A fun afternoon yesterday with the @rialibrary.bsky.social Stowe Missal! MS D ii 3 dates to the late 8th/early 9th centuries, and contains excerpts from the Gospel of St John and a Latin Missal. The last folio features Irish charms to protect against loss of eyesight and urinal diseases! 📜🎉

Wonderful visit to the Kindersley workshop in Cambridge this morning. Amazing place.

Ten Magnificent Historical Libraries (That You Can Still Visit Today)

Reform slide to lowest polling since April

Well worth watching this BBC report on Nathan Gill. He was clearly a close and trusted lieutenant of Farage. The link to Putin was very direct. He was about to flee to Russia when he was stopped at Manchester Airport www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

#Brexit…

Fergus Kerr OP, RIP.

Breaking news: A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The judge also ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both cases, had been unlawfully appointed.

Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7‑Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962)

Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO

Indeed.

Just finished reading ‘This is for Everyone’ @timbl.bsky.social (the inventor of the World Wide Web) and am struck by the similarities of the growth of the #WorldWideWeb and of Christianity Worldwide. Anyone else read it who enjoys #theology and #ChristianityWorldwide?

The reputations of #Trump, #Farage and #Johnson are all currently in serious trouble. #TruthWillOut

Excellent article. #Bach #musicology

Spot the typo on pg 20. #OTD 1859 Darwin's On The Origin of Species was published. It was corrected in the 2nd printing. This copy was given by Adam Sedgwick and includes his many notes and an inscription by the author. Digitised in full here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/... #Darwin #typo

More evidence for the cumulative case for the increasing dementia of #Trump. This is a dangerous moment for geopolitics as he is hemmed in by the Epstein files and the bad news of US economy and the dollar. Time for White House doctors and leading Republicans to act.

Here's a lovely bit of Common Worship backstory for #CofEPeeps. (You'll love the opening anecdote, but read to the end) www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/21/r...

This needs quoting in the #Budget. #Brexit

The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Indeed.

No. It is part of the cumulative case of dementia, which is gathering pace.

Middlemarch, published 1871-2, by George Eliot, born #OTD 1819; described by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Portrait by François D’Albert Durade c 1850, National Portrait Gallery London | MS British Library

If you missed @therestpolitics.bsky.social emergency episode on Covid inquiry yesterday here it is. @rory-stewart.bsky.social called it right at the time and Johnson, Cummings and Co should not be allowed near a serious job ever again alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/471-...

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP

Job 38 verse 31.

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#Cricket, eh? Phenomenal!

UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier. No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK. The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.

Phenomenal appointment! Ben Quash next Regius Professor of Divinity, @cam.ac.uk #theology #art

Eschew obfuscation.

No. 47 #Bus by Johnny Griffiths. At last A number 47 bus Interrupts my thought of train. #poem

Peter Kellner has done the crunching of those YouGov numbers on tactical voting: Reform lose about 100 seats, half to Tories, half to Lab kellnerp.substack.com/p/one-hundre...

Congrats, #Scotland! Phenomenal match - especially 2 goals in injury time, the last one from the half way line!

Next session @beertheologycam.bsky.social Mon 19 Jan 2026, 8-9.30pm, at Fort St George pub, #Cambridge. Catherine Nancekievill (PhD student, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge), 'Self-Realisation in the Thought of Karl #Rahner'. Open to all. Just turn up. www.grahamkings.org/article/beer... #theology

Any complaints about ‘why no suit?’…

Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Fine article. Why the media silence on the crisis @britishlibrary.bsky.social ?

Indeed.

/When the Music Fades: Power, Surrender and the Soul Survivor Generation/ is a book about charismatic worship, dignity, and what happens when you think you're all supposed to be history makers but it doesn't work out. Pre-order here: canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...

We are meeting tonight, Mon 17 Nov 2025, 8-9.30pm, at the Fort St George pub, Cambridge CB4 1HA. Open to all. Just turn up. Details below.

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

The biggest risks of bias at the BBC are in the boardroom, not the newsroom, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.

Three episodes of #Empire (in Series 1), brilliantly written and presented by David Olusoga. BBC 2 and iPlayer. Perceptive and moving. I wonder if Nigel Biggar is watching them…

Apple Music.

Similarity between #politics in the UK and England’s #football team? Problems at No 10.

✨Introducing the world premiere recording of seven choral works from the Arundel Choirbook, one of the most significant collections of English polyphony from the early 16th century. The full album will be available 28th November but you can listen to a single now on Spotify ✨

Incoming income tax rise now outgoing. #Budget