Gill Cookson

We are looking at half of the Great Hall from the vantage point of the pitch pine floor. The Hall roof rises majestically with oak posts spanning into the heavens.

Morning! How are we all?

Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning.

You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘

Is it not the choice of BBC governors?
Who should of course appoint Jon Snow.

A lot of us had fathers/ grandads who served in WW1/2, and afterwards quietly remembered. They’d be horrified by the current charade, and the politics it represents.

There’s a ‘court of Marie Antoinette’ vibe about the U.S. just now.
Irony that their own founders rejected all of that, for freedom of speech and religion, no kings or tyranny - and aligned with revolutionary France…

What a banger

A non-apology.

That *is* expensive, Paul.

Here (oop North) at public archives it’s more like £10 a day for unlimited snapping away. But very random - can be free.

Problem is, there’s no choosing - because it’s usually something unique, and you have to go where you have to go.

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Yay! Big congratulations.

Help! The children are learning empathy and science instead of worshipping Thatcher and memorising the dates of Tory victories!

Jenrick is just unbelievable. In every sense.

Well this is the best vox pop ever.

#Mamdani

Quality-wise, it’s spiralling downhill. Almost no one lives in the outer harbour area now - all holiday lets. The life has been sucked out.

It’s a hamlet without a prince.

They admit they’re murdering random unidentified people.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape

Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.

Exactly so.

Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

This is REALLY good to see. Too many colleagues were utterly misrepresented in this awful film, & in narrative surrounding it

They deserve to have their names cleared.

BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

ok who did this? ☹️

Define “middle class”? When asked, most won’t/ can’t. Just sounds comfortable and non-committal.

Could be an interesting debate, but politicians are even more superficial than vox pop!

It’s all been about racism, from the start. Not about sovereignty, not about Brussels, not about controlling borders. All about racism. It still is.

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

Holy Shit, Mike Johnson A man who defends a video of Trump defecating on Americans probably shouldn’t call himself a Christian. Or a leader. Or a man.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Good to see Johnson being called out- big-time!

A banner advert for Matt Houlbrook’s new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.

I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.

1/15

Not Bathampton?

Chicken in a (plastic) basket at Batley Variety Club was the height of sophistication.