On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

So this speech (Trump) is basically rolling the pitch for deploying the military against its own citizens within the US, under the guise of combating domestic terrorism. What have we come to.

The contrast between Hegseth and Trump today is striking. Hegseth is explicitly fascist: he wants to restore the golden past of the military by purging weak and unmanly elements. Trump is rambling about how great Trump is. This is MAGA in a nutshell: an egomaniacal fool surrounded by fascists.

President Trump announced 100% tariff on non US films - whatever that means (see Truth Social)

Did you know that Dundee once tried to take over Tayport. It was part of a scheme known as Greater Dundee, where the Corporation wanted to have power of both sides of the Tay. As you may have guessed it failed. Read the full story here:

A wonderful women’s cricket history pilgrimage today to Great Comp in Kent. This is where Frances Heron-Maxwell and Vera Cox(2 of the founders of the Women’s Cricket Association) lived for decades, and where many early WCA matches were played.

Lovely to meet Frances Thompson, a direct descendant of Vera Cox, who gave a fascinating talk about Great Comp based around Vera’s letters. Including the stresses of having to arrange the 1937 Australian tour of England (Vera was the main organiser) & have the ENTIRE Aussie team stay at the house!

And as an unexpected bonus, I bumped into @katexe.bsky.social who I have followed for years on social media but never met in person!

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

“…women’s cricket is one of the movements of today which counts enormously in the sanity of nations and has an ever increasing part to play in the peace and happiness of the world…” Vera Cox WCA Annual Report 1937

A Labour Party spokesperson, responding to reports Nigel Farage is set to call on the US to inflict economic penalties on the UK, said:

#cdnpoli #uspoli

Trump Turnberry vandalised by Pro-Palestine group

That’s right. 🇺🇦

So the US January inflation rise is ‘Biden inflation’. Looking forward to February figures…

Meanwhile tRump is blowing himself thinking he is making America great again.

Why has the Donald got a replica World Cup on his side table ?

Anti-trump states watch out. He’ll happily dance on your resources, deplete them w/narcissistic hallelujahs on trump soc and laugh while blaming whoever is on his current shit list along with any dem gov for your appalling use of now, inadequate, resources.

Over four hundred thousand Americans sacrificed their lives to bury that salute and what it meant forever, and now it roams the halls of US power. Disgusting.

So, major media outlets and public sector bodies, are you still confident that paying for your blue and gold ticks to a Nazi-saluting fascist, who redistributes that money to wannabe fascists to nurture hate speech and disinfo is a defensible position?

Every country not doing this is an idiot. It will reduce a lot of energy without wasting land, and will hopefully lead to fewer new carparks, and the freeing up of existing at park land for more useful purposes like housing as owners can’t be bothered. Do it.

Washington state Senator Patty Murray after meeting with RFK Jr today: “It takes no imagination to see how dangerous it would be to confirm RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, and it takes mountains of willful ignorance to ignore it.” 💥

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Break time. Not entirely sure why, but this dude makes me happy. You?

#PlumeScrolling on Christmas Day with Puffins. It took ages to get the Santa hats on them and to get them to pose like this, and I am now banned from Skomer Island. 😉 If you celebrate Christmas (or, from sundown, Hanukkah), I hope you enjoy. If not, happy Wednesday! #Birds #UKWildlife 🌿

For one Virginia family, the holidays have been a real hoot.

✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸

Why do I have so many middle aged American Christian men following me ? What did I say ?

Great news for Kent!

Compare it to the remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire which hints at a building culture in timber.

Well I was busy sewing whilst watching the #cricket but someone had other ideas

During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes. Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?

🚨 NEW: Reform UK has written to Hertsmere residents to lay the groundwork for a potential by-election amid rumours Oliver Dowden could receive a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours Dowden holds a majority of just under 8,000 [@JoshGafson1]

Gunpowder Mill Country Park, Oare Creek & Church 2 December

@unitedinfocus.com great game but can Zirkzee please stop doing a gunshot celebration? Its not smart.

The ‘Christmas Rose’ or ‘Winter Rose’, Helleborus Niger, is one of the birth flowers for the month of #December. Legend tells that when man fell from grace, and Paradise lay shrouded in snow, the angels carried this flower to earth as a symbol of love and mercy. #FolkloreSunday

How is it possible that a client and a copywriter have collaborated so execrably as to unite the cricketing nation in hatred for a dachshund?

Excellent trumpet playing - Cars (Gary Numan) by the Barmy Army trumpeter when Carse comes out to bat #NZvEng #cricket

Trump Guitars were announced last week, as the latest in a line of merchandise including Bibles, sneakers, watches and even digital trading cards.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Jimmy Anderson is on the field for England in this warm-up game in Queenstown. Injury to Jordan Cox in the nets means Pope keeping and Stokes now captaining having sat out day 1. Brook and Crawley netting so England were down to 10. Hence Jimmy making his comeback

We are spending time mostly at home at the moment due to ill health. Under the guise of ‘sorting out stuff’, I am spending large amounts of time moving our belongings from one overfull cupboard to another. I do pity my offspring when it is their job to sort it properly 😬

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social does a House History count? My study of our former home in Higham (N. Kent) included research about the village to set the house in context. Discovered a Civil War gunpowder merchant and Victoria civil engineer had owned the house (link to book in bio) #OnePlaceWednesday