Still can't get over the fact that the Green Party are the odds-on favourite to win the Gorton and Denton by-election. www.oddschecker.com/politics/bri...

I have informed Number Ten that I am available to take over as Chief of Staff at short notice. Or Prime Minister. I mean, I can do both if they like, but I will have to charge a little bit extra.

Tail biting dragon Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1; 'the Kennicott Bible'; 1476CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.71v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Do you think this might be the right time for the British electorate to resign?

Looking for good examples of fora where people are able to "disagree agreeably."

Looking for an AI bot that can watch TV, drink beer and maintain my friendships for me so that I can spend more time in the office.

Talking to my 96-year-old father tonight, who told me he didn't think that this country could turn into an authoritarian dictatorship as democracy is too entrenched in Britian. I've never wanted him to be right about something so much as this. He was a child in Germany when Hitler took power.

Trump's aids will try to explain this latest embarrassment away as some oversight while Trump himself remains silent. Others will murmur about health concerns. But, as far as I am aware, "being a massive racist" is not a recognized standard symptom of dementia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

£50 off the Self-Edit course? Hell, yeah. Offer ends 11 Feb. 👇

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

What if there's a conspiracy to make us believe that it's cold, wet and miserable outside when really it's a lovely, warm and sunny day -- just a fiendish plot to make everyone in London stay inside while they have the parks all to themselves?

Two women screaming and swearing at each other in the supermarket in the continuation of a road-rage incident. I mainly felt sorry for the staff and for dad with a young child. Is it time to ban car drivers from supermarkets? I can see no other solution.

Are you interested in public health, history of medicine, libraries or open science? Then please do follow the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Library Archives and Open Research Services brand new Bluesky account! @lshtm-laors.bsky.social

Quick subjectivity check. Regardless of your religious affiliation, or even if you have none... ...does this completely blow you away.? open.spotify.com/track/3cFxCA...

Our next #LocalHistory talk is 3 March, 8pm-9pm. Julia Atkins will take us on a virtual wander around the Victorian housing of East Dulwich. £5, proceeds to Bell House's Sunshine Stitchers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...

Been a wicked first 3 weeks working for @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social. Highlights include learning to scythe, planting trees in Dulwich Wood (a genuine ancient woodland in zone 3), marvelling at urban fungi, and watching a Blue Tit mob a Kestrel - and win. Can't wait for more! #KeepingItWild.

Once upon a time, in a country where the pary leading in the polls planned to end measures designed to counter climate change... news.sky.com/story/coasta...

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

Lewisham Speaking Up's Question Time never fails to be a valuable & informative event in my calendar. A chance for me & @elliereeves.bsky.social to answer the tough questions & hear members talk about how I can better represent their experiences as people with learning difficulties in parliament.

In years to come, undergraduate Media Studies students will write their dissertations about this surprise viral post.

In real life, are most "moral dilemmas" not moral dilemmas at all, but really a dissonance between what we feel we ought to do and what we feel we want to do, generally for largely self-interested motives?

Philosophers be like… #philosophy

University Libraries, drink-permission tiering policies explained. youtube.com/shorts/1warJ...

Anyone researching Solomon Hart, first jew to be admitted to Royal Academy? @lulgalleries.bsky.social is keen to make our collection more accessible and would love to hear from you. @biajs.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Historians of the Soviet Union disagree on whether Stalin would have gone on to introduce a network of cycle routes in Leningrad had he not been so preoccupied with killing around a million people in the Great Purge between 1936 and 1938.

Watching the video for Springstein's 'Minneapolis', the phrase 'policing by consent' came into my head. It became current after the Scarman Report into the Brixton Uprising of 1981. I found this definition on the UK Home Office website, showing it goes back further. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Looking for tips on boosting immune system, against common viruses (colds, coughs, flu). Bonus points for peer-reviewed studies cited in support.

5 classes you took in university Introduction to Logic Philosophy of Psychology Epistemology and methodology Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Islamic Thought Understanding Religion in the Age of Modernity

The Slits The Raincoats The Bodysnatchers The Selecter Au Pairs

There are two questions that journalists should be asking: (1) Who in the Royal Family, the Royalty and Specialist Protection (RaSP) agency, and the government knew what Andrew was doing? (2)Why did they not report it to the appropriate police force?

Every time I hear "Gorton and Denton" I think it's a 1960s british comedy drama about a pair of hapless private detectives.

Am just beginning to think that maybe my grandparents picked the wrong city to live in

This should be the year that I finally go to see this artist's house, which is just around the corner from me www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/get... h/t @ianvisits.co.uk

Harp playing boar BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320 CE-c.1330 CE; England, S. E. (London); f.41v

Perfect location for a subterranean post-apocalyptic Gothic gangster steam-punk film location

Today we mark Holocaust Memorial Day and remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, along with all victims of Nazi persecution. We must ensure they are never forgotten and teach future generations the lessons of the Holocaust.

From my grandmother's story: "One by one our good decent teachers disappeared and instead Nazi teachers replaced them."

If all the current Tory MP's defect to Reform UK, will Farage be justified in renaming his party the Real Conservative & Unionist Party? #ShipOfTheseus

So who will be the next Shining Star of the Tory Far Right to defect to Reform? I have a priti good idea.

Initial-word panel at the beginning of Torah portion Beshalach (בְּשַׁלַּח) inhabited by two tiny creatures. #ParashahPictures BL Or 2696; Torah with Rash's commentary; 14th century; Germany; f.131r

The only possible good that will come out of this current administration is that more people will actually read 1984.

And a free penguin for every Londoner.

Of course there was huge opposition at the time from people who foresaw that governments would use the police as a means of oppressing citizens.

The populist politician #Resistance BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.84r

Americans? In your country is it mandatory to carry ID? And does failure to do carry the death sentence?

Does the impartiality of the BBC mean that they have to strike a balance between truth and outright lies?

From 1984, George Orwell

As the driven leaf of time drops into the wheelbarrow of oblivion, I would like to wish all my readers in East Dulwich, London, the UK, Europe and around the world, a very pleasant and peaceful weekend.

If you thought Trump made a few blunders in his Davos speech yesterday, that was just...well...the tip of the iceberg.

The way public services quietly decline is like shrinkflation. You discover the phone appointment you booked with your GP, is not actually 8am, but any time between 7- 9am, if you can get through the labyrinth of apps and websites to get an one at all. No doubt tech companies are doing well, though.