Hollywood star Matthew Rhys is returning to the Welsh stage this November for the first time in two decades in an acclaimed one-man play about Richard Burton to raise funds for Michael Sheen’s new Welsh National Theatre

Some fine-grain carpark pricing here in central Spain

Rivers more polluted inside our national parks. Where is this government? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New Exhition at Lancaster Museum - The Dalton Square Murders - the stories of the victims of Buck Ruxton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Flags is it? www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Kate Raworth (left) at the World #Design Congress: Design for Planet talking about #DoughnutEconomics.

World Design Congress, London - Design for Planet - opening with children's choir - plea for planet.

Today, I saw a very wonderful and very sad exhibition at The Whitworth - The Beginnings of Knowledge by Santiago Yahuarcani, a contemporary Indigenous artist from the Peruvian Amazon. Showing in Manchester, Mexico City and Sao Paulo. A must-see show.

It was a brilliant day for a hike along the Lune today. In the hamlet of Aughton, came across the cottage of one of the authors in the British Library Crime Classics series.

Not just mountain litter. It’s not getting better anywhere. We are a filthy nation really.

A quarter of a century later, and declining opportunities and prospects in Morcambe, despite the promise of Eden North. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Gladstone Library, Hawarden, North Wales - this beautiful Grade I building is the only residential library in Europe.

UK government's ban on Palestine Action is a "disturbing" misuse of counter-terrorism legislation, the United Nations' human rights chief has warned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

VACANCY - DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio. Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Academics are leaving the US. The president of Aix-Marseille University likens the programme to the US welcoming academics from France during WWII www.theguardian.com/education/20...

youtu.be/_3S2ymUw_Hs?... A powerful and timely recording of George Clooney's Broadway stage play - available on YouTube for free.

1588 #Welsh Bible to on public display in #Wales for thd first time - St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire from 17 June to 9 July. www.bbc.com/news/article...

University of #Lancaster to cut jobs to save £30m from budget. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very pleased to be featured along with 14 others in the book 'Lessons on Change - 15 Creative Minds Share Their Stories' eds Hedin, Kauper & Stocker (Birkhäuser, 2025). Lots of diverse stories on sustainable design, politics of the commons, emancipation, etc. www.foyles.co.uk/book/lessons...

#French #News media guilty of #climate disinformation www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

“MI5: Official Secrets” Exhibition, until Sept. 28 at the National Archives, London. Free admission. apnews.com/article/mi5-...

A few years ago we held an event in Caerleon to commemorate the arrival of Basque refugee children who were looked after during the civil war. Hywel Davies wrote this evocative poem for the event. Read his book ‘Fleeing Franco’, it’s brilliant! #Euskadi #Cymru #RefugeesWelcome

Tesla sales fall by 50% in EU and by 45% in UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another university in #Wales making significant cuts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The contents of a scroll from Herculaneum that was badly burnt in the eruption of Vesuvius of 79AD has been revealed after being been digitally "unwrapped" using X-ray scans and #AI. An incredible achievement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fired for refusing to fly. Italian researcher who paid a high price for addressing climate change has now won compensation www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

"The cartoon killed criticizes billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-Elect Trump" Examples like this illustrate why the distorting effect of our media is one of the biggest, most under-reported, ongoing scandals of our time

First post to Bluesky, my favorite photo from field work last summer. Octopus in Prince Rupert.

The gall of these people! Time to re-nationalise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When people sa flying to Barcelona must be a great gig. I’m in this trip my luggage got lost in both directions. I lost my passport. My flight home was cancelled and rebooked via Heathrow ( hence second lost baggage). Ended up in Glasgow to get train home which was just cancelled 😭

“Tesla has been named the "deadliest" car brand after an analysis of vehicle fatality rates determined the brand had the highest number of fatal crashes per mile.”

The second day of “Expanding the Margins” kicked off with an inspiring keynote by @proftriviality.bsky.social, professor at the School of Design at Lancaster University. His talk explored design fiction, futures beyond the human, and speculative artifacts to challenge and expand our imagination.

The authorship of a #Byzantine work seems to have been solved using new techniques. apnews.com/article/gree...

Last #wordarium of the year at #herbarium, Lancaster - if you're in the northwest, want to share your words, or just listen to poems & stories in an intimate, supportive atmos, come along to one of their monthly events in '25 💛

Lovely old houses overlooking the Douro, Porto.

Richmond 'Picnic Car', USA, 1909, once was common among affluent American families - used for Sunday rides in the countryside. Today only two models are known to exist, one at the Historical Museum of Wayne County in Richmond, Indiana, and this one at the Malaga Automobile and Fashion Museum.

The Sleeping Giant, Antequera, Andalusia

The #Mudejar style is the artistic expression of a period in medieval #Spain when #Muslims, #Christians and #Jews lived together in harmony.