Wirral Social Run to Hilbre Island. - a splashy one! #Wirral #running #Photography

“Not only is Reform taking large amounts of money from an industry with a big interest in changing UK Govt policy, but that industry is also one with major links to organised crime, terrorism and foreign dictatorships.” The corrupt stink of Reform is overwhelming. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

If you vote for Reform you get the man that lied to us about Brexit costing our country Fortune and our country poorer and you get the Tories. But not the capable ones. The disgrace ones. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖

I’ve given Bert the day off! I’m here until 4pm - Sally

Go get ‘em Charles! I just so hope he says this and more! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's the scroungers who contribute nothing who are the worst.

Just as there were people who resisted the introduction of inside toilets, seatbelts, women’s votes, lead free toys etc Tice & his party are similarly reluctant to embrace what most people can clearly see is needed. Unimaginative, regressive, fact averse idiots. Let’s never let them run our country.

Lost Worcestershire ancestors? Try searching on FreeREG! Our volunteer transcribers recently added 75k new baptism, burial and marriage records to the database. Search now: www.freereg.org.uk

Long run on the Wirral Way with a short detour to Parkgate #Wirral #Photography

Just looking at #Ancestry 's new acquisitions from the #Borthwick. #Yorkshire wills - didn't show up in an ancestor search, but going through the card catalogue found them okay. Now I have a nice clear image of a will I transcribed some years ago and got an unreadable printout of! #FamilyHistory

#Easter #funny

I don't have high expectations of Ancestry transcriptions but a Welegrapheat (post office)??? Welephant - Once there was an elephant who tried to use the telephant ... #FamilyHistory #Ancestry

Chester cyclists. A cyclist dropped a bag on Walls Ave. in that terrible weather the other day. I have retained the dropped package for safekeeping, if anyone wants to reclaim - please contact me. Please share to your pedal-powered, two-wheeled friends. Thanks. @shitchester.bsky.social

Walking the #WalesCoastPath from Shotton to Greenfield. Dragon Beacon and miners' memorial at the site of Bettisfield Colliery #Wales #Photography #Walking

From this weeks Private Eye

We have another mystery! 🕵 We have received these letters into the archive, and they appear to be in Serbian. We haven't found anyone that could translate them, and Google isn't liking them either. If you or someone you know is able to translate these letters, we'd be grateful to hear from you!

Just heard on a FMP podcast the presenter saying that a 1939 marriage cert could have bride & groom with same address as they could have entered it after the marriage as there was 8 weeks allowed to file it with the GRO. 1/2 @chalfontr.bsky.social @davelifelines.bsky.social

US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran. Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it. When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war? www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Photo a day for February #Photography

Year of the Horse #Liverpool

GWEDD @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

At St Barnabas, Bromborough, 15 fragments of Viking Age sculpture were found in 1863. Sadly, many were lost. In 1958, 3 pieces were incorporated into a reconstructed cross. The fragments show features of Viking Age design around the Irish Sea including the ring headed cross #archaeology #medievalsky

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

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...

The British mainstream media is busy trying to oust Starmer, again, and yet they seem not at all interested in a much bigger and more serious Epstein story involving Farage, Putin, and Brexit. Fortunately, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is.

Half a million children will be pushed back into poverty. For maybe 5p off a pint. What a shitty thing to do… www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

THIS 👇👇👇👇👇

SHOCK: UK Studio Goes SILENT After USA🇺🇸 Rant 😳 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

First snowdrops

THE FAMILY GENEALOGISTS AND LONG-LOST RELATIVES STUDY we want to learn more about the experiences of diverse midlife to older aged adults (aged 55+) who have searched for, and located a previously unknown immediate or closely related genetic relative www.sfu.ca/gerontology/...

Happy birthday to us! Our founders – Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley – believed that nature, beauty and history were for everyone. On this day in 1895, they set up the National Trust and we're proud to continue their work today. Thank you to all those who support what we do.

Ooh I love this! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #ContextToYourResearch #SocialHistory

This made me laugh much more then it strictly should have done.

Not sure if I can make #genhour tonight as I'm presenting on Speakers' Corner, but I have a question: Is there a virtual place where European family historians meet? 🧵 #familyhistory #ancestry

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about the NHS. Richard Tice is calling it ‘independent’: "Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐗/𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰. Musk’s platform is proving itself a vile cesspit: its AI generating sexually explicit images of children is horrifying. Every day we tolerate this, we weaken our democracies and endanger our future. www.newsweek.com/grok-apology...

The last light(house) of 2025 - not much in the way of sunset … Happy New Year! #2025 #Cheshire #Wirral #Photography