Victorian Lady cyclist detectives... why is this not a tv series yet? I can see it now, foggy London, ladies on bicycles through the narrow streets, swords hidden in walking sticks, Henry Cavill with a top hat, stolen diamonds, opium dens... www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

The signs are that Starmer's new willingness to take the fight to Farage and Reform UK evaporated as soon as the Labour Conference ended.

Dare you enter THE FORBIDDEN LAWN?!?

Writing in the Scotsman this evening on why support for ID cards has plummeted since Keir Starmer announced his plan. Last week I wrote that I would reject the government’s digital ID card. This week it has emerged that the general public feels the same way. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

Today, 3 October 2025, is the birthday of Charles Duke, the youngest man to walk on the Moon. He is 90. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

Finally got to visit the beautiful Watts Chapel, in Compton, Surrey yesterday. The chapel was created by craftswoman & artist Mary Watts between 1895-1904, with the help of volunteers. It really is a dream of Celtic inspired Christianity, Arts & Crafts & Pre-Raphaelite influence.

Source: BBC search.app/ik7Jx Oh look - another one. Reform seamlessly morphing into the Turquoise Tories. Remember the Tory legacy of the past 10 years? Reform would be that - amplified. Turned out well didn't it!

And he even finds the blue plaque on Chelsea Cottage, which was Malcolm Saville's last home. #winchelsea #rye #sussex

Nathan Gill: from Hull to Moscow via Wales; applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain; how YouTubers monetise hate; the magnificent Nemone Lethbridge; Thunderbirds; market day in Ludlow

The case that was “too big for the government to lose” Because the government famously never loses big cases, which is why government ministers never get cross with judges who rule against them

Former baby loses legal case over Nirvana album cover www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30 years ago on this day in #music the UK #no2 in 1995 was Pulp with Mis-Shapes / Sorted For E's & Wizz Watch a video for here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDK...

♟️ Well done to Junyi Zhang who finished 9th in the FIDE World Cadet Under-12s with 7.5/11 despite being only 11 years old. ♟️ His games included a win against IM Abdalrahman Sameh Mohamed who became Egypt's national chess champion in 2024. ♟️ Table etc at s2.chess-results.com/tnr1234781.a...

Breathtaking Marie Antoinette exhibition at the V&A, from exquisite gowns, diamond bows and toile de jouy to the guillotine thought to have ended her life. Beautifully curated (ignore this thread if you have tickets; it feels like spoilers posting highlights, even when you know how it all ended)

It's by-election Thursday! 5 polls today for 7 seats, defences Ind 3 Lab 2 C 1 RUK 1 Paid subscribers got this yesterday, now the paywall has been removed on Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com:

37264 does a small roar as it approaches Highley with the 1730 Kidderminster Town to Bridgnorth service during the first day of the Severn Valley Railway '65 Years of Class 37' Autumn Diesel Bash.

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Ludlow Castle’ (Readers Digest magazine) Artist: SR Badmin

📢 Lugg Meadow, the UK’s largest remaining Lammas meadow, is under threat from housing plans. A rare habitat, rich in wildlife and tradition, could be irreversibly damaged. 🚫 We’ve objected to the proposal. Now it’s your turn. 👉 Have your say: https://loom.ly/-yNvG6g

And he even finds the blue plaque on Chelsea Cottage, which was Malcolm Saville's last home. #winchelsea #rye #sussex

Home Office ‘missed opportunities’ to assess man who died on Bibby Stockholm

Every link is worth a click.

The signs are that Starmer's new willingness to take the fight to Farage and Reform UK evaporated as soon as the Labour Conference ended.

NEW: Google says hackers associated with the Clop ransomware gang are sending extortion emails to executives at "numerous" organizations after claiming to have stolen their data from a suite of corporate business apps developed by Oracle.

In 1945, artist NC Wyeth was killed when hit by a train at a railway crossing. His stricken son Andrew’s tribute/farewell to him was this enigmatic ‘Winter 1946’, set over the hill from where the accident occurred, and showing himself as a young man running, erratically

Kemi Badenoch is wrong and reckless with our children’s future. The reality is that investing in renewables is the greatest economic growth opportunity in this century and will protect the planet. The Conservatives have gone over the edge into complete irrelevance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act - Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A rare 19th century ‘bier house’, opposite St. Mary’s Church in Keysoe, Bedfordshire…this is where the bier, which was a wheeled contraption for moving coffins from parishioners houses to the church, was kept!

“Tony Blair will bring peace to Palestine” claims rep.

A new comic: A brief history of History at the University of Leicester. You can download the originals and find links to further reading on my blog: incurablearchaeologist.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/l... #skystorians 🏛️🏺🗃️ Individual panels are threaded below:

"Conservatives are only interested in following Farage, not leading Britain" - Pippa Heylings MP, Lib Dem 🔶 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Liberal England Gold... Wizzard: Ball Park Incident

The chimpanzees are wearing black armbands to commemorate the passing of Jane Goodall. The anteaters are wearing bedazzled jeans because they have terrible fashion sense.

The Chase (1946). This is so great. There’s a weird twist, which makes it even greater, but the real gold is in how the ordinary main story is told. There's a B-movie air, but scenes of such depth, beauty, and originality that suggest auteur status for director Arthur Ripley, who I’d never heard of

The bird - named Reggie by locals - was captured by swan warden Cyril Bennis in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and will be rehomed at a centre in Devon.

Seeking silence in sacred places: an agnostic’s love affair An epiphanic moment of silence, stillness and solitude in Liverpool Cathedral led an agnostic to investigate what he had experienced @iankirke.bsky.social

Whilst it is intellectually and emotionally tempting to do so (especially the latter, in this instance, I have seen a lot of “this is on you”, “this is downstream of” and so forth), broadly these crimes are usually committed by people completely divorced from the mainstream.

For #NationalPoetryDay - My own personal Thirities poet, W.T. Nettlefold.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Sometimes the most interesting architecture is not that which has been preserved in aspic or the most aesthetically pleasing. It is that which has changed over many years. Tucked along Goodramgate, Lady Row or Our Lady’s Row is York’s oldest terrace, built in 1316 to fund a

The Spin | County Championship 2025 awards: the final word on the season

Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William services will travel to and from London via the city in the West Midlands. The Lowland service that goes to Glasgow and Edinburgh is unaffected by the change.

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

For #NationalPoetryDay - My own personal Thirities poet, W.T. Nettlefold.

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Awful lot of Reform UK candidates leave for “personal reasons”. Here’s another one: Doncaster councillor leaves Reform UK for "personal reasons", will continue as an independent www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/politic... Second Reform UK councillor in Doncaster in a week.