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The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Hidden wonders: my fascinating encounters with the Bittern Elusive and majestic, the Bittern’s booming call echoes across Minsmere’s reeds – a symbol of hope and conservation success

Leslie Cater watched two Bitterns perform their courtship display – something few people ever see. Half an hour of slow, beautiful ritual. He'll never forget it. 💛
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.

Restored section of the Theodosian walls at the Selymbria Gate. The outer wall and the wall of the moat are visible, with a tower of the inner wall in the background.

1578 years ago, on the 6th of November 447, an earthquake hit Constantinople destroying much op its walls and 57 towers. Another quake followed next January. The presence of Attila the Hun in the Balkans prompted repairs, supported by chariot-racing factions, to be finished in 60 days. #otd 🗃️

it’s a Lego scene of Sauron trying to order a coffee Name? I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence. In that time I have had many names. Pick one Sauron SHARON

good morning gang, let’s all suffer together

In 1959, the first commercially successful document copier, the Xerox 914, went on sale. It came with a small fire extinguisher as the machine had a tendency to catch fire.

Polychromatic wall, C19, Bishops Hill, Ipswich.

There are a fair number of things I dislike, political and religious extremism, football half-and-half scarves and Radio 4 comedies for example. But few things annoy me as much as tag graffiti, the human equivalent of dogs marking their territory.

When my dad took his French degree in 1955, the literature paper asked for three essays “one of which should be in French”. He wrote “‘should’ does not mean ‘must’, I’m short of time and my English is better than my French” and then wrote three essays in English. Next year, they changed the wording.

Coin weights, used by the trader to check the coin being tendered was of the correct weight. Its face value was its bullion value.
Mostly gold goins, English and Continental

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR.

We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.

But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.

As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.

The Bear explains

A medieval tower partially collapsed in the heart of Rome during renovations. One worker was injured and another was trapped in the Torre dei Conti near the Colosseum.

This. A thousand times this.

If you laid all the sweets, made by Wakefield District's Haribo factory for Halloween, in a line, you'd have enough to give every child in Great Britain type 2 diabetes.

#WakeyPedia

Born on this day in 1632, in Delft, the incomparable painter Johannes Vermeer. What he can do here with the color blue! It's miraculous. The mysteries of that window are infinite.

In 2018 a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track with the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700: someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.

3/3 The American lyricist Clifford Grey, in Ipswich Old Cemetery. Grey's songs include 'If you were the only girl in the world'. He was giving a performance in Ipswich when he was killed in an air raid.

Almost 600 memorials including occupations in my set on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/norfo...

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

A spade, skull and coffin on the headstone of Jeptha Waller at Ramsholt, Suffolk. It's suggested he was the sexton or gravedigger, but in fact the Wallers were wealthy landowners, and they're symbols of mortality. The date, January 3rd 1748/9, is from the days when the New Year began on March 25th.

A huge blue whale emerges suddenly from the sea, dwarfing and overwhelming the small boat containing six people

Ladybird wisdom, part 47.

Artist: Frank Humphris
(A First ‘Do You Know’ Book, 1971)

✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England. #thread

Trump is the political equivalent of Newton's First Law of Motion.
He'll carry on causing havoc until someone or something stops him.

Ah the challenges of a modern world and digital exclusion.

Age Concern is campaigning for a more accessible world & we have written about it...

The cartoon 👇 may be funny, the reality not.

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

Happy Birthday! 🎂

One benchmark of a democracy is whether it is willing to hold those who have served at the very highest levels to account.

Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

There really is something about Their Graces, the Dukes of York

There have been 11. Of which:

2 were killed on the battlefield
1 was probably/possibly murdered in the Tower
1 was executed by Parliament (after he had succeeded as king)
1 was deposed (ditto)
2 showed promise but really went to seed

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynb...

Trump’s attack on facts is dangerous - and we’re already seeing how it spreads to the UK. This has to stop. ⚠️

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/17/trump-anti-truth-crusade-facts-jd-vance-nigel-farage-censorship

A 1,400 year old ditch

The border between Cantwara rīce (Kingdom of the Kentish) & Sūþseaxna rīce (South Saxons) is still the border between the counties of Kent & Sussex

A 1,400 year old ditch created to stop conflict, by marking the border to avoid confusion, is our southern woodland boundary