Hilary Ward

Tree on the Moon A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop Photo: Bernd Nowack

Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack

If you liked Brexit, you're going to love what the Conservatives want next | Polly Toynbee Leaving the ECHR could mean higher food prices and an even bigger blow to trade. The Tories' new proposals will end the party for good, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 "Labour has found its voice against Faragism and racism. Now they need to challenge the right on leaving the ECHR, which would be a terrible reprise to the crippling damage of Brexit. Ask the hauliers."

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Helen Millichap, senior police officer and national lead for VAWG, said: "We know for sexual offences and domestic abuse, the vast majority of perpetrators are known to the victims. So I don't want anything to distract from a clear understanding of where the threat overall is."

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s UN speech – cartoon The US president repeated his dubious claim that he had resolved seven wars during his eight-month administration

Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s UN speech – cartoon

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

- Leonard Cohen (who would have turned 91 yesterday).

I have defended the BBC again and again.

No more.

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly. Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers: “Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Time to support the real needs of all our struggling kids?
#edchat #school #education

Excellent front page by the Daily Mirror. 🎯

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

Sometimes I'm asked if I've read all those books ...
#library #reading #edChat #HigherEd

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Liverpool continues to rise in Guardian University rankings - University of Liverpool News Liverpool continues to rise in Guardian University rankings

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/15/l...

Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true? Manchán Magan has set out to collate as many weather words in Irish as he can. Bear in mind that it will rain hard if a leprechaun of the ditch comes into the kitchen

Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true?

www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Underground Railway, Liverpool, 1894, by Charles Trevor Prescott, 1872-1947 (Walker Gallery). #NorthernArt

Farage would sell out the UK & risk hundreds of thousands of good British jobs.

He has called for the US to slap trade sanctions on the UK, which could put more than 300,000 jobs at risk, including 176,000 in the UK’s industrial heartlands.

#NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage

Nigel Farage failed to register US trip for Trump fundraiser The Reform leader could face a standards investigation after an appearance at a Republican dinner in Florida where hospitality packages cost up to $25,000

Nigel Farage failed to register US trip for Trump fundraiser

The Reform leader could face a standards investigation after an appearance at a Republican dinner in Florida where hospitality packages cost up to $25,000

www.thetimes.com/article/aad7...

Targeting like it's the new yellow star of David.

you'd think this government failing to understand that the st. george's cross is contextually a symbol of hate and terror would be the worst of it. but no. the worst of it is they *do* understand, and they allow it anyway.

Rain, Steam and Speed, Turner 1844

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

The Census At Bethlehem 1566

Landscape with the fall of Icarus

Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds The BBC has come under renewed pressure over the amount of coverage dedicated to Reform UK after an analysis showed Nigel Farage’s party featured in a quarter of all News At Ten bulletins over six months. Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January and July this year, whereas the Liberal Democrats – the third party in parliament with 72 MPs – featured in 17.9% of bulletins, with 35 references. Continue reading...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Andy Burnham tears into Reform UK for suggesting that they would scrap Northern Powerhouse Rail, focusing on a London-centric approach

Much more of this kind of message, please!

Daily Mirror headline about Farage and Tax

Well done @politics.mirror.co.uk, great headline. 👏 👏

Nothing seems to get Farage angry quite like being asked about his tax affairs, yet he’s so happy to talk about others.

#NeverFarage #NeverVoteReform

If only Labour leadership were listening …