A black and white potrait of Bertrand Russell

“First they fascinate the fools then they muzzle the intelligent.”

― Bertrand Russell

"People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive."
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark
#BookSky

YouTube video by Jack Daw Sybil Leek Halloween 1963

A 1963 interview with the woman dubbed the most famous witch in England: Sybil Leek, the Witch of Burley in the New Forest, “a forest that is absolutely steeped in witchcraft”.

youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M

"When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

🤍🐇🤍A white or pale-coated Hare was believed to be a Witch's Familiar - or the shapeshifted Witch herself. "I shall go into a hare..." haunting words from a charm revealed by Isobel Gowdie in 1662.
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025 Zack Polanski delivers his first conference speech as newly-elected Green Party Leader.▬ Take Action ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬🔔 Subscribe: http://youtube.com/GreenPart...

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#Photography Willy Ronis, Paris, France.

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
#BookSky

The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

What? As despondent as we all feel about the whole Labour government? Unlikely.

500 Years of Haircuts: One Youtuber Tries Out the Hair Styles That Were Fashionable Between 1500 and 2000 Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar, all the characters are wearing fringes,' writes Roland Barthes in his well-known essay on Romans in film.

500 Years of Haircuts: One Youtuber Tries Out the Hair Styles That Were Fashionable Between 1500 and 2000

💚🏞️💚"Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies."

📖Mary Shelley - The Last Man.
#BookWormSat

Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...

Economic growth & productivity crisis created by govts.

6.23m await NHS England hospital appointment.
17m have two or more chronic conditions.
2.8m 16-64 year olds chronically ill, can't work.
148.9m working days lost to sickness in 2024.

Sick people can't work. Invest in the NHS to boost economy.

We met a thousand dreams ago.
I remember you.

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

Right wing coup in the UK.

The state became guarantor of corporate profits

Publicly-owned industries privatised at low prices.

Public services outsourced, exorbitant prices.

Private finance initiative. Tiny investment, huge returns.

Bailouts - banks can't go bust. Licence to misbehave.

🧈🐈‍⬛🧈Butter churning was thought to be vulnerable to the wiles of Witches and Faeries, therefore various charms were used to protect the work - including one that advised adding three white hairs from a black cat's tail into the milk!
#FolkyFriday #Caturday #FolkloreSunday

Your hiding-place isn't watertight. Life trickles in everywhere.

🌿🪦🌿"The crowded earth had tumbled most of the graves. Lichens fanned over their inscriptions; the condensed breath of time, tracing then eroding all the dates, deeds, beloveds and promises of resurrection. The air ate memories as the earth consumed bodies."
#FairyTaleTuesday

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

High water bills, filthy rivers, now drought. England’s water crisis created by privatisation.

1989 - 2023: No shareholder investment.
Investment funded by customers.
19% of water lost to leaks.
£82.4bn cash extracted.
Water bills up 360%.

Govt opposes public ownership. Looting continues.

YouTube video by RobWords The entire history of English in 22 minutes

Want to know the entire history of the English language but have only 22 minutes (and 21 seconds) to spare?

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🥧 P-I-E
🗡 Old English
👅 Great Vowel Shift
🎭 Shakespeare
and loads besides.

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The use of unregistered companies in Freeports/SEZs, poses a real risk for tax evasion and fraud, facilitated by a deregulatory environment and weak oversight at Companies House.
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Galileo’s drawings of the Moon, 1610. The first realistic images in history.

Galileo’s drawings of the Moon, 1610. The first realistic images in history.

YouTube video by Michael Spicer Tory MP IT Support

Tory MP IT Support

Print in black and white featuring a tabby cat, fscing forwards, drinking out of a bowl in a kitchen setting

Contemporary Printmaker Ann Tout,
'Breakfast with Tiffany'
wood engraving #WomensArt