American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

It's Friday afternoon, and what better time to get started on your entry for the BusinessGreen UK Green Business Awards 2026? We've put together 10 top tips on what makes for a strong and compelling entry. www.businessgreen.com/feature/4525...

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Early stroll. A wet blackbird sings from a tree’s bare wooden stage. That house has a bright window like a brooch. A man pushes a bike up the hill, lightbeam first. Today is the feast day of St. Earlystroll. Rain’s touching story.

Somnambulation. Canal bridges had many uses, enabling traffic over the water was just one obvious one. Less obvious related to these iron bars on the inside of the bridge on the towpath side. It is said that they were where amorous bargees 'notched up' their itinerant conquests..

Remembering the Munich Air Disaster on this day 1958. 23 died - Man Utd's Busby Babes, officials, journalists. 21 survived. The last rites were read twice for Matt Busby, Man U manager and ex-City player. He survived. The whole city mourned.

Saltaire, painting by Yorkshire watercolourist Simon Palmer (b.1956). Residents heading towards the church to pay tribute to Sir Titus Salt.

The Potato Digger, 1912-15, painting by Paul Henry, 1876-1958, Belfast-born artist (Ulster Museum).

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Joshua Reynolds once said: 'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great,' a view formed before landscape found its painters. Two centuries later, Stanley Roy Badmin answered that appetite with his vision of England. This is Wharfedale, towards Grassington, Yorkshire.

more moon...always room for a wee bit moon #Edinburgh

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

A guardian angel.. 🥺

At the Riverside Studios where I sometimes went in my lunch break I saw Samuel Beckett ahead of me in the queue. I failed to shout up at him "Hoy, Sam! Waiting for gateaux?'

Rook and Carrion Crow, Basil Ede, 1960.

‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’ ~ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of Charles Dickens with a day of wholly Dickens, more Dickens with a side of Dickens. Join us.

What does the cow tell him to say

A Russian general was shot in an apartment building in Moscow this morning and rushed to hospital, officials have said, in the latest apparent assassination attempt of a top Russian military figure

📸 PHOTO(S) OF THE DAY from @railwaysquirrel.bsky.social - A class 73 Loco as you've never seen it - in Birmingham! #towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals

The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff, despite being owned by the fourth-richest man on the planet. Billionaire control of the media is a threat to the free press.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Grey, grey, grey.

Signs that the current governments of France, Spain and Poland are waking up to the all-out billionaire assault on liberal democracy. The UK government, on the other hand, is asleep at the precipice.

I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:

It’s not a classic historical anniversary, I grant you, but Facebook memories tells me it’s exactly 11 years since The Younger Child (then 6) handed me a folded piece of paper and said “Here’s an email for you”

Rosalind Cuthbert's portrait is of the artist Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art, London (detail of full-length). Collins is known for his mystical, and Neo-Romantic paintings, including his 'Fool' series. He taught at CSA for many years starting in 1951.

The personal attacks from this clown..

Early writing: back to The Marriage of Figaro!

Early stroll. The breeze’s deep breathing. Grey bins, full of the reforgotten. I pause to briefly become Rodin’s The Shoelace Tier. Old footprints in old concrete. The tiny poem of a ROAD CLOSED AHEAD sign.

Trump to NBC on the Fed: “I mean in theory it’s an independent body. But I think, you know, I’m a smart guy. “I know the economy better than almost everybody.” Too stupid to know he’s stupid. A prime example of Dunning-Kruger, like many of his followers.

Carel Weight's picture 'The Thames at Hammersmith,' (1947) is painted in the part of London where he first studied art (from 1926 to 1929) Weight painted this from the artist Julian Trevelyan's studio on Durham Wharf which looked down the river towards Hammersmith Bridge.

Essex University, Southend campus closure: 800 students and staff afected. "but it will also have a huge impact on a city that has come to depend on the university in many ways." #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

4th February 2026 Craster

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 It was the first all-Black protest in America that most people never heard of. It was the loudest protest ever—all without saying a word.🤫 Let me tell you about The Silent Parade of 1917. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Kente cloth's vivid patterns reflect Akan and Ewe weaving traditions in Ghana. Narrow strips woven on looms are joined into cloths whose designs carry messages.  Learn how meaning is woven into kente cloth ➡️ w.wiki/5ckV

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

Trump isn't just suing the IRS. He's waging a war on it. His regime has... -Shut down the IRS's Direct File program, a huge gift to the tax prep industry -Gutted IRS staff, leaving fewer employees to assist taxpayers -Deprioritized federal tax prosecutions, letting tax cheats off the hook

What a despicable lump of faecal matter he is. "Hard left" my hairy arse. I'm not hard left, I'm just left. And if I were in England, I would join the Greens like a shot.

430,000-year-old wooden tools excavated in Greece are the oldest ever found

Six Nations: Cian Prendergast in line to join brother Sam in Ireland side to play France

CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."

Early stroll. The cold breeze tries to infiltrate my hair. A leafless tree ponders on the idea of spring. A man runs by, hoping the bus is late. I wear the morning like a coat. That motorbike speaks fluent roar.

#TombTuesday The cairn circle & stone row on Hingston Hill #Dartmoor The cairn at the eastern doesn’t have a stone circle. I always feel a bit sorry for it