Terry O'Connor

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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📸 Paul Harris

people who need to claim asylum should be able to claim it, the process should be swift, easy and humane, and because we as a nation are a safe country, we should provide asylum to to people who need it.

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She's following the Moshe Dayan doctrine of 'get in the retaliation first'.

Relatively so, but the vigorous lick pressed numerous buttons at random, so we had to wipe down the TST and set up all over again.

BirdWatch Ireland CEO Andrew Kelly & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting at a table outside smiling as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

RSPB Chief Executive Beccy Speight & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting together at a table in the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Scottish Ornithologists Club President Ruth Briggs are sitting at a table smiling and holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Welsh Ornithological Society Chair Anne Brenchley are sitting at a table together looking down and holding pens as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31. Wildlife and nature themed artwork hangs on the wall behind them.

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A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in).

The ship was, by any definition, defenceless.

Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown.

Infamy.

My equivalent was a cow in Orkney that patiently watched us set up a TST, then as soon as backs were turned it strolled over and firmly licked the entire keypad and screen. Words were had.

Yup. Me too. An utter and total menace.

Cab for Lord Vetinari?

Admirable!

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

And trotted off, sniggering.

Lightweights. A Shetland pony would have nicked the car.

Publication success for AEONS facilities manager UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

My father worked on stretcher parties in London during the Blitz. Wouldn't/couldn't talk about it.

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Marshmallows?

I see the BBC Today programme is wasting air time giving a platform to a blithering idiot. Again.

😂

If Trump really can’t control Netanyahu, it seems at least feasible that Iran becomes Gaza 2.0, up to & including the hideous pretence that they bomb a land to smithereens to somehow help the people living there.

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A map of vacant BBS squares in Dorset, including one in Gillingham and one on Cranborne Chase.

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Job Vacancy: Lecturer (Teaching) in Museum Studies The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Museum Studies (Ref.: B03-02901).

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YouTube video by Lancashire Uni Research Centre for Archaeology S01 Ep05 The Archaeology of...Cave Bears

New episode!!! It’s The archaeology of… Cave Bears!!! With the fabulous Dr Jones (Jen. Who is a real archaeologist, unlike certain other Dr Jones we could mention) youtu.be/JiK8L_JRmh8

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Well, the first time was at an Alan Sorrell exhibition at National Museum of Wales, where, at *her* suggestion, we searched the undergrowth of some of his monument paintings looking for tiny figures relieving themselves or worse! A happy memory....