Leviathan Wilde

Hope everyone had a lovely #ShroveTuesday🥞 and wishing everyone who observes it a blessed, peaceful, and meaningful Lent🙏🏻

As Ramadan begins, I want to extend my warmest wishes to Muslim communities across our country at this special time of faith, family and charity. Ramadan Mubarak.

Police arresting 1,000 paedophile suspects a month across UK National Crime Agency says rise in child sexual abuse being driven by technology and online forums

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A fox in red ink, quite nice, ink is dark red, fox looks at us, is sitting

First red ink fox, from 2021

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

*screams into a void*. Why is nobody talking about this?
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Great thread on the reality of MPs’ offices and the constant triaging and prioritisation that goes on - and trade offs involves

‘The kids don’t get days off. Nor should you’: my secret life as a paedophile hunter on the dark web US undercover investigator Greg Squire can spend 18 hours a day befriending child sex abusers, to try to identify them and get justice for victims. He reveals the toll the work has taken on him

“Every child in every image or video he has seen will have adults in their lives – family members, teachers, neighbours. “If everyone is vigilant, maybe we can all make a difference,” he says. “Socially, I think this is a problem we need to carry together.””

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A pastel showing a figure walking along a path with trees against a misty light. This was done on a vintage sheet of maroon-coloured Ingres paper.

One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting

Wow.

‘A social justice issue’: London school believes it has model for Send inclusion Founder and staff at TCES Nurture primary, which has not excluded a child in 25 years, say key factor is how support is delivered

Inclusion by design

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'I was a Reform councillor – no one dares question Nigel but our cuts won't work' Councillor Nick Brown says his former party's money-saving pledges at councils across the country are 'doomed to fail'

Reform UK: a one-man band.

Former Reform UK councillor: “Independence is not something that’s valued within Reform.”

“It all comes to Nigel. Everything flows down from there."

https://inews.co.uk/news/reform-councillor-question-nigel-cuts-wont-work-4237714

Just going to leave this here

This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.

We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak Cases reported in seven schools and a nursery in Enfield amid concern over low levels of MMR vaccination in capital

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented.

It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

A gloved hand holding a brown chocolate eggs with gold speckles. More eggs in the background.

It’s Monday, so back to making Easter eggs. 🐣

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May. The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

February is a slightly shorter month. Could you donate yr coffee & lunch money from the non existent February days to Ukraine? Or forgo the next couple of pints & give that £ to support the brave Ukrainians protecting Europe from Russian attack?

Please 🙏 🇺🇦 💕

donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukrai...

We hear all the time that green energy and grid upgrades for green energy are putting up bills. But the boss of British Gas makes it very clear, buried deeper in the story - that these grid upgrades are "necessary even without net zero”.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Grounds Manager - Falmouth Town Council Can you lead the way in shaping safe, accessible and attractive open spaces in Falmouth?

#Falmouth Town Council are looking for a new Grounds Manager who'll "bring a genuine passion for protecting our local environment and driving sustainability & #biodiversity initiatives through the leadership of your team."

Do you know anyone suitable?

www.falmouthtowncouncil.co.uk/opportunitie...

Henry Lamb painted 'Bridge near Salisbury,' (1920) soon after returning from WW1, he won the Military Cross for his bravery in attending to wounded soldiers while under heavy enemy fire in Palestine in May 1918.

look I grew up not being understood and making jumps nobody else followed and being way out of other people's contextual and background knowledges and I learned that people mostly won't understand unless I provide ten sentences of extra context for every sentence of communication

Morgan McSweany really sounds like he was a strange love child of Dominic Cummings and Seamus Milne - as dodgy in politics and attitude as both of them, & as lax at governing and governance as both of them put together, & as promoted above competence as both of them.

state schools the same money as put into private specialist schools paid for by local authorities. If we borrowed long term to invest in state specialist schools then think how much it would save in £ & also provide improved services & save long term social & economic costs of exclusion.

I do wish that govt would make design of curriculum inclusive & school design accessable - there will always be some people that need specific services, but eg in I believe Denmark they discovered that inclusive design worked for non SEND kids as well as for SEND. Also I’m up for investing in 👇

Welsh charity buys more than 405 hectares for rewilding Project in Ceredigion aims to help country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects elsewhere in UK A Welsh charity has bought more than 405 hectares (1,000 acres) in Ceredigion to establish Cymru’s “flagship” rewilding project, helping the country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects under way elsewhere in the UK. Tir Natur (Nature’s Land), founded in 2022, announced it had acquired the site at Cwm Doethie in Elenydd, or the Cambrian mountains, after a fundraising drive raised 50% of the £2.2m purchase price. A philanthropic bridging loan enabled the sale. Continue reading...

Welsh charity buys more than 405 hectares for rewilding

‘We almost lost you in the night’ - the life-threatening rise of measles in the UK It is one of the most infectious diseases around, and can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal. Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it?

Nine out of 10 unvaccinated people will catch measles if exposed.

If you are not sure if you are vaccinated against measles, & your doctor has no record of childhood measles vaccination, you can get a free measles vaccination on the nhs as an adult.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

I didn’t think “find out now” were reliable polling?