This needs serious attention. The role of some Christian Churches and the spread of US right-wing mash-up of faith and politics looks to be coming to the UK. See also articles about Paul Marshall. Thankful that Senior leaders are telling a different story. @quietriotpod.bsky.social

The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.

It's Saturday and bookshops are OPEN. Run, don't walk. 📸 Books of the Year at The Berkhamsted Bookshop.

Wonder if @quietriotpod.bsky.social have come across Lawyer Oyer the former Pardon Lawyer. Really great explainers about what Trump is doing with pardons and some other legal matters. Think her work would be of interest to many. This is a bit of *good news* from the US

The problem with a seasonal epidemic is that it's way too easy to write a sexy "flu numbers twice as bad as last year" headline, which is true but misleading, when you ought to be writing a "flu arrives a little earlier than last year" headline.

Can't get out this lunchtime? Take a stroll with Simon Armitage from Ravenscar, through Boggle Hole and on to Robin Hood's Bay. We did this exact walk in August, sat on the bench, saw the peacocks, had tea. Watch on iPlayer.

This is the best analysis I’ve read about Trump’s alignment with Putin, and the future for Ukraine and Europe And it accords with my optimism. On the ground, Ukraine and Europe can resist the globalist oligarchs arthursnell.substack.com/p/americas-w...

Donations made during our last Big Give campaign enabled us to provide over 120 bursaries to people like Nic, who has accessed our Chaplaincy support service. ✨ Donate today and help us continue to support the spiritual, emotional and physical needs to people with ME. bit.ly/2025-big-give

1) 🧬 New results from the LOCOME project. It applied the combinatorial analytics of PrecisionLife on data from DecodeME. The 259 genes that were most associated with ME/CFS pointed to "neurological dysregulation, inflammation, cellular stress responses, and calcium signaling"

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Rather fun down the Prom this morning - a fine kinetic post-storm sea. Sorry about the wind.

We still have a little way to go to meet our target of £135,000! If you’re thinking about donating to our Big Give campaign, and helping us change the lives of people with ME, any further donations would be amazing 🧡 ✨Donate today: bit.ly/2025-big-give

Thank you for all the support to our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge – so far we have raised over £118,000!⭐ We are so grateful for your support and incredible generosity – every donation means a lot to us and will enable us to continue to support people affected by ME of all ages.

"We take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. I don’t think people are ready for the world that we’re now moving into." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

WEBINAR TODAY: Our researchers are unpacking the new ME genetics study today - join the live webinar to hear the findings first-hand and get your questions answered. 📅 Today 🕑 2PM GMT 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #pwME #MECFS #longCOVID #MissingMillions

A vivid sunrise today on Glastonbury Tor.

god the fun never stops, does it

Women/History/Teaching UK [One of the most shocking findings was that over one third of the papers – 34.7% – contained no mention of any women at all. They were not mentioned in questions, in the historical sources provided for students to examine, or in mark schemes.]

Arrived home the other night to find this beautiful advance proof of the North American edition of LIFELINES waiting for me. With the stunning design of Nicole Caputo on the cover, it will be published on April 14th by Godine and is available to pre-order now! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

Book of the year 3. Beautifully written combination of memoir, history, and nature, set where mountains, countries and lakes meet in Northern Greece. With bears and pelicans too. I had to take this opportunity to boost with the American edition on the way.

(1/3) This week, your support can go twice as far for #pwME. During our Big Give Christmas Challenge (2–9 December) every £1 donated to us is doubled, helping us provide vital services and drive change for the 404,000 people living with #MECFS in the UK. ⬇️

This is good news!

Books of the Year 2. I was fortunate to be able to attend the launch of this beautiful and moving volume. Mainly a reflection on the effect of military service during World War 2 on her father and its cascading generational impact, this is empathetic,poignant and will speak to many

By donating and sharing our Big Give campaign, you can help change this and provide hope for people affected by ME. Donate here (your donation will be DOUBLED whilst the match-pot lasts!) 👇 bit.ly/2025-big-give

For our @biggive.bsky.social Christmas Challenge, we want to accelerate understanding of ME. ME can affect anyone of any age, and the lack of understanding about the condition means that many people living with ME face serious stigma and isolation.

Anyway, if you think it’s EASY having a service dog in public and people aren’t suspicious and sometimes abusive, let me tell you otherwise. The sad thing it’s always been like this, I wrote about it a while back for the @disability-history.bsky.social’s blog AllOfUs: allofusdha.org/research/his...

An every weather moment at the beach - sunshine, light rain, clouds and blue sky. No rainbow in sight. Time to soak up winter sun & sea

3rd December 2025 08.06

Nearly there ladies and gents Because of the Earth's axial tilt/ elliptical orbit, the sun will only set earlier by ~3 more mins in the evening before starting to get later again from ~mid month onwards Despite the shortest day being 21st and latest sunrise occurring early Jan

Welfare spending has held roughly steady as a share of the economy since 2007. In real terms, it's risen by £44 billion since before the pandemic. Let's break down what that's going towards ⤵️ 🧵

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

This was a very pleasant surprise. Congratulations to everyone 🦋

Women & HIV in the UK: Key Facts • HIV positivity among women - especially middle-aged women - in the UK is rising slightly • 42% of new diagnoses are late • Black African women face 7x higher risk Know your status. Book a free HIV test today: freetesting.hiv #WorldAIDSDay #WomenHealth #endhiv

"StreetLink can be used by anyone in England and Wales to send an alert about someone who is sleeping or preparing to sleep rough. "Alerts are sent to outreach teams, who go out mostly at night to offer people sleeping rough appropriate support." Link here: thestreetlink.org.uk/location

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

New net migration figures at 930am. Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023 56% of people think it went up last year 17% think stayed the same 14% think it went down 2025 figure to be lower again 16% expect that 38% think it will be up 31% about the same

I do wish that Rachel Reeves wouldn't interrupt Nick Robinson in the middle of one of his exquisitely long and beautifully crafted paragraphs. #r4today

Funnily enough Nick there is a Budget *every year* because circumstances change. I think making sure children aren’t suffering now and for life is a very reasonable choice. Ukraine, Trump, Brexit, the Liz Truss Budget many factors are having a biting long term impact on the economy #r4today

My Dad likes to say that Jesus almost certainly existed as a historical figure, because if he'd just been made up by Christians they wouldn't have made up somebody who so clearly disagrees with them on almost everything.

As part of our Black Friday deal, you can listen to Radio Lento for free. That's all 286 episodes or 8 full days of sound. All from real quiet locations across the country. Free to your earlobes. Always. (Though a coffee would be nice if you can spare it > ko-fi.com/radiolento)

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Got this covered!

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1