RIP Tom Stoppard. It was a joy and privilege to see his plays over the years and they will live on. www.reuters.com/world/uk/tom...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Thin Lizzy Albert King Paco de Lucía Johnny Ventura Caetano Veloso

29 November 1929 | A Czech Jew, Tibor Taglicht, was born. As a refugee he went to Norway. He was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Vera in March 1943. He was selected as able to work. He asked to stay with his younger sister. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.

Famously, white European societies have all been non-violent for millenia /s

Soviet journo Mikhail Koltsov (right) discussing battle map with anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. Bujaraloz, Aragón 16 Aug 1936. 17yearold Marina Ginestà (Barcelona Hotel Colon photo) on left interpreting for group in French. Photo Juan Guzmán, colourised by historiacolor.

Putin’s poodle

The UK government’s budget is simply managing decline. The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth. Can't grow economy by hiking taxes on low/middle income families. Whatever happened to taxing the rich?

FYI @kathylove.bsky.social @nialloconghaile.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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Our built environment isn't ready for the changes we've made to our natural environment.

Visto #Bella animación dirigida a concienciar adolescentes de la violencia de género de la mano de www.fundacionanabella.org y ofrece una reflexión muy útil para los adultos también:

24 November 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Alex Weijel, was born in Enschede. In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

Well, that's aged like rancid Surströmming wrapped in a durian nappy and shoved down a festival toilet in a gastroenteritis outbreak.

Menuda pieza.

So he's OK with journalists being kidnapped, murdered and dismembered?

Excellent article in The Observer by journalist and author Dan Hancox about Spain's Historical Memory movement and our Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda observer.co.uk/style/featur...

The best that can be said about Starmer is that he is worthy but dull. In truth he is turning out to be dull without being worthy. His team need the bravery to target the very richest in the budget & to help people invest to cut their energy bills and CO2. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

#YaphetKotto photographed with co-stars Roger Moore, Tommy Lane, Jane Seymour and Arnold Williams on location at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, on the set of the eighth #JamesBond film "LIVE AND LET DIE" (1973) dir. Guy Hamilton 🎞 Eon Productions

A reminder that clean energy doesn’t raise costs, it lowers them. Protecting our planet and our economy go hand in hand. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution

On this day, 45 years ago, #Visage released their debut album "Visage" including their breakout hit "Fade To Grey". Dan LeRoy for AllMusic wrote "this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated #newromantic movement", calling it "a consistently fine creation".

Robin (Eurasian robin) #birds #photography

It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels. For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.

Visto #Popel y suscribo que dicho por filmaffinity: "Este largometraje documental no solo es un tributo a los héroes anónimos, sino una llamada a preservar la memoria de quienes nunca debieron ser olvidados".

"Yes, our BBC is highly imperfect. Yes, it sometimes fails its own standards. But that’s precisely the point – it has standards, unlike the billionaire-funded alternatives."

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Si esto es cierto, pocas veces me he enterado de hechos tan abyectos. elpais.com/internaciona...

This is a key point that UK (and a lot of Joiners) don't get. They treat the EU like a sovereign country open to deals and big concessions. They do not appreciate it is an entity of laws and rules partly expressed via carefully constructed MS agreements. Hence the "UK is a special case" fallacy.

10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague. Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen. Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

What if computer code is nonbinary. What if computer code gender is a spectrum

The Wall stood for 28 years, it fell OTD 36 years ago.

Woodlice on rusty iron make a quite Martian scene

Hey, corned beef has long been expensive.

Spain’s world-leading organ donation system and medical innovation have earned the country multiple Guinness World Records in 2026, celebrating surgical firsts, record-breaking transplants, and health awareness feats that highlight a model admired around the globe. euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/07/s...

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

7 November 1935 | French Jewish boy, Claude Weinstock, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 17 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.” Hear, hear, Ed Miliband. (But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Visto #CiudadSinSueño y suscribo todo lo dicho abajo, que le hace justicia a una peli inpresindible. Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social @academiadecine.bsky.social @bteampictures.bsky.social.

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".

Visto e suscribo lo de comedia gélida, y tanto. ¿Quién no se ha sentido así alguna vez en la vida? Preestreno gracias a @diasdecine.bsky.social @gerardoquietman.bsky.social @academiadecine.bsky.social @bteampictures.bsky.social.

RIP