Chris Costelloe

Leighton family tomb, Non Civil Parish - 1433435 | Historic England List entry 1433435. Grade II Listed Building: Leighton Family Tomb. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

Here is one for you - I got it listed a few years back. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so.

They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Prunella Scales obituary Versatile stage and screen actor who found TV comedy fame as Sybil Fawlty and later played Elizabeth II on stage

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... A classic of the unsatisfactory type of obituary that lists the deceased’s activities and achievements without saying very much about what they were like…

This is what I think of as the most important chart in British politics. It shows the amount people spend on retail sales and the amount they get. Compared to Feb 2022 people are spending about 16% more but consuming 4% less.

Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world Russia's escalating campaign of drone attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine's Kherson region highlights the destructive power of modern drone technologies, writes Oleksandr Tolokonnikov.

‘A human safari’ www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.

Never forget. Never again.

Out on the tiles?

Aren’t the colours fascinating? So different from the way these buildings are normally presented…

Russia destroys a third of the building of the local history museum in Kherson Russia is striking for three weeks have destroyed a third of the Kherson Regional Museum of Local History, the same institution from which they stole at least 20,000 artifacts including Scythian gold

Russian forces are systematically destroying the Kherson Regional Museum of Local History. This is the same museum they looted of 20,000 exhibits in October 2022, including Scythian gold and rare archaeological finds
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/17/r...

Realising Societal Resilience for a Whole of Society Approach to Defence NATO’s unity may have held in The Hague, but the focus on defence spending overshadowed a deeper issue: societal resilience.

Fantastic article. Agree 100% .
Resilience isn‘t just about defence spending.
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Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘Alongside 44 historical buildings and seven archaeological sites, all three depositories of historical and archaeological material in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gillian Tindall obituary Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... RIP Gillian Tindall

I am struggling a bit to see how giving parents extra votes for their children under voting age would be anti-egalitarian?

Reading that quote, the suffragettes come to mind as one historical comparison. There will be other less flattering ones… But it is a problem for the law if the grouping of Palestine Action in the same category as Al Qaeda as a terrorist org is found offensive by many otherwise law-abiding people.

Why not just charge them with criminal damage? Sentencing guidance for this allows up to ten years’ custody.

Haven’t the people of this country had enough of experts?

The Spin | Cricket in Corfu causes confusion but also unexpected delight for a few Seeing a match on the Greek island may be unusual but it gave one American boy a touching link to his dead father

Cricket in Corfu - this lovely article is the most cheering thing I have read in ages…. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Bristolian here - we feel the same pain…

Has the Treasury never visited Manchester?

Great piece. And as somebody who lives in a conurbation that ought to be doubling its size to a million people but entirely lacks a tram or metro system, the comment about “crappy regional transport networks” rings as clear as a bell.

Melbourne and Leipzig and Berlin etc seem to be hobbling on quite satisfactorily with their old tram systems…

Wouldn’t the SNP want an independence referendum as a price for their support?

Haven’t you written about Brexit before?

I note that you carefully avoid making any comment on Lord Wolfson’s advice overall. This is quite understandable given that you contributed part of one section of his advice, but it leaves a large hole in the article, given its subject…

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

No doubt the Qatari PM accepted the apology with the same degree of sincerity with which it was given…

So Sir Terry Farrell has died, aged 87, a fortnight after his one-time architectural partner Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Farrell was a particularly talented large-scale urbanist. An era ends.

In honour of the taskforce recommending a “new” town on the outskirts of Bristol (South Gloucestershire), I’m reposting my piece: Bristol should be a city of a million people

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