PaulineAnn🌻

Love this I also caught a slight hint of Hull in a couple of words

Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago?

Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation

We have no choice but to walk in the rain at the moment. 🌧🌧🌧

Caught a badger on our wildlife camera, not sure where the set is.

Ah the simple times of the good old days.

This is a British political cartoon from 1815 titled The Blessings of Peace or the Curse of the Corn Bill, published by S.W. Fores and etched by George Cruikshank. It satirizes the Corn Laws of 1815, which imposed high tariffs on imported grain to protect British landowners from foreign competition, keeping domestic grain prices high. The cartoon depicts the stark contrast between the wealthy landowners (the "masters") on the shore, who are determined to keep prices high at "80 shillings" per quarter, and the impoverished "poor" who are struggling to afford food. Image. British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Introduced in 1815, the Corn Laws imposed tariffs on imported grain to protect British landowners by keeping food prices high. While they safeguarded rural interests, they were bitterly resented in industrial areas, where expensive bread weighed heavily on working-class 1/5

Tbh in the clip I saw he brushed off UK only mentioning once, he was more focused on Canada

Strange until a few days ago I always thought the shopkeeper was a man.

What an amazing picture

BREAKING: Some wins already coming out of Keir Starmer’s visit to China

- Visa free travel for up to 30 days for UK citizens

- Whisky tariffs to halve from 10% to 5% - worth £250m over 5 yrs for whisky exports

- Deeper co-op on irregular migration

Dig for Britain 🤣

OMG is she really cuddling him, tell me its AI generated 🤮

Being blocked seems to me optimal for Burnham. He gets to "would have easily won" without actually having to contest the seat, establishes himself as the contender Starmer fears most and, if Labour lose, gets "Keir would rather hurt the party by losing a seat, than have a rival win it" as a bonus.

It shows an appalling lack of faith in his leadership if they consider Andy Burnham a threat. Many will see it as cowardice.

Horrified & heartbroken by the latest ICE murder in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse & beloved son.

Americans, please know how many millions of us here in the UK are sickened by Trump and his fascist thugs, and stand in solidarity with all of you resisting them 🇬🇧🇺🇸

I await mine in anticipation, as it currently brews in the pot.

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the 'incestuous' Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be ...

"Politics has got to get back to fixing the fundamental things that everybody needs for a good life"

Hardeep Matharu's interview with Labour's Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham at last year's Byline Festival:

🚨WOW! Now closing on 88,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.

Let’s keep going!

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Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2025 and runners-up unveiled "Peace" has been chosen as the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2025, according to research carried out by Oxford University Press (OUP). More than a third (35%) of children chose the word, narrowly...

I'll be talking about this on BBC Radio Sussex at 11.40am...https://www.thebookseller.com/news/oxford-childrens-word-of-the-year-2025-and-runners-up-unveiled

I said to my husband yesterday how many trees have we planted our land since we've been here? I too was using the royal we 😂 I've pointed and he planted 😂

Painting of a small Yorkshire garden on Finkle Street, with brick cottages surrounding a flower-filled plot, a glass-roofed conservatory at its centre, and figures tending plants and sitting in a paved yard, painted in warm, textured colours.

Painting of suburban back gardens in Sheffield, seen between brick houses with tall chimneys, fences and sheds, leafless trees, and distant rooftops under a pale blue sky, rendered in soft, muted colours.

Yorkshire’s small gardens are places of quiet ingenuity, tucked behind terraces, squeezed beside stone cottages, or folded into hillsides, where every inch is made to count. Weathered walls shelter herbs, pots climb upwards instead of outwards, and beauty is built

As a three-time combat veteran, I get pretty damn hot when a five-time draft dodger like Donald Trump pounds his chest and bangs the war drums.

America is over it.

No more sending our sons & daughters to fight for oil.

Will newspapers soon be a distant memory?

I get your point but they already do throw them out and they become independent but switching parties is a different issue.

Well they really should I don't care who defected to or from which party, I'd be furious if I found my MP wasn't representing the party I'd voted for. There should always be a by-election

Surely when an MP defects there should be a by-election as constituents didn't vote for a reform mp to represent them?

Petition: Get rid of the reception baseline assessment I want the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) to be scrapped so that teachers can focus on what really matters in those crucial first weeks of school, getting to know our children as individuals. Ins...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

We are 2 miles along unlit country lanes from the nearest shop, so your morning stroll is a joy to read.

Drawn 134 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.

I spent months finding out whether our gut health affects ageing Health editor Hugh Pym revamped his diet after a test suggested his gut health appeared to look five years older than he was

BBC News - I spent months finding out whether our gut health affects ageing - BBC News
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