Happy birthday to us! Our founders – Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley – believed that nature, beauty and history were for everyone. On this day in 1895, they set up the National Trust and we're proud to continue their work today. Thank you to all those who support what we do.

We go live to the Protect our girls crew, unsure what they are doing

I think next season of the Traitors, the contestants should lean hard into the unconscious bias. But instead of getting rid of all the people of colour first, like always, which never works, just chuck out all the Welsh people (and people pretending to be Welsh). Job done.

More of this please. Much more.

Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery. Quick Epiphany 🧵

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As promised, one aspect of what I do every day this week. I also work on 'gender mainstreaming' which is basically creating better places which are more gender equal. The great thing about this is that great examples of good practice already exist in Europe so I get to be positive.

Happy New Year. In the spirit of this, I intend to spend this week posting about all the wildly various things I am doing in 2026. First, my book The Hard Way will be coming out in paperback in the spring, although perhaps not with exactly the same cover.

Hooray - but the fact we were even thinking this might not happen stinks. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Wishing everybody a strong 2026. I hope we all feel safer and happier at the end of this year.

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

That’ll teach junk food companies for taking up precious space in the gambling advert break

Happy 90th birthday to the very wonderful John Gorman. Thank you very much. Thank you very very very much. I met him once. Genuine oddball.

“Here come the planes, They’re American planes” Apt again.

Christmas is all about Ottoline. Says Ottoline

Happy Christmas. Death to ornaments. #proofofcat

This brave beautiful girl epitomizes what Ukraine is vs what russia is

Ho Ho Holy Heck...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

A good age but I’m still sad. I grew up watching him. Among his many talents he was the queen impressionist with the best jokes and the best legs. Thank you Stanley.

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

Wendingen • A square-format Dutch magazine known for its constantly changing cover designs and its view into early modernist graphic ideas, 1921...1931.

🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast: STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year) To win a signed (and dedicated if you like) copy of both books… 1/

Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia. 1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine. 2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague. 3. Russia pays everyone for everything. 4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.

What's JR Hartley doing up a tree in the video for XTC's "Dear God"? youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...

Beautiful Jill McDonald front and back covers for this 1960s primary school English textbook, filled with lovely, thoughtful invitations to imagine, play with poems and write short creative pieces

Distracting attention from the Epstein files by singing a selection of the hits of Al Jolson.

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

What an absolute treat: #pulp youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...

Drop something WHITE

On the one hand, *God* he looks frail, but on the other, so glad he's still able to do stuff like this at all.

According to 6Music News “91 pensioners have been freed by mistake in the past year”. Shocking. But may explain the old guy hiding behind the bins.

JR Hartley sitting in a tree F-I-S-H-I-N-G

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

What's JR Hartley doing up a tree in the video for XTC's "Dear God"? youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...

Bookies manager of 6 years here. - They do not support mental health, they enable problem gamblers. “Responsible gambling” is a myth. - They moved gambling addiction to being a healthcare problem in 2022 - Penny machines? Not the same, not even close. - Completely agreed on Point 4.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

could you imagine how great a Claudia Winkleman commentary version of the series would be, her sitting there with a barrel of wine, laying into what’s going on. I ask the bbc to release the Winkleman Cut #TheTraitors

Wikipedia vs Elon Musk In a world of algorithms and AI slop, the simple joy of aimlessly wandering through a website of ideas is worth preserving. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/wikipedia-... My newsletter, out now.

A retirement home for the terminally online

Oh bloody hell. I hope he's ecstatically dancing somewhere good.

Another thing of brilliance from Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social. Who I must thank for his generosity of posting on here. I see most of the newspapers ones but this one is from @prospectmagazine.co.uk