At Piccadilly Circus #London

Hyde Park Winter Wonderland

Ladt night, approaching The Royal Albert Hall #London 👍

Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What is it like to find a fake video of yourself promoting supplements on TikTok? A Full Fact investigation, published exclusively by @theguardian.com, reveals how wellness products are being endorsed on social media by fake AI versions of real experts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove

Roman & Imperial Fora #Rome

Colosseum #Rome

Colosseum #Rome

This is what happens when you play goal music at home.

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

It's often the case politicos, including me, will explain away growing support for Reform due to people facing deprivation and struggling. Maybe that was the case, but now? If you support Reform with policies like this you have zero "legitimate concerns". You're a far right ethno-nationalist racist.

Amazing to go from ‘not a racist’ to ‘they breed like rabbits’ in the space of two paragraphs.

Yes, yes you are. Stop cosplaying "legitimate concerns". When you join a far right rally, organised by well known far right leader Tommy Robinson, with a host of speakers who outright say they are far right, you are a racist. No ifs, buts or maybes. There are no excuses for being there.

This medicine chest dates from the 18th century. The chest includes 2 pewter containers & 10 glass bottles, 9 of which have pewter tops and one that has a glass top. The design of this bottle is slightly different and may be a replacement, it would have contained peppermint oil.

1/2 Prime example of how far right propagandists have succeeded, paving the way for Farage. Aside from the brave @bbcdomc.bsky.social who objected on the news last night, the BBC now uses the term ‘illegal immigrant’ to refer to people claiming asylum, a legal right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

Two skeletons from more than 20 people found buried at the Tower of London are now offering new insights about life in early 16th-century London. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exc...

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

This is a horrifying story

Back again for a new season! Not a very Champions-of-the-World start though... 🙃 #cfc

Today at Stamford Bridge 👍 on way to see #Chelsea v #ACMilan pre season friendly #CFC

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

London’s doors are opening up this September for the London Open House Festival, and a preview of the participating venues has been released. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Congrats to all my fellow portfolio company supporters.

As Trump refuses to leave the stage, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer is all of us, all the time. “What is he doing?!” (🎥 CH5 Sport)

This is a vascular corrosion cast of a heart by Dr. Christoph von Horst. The earliest known use of corrosion casting was by the scientist Robert Boyle in 1663. In this example: the red represents the arterial blood supply and blue represents the venous blood supply through the organ.

Heartbreaking to read of a child in the UK dying from an entirely preventable infectious disease. Measles can be a vicious & deadly illness. The MMR vaccine offers superb protection & there is NO link between the vaccine and autism, contrary to what many medical charlatans try to peddle. (1/3)

Desperately sad. We have the means to protect children - but with vaccination rates dropping to their lowest in 10 years, so many are at risk.

This is a clockwork surgical saw from c.1850. Once wound up it would spin at a high speed, but there was no way to control the speed or stop it once it was going. This made it incredibly dangerous for both the patient and the surgeon. Luckily for everyone, it did not catch on.

Caldey Island near Tenby

Tenby

Tenby harbour

Evening News, 30 Apr 1970, after Chelsea FC won the FA Cup replay. (British Newspaper Archive) @cfcheritage.bsky.social

Here's your #DailyDistraction from this hellish dystopia. “One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.

Nasty racist rant of a sort that isn't new to London, which somehow survived and thrived through all its predecessor articles such as when some of my ancestors arrived.

One of the largest collections of Roman decorative plaster ever found in London has been uncovered in Southwark. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/maj...

This art & anatomy lecture notebook belonged to Edinburgh surgeon Patrick Heron Watson, c.1856. The only @rcsed.bsky.social Fellow to have been President twice, some argue he inspired his pupil Arthur Conan Doyle's character 'Dr Watson'. Digitised here: archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary. Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

the 2020s seem to be characterised by a whole slew of incredible technical breakthroughs in healthcare counterbalanced by, uh, politics

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Been to see London's newest treasure house yet? Free to visit, just turn up

Chiswick House and Gardens

Apparently it's Sherlock Holmes day so of course we have to share the real Sherlock, Edinburgh surgeon and RCSEd President, Joseph Bell! Here he is with some letters from his former pupil, Arthur Conan Doyle that confirm Bell as inspiration for Doyle's literary detective.