This is the Fuller Brooch & is regarded as a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art. It’s silver with niello inlay & is the earliest known depiction of the 5 senses. In the middle is Sight. In the roundel top left, going clockwise, is Taste, Smell, Touch & Hearing. 🕰️C9th AD, England 🏛️📷BM

The regime quietly ripped $3B in food stamps and Medicaid away from families. So Hawaii's governor just fought back with a genius move: a new 13% tax bracket on millionaires to fully fund the stolen aid. Read how a blue state just outsmarted Trump: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/judge-orde...

We aren’t talking about this enough. Trump’s lawsuit against his own IRS, the one that he settled to create the $1.776 billion dollar January 6 slush fund, was over the leak of his tax returns. But they were leaked when he was in charge of the IRS.

#Beatles in #Latin…

Semper profundiora quaerenda…

Time to cast a clout…

The first is the best. #Messi #nonchalence

#Ecclesiology meets John 21… ‘Locally world famous’ would be a good definition of God’s #Church. BTW, best breakfast in #Brighton…

Looking forward to this exhibition of Silvia Dimitrova’s paintings of 7 ‘#Women in the #Bible’ at St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, #Cambridge, 5-6 June 2006, and preaching there on 7 June.

‘Windows open outwards in the UK and inwards on the continent.’ Ah, yes. They do, don’t they. Letter @theguardian.com today.

Trump is racking up losses. He tried to illegally pay Jan. 6 rioters with your money. Judges said no. He illegally slapped his name on the Kennedy Center. Judges said no. Milli Vanilli won't even perform at his Freedom 250 party. Bad week to be Donald Trump.

PM Carney on his meeting with Xi Jinping: "I raised with him the Thucydides Trap." #cdnpoli

The American decision to turn over space exploration to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is turning out to be a fantastic decision—for China. The American space program is collapsing. www.independent.co.uk/space/blue-o...

Mon 20 July 2026, 8-9.30pm, next @beertheologycam.bsky.social at Fort St George pub, #Cambridge. @suzpaul.bsky.social, Keeper of Rare Books & Early Manuscripts @theul.bsky.social, ‘Medieval Manuscript Sermons: Lessons for Today?’. Open to all - just turn up. www.grahamkings.org/article/beer...

The Kennedy Center this evening. An energized crowd sings happy birthday to JFK. Earlier in the day a federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed. A lovely birthday gift to real America. #handsoff #handsoffthearts

Edmund Burke’s metaphor for the silent majority.

Wow!

VATICAN: A phone call took place between Pope Leo XIV and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, on Friday afternoon, “on the occasion of the publication of the Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Classic quip by Henry #Chadwick in his ‘#Boethius’ (Clarendon Press, 1981), p 3 about the policy of the (Gothic) King #Theoderic at #Ravenna being reminiscent of Talleyrand’s remark to the Russian #Tsar Alexander about #Napoleon… 1/2

Fine review by Mike Starkey of this excellent book by Dr Lucy Sixsmith about Soul Survivor.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Indeed. The French have done this, throughout France.

Persona non grata…

Kool!

#OnThisDay - 26 May - in AD 735 the Venerable Bede died at Jarrow, Northumbria. Theologian, grammarian, historian - perhaps his most-admired work is his 'Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'. #Bede Image: Cotton MS Tiberius C II, f. 5v. Link - blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

One good tern deserves another…

Very helpful on understanding Magnifica Humanitas.

Opinion: The war could end with Tehran more confident, more hardline and with new resources to rebuild its nuclear programme. ft.trib.al/FaVZ7fu

King Solomon sitting on his throne in the initial 'P'(arabole) at the beginning of Proberbs BnF MS Latin 104; Vetus Testamentum (fin). Novum Testamentum; 12th century (c.1120 CE-1130) CE; Central Italy; f.13v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Venerable Bede’s day today. A Doctor of the Church, his tomb is in Durham Cathedral.

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

St Aldhelm’s Day, today. Thanks be to God.

Vibrant and rare White Auroras appearing over Norway 🇳🇴

Gemma Frisius, influential Dutch mathematician, cartographer, died #OTD 1555; acclaimed maker of mathematical instruments, astrolabes, astronomical rings & globes; pioneer of triangulation in surveying. Portrait by Maarten van Keemskerck, c. 1540 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam @boijmans.nl

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of the Torah portion Naso (נָשֹׂא) with a hybrid of golden body and red wings. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.79r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

www.grahamkings.org/poem/a-prior... Indeed. My poem, ‘A Prior Meeting: Anselm’, begins with ‘Solvitur ambulando’. BTW, How many puns in the title?

$50 World Cup tickets in NYC!

#Fashion exhibition in #Rimini.

Any idea which Pope. Clue: Rimini.

Prof Steven Bevans’ lecture at Urbaniana, #Rome. #missiology

Significant article.

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has court judgment for debt of almost £10K www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

#Trump’s #corruption escalates.

Poignantly bee eautiful

Never forget, Cameron's Tories brought Brexit because Farage's UKIP was taking a bite out of Tory polling. Without a care, Cameron & Cabinet bet the nation for Tory Party benefit; to the absolute disastrous detriment of the nation.

Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)

Women Saints processing in the Basilica of San Apollinare in Classe, near #Ravenna, today.