I wonder how those Political Journalists (Pippa, Peter, Paul etc) could have possibly missed this or how members of Starmer’s cabinet did not read (or were not told) about it. It’s a real puzzler

My History 1914-1945 students are creating memes as a final extra credit exercise: some choice examples to follow.

Always remembered. Never forgotten. Thinking of all people affected. #HillsboroughLawNow #JFT97 #GBNF #LFC #REDSKY

Funding goal reached to buy one of Scotland's oldest churches, 12th-century Linton Kirk in the Borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That's not a spitfire. It's a tank.

I'm not religious but it's blasphemy what Trump has posted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OTD in 1945, Celle, Germany. An Archer 17-pounder self-propelled gun from 102 Anti-Tank Regiment. #WW2 #HISTORY

An American soldier from George S. Patton’s Third Army takes a nap on a bed belonging to German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring after the capture of his lodge on May 3, 1945. #History #WW2

I'm a cynical, sarcastic guy, but this is great.

You can tell Vance has never negotiated before. Our terms or nothing is not a negotiation, it's arrogance www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Apparently two years ago I was passing through Baker Street station and stopped at the Metropolitan Railway war memorial, with its fabulously ferocious snake-killing lion sculpture.

"Men generally say my stuff is amazing, but women normally ask, 'Where does your wife keep it all?'" BBC News - Peterborough man creates supersized household objects - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yorkshire bluebells yesterday - an antidote to all the madness in the world.

Just go home You are not wanted in Europe. Stick to politics in your own country or just retire from politics and go and work for your real boss, Peter Thiel BBC News - JD Vance due in Hungary to back Orban's re-election bid www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooohhh, we have a very red sky this morning on the NW coast of England The shot is inland, directly to the East

28 Monday mornings ago. Not that I'm counting, but that was the best Monday morning ever.

'In March 1942, Ravilious was based at RAF Clifton [nr] York. He enjoyed flying around the city, observing York Minster from above, and spotting abbeys and ruins over Yorkshire. [Here he] depicts the airfield under a blanket of seemingly never-ending snow.' www.iwm.org.uk/history/seco...

Church dismantles a huge pipe organ and finds an older history www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So we're all cowards then. Trump really needs to shut his mouth 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

Tacky-ass country

Just a check up at the vets Now… I don’t wish to be dramatic… but I feel that term was used… quite loosely. There was… unexpected interaction… …and what I can only describe as… an overly familiar thermometer. I may also… become mysteriously unavailable at 17:50.

##EastCoastKin #landscape #nature #cold #winter #Lofoten #Norway #visitnorway

North Yorkshire council are putting their council tax up 5 percent and the Town council precept going up 11.2 percent. And still they've had the bloody cheek not leaving spare bin bags when they collected the rubbish this morning. 😡 Rant over.

Something to start the week off with a bang! 🧨💥 Recently digitised; in northern Burma in January 1945, British engineers from 36th Div dynamite abandoned Japanese bunkers (and nearly take out the cameraman). #filmcataloguing #history #ww2 Full film: IWM FUB 92 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

You still want USA food imported? Suggest you move there and enjoy it at source As for me, I want nothing to do with it

🇬🇧 to 🇺🇸 “Waiting at least two years before entering the war is the precedent previously set, right?”

For people who don’t take allegations of violence against women seriously:

Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!

Ian Huntley has died, good riddance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday Some days the metaphorical staircase feels huge & never ending So don’t climb it all today Just take the next step

I suspect Sánchez is expressing the majority view of the EU population, unlike his fellow Member State leaders and those in Brussels.

You had one ojb

##EastCoastKin #landscape #winter #cold #snow #Lofoten #Norway #vistnordland #bestofnorway #dji #djiglobal

Timeline cleanse: RIP Neil Sedaka. What I hadn’t appreciated is in addition to English language back catalog he also recorded extensively in Italian, Spanish, Yiddish and German (and one time Hebrew, Japanese, and French).

🧵"I can see you!" Spring Lambs, at Farndale, North Yorkshire. Farndale is a north–south valley in the North York Moors National Park, home to scattered farms and the hamlets of Low Mill and Church Houses. Each spring, wild daffodils line a three-mile stretch of the River

Last surviving teacher of Aberfan disaster still remembers faces of the children who died. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking up within the presbytery of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk #suffolk #churches #history #heritage #architecture #cathedrals #light #windows #perspective #photography

It's me your Sooty I've come home now

What's especially cool about this: It's a funky cut through a crinoid column. We're seeing the two halves of the column in the top and bottom "teeth," and the right side "tooth" is the back half of the column. It's a 3D visualization puzzle! (Also creepy and cursed as all get-out.)

I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.

This is heart breaking We managed to see them close up on the Farne islands. They really are cheeky chappies up close It will take some time for populations to recover from this ☹️☹️☹️

#EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #landscape #nature #artic #Lofoten #lofotenhighlights #lofotennorway #svinøyarorbuer #sápmi

This is the first I’ve read of the Trump administration’s order to stop commemorating the Black American soldiers in a US military cemetery in the Netherlands. My God, how sick, petty & vindictive, how all-consumed with racist hatred do you have to be to order that?

On a plateau above the River Ure in North Yorkshire stand the remarkable Thornborough Henges, three vast, identical Neolithic earthworks built around 2500 BC. Aligned north-west to south-east over more than 3 kilometres, each henge measures about 250 metres across The overall 1/6

We're gonna win.

At last, a 🥇 gold medal for GB. Matt Weston www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

Sad to hear the awful news from Canada this morning. My thoughts and prayers are with you 🙏.

John Virgo,'Voice of snooker' dies. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...