I just learnt Robert Palmer was born in Batley and grew up in Scarbados. Who knew?

Families: Caring for someone with #delirium is exhausting. Your wellbeing matters too. Take breaks, seek support, ask for help.

No Wes Streeting, the BMA is not acting like a cartel. It’s acting like a trade union. And frankly it’s disgusting to hear you talk like this while huge numbers of doctors can’t get NHS jobs because you haven’t created them, while millions of patients are on waiting lists🚨🚨🚨

Launching tomorrow afternoon! Do come along if you're in the area - should be brilliant!

Underrated post 😃

Rivelin Valley #Sheffield Oct 2025 Well these are #DucksOutOfWater 😆 They might be a bit small for #BirdOfTheDay but I love this tree and its reflections so much, it's always different but beautiful every time I pass 100mm f11 ISO10K #birds #EastCoastKin #Scape #UKbirding #yorkshire #ducks #ArtYear

Nothing works in this country @emmavardy2.bsky.social arrives at Manchester Aitport to discover flight was cancelled weeks ago and not informed. I took a hour to leave a hospital multi storey and campus because apparently all traffic can only leave on the one road and 6 carparks debouche onto it.

Autumn Storm, Brunswick Mill, Bradford Road, Ancoats, Manchester, painting by Reg Gardner (b.1948). #NorthernArt

Dunstanburgh Castle from Craster, Northumberland, photo by Susan Barwood.

Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).

This is a sketch of "St Mary's, Wanstead" by Elwin Hawthorne for an oil with the title of "Wanstead" from his one man show at Alex. Reid & Lefevre in 1938. His painting notes describe the location of his viewpoint & the dimensions of the finished painting. #ElwinHawthorne #Wanstead #EastLondonGroup

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake has hit Paphos, Cyprus.

Scientists got bored after watching the Earth turn for 24 hours. So they called it a day. #dadjokes #yqr #Saskatchewan #funny #science #earth

£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. Join me and 280,000 others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...

Chinese automakers are overtaking European rivals, says car-shipping chief—“The reason why Chinese are winning market shares is because they innovate themselves,” the head of the world’s biggest operator of car-carrying ships… www.ft.com/content/c84b... @jamie-john.ft.com @financialtimes.com

And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger

12 November 1919 | A Dutch Jew, Juda Wurms, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz and registered in the camp. He perished on 31 August 1942. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke... This is lovely, one statistic stood out Truman had bowled 1100 overs in the English season that year. Did England's pace attack bowl that between them?

Typewriter for sale. Perfe t working ondition. #dadjokes

🔥 Harrods: What do the survivors do now?? The courts, the redress scheme, the police — all form part of the same legal abyss. ◾ Survivors cannot access the courts, let alone for trafficking ◾ Harrods’ “redress” is run by the institution itself ◾ The Met refuses to name the crimes as trafficking

Delirium has a visibility problem, not just a diagnostic one. How many cases of delirium are you missing day to day by not looking proactively?

Not because I had a small part to play but because now more than ever we need to amplify kindness and human connection, let me share with you the Tale of Kathleen & John After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda

Last one for today. Private Ernest Taylor 1896 - 1916, Service: 15 March 1915 – 1 October 1916 - York and Lancaster Regiment 6th Battalion. On his death a letter was sent from the Rev Rees, Army Chaplain to the Rev Elford, the Vicar of Horbury Junction: 1/4

@drsandythomson.bsky.social one for you I think

1) Agreed 2) Still the best description of Star Wars:

The Northern Rebellion began on this day 1569. Led by earls of Westmorland and Northumberland, it sought to depose Elizabeth I and to replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots (who would marry the Duke of Norfolk) and restore the Catholic faith as the faith of England.

Halifax, 1964, photo by John Bulmer.

Last year it looked as if Glasgow's Aye Write book festival might die, but now it's 20th anniversary is in full swing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace

It is #SundayMorning again so here's our "usual" start to the day. This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. British History Online states that Corporation Buildings (the subject of the painting) were the first "council housing" to be built in England. #CecilOsborne

🚨 Exclusive: A damning inquiry will reveal tomorrow how NHS leaders ignored warnings over unsafe hearing tests 12 years ago leaving 300 children permanently disabled. @camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership: www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...

"Care partners of people with dementia often feel isolated. A dementia-friendly community provides a network of support for care partners, connecting them with resources and other people who understand their experience." — Dementia Friendly America

I'm so fed up with this hostile environment

Excellent news for the UK - and my particular bit of it! Surely this highlights sharply the head-in-the-sand pig ignorance of 'patriots' who simply want to continue burning fossil fuels. Looking at you, Messrs Tice and Farage... www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dog...

Co-taking-all-the-credit-for-a-woman's-work dies at 97

Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.

A memorial planned by Clifford's Tower, York is a chance to commemorate a dark event in York's history in 1190 when around 150 Jewish people who were trapped in the timber tower of York Castle were massacred by attackers with many committing suicide. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no... Could this be the future for Scarbados?

Sunset at the Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare, Ireland, photo by George Karbus.

The sign of a complete and utter psychopath. A man collapses in the White House. Trump pays zero attention. The cameras are more important.

This is good news bit wonder if we could fo thus in the UK or is "too hard". We gave an aging population in rural areas who may not be able to drive, either because they never learned ir because they are no longer safe to do so.

Pit brow lasses at work, Wigan Junction Colliery, Abram, 1900 (National Archives).

Which one is more English?

👇🇺🇸"DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought" #EpsteinFiles #DOJ

Glimmering 🎨 2021 acrylics on canvas 16x12”

Village by the Sea, 1953, painting by Norah McGuinness, 1901-80, Irish artist (National Museums NI). #WomensArt

Hanging Out The Washing, painting by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014).

As a child I could smell these being made across the city

It looks like it’s going to be an extremely bad winter in the NHS. I’ve explained here what we know so far 🚨👇 open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...

Zohran Mamdani was 9 years old when the attacks occurred on September 11th 2001. The only possible connection he could have to that day is he might be related to one of the 60-70 Muslim victims. Racism rots your brain, folks. Give it up.