Christian Balanes-Landricombe

Painting of Saint Brigid with a bowl of fire, a spindle, and a cow in St. Patrick's Chapel, Glastonbury.

IMBOLC (or Imbolg!)
Saint Brigid's Day is a Gaelic traditional festival.
1st February is the start of Spring.

“I wish that people could find a more constructive way of resolving these kinds of things and I’m hoping that that’s where we’re going to get soon.”
For all the positive open talk about dire funding, this attitude towards its staff is not progressive or fair - still the same condescending contempt.

Living in the west is so weird because we are literally ruled by paedophiles who think they should decide who is and isn't suitable to rule other countries and we call this process "spreading democracy"

Pudding.

Evening sea-sky sandwich 🩵🩷💙🤎🌊

Being a middle class white woman with a surname that's one letter off a popular breakfast cereal should also be a protected characteristic. Where's my human rights commission?

A headline from Sophia Money-Coutts which reads I shit you not, 'Being posh should be a protected characteristic'

Fabulous 10/10 no notes

Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good

Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE

Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good

Like digging up regicides and seeing to it that they are hanged, drawn, quartered and placed on spikes on a bridge across the Thames (by Regicides)

Well, you not getting to call it ‘Un-American’.

The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE

I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The world’s greatest reading rooms: London’s British Library decoded Novelist Charlotte Mendelson explores an institution that holds the history of humanity — and, on any given day, a curious cross-section of the capital itself

“Stone Age maiden librarian”

What a dreadful article?!

www.ft.com/content/6c05...

In colour

Me at the end of January (with a glimmer of hope in time …)

📷 banner used for initiation ceremonies by the Tin Plate Workers Society, circa 1821, on display at The People’s History Museum, Manchester.

Wine party c. 1580-1613 (British Museum) A rare pictorial view of the varieties on offer at the time. And they're having cheese & bread with their tasting. I love it.

And I have just made ink-ball risotto! Bon Appetit! 🍄‍🟫

I think it’s time for Reform UK to explain to their supporters exactly how they plan to deport 600,000 people from the UK.

a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it

Ordering Minnesota T-shirt, hat, tea-towel, jewellery …

"There will always be bullies in the world, so I must be the bully" is the most destructive brain worm that ever infected the human species.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps

Yep, my local Reform FB page has comments already saying “you can do one”.

Chief Executive Officer - London (Central), London (Greater) job with BRITISH LIBRARY | 10016526 The Board is seeking to appoint an outstanding new Chief Executive to join us in 2026.

Nice, wise, progressive people only please …

jobs.theguardian.com/job/10016526...

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Institutions sit silent on this important aspect in connection to its material & cultural wealth. Without acknowledgment and discussion it is impossible for these places to claim they are just, progressive and inclusive spaces ‘for everyone’. The ‘world of knowledge’ [British edition] must do better

This history and legacy lives with the nation and it is still beyond its moral and intellectual capacity to own it.
It is of course content to own resources built on its wealth. Its determination to cover up and elide it is shameful, especially when posing as a ‘fair’ society.

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

Thankful for true independent research into national history around British and Royal involvement and enrichment in *its* system of enslavement. These are the undeniable ‘social circumstances’ behind the cultural riches of collections like The King’s Library

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here.
I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.

Can't hold a World Cup in a country where the dictator's secret police are executing peaceful protesters in the streets.

Remembering Paul Robeson Paul Robeson died 50 years ago yesterday, and I’ll always remember the following exchange between my parents. Mum – I see Paul Robeson died today Dad – He was a communist Mum &#82…

My latest blog is about Paul Robeson, who died 50 years ago.
buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/r...

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