I’m thrilled that the Guardian Saturday magazine has excerpted one of my favourite chapters from THE ASSET CLASS this weekend: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

When your output is too poor for a vanity publisher 🤭

Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia. From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD. 📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum 🏺

If you find yourself in Devizes, the museum has a superb temporary exhibition of John Piper's paintings, drawings and collages - many in private collections and never exhibited before. And an abstract Avebury stone circle in stained glass that was entirely new to me.

🎯🎯🎯 Their counterargument has always been, and never been more complex than, "Shut up, ugly."

If you're near Trent Bridge - there's cricket today!! 🏏 #Cricket

If Matt Goodwin 'saw it with his own eyes', why didn't he immediately report it to the electoral officials in the relevant polling station? That would have been his patriot duty, surely?

#Baturday 🦇: #Bat by Fabergé, c. 1900 Carved agate set with demantoid garnet eyes; W 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.) www.bonhams.com/auction/2084...

Anyone know a nice bar in central #Brussels with outdoor seating that isn’t a tourist trap? Sitting in central square and too worn out to look thing up #crowdsourcing

10.25 AM. UK National Grid is currently whacking out 65.8% output by wind alone, solar another 23.3%. We are generating 114% of our demand & exporting 10% (4.7GW) to Europe & also replenish our pumped storage supply - using 4%. Fossil fuel is only generating 7.9% of output. #renewables #windpower

The Easter holidays are the perfect time to explore the best of London. Most TfL services will be running as normal, with a few closures for essential maintenance. Make sure to plan your journey before you head out. tfl.gov.uk/info-for/med....

Ah fuck it, this account’s not just unfollow worthy, they’re block-worthy

hey book history pps, who researches the development of prayer cards? surely someone must? yeah they're ephemera and so the corpus is entirely scattered and ad hoc but some have survived, so surely someone studies them??

I'm not going to break the wheel.......I'm just going to play on the wheel........wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Anyway,

Poor Nigel. He's probably sat there thinking "it was one cat, once, and I thought it was mine anyway."

I was once in a somewhat alarming toilet in a French service station and heard a woman in the next stall say, somewhat desperately, "Non! Non! Ce n'est pas chocolat, NE TOUCHE PAS!"

I don't understand how the Labour leadership can produce a policy whose effect is 'you are not going to come and study here because if you do you might apply for asylum and we might award it to you because you come from a dangerous country [and one that might punish studying abroad]'.

For the #SundayPix early birds, this week's these is Before and After, the hashtag being #SundayPixBefore&After All interpretations welcome, seasonal, growth, decor, whatever works for you.

YO! YOYOYOYOYO! Stop everything! The new Willy's Chocolate Experience just dropped! I bring you: BARBIE DREAMFEST! www.reddit.com/r/Barbie/com...

In all good bookstores and online from Monday 30 March. If you can’t wait until then, advance signed copies available from www.starsonsundaybook.com “A superb book…a must buy” Daren Mootoo, 98 Not Out “A really evocative record of a wonderful era” David Griffin, Derbyshire CCC historian ❤️🏏 💙📚💡

Am convinced that my bank is maintaining its branch network purely because my mum sends me a cheque once a year and you can't pay cheques in via the app. 😁

The performative cruelty of this move is such that it doesn't even, as far as I can tell, exempt the FCO's Chevening Scholarship scheme.

If you aren’t a citizen but are eligible to vote there’s a fairly quick deadline here in the UK to register. Check your local authority website

A gobsmacking level of hypocrisy from the British govt. You cannot condemn the Taliban for refusing an education while slamming the door in the face of those same women when they come to study in the UK. You can't speak out of both sides of your mouth.

Greater Manchester Police has found "no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting" in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after Reform made a complaint over alleged "family voting" The investigation looked at potential offences under the Representation of the People Act

"Get off your phone and go outside!" ... "Not like that!"

This man wanted to bring his guns to the UK when he was over for a conference and was most upset when the police said "no you don't."

We are delighted to announce that @jackthurston.bsky.social is coming to Edinburgh to talk about his new book, Lost Lanes Scotland (published in May). Get your tickets for "Jack Thurston: Lost Lanes Scotland" here edfoc.org.uk/events/event...

Nobody is beyond redemption but some convictions should bar you permanently from positions of power. This man should not be in a position to influence the laws on assault.

If this cat wasn't carved from life I will eat one of my many hats (not the expensive one, I'm not daft). Look at its face.

It must be very difficult to be a headteacher with precisely 0 sense of humour, because you can't spot when your students are taking the piss. Possibly even negative sense of humour in this case.

I want to talk to you about cycling and hip arthritis It surprises a lot of people, and needs to be more widely understood I have a hip replacement next month, this thread is my experience, but I know others have found the same 🧵

BBC News - Meet the dads learning how to style their daughters' hair www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A stunning recreation of the bronze helmet found in a prehistoric grave in North Bersted West #Sussex On display in the #Novium Museum #Chichester Customised with two crescentic openwork crests, this was undoubtedly one of the blingiest hats in the British Iron Age 📷 March 2026 #FindsFriday

Britain, whilst maintaining it is not a "papers, please" society, requires the papers but doesn't provide them.

Do you know how annoying a person has to be for a Franciscan friar to suggest burning them at the stake?

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The long shadows of Maggie Thatcher and her dislike of Red Ken. When the GLC was abolished, responsibility for the bridges was transferred to one of the councils a bridge had a foot in, not shared, and no extra money to go with it. And, well, here we are. This is only going to get worse as decades

@princesssofvp.bsky.social happy birthday!

I suppose something like this would be one way to get buy-in for digital ID cards (museum staff are quoted as saying this can't happen until those are brought in, with the unspoken next sentence being "because we don't want to be in the papers when one of our staff accidentally does a racism").

This could be fun, given that the stars are all children, and last I checked, children grow up in a predictable and linear fashion.

Keep aware county members

Not sure how they’re gonna keep 100,000 runners a secret but I’d like to see it

Stunning 4,600 year-old silver bracelets with inlaid semi-precious stones in the shape of butterflies! 🦋🦋🦋🦋 They belonged to Egyptian Queen Hetepheres. From her tomb at Giza. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, c. 2613-2494 BC. Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

Me failing to fix a leaking tap... In my UK house, safety valves are hidden in hard to access places, clearly designed to be installed rather than maintained, and a key one has stopped working. Has plumbing tech improved in the last 10 or 20 years, should I get a plumber to install better valves?

✨Manifesting✨ I hope the CEO of Thames Water and whoever gave the crayons to the roadworks designer catch an interesting variety of water-borne diseases and shit themselves inside out for a fortnight. Bastards.

The news isn't half depressing. Have a swan.

Another call for the hive-mind of Bluesky! Can any paleography experts identify the occupation of Susannah Cowell, shown here on her student registration card? She was a student at Battersea Polytechnic in 1927, taking a course in Laundry Work. #archives #educationhistory #trickyhandwriting