Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The British Academy invite applications for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The scheme aims to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

Last 🏊🏻‍♂️ 10km!!! (And 🔥❄️ contrast therapy is going well.) My 61km charity 🏊🏻‍♂️ swim for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social continues: DAY 62 Today I swam 1km 020m . Distance to complete challenge = 10km 620m #MonteroSwimsForGAZA 🇵🇸 #MonteroSwims #TBIawareness #Persistence 🔗 tinyurl.com/5fcuhhkv

Latest YouGov UK government approval ratings, 8-10 November 2025 Approve: 13% (+1 from 1-3 Nov) Disapprove: 70% (+1) Net: -57 (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed

On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.

Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek

Barbaric.

🇪🇺🤝🇨🇭 Switzerland is officially in the European research game. Today, it joins Horizon Europe and the Euratom Research and Training Programme. Think CERN-level breakthroughs… but across health, energy, and digital tech. Here’s why it matters ↓ link.europa.eu/G4Jfjw

England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000. Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing. Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation. Misery is a political choice.

5:30am start. That’s another 🏊🏻‍♂️ 1km done at the London Aquatics Centre. My 61km charity 🏊🏻‍♂️ swim for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social continues: DAY 61 Today I swam 1km . Distance to complete challenge = 11km 640m #MonteroSwimsForGAZA 🇵🇸 #TBIawareness #Persistence 🔗 tinyurl.com/5fcuhhkv

Unjustifiable. “The situation in Kent is part of a wider picture of cutbacks to youth services in England that began more than a decade ago.”

'What does justice look like when it comes to the legacy of slavery?' Listen to Marcus Ryder discuss his new book with Lenny Henry, The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations and How They Would Work: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

From Sweden’s heathlands to Spain’s soil, our nature is getting a fresh start 🌍🌱 The LIFE Programme is investing €358 million in 132 new projects to restore habitats, cut pollution, and power the clean transition. Together, we’re building a greener, more resilient 🇪🇺. More: link.europa.eu/JvJ7kR

Yep! Anything with “swimming” in it is good for the 🧠 brain. 😉

We have collated an approved selection of lawyers knowledgeable in supporting those living with acquired brain injury. ukabif.org.uk/search/custo... #ukabif #approvedlawyers #abi #acquiredbraininjury #braininjury #law #legalrights -#lawyers #braininjuryclaims #braininjurysupport

Our full support to 🇮🇹 journalist Gabriele Nunziati dismissed for asking European Commission spokeswoman a question about Israel’s responsibility for the reconstruction of Gaza. It should be no news to Agenzia Nova that public interest journalism sometimes means asking uncomfortable questions.

Bees landing on flower petals, spiders building their webs: See short-listed images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography.

Want your script noticed by the BBC? Join @macneighill.bsky.social on 13 Nov, 1pm for a FREE #PapatangoStudio online workshop. Learn how the BBC Writers Open Call works & what they look for in scripts. Log into the Studio to find the event link. 🔗https://papatango.co.uk/studio/

Excited to welcome Ivan Pitman, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, to our event “Understand Your Role in the Litigation Process.” He’ll share how neuropsychology bridges brain, behaviour & law — and how case managers can collaborate for stronger outcomes. #Litigation #Neuropsychology

This person took this when they called the race

My 61km charity 🏊🏻‍♂️ swim for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social continues: DAY 60 Today I swam 1km 20m . Distance to complete challenge = 12km 640m #MonteroSwimsForGAZA 🇵🇸 #TBIawareness #Persistence 🔗 tinyurl.com/5fcuhhkv

“Le président américain a menacé les électeurs de supprimer les fonds fédéraux à la ville si le jeune candidat démocrate est élu.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

“Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words” 10 quotes worth remembering, and that’ll be glossed over in MSM obits, from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

Israel mata a más de 235 personas en Gaza en 3 semanas Impide la entrada de toda la ayuda necesaria Se anexiona más territorio Amplía su régimen colonial de apartheid Rechaza la nueva petición de la Corte de la Haya ✍️ANÁLISIS | Y ahora, ¿qué? ↘️ www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

“A decision to reject the #ECHR would be tremendously damaging to the #RuleOfLaw both in Europe but also more generally,” the UK judge at the European Court of Human Rights tells @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social👇 🔗 rozenberg.substack.com/p/judging-hu... #HumanRights #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75

Amazing. Watch here m.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKn...

1.11.2025

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families. Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Child poverty is a political choice.

What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Trump is set to launch his attack on Venezuela in the next few hours or days.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Just a couple of days left to apply. Yes, that’s me in blue. I love working with other disabled writers. #disability #disabled #writer #author

Madrid ↔️ Lisbon in just 3 hours – we're on board 🚄 Today, we adopted a plan to complete the Madrid–Lisbon high-speed rail connection by 2034. This is a key step in fully integrating Portugal and Spain into the European high-speed rail network. More → link.europa.eu/kqjJHM

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (=) GRN: 17% (+2) CON: 16% (-1) LAB: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct. Changes w/ 22 Oct.

Abstained? *shakes head*

A UK Jewish Arts Foundation (UKJAF) has been launched with the goal of inspiring connection, collaboration and empowerment within the Jewish creative community in the UK. #NewsInBrief

I always say that rights without obligations are as hollow as impunity without punishment. I couldn’t agree more with my great friend Hakan Altinay—what an excellent piece of writing. Read here: www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/10/righ...

I always say that rights without obligations are as hollow as impunity without punishment. I couldn’t agree more with my great friend Hakan Altinay—what an excellent piece of writing. Read here: www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/10/righ...

Reports that the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have executed over 2,000 unarmed civilians are harrowing. They are crimes against humanity. This government must stop all arms sales to the UAE, especially since evidence shows the RSF is using British military equipment on battlefields in Sudan.

6am start. Fast-lane 4 at the Aquatics Centre. My 61km charity 🏊🏻‍♂️ swim for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social continues: DAY 59 Today I swam 1km . Distance to complete challenge = 13km 660m #MonteroSwimsForGAZA 🇵🇸 #TBIawareness #Persistence 🔗 tinyurl.com/5fcuhhkv

“Ceasefire”.

It is outrageous that parliamentary authorities have rejected @declassifieduk.org’s application for a press pass. This is a flagrant attempt to suppress investigative journalism. I have tabled an EDM urging the authorities to reverse this decision. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Silentium et impunitas potentissima sunt adiuvantes atrocia.

Amazon will cut up 14,000 jobs this week, adding to evidence of a white-collar AI bloodbath.

Videos show Israeli authorities demolishing multiple shops owned by Palestinians near Bab al-Amud in occupied East Jerusalem.

The one and only Emma! 🧠❤️✍🏻