Judy Webb

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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

Totally plausible.

Is that hippies on drugs?

Oh yes. Every word.

If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck.

1. I wanna read my own shit.

2. I wanna write my own shit.

3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit.

4. I don’t want that AI bullshit. If you don’t use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.

In case you are in need of a bit of cheery political news...

Can they overcone the weight of Labour Party cultural baggage?

Good to see the number of Labour MPs speaking up for this. I hope their colleagues listen to them.

PODCAST: Election with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick Cory and Mark watch Election, the 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. They talk about whether any of the characters...

PODCAST: Election with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick

New podcast: Political Fictions Join Cory Hazlehurst and Mark Pack on Political Fictions as they digest some of the best - and worst - depictions of politics in fiction.

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Otto Dix, Battle-Weary Troops Retreat (Battle of the Somme) (Abgekämpfte Truppe geht zurück [Sommeschlacht]) from The War (Der Krieg), 1924 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

A constant drip of pro US lies and propaganda by people/organisations with vested interests, has led to the UK deluding itself about it's special relationship with the US for many decades. A disastrous mistake.

Special relationship special relationship special relationship 🙄...the UK could've had a superb relationship with 27 countries if it was not for Brexit ☝️

Terracotta model of a chair - or rather throne - decorated with sculptural pieces and polychrome. The back, seat and legs have overall white decoration, in zig zag around the base of the seat where blue is also applied. The front feet are lions' paws. The arms rest on women's heads with white faces/necks and red hair and lips. The back has two crosses in open panels, with a long element along the top ending in roundels, and featuring two birds facing outwards.

#TerracottaTuesday
A terracotta 'thronos' w blue/white/red polychrome.
From C4 BC burial in Taranto, then a part of Magna Graecia, where a rich funerary culture was developing again.
Decorated w women's heads on armrests, front legs resting on lion paws and birds on the back.
In MArTa 🏺

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

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Miami’s ancient Indigenous sites face an uncertain future The city’s building boom has revealed many artefacts and human remains, but the pace of development has made study and preservation challenging

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Internal corner of a castle, mostly red stone with features in grey stonework. A large arched window is seen, with a smaller one on what would have been the floor above. In the corner are remains of a fireplace. View through bottom window of trees.

Impressively thick #WallsOnWednesday with some #WindowsonWednesday, plus bonus fireplace, but no floors.
The keep of 13th C Brougham Castle nr Penrith in Cumbria, site of earlier #Roman Brocavum fort.
#MarchArch

A tall archway of marble and other stone frames a wooden door with carved panels. One side is open offering a view into a courtyard with further arches and a fountain. The stone doorway is styled with columns either side and a coat of arms at the top with dolphins on each side.

#AdoorableThursday #MarchArch
Doorway in Volterra, with an enticing glimpse into a courtyard.
One of many in hilltop walled town in Tuscany that's been occupied since C8 BC.

This study might make you stop drinking bottled water forever Plastic bottles shed harmful microplastics and chemicals, creating hidden health risks from everyday drinking habits.

This study might make you stop drinking bottled water forever #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Early land plants may have reshaped Earth’s carbon cycle New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than expected.

Early land plants may have reshaped Earth’s carbon cycle #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

The Seat 61 (London-) Brussels-Milan sleeper page is now live, at www.seat61.com/trains-and-r...

BREAKING: @EuropeanSlpr's new sleeper train from Brussels & Cologne to Zurich, Como & Milan will start 9 September. Tickets go on sale from 17 March with couchettes from €49.99, single/double/triple sleepers also available. 🥳 Press release: mcusercontent.com/5ffbd133c9ab...

Video showing plane evacuation was filmed in Denver, not Israel – Full Fact A video shared with captions claiming a plane was targeted at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport was actually filmed in Denver last year.

A video showing passengers evacuating an aircraft has been shared with claims that a plane was targeted at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport.

The clip actually shows the aftermath of an aborted takeoff in Denver last year.

Type 45 destroyers such as HMS Dragon can shoot down incoming missiles – Full Fact Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed at Prime Minister’s Questions that Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”, but that isn’t correct.

At this week’s Prime Minister's Questions, Kemi Badenoch claimed Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”.

In fact, they can. The Ministry of Defence says their primary role is air defence, including against missiles.

AI image of the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire shared online – Full Fact A picture supposedly showing the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire has been shared hundreds of times online. But it isn’t real.

A picture shared hundreds of times online claims to show the USS Abraham Lincoln on fire after being struck by Iranian ballistic missiles.

But this image isn’t real. It was made using Google AI tools.

Video of blaze doesn’t show aftermath of drone attack on US embassy in Saudi Arabia – Full Fact The Saudi Arabian government confirmed a “limited” fire at the embassy on 3 March after drone strikes, but the footage being shared predates that attack.

A viral video claiming to show a fire at the US embassy in Saudi Arabia after drone strikes is misleading.

A “limited fire” did occur on March 3, but the clip being shared predates the outbreak of the latest conflict in the Middle East.

The Celegraph 66 Starmer's Britain suddenly feels very small, very weak and very alone The heroism of Churchill has degenerated into Starmer's pusillanimity Our Prime Minister embodies British decline | Credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

You know what would have helped with this sudden isolation we now find ourselves in?

Not leaving the damned EU.

For fuck’s sake.