Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge.

I hope the media don’t let up in their scrutiny of his various affairs. In many ways he should now come under an even bigger spotlight. Too many changing stories and unanswered questions. His bots will be in full swing.

Along with @justtreatment.org & 17 other health related orgs and unions as part of the SOS NHS Coalition, we have written to prospective PM @andyburnham.bsky.social to ask him to meet us, and to urgently change course on the NHS. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

First they came for people who had secretly taken millions of pounds in cash and gifts from a crypto-billionaire and a convicted criminals then been really twattish about it, but I did not speak up because it sounded like they kind of had it coming.

I missed this one a few weeks ago. It fills in lots of interesting background to the funding scandals that are hitting Farage and Reform right now.

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

"Make America Healthy Again." @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

“Everything I’ve achieved and everything that brought me to this place came to me through books and reading.” Chris Evans MP hosted us today at the All Party Writers Group Summer Party which was dedicated to the National Year of Reading #GoAllIn2026 📚

“Children need support, motivation and encouragement so that reading becomes part of their discourse, in the home and at school. Books need to be a part of our daily lives.” Andrew Ettinger @literacytrust.org.uk shared with us what the #NationalYearOfReading is all about & why it matters 🙌

And let your kids see you reading something that isn't a phone.

Don't forget, if you receive a R*form leaflet through the letterbox, politely write on it “return to sender - no longer at the address” find the biggest envelope you have, put the leaflet inside and return it to the printers, free post. They will still be liable for postage. Thank you.

You’re all going to be very disappointed when he just announces that he’s going on Strictly.

7/7/1861 — b. Nettie Maria Stevens, American geneticist, biologist. Discoverer of sex chromosomes; confirmed that chromosomes X and Y determined the sex of an individual by observing that male mealworms produced two types of sperm (1905) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #SciSky #HistSci #genetics

"There was also a widespread belief that baptism conferred legal freedom. As Al Nasir explained: “The argument was that you can’t baptise a thing, you can only baptise a person – and because he’s a person, you cannot treat him as property."

If his gob is anything to go by. The gateway to corruption and hell.

Ooh! Bookmarked 👍😊😊

“This is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

Skilfully produced by one woman over several years at the end of the 19th century, the woodwork inside St Beuno's, Penmorfa, Gwynedd is both intricately detailed and emotionally powerful. 1/9

That woman was Mrs Constance Mary Greaves, the wife of Richard Methuen Greaves, a slate quarry proprietor. Constance spent almost three years carving the angel lectern, pulpit, and chancel screen ahead of the grand opening of the church in April 1900. 2/9

The finest piece of Constance’s work has to be the angel lectern, for which it is said that she had a live model. Her skill is truly breathtaking as there is such an ethereal beauty and solemn innocence to this captivating depiction of this mediative angel. 3/9

Next to the lectern is the richly decorated pulpit, which features a panel depicting St Beuno’s, the medieval saint to which the church is dedicated. St Beuno was a 7th-century Welsh saint, abbot, and confessor. 4/9

Then, as a backdrop to these two wonderful carvings, there is Constance’s remarkable chancel screen. Carved in a Jacobethan style, the screen has ionic pilasters and riotous strapwork. 5/9

The installation of Constance’s amazing pieces of woodwork was part of a broader programme of refurbishment of the church at the end of the 19th century. 6/9

During this restoration, the pews were replaced with new oak chairs and the floor renewed using petrifite. The old pews, pulpit, and reading desk were cut up and reused as dado boarding around the nave. 7/9

Finally, there’s the font, installed in memory of Marian Owen in 1887, and its extravagant eagle cover, which is an addition from the late 1950s. 8/9

St Beuno's, Penmorfa came into our care in 1999 and, in 2023-4, we were able to carry out some minor repairs to the church, including fixing the roof, overhauling the rainwater goods, and renewing the windows. 9/9

Private equity controls large parts of UK economy & public services. It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability. PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information Company law is not fit-for-purpose.

Oh you've got to read some of the comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness

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Ta dah!

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

A reminder that the historian's most essential role is to call out bullshit.

Which, frankly, is even more absurd. The whole point of a suspension is punishment - it affects you going forward. A suspension in 12 months time has far lower impact.

Inspired by the Tour de France, we're digging out the board games Snakes-&-ladders-esque 'Wheeling' was produced in the 1890s/1900s to cash in on the cycling boom Can YOU escape police, an unfortunate pedestrian, spikey farm machinery and a weird mossy surface to end up safely at a Derbyshire pub?

CEOs are backpedalling en masse on claims that AI will take jobs; one survey suggests adoption correlates with more hiring. “They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

They might as well be describing the whole White House administration; but it's only football and not a matter of life and death, whatever Bill Shankly said...

Rialto Bridge, Venice. Another by my partner, Clare Caulfield. Watercolour, pastel and pencil. Giclee print: £94 plus P&P Check it out on Etsy: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

👉 NEW — Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel By Phil Miller, Alex Morris & Hanna-Johara Dokal Minister Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza www.declassifieduk.org/foreign-mini...

Might stay up till 3am tonight to support Belgium

UK has a high rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. 5-year-olds 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe. 1m children in England referred to mental health services. Child poverty results in economic loss of £40bn a year. Yet no govt plan to eradicate poverty.

Seeing Americans explaining why Mexico should have won and that England were only lucky is truly hilarious. The world’s ‘experts’ have entered the stage.

Climbed the ladder and pulled it up for other women so she could present it to men. Social justice my arse.

Spot on. Quisling.

Reform UK's Robert Jenrick told the BBC: "You're allowed to accept a gift, support, whatever you want to call it, from a personal friend before you're an MP if it's in a purely personal capacity. So there is absolutely nothing to see in this story" but (whoops) ... via Truth Against Hate

Blackpool airport was great. I hate Manchester airport with a burning passion.

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The first and last Summer Olympics to include the genital tug of war.

So presumably King Charles now phones FIFA and insists that the England-Norway match is moved to Stamford Bridge?