The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

this took way too long

Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:

Probably not the first to say the but Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, Alan Rickman

For anyone who grew up during the cold war it's incomprehensible to see Moscow burning like this and the Russian government powerless to stop cheap, slow-moving drones.

He'll study UAPs with the same amount of credibility as he has when discussing interstellar objects

Barney Stewart going from playing for his uni in the Scottish 7th tier to a multimillion pound move to the English Championship in less than 2 years is quite the story falkirkfc.co.uk/barney-stewa...

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

everyone please stop reposting this the image below is almost certainly AI generated, as per the replies, thank you

Very sad news that John Blanche has died. A very good claim to be the most influential recent British artist of whom the fewest people have heard. And his talent helped build the brand of one of the UK’s most successful firms.

I love that the way the BBC news algorithm picks stories from sub-pages under the "UK" banner for the Live Updates section makes it seem like ferry sailings to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are 25% of things happening in the UK www.bbc.com/news/uk

the image of Sturgeon cautioning against panic buying while, just off-screen, Murrell is frantically trying to wedge 100 toilet rolls, eighty tins of baked beans and two twenty-litre cans of petrol into a cupboard

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

“What is the charge? Owning a motorhome? A succulent German motorhome?”

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This was stupid when John Swinney suggested it, it’s stupid now

#alb "so who's a famous Austrian? Sigmund Freud, great let's do something he would be in to"

Choosing to read this through the lens of Welsh politics

I think I'm right in saying that only of the Prime Ministers who have taken over mid-Parliament in the last 120 years, only Douglas-Home hasn't previously held one of the other "Big Four" offices. Streeting would be quite junior to become PM, Cairns astoundingly so.

Here for people asking *Dan Neidle* when he will investigate the Tories or Reform. So wonderful to see people who have spent the last decade living in a cave on the far side of the Moon joining Bluesky

Interestingly the UK sticks out because the 1961 baseline is before the inner city slum clearances and new town movement were finished. I imagine a 1971 or 1981 baseline would look very different.

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This policy, the replies to this, Keir Starmer’s ‘the petrol retailers are being naughty’ statement, Ed Davey’s fuel duty tax cut, Kemi Badenoch’s fuel duty tax cut, John Swinney’s price controls…is there anyone in British politics who understands “the Iran war means we have less stuff”?

Reminder that there is no scientific definition for "ultra-processed food", and no theory for the mechanism by which it is supposedly uniquely harmful.

One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.

Hope members of congress are ready for a two hour ramble about the plight of the Patagonian toothfish

the unfortunate thing is that people find it hard to realize that basically subsidizing demand in the West basically means less oil for the East, primarily because it's a commodity shortage.

Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world.

Great thread on the terrorism for hire tactic being used by Iran and Russia

I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

Charging over $100 for a train ride that normally costs under $13. Is she seriously claiming it that every fan that takes a train to see the Giants or Jets is subsidised $87 by the state? Nah, this is price gouging

In case you are wondering what part of the cycle we are in....Allbirds, the shoe company has sold its shoes business and is now going into AI Compute Infrastructure And today is not April 1st. ir.allbirds.com/news-release...

Orbán’s party is paving the way for contesting votes tonight.

Yes Trump's posts are horrendous but they're also completely incoherent. It's pretty obvious he doesn't know what to do.

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Superb papal subsection heading there

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money

Italy won the World Cup in 2006, it will now be a minimum of 24 years before their next World Cup knockout phase match

Would 100% watch a game show called Churchill or Owl?

This game appears to be slipping away from Newcastle

The UK number 1 when Max Dowman was born was Killing in the Name you are very... ...ok that doesn't work

Exhibition of paintings inspired by @sdssurveys.bsky.social plug plates happening at UW in Seattle next month: uwplanetariumarts.myportfolio.com/constelacion... 👩‍🔬🔭

I would guess that Iraq would take their place as qualifiers with the UAE replacing Iraq in the playoffs. But don't discount FIFA doing something amazingly corrupt instead

@secondmentions.bsky.social "the blingy Gulf emirate"

Think I'll give the heat pump a hug when I get home

Why does no-one leave steaming hot pies next to street-level open windows these days? This is not the future the Beano promised us

Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!