Jo Come, O Come Emmanuel.
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Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
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Birds of 2025: Chaffinch Pigeon Sparrow Goldfinch Robin Dunnock Jackdaw Starling
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Tom Roberts
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"Yes, you see, that letter was actually indeed for Edwina and I don't actually know how the mix up occurred.."
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Daniel Sugarman
about 23 hours ago
Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.
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I’m an Edwardian barrister who is manipulated into investigating a murder.
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Robert Saunders
about 1 hour ago
I'm a Roman orator in a collapsing republic. So basically still an academic.
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Jonathan Calder
about 1 hour ago
"A compromise to move the planned development outside the hill fort tipped the balance in favour of building it there rather than Stiperstones, and government approval was given in 1972." God only knows what horrors a transmitter on top of the Stiperstones would have broadcast into people's houses.
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The Shropshire landmark that could have ended up 20 miles away - BBC News
How a TV transmitter ended up on one of Shropshire's most famous hills 50 years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0je542374zo.amp
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This is definitely not the worst position Portillo held during his political career, but it might be the one he’s most embarrassed to see come out…
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Dreadnought Holiday
about 2 hours ago
Glad nobody was hurt when the lines parted - the forces involved in this sort of thing are phenomenal.
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I sat next to Melvyn Bragg at Mass once and was entirely oblivious until someone told me afterwards. (Not really a massive celebrity but the best I can do….)
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a) this is a stupid game played on the basis of no evidence beyond vibes b) did this person actually watch the King’s Speech?
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Kelsey Atherton
about 6 hours ago
Thirteen years ago that I discovered 1) the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln war elephants, and 2) he refused. Consider, instead: what if he had not
blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/d...
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Rian Johnson
about 6 hours ago
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Iron Spike
about 10 hours ago
Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in North America: "Look, three pennies and a belt buckle! Best day on the beach ever!" Metal detectorists/mudlarkers in Great Britain: "Remember to report all the dead bodies and live WWII-era ordnance you find. They have a form at the office."
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There’s a fair amount of money in knitting, to be fair *looks ruefully at stash*
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Someone I was at university with is doing Thought For the Day tomorrow. I don’t feel so much old as “mildly bemused.”
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I still haven’t forgiven them for Nigel. In fact I don’t think I’ve listened to a full episode since…
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Dean: pronouns: thou, thee, thy/thine
about 16 hours ago
#tec
On Holy Innocents' Day: "Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy, all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace." I think of the children in Gaza, Ukraine,....
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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)
about 16 hours ago
A genuine vintage Glasgow Central destination board in signwriter’s Rail Alphabet I have referred to this artefact here before and I referred to it several times at The Other Place but always with the excuse that I couldn’t show you it because it was in storage … It is finally out of storage!
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*insert man in hot dog suit meme here* (Not that the Daily Mail are the only guilty party, but they're pretty high up there...)
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about 17 hours ago
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Adam Keiper
1 day ago
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-rockwell-museum-magafication-trump-culture-dhs
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Jay Hulme
about 21 hours ago
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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flyingrodent
about 23 hours ago
When they talk about freedom, they have always been specifically talking about their own freedom and that of people like them, and not everyone’s liberty. Their freedom is entirely compatible with you being clubbed in the teeth by a policeman in space marine armour, and at some points depends on it.
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Amrk
about 24 hours ago
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
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Unexpected moment of Radio 3 descending into, um, appreciating Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn…
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
1 day ago
Tiny reform that could make life easier: allow birth registration in borough of residence, rather than that of birth. Nevertheless, it’s v Christmassy to be taking a long multi-modal journey on a cold day, in order to undertake census duties in the borough of birth, on orders of Caesar Hollandus.
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Stephen Bush
about 24 hours ago
Begum left the UK *a year* after the Isis Beatles were frontpage news and after other countries had gone 'yeah, we are passing specific "don't go there" laws'. So much of our politics is driven by a Conservative party that values little beyond a doomed attempt to save its own face.
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Stephen Bush
about 24 hours ago
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
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Norse Hagiography Network
1 day ago
Today is the feast of St Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who suffered martyrdom at the hands of a group of knights in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. News of Thomas’ death spread quickly through Latin Christendom, & the cult of the saint arrived in the Norse world already in the 1170s. (1/n)
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Rupert Lowe’s views are disgraceful, racist, and inhumane, and should have no place in public life.
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about 24 hours ago
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Arthur Snell
1 day ago
No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
in today’s
@dailymailpolitics.bsky.social
ragingly antisemitic?
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Becky Wallower
1 day ago
#MedievalMonday
On Feast Day of
#StThomasBecket
, this exceptional font in Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, where saint was v popular. Made 20 years after Becket's 1170 assassination, Henry II shown as instigating murder. On L he holds a scroll inscribed REX H[EN]ricus. On R knights attack the archbishop.
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Alex Andreou
1 day ago
Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.
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Alison
1 day ago
As a time traveller trying to blend in on meeting Clement Attlee in 1945 "Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!" [We expertly do a low five] "Up above!" [Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]
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Alex Andreou
1 day ago
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
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Not very seasonal!
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Following. I frequently look at Narthex and Birds is a reliable source of cheer.
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The National
1 day ago
This is the earliest Scottish-minted coin ever found. It was struck almost 900 years ago during the reign of King David I of Scotland. The coin has now been saved for the nation 👏
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Quite apart from the whole “are we the baddies” aspect, Sauron’s security was famously not as watertight as he thought….
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦
1 day ago
Make equity intentional! "Gender inequality: How having children affects women’s careers" "The greatest risk is anticipatory reassignment: tasks are moved not because performance has changed, but because of assumptions about future availability or commitment."
www.euronews.com/business/202...
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Gender inequality: How having children affects women’s careers
Gender inequality goes beyond visible and measurable gaps. Even subtle shifts in women’s job tasks after having children can significantly undermine their long-term career prospects.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/12/26/gender-inequality-what-happens-to-womens-jobs-after-children
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I’ve been thinking about this since yesterday and I have to accept this is mine:
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DC
1 day ago
Yes. This. Grr. (See also Greek!)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crĐ´p | Viv Groskop
To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/28/the-hill-i-will-die-on-faux-cyrillic?fbclid=IwZnRzaAO-Vo9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeSQBJg2mH1-OfVOMh64EyJ1M1qrSQZc_XKWhV8SGH8BaUOM9UAdm0Wki61Ik_aem_53OThQJMPl--2mjOswlDzg
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BCP Minus Context
1 day ago
And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee;
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Steve McKerrall
1 day ago
This fantastic Red-shouldered hawk parenting was another of my favorites in 2025. It was some great luck finding this nest and I spent a lot of time watching them 🤩
#birds
#raptors
#2025recap
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I actually managed to make some Christmas cookies today, and now I’m decanting the quince gin I made earlier in the year.
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This looks like a great station (and I share the blogger’s frustration that five years on, there are still so many tatty social distancing signs cluttering up the place. Why won’t people take them down/ scrub them off?)
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
1 day ago
Current spellcheckers are messing with my head because I am truly a terrible speller. When I see the spellchecker trying to change "dissipated" into "disspiated," I get nervous, like, "Oh shit, have I been spelling this wrong forever?" But no. It's just undermining my confidence with bullshit.
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EOW Without Context
8 days ago
the mystery of God transcends all categories of knowing
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Zito
2 days ago
LeMonde said, not on our watch
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Helen King
1 day ago
It’s nearly 2026, when the Church of England elects General Synod again. And a lot hangs on this.
viamedia.news/2025/12/28/t...
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The Archbishop and the Ballot Box: Why 2026 Will Be a Critical Year for the Church of England - ViaMedia.News
by Nic Tall, National Co-ordinator of Together for the Church of England When future church historians look back at 2026 and judge what most shaped the direction of the Church of England in that year,...
https://viamedia.news/2025/12/28/the-archbishop-and-the-ballot-box-why-2026-will-be-a-critical-year-for-the-church-of-england/
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New-Cleckit Dominie
2 days ago
Some updates to an old post, with the aid of some newly digitised Burgh Records. This is the one about Glasgow's first and most celebrated Mysterious Fire, in which I try to clear the name of the local Hell-Fire Club (who quite possibly didn't exist).
new-cleckit.dominie.scot/who-burnt-do...
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Rosamundi
2 days ago
delighted to see a spammy account get their ECBs confused. (Hugh Morris is a former Chief Executive of the England & Wales Cricket Board)
#cricket
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