I've published something (finally)! It's been in my head for a long time. Relieved to have it out in the wild. On to the next thing. #medievalwales #pottery www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Walked past Jon Snow picking up a suit from the dry cleaners.

You might think that a man who drove into 100 people, using his car as a weapon, would NEVER be allowed to drive again. It turns out he will be able to, around three years after leaving prison by taking an extended retest. Why should he ever be able to get behind the wheel again?

All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.

Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered? Yeah, as I was saying...

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!

#SpotifyWrapped is garbage. Utterly meaningless rubbish that doesn't represent how people actually engage with music. ...Hang on. It just ranked my listening age as 17. As a totally secure middle-aged man, I must say, Wrapped is the most accurate, best thing to ever happen to music data

Look, here’s another actually good thing our benighted government has done. Like, really good

PSA: be the joy you want to see in the world, listen to Last Christmas immediately

Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.

For the love of god just build HS2 in full!

Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.

Would love some in-depth numbers on what the majority of 20-30 somethings basically paying a 9% higher marginal tax rate has actually done to economic behaviour. Feels very under-discussed bsky.app/profile/igma...

Win the euromillions. Use it to open The Wayward Leaf, a bookshop hidden on the Welsh coastal path near Cemaes Head, accessible only on foot.

Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

I don’t think we should steal jewellery of asylum seekers when they arrive in the UK

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

F*** SAKE. David Cameron's 'cutting the green crap' cost us billions, left people in cold homes, and ended up costing the treasury billions in energy subsidy. And now they'll do the same bloody thing the absolutle [REDACTED]S www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another round of horrific university cuts. Sign to stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham chng.it/cT77GCTg

Any home owner ripping out a garden hedge for crappy fencing should be forced to be replace it with a solar fence (but the owner should never see any profit as punishment for destroying said hedge)

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for inciting an insurrection. Why is the Director General of the BBC resigning?

The government seems to really hate the cities of the East Mids

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

So happy to see this article out! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3... In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Oof, Marathon Eryri was tough today with *all* the weather late October has to offer on display. Amazing experience though, and such lovely support along the route.

can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff

This takes me back to early in my career, when I worked for an archaeological contractor who decided to try jet-washing finds—including oyster shells—to speed things up. It went about as well as you’d expect.

Claire Ward is a bit useless. She ran—and now rules—as if she can’t stand the main cities in the area she leads, but you just know she’ll expect our votes when election time comes back around. www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

Would something like this have happened if the archaeology gallery hadn't been evicted from the National Museum Cardiff site ten years ago?

There’s loads of British food discourse on here about how bad the cuisine is, but it's all led by people who’ve never been to Nottingham's Goose Fair for mushy peas and a cock on a stick. Their loss.

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

A new exhibition has just opened at Northampton's museum, showcasing a hundred objects from Northamptonshire chosen by 51 guest curators. Some amazing objects and well- worth seeing www.northamptonmuseums.com/homepage/73/...

Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.

Had brilliant fun helping out on the Green Runners stall last weekend. Great conversations and amazing food from the surrounding stalls.

We need to ask serious questions about public bodies that still use X/Twitter. Their continued presence on the platform—already difficult to justify—now appears indefensible.

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

It's absolutely craven that we allow foreign fascist agitators into this country in the first place. Obv we have our home-grown ranks that are bad enough but allowing Bannon, Mannarino etc to pollute this country with their psychopathic bullshit is a joke. Get them out and keep them out.

Say hello at the Nottingham Green Festival Tomorrow, we will be at the Nottingham Green Festival from 12pm to 6pm. We’ll be ready to chat, share ideas, & help you take action across our Four Pillars. At 3pm join our 5k social run. We'd love to see you at our stand! nottmgreenfest.org.uk

Since being taken over by a huge and rapidly growing private equity backed chain (Kids Planet) my youngest daughter's nursery has gone from "good" and "outstanding" to "requires improvement" in all areas in just two years.

No10 looking at DCMS for the past year:

I am hardly a natural Rayner cheerleader, but genuinely furious that she's gone. Laurie Magnus's verdict confirms she acted on advice, she just missed the disclaimer saying she should get extra advice. Not just an honest mistake - a mistake literally anyone could make. There but for the grace etc...

V. interesting. The "island of strangers" speech happened serendipitously (in one sense) during a panel survey. Paper uses this natural experiment to see the effect of such migrant-sceptic interventions on individual perceptions and voter intentions. Upshot: it harmed Labour for no obvious benefit.