You know the way political donation info is protected in NI and reform ltd joined with the tuv... Brexit saw lots of dark money flow through NI. Anyway, I`m sure its nothing to investigate

On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible #Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25

Listening to the LBC James O'Brien show on rejoining Brexit this morning, I found myself tempted to shout at the radio. As this does my mental health no good, I thought I would vent a little here.

Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...

Give Putin's money to the Ukraine

Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2nd December 2025 14.59

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Morning all. Thank you Jim xx

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts. Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways. And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".

Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them. This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Message to Labour MPs: Be a faithful. Don’t brief against your own Party. Maybe do what we do and wait for the evidence and facts and support your team. Knee jerk reactions rarely end well. We are watching you. It’s us who vote for you.

Trusted, independent Resolution Foundation put into an easy to understand chart why Labour are despised by the Media and their bosses. It’s time to stop listening to them.

They didn’t break the Manifesto. What they continue to break is the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest. And soon the gap between Landlords and Tenants. And the gap between Worker and Boss. That squealing sure is deafening.

No notes — except watch until the very end…

Ireland is so beautiful. Just imagine how it would be if we actually protected and restored our nature, instead of killing it off everywhere, on land and at sea?

Mountains of Mourne.

Oh God I needed this so much right now. Good old fashioned funny chaos and farce instead of constant depression in politics. Looking forward to them setting up their own rival parties. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Private funding has been crucial for ME/CFS research for decades. The best way to get a substantial grant from NIH is to show interesting results from a pilot study. Cort’s example of Younger’s success in this approach is an excellent demonstration of this.

Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be. You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.

Cartoon by Matt Davies | Andrews McMeel

Waiting for Godot — Oldřich Jelínek, 2012 Oil on board

Sleán leat.

Joseph Ntensibe (Ugandan, b. 1953). The Innocents (2006, acrylic on canvas).

One big thing weakening the Brexit debate is that many Remainers are still holding out for a grovelling apology from Leavers, and take every opportunity to mock their stupidity. Even people who have changed their minds will push back HARD against being called stupid. Play the ball not the players.

And contains one tin of baked beans?

My space heater is installed too high to reach, so I throw lawn darts at it to turn it on and off.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

I see the "Spirit of Christmas" hamper at M&S costs £1,000.

More than a few UK hang-ups would have to be tackled before any reasonable accession process to the EU.

There's a lot of good stuff coming out of this Labour government, but they are not communicating effectively with the public. I like Sadiq Khan's frequent Bluesky posts and wonder why nothing equivalent is coming from Starmer & No 10.

By Zdenek Vrozina: "A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form. It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American woman to become a licensed nurse and to work professionally as a nurse in the USA. She was one of only three to successfully graduate from her class of 42 women. adalovelaceday.subst...

If my knowledge of book censorship in Tsarist Russia has taught me anything it's that Faber should move to Dublin and smuggle their wares across the border

A report by the Covid inquiry into political decision-making during the pandemic proves that the “horrific” and disproportionate death toll among disabled people was not inevitable but the result of treating them as an “afterthought”, say campaigners. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/inquiry-repo...

Do not miss this superb thread from Emma Monk, which - amongst other things - demonstrates the parlous state of our lying media. #Leveson2 please.

If only we had some kind of person whose job it was to investigate the news and present a balanced set of challenging facts. We could call them something like “journalists”. The whole craft could be called a cool name like “journalism”.

Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"

OK, who narced?

Coach Witkoff Why is U.S. foreign policy & Ukraine sovereignty hinging on the deal-making skills of a non-Senate confirmed real estate developer?

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Architects pitch alternative Liverpool Street station “Arch” to rival Network Rail’s “tower” www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/arc...