Magic Carpet, 2015, animated projection on the William Morris Gallery by UK artist Zarah Hussain #WomensArt

The decision to go ahead with this 'debate,' even after Robinson is questioned under anti-terror laws, following his return from Moscow where he helped stoke racist riots on the streets of the UK, is utterly shameful from the Oxford Union bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...

Ooh, this made me immediately think of my uncle, Rob Archer - currently featured in an exhibition at the Wellcome www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

THE FACTORY ALL STARS // Love Will Tear Us Apart [Filmed live at The Hacienda, January 1984 for The Tube] #FactoryRecords #JoyDivision

"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing." Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job. Their expenditure: Meh.

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform’s latest idiotic, racist idea: imposing a tax on companies that hire foreign workers And the perfect person to introduce it. A corrupt, opportunistic, nasty little tosser. If you loathe Jenrick, you’ll love this… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A scale model of our solar system set into the tarmac of a path in Maryhill Park in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #streetart #maryhillpark #solarsystem #astronomy

Highway and byways https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/highway-and-byways-1929

Seems appropriate today.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the proscription of Palestine Action. Our rapid analysis blog breaks down the judgment and what this could mean for protest, free expression, and the use of counter-terror powers. 👇 www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/breaki...

Reflecting (as others have said) the utter social, moral, & legal confusion as who is a child & what constitutes childhood.

The latest Education Committee report underlines the dire financial realities that UK universities are navigating. Yet it fails to address a fundamental driver of the current crisis - the marketisation of higher education. James Brackley & David Yates explain further

Please sign 👇 c.org/zWZpyHdMrw

Cameron, Gove, and Johnson should be prosecuted for misconduct in public office Farage should be investigated re: his funding in a just world they would all be in prison

Scarborough, yesterday. *credit Fred Brown.

🔴 BRAVA #joycebeatty got his name removed 💖💛💜🩷

Coming to the Kennedy Center this fall

Trumpian censorship in the UK Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries. 200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors. Freedom to read is a major casualty on the road to tyranny.

Another thing you won’t find in headlines is that attacks against minorities doesn’t end when the houses are done burning. Incidents have remained commonplace since 2024, and heavily under reported. One of the reasons is that the PSNI doesn’t record data as it’s obligated to - warned by UNCERD

The weekend starts here! (a few hours ago actually). Here's some photos taken up in the Westfjords of #Iceland, the last time I was there - in late May 2022 - all taken in the late evening/early hours, when it never gets quite dark. #AwesomeFoursome

The migration debate is stuck in a doom loop: politicians blame immigration for economic and social problems, tighten the rules, growth slows, services struggle, and public frustration grows. Stephen McNair reports how research by Jonathan Portes and Lauren Gilbert shows the cycle feeding itself.

Thought I should probably update this poem.

Bats are angels to mice. 🦇 (🧑‍🎨: Pleumier)

"Six Fairy Tales- The Lake". David Hockney. 1969.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... A sad day for British justice. Coming down like a ton of bricks on people with a social conscience. Meanwhile those who incite and commit acts of terror against innocent immigrants must be ‘understood’

"The near-abandonment of content moderation on many social media sites had made it far easier for activists to post inflammatory content, many people involved said." as.ft.com/r/83310da8-5...

NEW from me today: ICYMI it earlier, I've written for @arguablymag.bsky.social about the quiet crisis destroying almost everything important about universities, and why no-one's talking about it. Take a look: www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

This is very good, and what always strikes me as particularly extraordinary is that British Universities aren't even asking for extra support from Government, pretty much all that's needed to avert crisis is for them not to regulate as heavily.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots in Northern Ireland #belfastriots

#drawing 4056 Venus is spectacular #collage #ticketart #adrawingaday #artyear #thedailysketch

I very much enjoyed the fact that they clearly knew that the description fitted them.

The absolute absence of political leadership against the far right in Britain is genuinely shocking, and will make things worse The only politician I heard really speaking out - and leading - in last 24 hours was independent councillor in Belfast

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to a puree.

The legal safeguards that protect people from discrimination are hard-won victories, and hallmarks of a fair and democratic society. The Public Sector Equality Duty is a vital component of equality law that holds public authorities accountable for their decisions. humanists.uk/2026/06/09/h...

Oh, 100%. This is really every initiative/fad in higher education since I’ve been in it.

Louise Bourgeois, DAWN, 2006 Fabric book #womensart

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Early women pioneers of climbing such as Lucy Walker, the first woman to summit the notorious Matterhorn mountain in 1871 all wore skirts on their climbs..... #WomensArt

On Wednesday evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be listing a collection of one off necklaces I’ve made using Victorian & Edwardian chatelaine stamp holders, an acorn thimble holder, lockets (incl 1940s scallop & clock lockets) & oak leaves I’ve cast in silver. My shop is here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

WTF??

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

For #WorldOceansDay today, stunning colour lithographs from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893), created from the author's original watercolour sketches: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...

Lovely bit of social history, here. View from the Royal Festival Hall, 1950. This beautiful image was produced by SR Badmin for a set of contemporary postcards celebrating the Festival of Britain. And best of all … (1/2)

Things you can do with a £5 million bribe, part 6)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's reputation in his lifetime, and to the present day, was based not just upon his work as an architect, but also as a designer and painter. In 1923, with his wife Margaret, he settled in Port Vendres in the Mediterranean. 'The Little Bay,' is from 1927.

The phrase "two-tier" policing first entered Britain's political mainstream in August 2024, when people supporting the Southport rioters were complaining of their treatment But it is not a mainstream term - it originated with far right and conspiracist groups trying to push their own narratives

"Recklessness with the futures of 70m people remains unforgivable – and the guilt belongs to Cameron and Osborne almost as much as to Gove and Johnson." Excellent by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social, though Corbyn & other Lexiteers also among the guilty men. #Brexit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...