up in the morning my hair stood on end

Come on Brentford !

The picture shows a necklace made of glass beads. The beads are of different size, shape and colour. Some are patterned, others monochrome.

In the early medieval period, colorful glass beads were a mark of prestige and fashion. This striking necklace, comprising over 60 beads in vibrant reds, blues, yellows, and intricate patterns, was discovered in the burial of a woman at Bissingen, southwest Germany, dating 7th century. 🧵1/2

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Education is not only about job prospects then, it has much a much wider significance and impact. Who would have thought ?