The Great Reform Act of 1832 vs Maroon 5. O tempora, O mores. #Mastermind

It looks to me as if navigating with one of these must have been staggeringly difficult.

BBC really burying the lede there

Alice Sullivan, a leading gender-critical researcher, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky https://ow.ly/7vkp50X4ztK

Wonder if the Azerbaijani fans here are so devoted to their team they'd describe themselves as "Qarabag for life".

Your boyfriend may be French, but is he *this* French

Get me a mixed metaphor and make it a big one.

Went hunting with my buddy We'd had a drink or three He took a bead on a deer he'd seen But the deer turned out to be me I was within shotgun range of Jesus Been here my whole life And if Dick Cheney's been hunting with you Then you've been there too

This is one of those days when we all drown in breaking news - but if you can stomach it: Here is an attempt to step back from the noise and provide a synthesis of where America stands, one year after Trump’s election, and what might be next. Escalation, “normalization,” or a democratic turnaround?

Oxford Congestion Charge: a friend timed their bus journey from Redbridge P&R to Folly bridge and it took 4.5mins during peak hour this morning. The quickest ever! The Iffley Road, however, was less congested but still lots of traffic; St. Clements was pretty clear.

We are constantly told by the media and authorities that these are both 'forest'. One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone. They could not be more different.

Ten years ago today! youtu.be/ujDjF1V79Oo?...

"The disappearance of street football is not inevitable. It is a design problem, a policy question, and a cultural decision" Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing 'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game' #StreetFootball

Clive Myrie is starting to stress the prepositions. "... bought FOR Nightingale." The disease is spreading. #Mastermind

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Great Yews, Wiltshire, a place I used to enjoy visiting, I suppose we all trespassed doing so, no idea really it was a place many locals visited. Having I suppose argued why we should be aware of business costs and the motives of people owning designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/PDFsForWeb/C...

If you live in Caerphilly, are eligible to vote and want to stop the march of an English far-right fascist party that hates Wales (but wants to use us for a boost, before erasing us), then you have one job today: go & vote for Plaid Cymru. Abstain/vote for another party & you are enabling fascists

There are no human rights; there are only the civil rights that we decide to give each other.

We've published a short listicle of eyewitness points about camps and factories in 2018-2019, as delivered by an anonymous camp employee to a journalist during that period: blog.shahit.biz/2025/06/01/1... Very short read, but insightful.

X-Scotia hike-and-fly to return in 2026 – Glencoe is to host the 2026 X-Scotia hike-and-fly race, which will take place over the first weekend of May 2026 – xcmag.com?p=123798?utm...

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social One of your country cousins standing watch over the River Chelmer.

Andrew's autumn odyssey, day two: strava.app.link/E0CwtPoPnXb

Andrew's autumn odyssey, day one: Docklands to Theydon Bois. strava.app.link/8vBURh44lXb

I've stayed in Travelodges with worse views.

Yes - in 2012 I used Facebook to get a lift back to Devil's Dyke after a cross-country paraglider flight to Pulborough.

This is American nonsense designed to keep you locked into your isolated, depressing, car-dependent lifestyle. I know this because I am an expert in urban cooling. Here’s one of my articles about it... bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

We obviously are not shouting at enough hotels:

I don't know hold old this picture is. It's not too outrageous that the artist thought Ben Macdui was higher than Ben Nevis - but what had he or she been smoking to think there was a four thousand foot mountain in Shetland?

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

By 2050, the UK is predicted to be short an estimated 4-5 billion litres of water a day. Clearly, Thames Water's desalination plant hasn't proven an efficient way of making us water secure. But which approaches might work? 🧵 1/10 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tony Harrison. Rest in Peace.

Bloody hell.

Jonty Hitchman lands at Pandy after a two-day autumn flying expedition.

A pleasant autumn 25k from Pandy to Abergavenny. It was spicy at first, but mellowed out nicely.

On Sunday, Chicago hosted an organised swim in the Chicago River - once so polluted it was 'untouchable', decades of environmental protections brought the river back to life - now those protections are in peril. share.google/MlGYSEx4kSv2...

🐜 Insects in trouble at high altitudes A 20-year study in a pristine Colorado meadow found flying insects dropped 72%, linked to warmer summers and rising night temperatures. Even untouched ecosystems are vulnerable. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #SciComm #Ecology 🧪

My friend Sgt Alastair Lamb's 100th birthday party today Lanc rear gunner #RAF Vet of #OperationManna & others Card from King & Queen, visit from the Lord Lieutenant & letter from Defence Attache of Netherlands Amazing man #WW2 @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

50k in September is always a bonus! Milk Hill to near Theale. Back by train to Newbury and then Pewsey. Nice day out.

World Championships 2025: What you need to know – The 19th FAI World Paragliding Championships are about to begin in Castelo, Brazil. Grab the popcorn and your national flag... – xcmag.com?p=122549?utm...

Jarling's Custard Cup? Is that what they're calling the League Cup this season?

A simulacrum.

Your regular friendly reminder that I don't have debates 'around' anything. I have debates 'about' things. 'Around' is one of the wishy washy indirect non-confrontational reasons we're in the sodding mess we're in.

you're going to have to do something about libellous labellers before somebody sues you. Because somebody will. That's my feedback.

"Have a vagina but don’t like gossip? Sex is so very complex! Who knows what anyone is?" Victoria Smith, not quite paraphrasing Augustin Fuentes

42 km from Combe Gibbet to Medstead. Very pleasant.