The BBC rightly covers the dreadful post office scandal. But completely ignores the many avoidable deaths of learning disabled and autistic people. They obviously don’t count.

Our latest #RevereHouseExpress #BlogPost pulls back the curtain of how historians work, while attempting to reveal the origins of a minor "mechanical" myth! bit.ly/4dXXlSi

There has always been savage injustice in this country. As Henry Nowak’s father said, they want his death to not become a political football, they want it to make a positive difference. His dignity reminded me of Doreen Lawrence who I used to see at Legal Aid events. She fought.

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

A Liar in the United States is President.

More psychedlia from early #PinkFloyd @RegentStCinema with Antonioni's dreamy and explosive Zabriskie Point. Plus Syd's Floyd's 1966 version of Interstellar Overdrive for Anthony Stern's San Francisco doc... Season continues today! #YetAnotherMovie ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/05/tuni...

Joan Miró (1963)

More psychedlia from early #PinkFloyd @RegentStCinema with Antonioni's dreamy and explosive Zabriskie Point. Plus Syd's Floyd's 1966 version of Interstellar Overdrive for Anthony Stern's San Francisco doc... Season continues today! #YetAnotherMovie ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/05/tuni...

Excellent season at the Regent St Cinema honouring Lumière brothers’ first projection 130 yrs ago at this venue & the attendance of three of the #PinkFloyd at what was Regent Street Poly in the same building. We went underground alright... ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/05/yet-...

Last #MuseumShopMonday of May! So we are sharing the last of our @america250.bsky.social merchandise - this super fun vinyl sticker. Wear your #HistoryNerd status with pride on your fave water bottle, laptop, etc.! bit.ly/4uw9e9l

Banjo is nearly a year old. She is my true friend

on this day in 1935 Jesse Owens accomplishes historic feat by breaking three world records and tieing a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. wow!

Finally finished assembling Wendy Carlos, approximately six months after I started! She and Delia are united are last. 📻 @heykidsshop.bsky.social

As we approach Memorial Day, learn how Revolutionary War soldiers used Fife and Drum throughout their service. Join Patriot Fife and Drum Duo at the Paul Revere House between 1:00 and 3:00 to hear examples and participate in a demonstration! www.facebook.com/share/1B85CQ...

Graveyard for stolen cars, Darndale, northside of Dublin, 1993, photo by Martine Franck (1938-2012), Belgian photographer.

James Proudfoot, British. Sun on A House, Dieppe, 1937

Is he standing in a hole or is she standing on a box? Still… it’s the screen!

Yeah, because it’s the highly visible signs of the elite that are where the evil action is… What about the politicians and the billionaire classes then? Not the entertainment output they fund? What about Epstein’s closest pals… what about the President?

Buttercups at dawn. Taken this morning in Glastonbury.

Castles in the landscape. After too many years to recall, I finally made it to Dolforwyn castle in Wales yesterday. Probably just as well as extensive excavations in recent decades have exposed a fascinating Welsh castle previously hidden under the earth. There’s a real sense of border country here!

I'm sitting drinking a single malt staring out to a sea bathed in sunshine with my brother listening to Dick Gaughan, I was reminded that I was raised on the importance to make memories not money. 💚🥃 #Photography #Landscapes #Nature #Scotland #OuterHebrides 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📸

Sure, Thor throws a hammer at someone and he’s a superhero, but when I do it I’m “suspended indefinitely”.

An Englishman won the PGA, the first for 100 years. The UK media aren't making much of a fuss about it. I wonder why?

...a school district in Tennessee has banned the book, arguing the subject matter is too much for children to handle. www.theroot.com/roots-banned...

I salute you Richard Nicholson.

“Brutal” is the word of the week for Mason and the clowns of the commentariat. They’re using all the same signifiers as if they’ve run out of eloquence describing events they’ve been over hyping. Words are literally failing them now something “actual” has happened.

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk…” Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

© Carlos Martin. 'Quiet Presence,' 2025. Ink on paper, 30 × 42 cm.

ANNABELLE'S SERPENTINE DANCE (1895) was part of Edison's first projected film screening. Edison had resisted projecting-- why charge a nickel for a whole show when people were paying that per film via peepshow machine?-- but demand was too great.

Jean Harlow by Lansing Brown, 1929.

The sparks fly between Baker and McGoohan! Tense cast and speedy story!

Happy Mother's Day (You don't need to be blood to be family)

#5debutalbums9599 Lamb - Lamb (1996) Debut album which sees Lamb at their most detached. Stumbling drum and bass topped off by jazzy double bass and Lou Rhode's seductive folky vocals. It works, and Gorecki was in the top 5 songs of '96. They'd go on to be even better. Solid. #NowPlaying

I love Dragnet Girl especially but heck yes to both!!

Setsuko Saturday

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#WalksOnWednesday but you are tied to your desk… so you just walk upstairs to take a quick breath of fresh (damp) air on the #RoofDeck!

A kidnapped boy and a bomb that will explode at 10 o'cock... time is running out! 🕙️ TOMORROW AT TEN (1962) 1:35pm #JohnGregson #RobertShaw #AlecClunes thriller #TPTVsubtitles

I still agree with this 1907 card.

Just a reminder that our friends at the Partnership of Historic Bostons are currently in the midst of their fabulous annual series of lectures and events; this year is focusing on Metacom’s Resistance, and we recommend following along! bit.ly/4be6Ifl

One of the greatest albums of the last 30 years… THIRTY?! Woooh!

I so wish I could be in San Francisco tomorrow to see the new @milestonefilms.bsky.social restoration of QUEEN KELLY on the big screen of the Castro at San Francisco Silent Film Festival. If you can, do! silentfilm.org/event/queen-...

Emilia Louisa Victoria Reeves - Renée Adorée to you - in one of her breakthrough roles filmed high up in Alberta. A fabulous restoration from Joe Harvat with new score and the clearest view of this fun ride in a century! Silent Film. Snow! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Emilia Louisa Victoria Reeves - Renée Adorée to you - in one of her breakthrough roles filmed high up in Alberta. A fabulous restoration from Joe Harvat with new score and the clearest view of this fun ride in a century! Silent Film. Snow! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Why is the President of the United States shilling so hard for cryptocurrency? Because the entire industry is a Ponzi scheme — and he's the conman-in-chief.

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥