Does Trump know that he’s speaking nonsense? Does he care? A DEI label would be “a tendency to externalise first thoughts”. But maybe we could just say the guy is one taco short of a combo plate. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73055/...

Oxford Folk Festival in Broad Street, 11/4/26 1/2

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

I don’t usually share the little apps I make for myself but I’m really pleased with this one… An amazing archive of *2458* live gigs recordings by Aadam Jacobs, from the 80s to 2010s, was recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. aadam-radio.vercel.app

For #HillfortsWednesday: Shoulsbury or Shoulsbarrow Castle on Exmoor, near Brayford. Its square shape led some to believe it was Roman, but no evidence has been found to support this. There's a Bronze Age barrow in the NE corner & on the slopes to the NW a prehistoric stone setting. 📷 mine

Reclaiming the Banjo's Hidden Black History Follow Hannah Mayree, musician, banjo maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, as they organize workshops and performances celebrating the banjo’s Black history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVv...

RTC Oxfordshire posted on Facebook this morning that “The flags will be going up tonight! We will stop them taking them down tonight.” The Clarion has approached Thames Valley Police for comment. Our investigation into Raise the Colours is here: oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

Wittenham Clumps For #HillfortsWednesday taken last September.

majestic

More people are taking the bus since Oxford's temporary congestion charge was introduced say Oxfordshire County Council. Data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company shows an 8% increase vs prior year since the introduction of the charge. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...

The St Andrew's Road bike racks, between the White Hart and the church, are now open.

A muntjac deer grazing in a garden

An unexpected benefit of London's cycle lanes...our would-be Dalek overlords are able to take an afternoon stroll with their human minders, unimpeded

Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s) kottke.org/26/03/color-...

The bollards have arrived ahead of the bike racks in St Andrew's Rd, #Headington.

The Botley Road bridge replacement – in one minute! Network Rail has published a timelapse video recapping the bridge works earlier this month, when the railway line was closed for a full week. The bridge is due to open to vehicle traffic this summer. www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...

Super set by the mighty @nightingalesuk.bsky.social at London’s Moth Club tonight. 80 minutes of non-stop uncompromising glorious music. The world’s a better place for just knowing they are in it. 📸 John Earls

A flying visit to North Devon this weekend, and the Burton at #Bideford didn't disappoint: 1 Good old James #Ravilious 2 #Hartland Primary, the River #Torridge 3 #Monkleigh Primary, tribute to #Giacometti 4 William #Cobbing: Despised Mud I Still Love You, still there after closing a week ago.

NEW - I'm thrilled to announce I was asked to interview Robert Jenrick at a car boot sale for the New Yorker. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Beer delivery in Bergen, the Netherlands 😱

TONIGHT! Old Headington Village Hall @ 8pm

NB This Wednesday:

While the protest was underway, Thames Valley Police issued several tickets to offenders – including one motorist who, when seeing the children wave their signs at him while he was parking on double yellows, mounted the pavement and drove towards them.

“You know it’s wrong so please move along!” Children and parents at Windmill Primary School and Headington Nursery School staged a protest this morning against inconsiderate and dangerous driving outside school. They cite the volume of cars coming off the ring road and cutting through these streets.

There is a General Meeting of the Friends of Old Headington on Weds 11 February at 8pm in the Old Headington Village Hall, Dunstan Road. We are discussing the proposed allocation of part of the Conservation Area, Ruskin Field, for development in the Oxford Local Plan to 2045. All are welcome.

In she goes… the 48-wheeler Self Propelled Modular Transporter lines up the new concrete box that will form the walkway and bridge abutment at Botley Road. The jacks in the foreground will lift the box into position, enabling the SPMT to be driven out again.

Double #rainbow over Barton Park, #Oxford

Great evening of desert blues with Afel Bocoumb from Mali in St John's College tonight. With Ali Bounaly Traoré on guitar and Mahalmadane Bountel Traoré on calabash.

His eyelids were so heavy that every few seconds he had to close them again.

A reddish tinge in the night sky. Lots of cloud too. Aurora?

Post a car picture you took 🐂

NEW unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/01/18/t...

The EU should tell him it wants Louisiana back

Nice light as the mist cleared in Bury Knowle Park this morning #ParksLoops #Oxford

This, please.

360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNG’s Enterprise D, Voyager, Defiant, etc.) (via @mike.teczno.com) [mijofr.github.io]

Oliebollen! May your oudejaarsavond be gezellige ... 🇳🇱🇬🇧

Everyone does a 2025 roundup, but only the Clarion’s has: 🕊 Seagull attacks 🇺🇸 J.D. Vance’s summer holidays 💩 Sewage 1, housing 0 🦌 Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the A40 🗞 Our pick of the long reads 🔬 Lab space. So much lab space. Read it online: oxfordclarion.uk/a-year-in-ox...

Boxing Day in Headington /3: scenes from the @bbowt.bsky.social CS Lewis Nature Reserve

Boxing Day in Headington /2: scenes from Headington Quarry Morris pt 2, a video

Boxing Day in Headington /2: scenes from Headington Quarry Morris pt 1

Boxing Day in Headington /1: scenes from a nativity, St Andrew's

Happy Christmas!

Headington Quarry Morris dancers: Approximate times of their performances of the traditional Mummers’ Play outside two pubs and two former pubs in Quarry on Boxing Day (Friday 26 December 2025)

Switching on the Christmas tree lights at Headington crossroads, organised by Headington Action

Switching on the Christmas tree lights at St Andrew's, Old Headington, 6 Dec 2025

Something new. A #postcardadventcalendar. Stick with me for some nicely odd vintage images for the month, and you may end up with an expression like our friend in a deckchair in front of painted sea. Hold tight. The thread starts today: 1. Woman in a deckchair. Cheers, T.

All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.