I sincerely hope they do decide to take this stance. He can’t be allowed to bully the rest of the world into submission.

“The EU's anti-coercion instrument is the bloc's most powerful retaliatory tool, designed to respond to deliberate coercive actions from third countries that use trade measures to pressure the policy choices of the EU or its members.”

Plaster models showing eye diseases, made by French doctor Félix Thibert in the 1830s. He wanted all doctors to have access to a clinical picture of all common diseases so produced a series of models like these intended as a three dimensional encyclopaedia

🕊 RIP Dr #GladysWest. The mathematician whose work in the Navy made GPS possible has passed away, aged 95. Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2020...

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Demented and Dangerous Trump tells Norway Prime Minister: "The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland." He no longer feels "an obligation to think purely of Peace" after Norway "decided not to give" him the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the biggest danger to peace.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Blue Monday is not really real but the New Order record (released March 1983) is real. I was the union rep for a large office complex opposite the Hacienda (Manchester). The office is long gone & the Hacienda is flats... youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us

What's that 'next thing' going to be though?

To paraphrase Upton SInclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his pathological narcissism depends on his not understanding it."

Ah we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday

Nearly all of the flimsy tents in displacement camps have been rendered unusable due to the harsh winter conditions.

Recommended classic texts on the background, dynamics and politics of the 1926 General Strike in Britain, in this 100th anniversary year - one book a day @strikemap.org @keithbeard.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social

Hurrah for PLR! 🥳Ewald Arenz takes the lead as my most borrowed author this year... Translators, don't forget to register your books for both PLR and @alcs.co.uk including ebooks and audiobooks 💙📚 #LibrariesRock #PLRday #tinyjoys

It's Public Lending Rights day. Thank you to the library services, all who work for them, and to the 7500 or so people who have recently borrowed my books

“If the prison service doesn’t get these biological males out of women’s prisons they cannot call these women’s prisons. The [Supreme Court] ruling was quite clear that the Equality Act sex means biological sex." Rhona Hotchkiss, ex-Cortonvale Governor.

👏👏👏 Great judgment. Simple language. No AI slop (aka Judge Kemp). For all those who still don't understand the For Women Scotland SC ruling:

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Another day, another reason to to say “Stop! Stop! Satire’s already dead!”

"The protection of female workers from harassment and the defence of safe working conditions are, quite literally, the reason unions exist. So, where were they?" Quite. labourheartlands.com/the-naked-tr...

Excellent article. The Unions should be squirming now their failure to stand up for women’s basic human rights has been exposed.

The Darlington nurses have spoken publicly on Good Morning Britain about their employment tribunal case. They describe how raising concerns about privacy and dignity led to distress, isolation and complaints being dismissed. The tribunal found unlawful harassment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CciU...

'Storm approaching Portobello, Edinburgh' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart

Statue of Anne Lister (1791-1840) by artist Diane Lawrenson, Halifax, UK, unveiled by actress Suranne Jones (who played the landowning diarist & adventurer in the TV series 'Gentleman Jack'). Lister is often described as "the first modern lesbian". #WomensArt

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in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

I love that Varoufakis uses the word 'chuffed' 😁

Happy 80th to an icon

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God. Has it only been a year?

"switch party, stand again" automatic by-election petition is spreading out nicely - past 30K now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I love Beryl Cook 💖I'll be listening.

Expand credit unions to boost cheap credit to low-income people, Labour MPs urge. Laudable but not a substitute for equitable distribution of income/wealth, universal basic services, curbs on profiteering 24m Britons live below minimum living standards.

Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests. Read that again. When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.

During the late 1930s, photograher Helen Levitt recorded New York life, including neighborhood children at play creating their art with chalk in the street #WomensArt

14 US states have abortion bans, leading to a rise in maternal and infant mortality. Global experience shows that criminalizing abortion doesn't increase birth rates - it risks women’s health and lives, making it harder to obtain legal medical care and forcing them into clandestine abortions.

Happy birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809. Doom. Plague. Despair. Revenge. Madness. Creeping existential horror. You would have loved 2026.

Billionaire wealth jumps to highest ever at $18.3 trillion, up 16% in 2025, up 81% since 2020 Half the world lives in poverty. Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than normal people. Richest 56 Britons hold more wealth than 27m. Concentration of wealth is a danger.

Trump hasn’t ended a single war.

Sorry, but it’s sounding more and more like the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because we have been allies so long, it doesn’t mean we should hang on to it. Would you tell a woman to stay with a violent drunk because they’d been together 20 years? No! You’d tell her to leave and help her to do it.

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

It's not the biggest issue today, but this statement should be given in Parliament. This isn't fuddy-duddyism. It allows MPs to ask questions, puts other parties on the record, and, most importantly, doesn't allow a PM to pick the audience: a power that Starmer does not abuse, but future PMs will.

"To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe." 🌍✒️ Remembering #BruceChatwin, English #travel writer ("In Patagonia") and novelist, who #DOTD 18 January 1989. #TravelWriting

🎨 #RenatoGuttuso, Italian painter, #theatre set designer, and politician, #DOTD 18 January 1987. #Art #Painting #Politics