Lying in bed listening to Aggers and Vaughan commentating on TMS and I have to say I’ve been to more cheerful funerals #Ashes


The end of Ben Stokes’ Ashes series? England’s captain has left the field with a suspected right groin injury 🤕

"Miss Hancock is now unlikely to be in need of work in the theatre, but I hope that her originality, talent and personality will eventually be given far wider scope, not only in 'suitable' supporting parts but in leading ones, for which undoubtedly she is equipped."

#WindowsOnWednesday St Mary's Saffron Walden

Flannel pyjamas and chunky dressing gowns - and no heating upstairs (1964) Artist: John Berry

The interesting thing is that neither of those news reports give the impression that the PCC is about to jump ship to Reform.

Reform-led Kent County Council under fire for ripping out rare Victorian lampposts in Canterbury #FTFY archive.ph/mGC0A#select...

'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!

⚠️⚠️ Archaeology on TV klaxon alert 📢 📢 Tomorrow (Wednesday) 7 January BBC Two #DiggingForBritain #D4B Can't wait 😊👇👇👇

Liberal England: Pedestrian deaths are increasing because of the rise of SUVs "While SUVs are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with an ordinary 'sedan', for children the figure is a shocking 82 per cent." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/01/pede...

Charles Dickens Who call him spurious and shoddy Shall do it o'er my lifeless body. I heartily invite such birds To come outside and say those words! #DorothyParker #Parker

#shropshire #dorothyclive

This is unhinged. A 75 year old alliance in NATO is being trashed to serve one man's ego. Trump is not a reliable ally, he's a reckless bully. Starmer needs a plan B to stand up for Britain and our allies.

the US is a danger to itself and the world; Rowan Williams on the migrant contribution to British culture; the cure for online misinformation; Norwich's Mile Cross housing estate; Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell; Midsomer Murders as an allegory of England

Once again, I'm personally affronted (not really, just mildly irritated) by radio adverts getting past the legal obligation for disclaimers BYRUNNINGTHEMATSUCHASPEEDTHATEVERYTHINGISGABBLEDANDYOUCAN'TMAKEOUTABLOODYWORDOFANYOFIT.

Tintern Abbey by Moonlight John Sell Cotman 1782-1842 pen & brown ink and watercolour on paper #art

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National Treasure is perhaps too often banded about, but in Sheila Hancock’s case it really is true 🤔

Remembering Sandy Denny on her birthday youtu.be/gvdr_kilrw4

The title of Norman's new book – Royal Mint, National Debt -– is drawn from an observation of William Cobbett's: "You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt."

I firmly believe that talking normally to strangers on the internet preserves *my* mental health. If I was on here yelling at people every day my brain would be mashed potatoes by now

It was probably illegal but morally fine is such a classic Kemi take.

The history of the internet is pretty consistent. If a new technology is created, either it has been created *for* porn, or it will be used for porn very early on.

Thames Water is £17bn in debt, yet residents in Wokingham are the ones paying the price. Around a third of residents' bills go to servicing that debt, while raw sewage is pumped into our rivers like the Loddon. The Government must act and put Thames Water into special administration.

I have a general rule that any presentation based on words starting with the same letter is bollocks. I once asked a famous CEO who gave a presentation on the "10 Cs of business" what the chances were of the ten most important things all starting with a C. He wasn't pleased.

la reine des neiges, c’est moi tags : Mélenchat, #winter #meteo #caturday #cats

we need to start taking the threat of these larger and heavier vehicles seriously. at a minimum, substantially increase road taxes and parking charges. these are policy decisions that could be made reasonably quickly

Oh my god they’re doing British food _again_

"Miss Hancock is now unlikely to be in need of work in the theatre, but I hope that her originality, talent and personality will eventually be given far wider scope, not only in 'suitable' supporting parts but in leading ones, for which undoubtedly she is equipped."

This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

Jenny Fabian, author of the unflinching 'Groupie' and 'A Chemical Romance' 📷 by Jeremy Fletcher in 1963.

Wittemham Clumps thawing out this morning

A big Liberal Democrat welcome to Councillors Cath McIntyre Gleadow and Sally Howell of Huntingdonshire who have both joined the Liberal Democrats. 🔶 🔶 Cath has joined the Liberal Democrats from Labour. Sally has joined the Liberal Democrats from Cambs Independent Group.

This isn’t exactly a shock and is true of so much including #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods but it would really help if British politicians didn’t do all their interacting with the public on Twitter.

Oak tree in Melverley, Shropshire #thicktrunktuesday

Liberal England: Pedestrian deaths are increasing because of the rise of SUVs "While SUVs are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with an ordinary 'sedan', for children the figure is a shocking 82 per cent." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/01/pede...

Sunshine and snow at Ellesmere - with a burst of colour from hawthorn berries framing narrowboats on the Llangollen Canal. I have given the image greater depth by focus-stacking 21 shots, which ensures everything is in focus. The editing is time-consuming but I enjoy the challenge! #Shropshire

I’ve never come across this immensely stylish WW2 information poster before. It looks almost like a frame from ‘The Third Man’.

Interesting that Russia had supplied Venezuela with S-300 air defence systems. Clearly they work no better there than in Russia. I imagine there will be some buyer's remorse going on around the world in countries that have bought Russian military hardware.

I realize that I'm nearly a century late on this, but the "six years later" narration between seeing this 13 year old boy and this 38 year old man playing the same character in Great Expectations is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.

🚤 Behind the scenes on the Montgomery Canal Councillors join volunteers for a first-hand look at progress on one of the UK’s most important canal restoration projects. 👉 Read the full article www.towpathtalk.co.uk/shropshire-c...

Pity poor Jacob Rees-Mogg.😔 He turns up at a TV studio with an almighty bad hangover to find a somewhat disturbed & deranged elderly woman preaching at him. 😱

Bastards.

We can either live in a world made by 14-year-old boys who never grew up, for 14-year-old boys who never grew up, or maybe OFCOM could finally act like an actual regulator?

(1/4) ❌ We were promised a new hospital by 2030, but we have been let down. 🚧 First by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, who never set funding aside, and now by Labour, who have pushed it back to the 2040s. 🚨 This is despite all signs pointing to the fact that a new hospital simply cannot wait.

Very saddened to learn of the untimely passing of legendary Hungarian film director, Béla Tarr, the master of melancholic film noir, and hypnotic, long takes. He was 70 years old. May his probing, thought-provoking films live on in perpetuity. Rest in Peace, sweet soul. 💔🕯️🕊️

RIP Molly Parkin. You made the world a brighter and more sparkly place. A mate of mine knew her and her theatrical daughter a bit and from all the stories he told me she was never ever "being boring."

"She spent tedious hours spanking John Mortimer" 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, I now look back fondly on the days of trying to decipher handwritten exam scripts. At least you knew that you were engaging with the product of a human mind, rather than something generated by a gargantuan autocomplete designed by megalomaniacs.

Peter Sellers' soft West Midlands accent in this now reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn.