This is not awesome because many of these lease sales would be in the Arctic, where a Deepwater Horizon-style accident would be devastating for indigenous communities, the environment, and wildlife.

A fragment of #Roman pottery, into which a sketch of a rowing ship has been incised - I love the little details, like the oars coming down into the water, & the ram at the front of the ship. A lovely piece of everyday art, made nearly 2000 years ago 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead: A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹 #FindsFriday Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

Imagine seeing a Roman building in ancient Wales, the tiled roof lined with antefixes proudly proclaiming the presence of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix with their name and symbol, the wild boar. The Twentieth was among the legions involved with the construction of Hadrian's Wall. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume. 📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins #Archaeology

Brrrrrrrrrr 🥶 #RomanFortThursday (John Kenney 1959)

I believe anyone could have done better than Johnson. Here's a quiz I made to prove it.

COVID inquiry report highlights: • Response was too little, too late • No lockdown exit strategy • Toxic culture at the heart of govt—Cummings & Johnson named specifically. • 23,000 lives could've been saved • Rules were too confusing • Officials breaking rules undermined public confidence

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12

🔴Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Could Be Under Water Within 25 Years As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/d...

This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation. I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.

The full film & piece is here. Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies? www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...

I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.

Farage is a Huguenot name. Presumably he's only here because his ancestors were granted asylum here in the face of religious persecution.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

I'm no art critic but the very reaction to it suggests the artist has hit the mark. Shame it's going.

Whether Farage is racist “depends on how you define it” apparently. Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity” Racist then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.cbc.ca/news/world/p... “"I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have," he said. "If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that. There are courts, there's a system of justice."

The evidence from Farage and the people that surround him screams that there is really no two sides to this story or slipper definitions - not that you’d be able to tell with just how much smoke is being blown around this. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/deep-dive-...

Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight. The system is broken and overdue significant reform

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Immigrants are an essential part of every sector of our economy, and this government’s ideological crusade will prove very expensive. It is demonstrably anti-growth and post Brexit we certainly don’t have the luxury to indulge this nonsense

The dinky chambered tomb of Maen y Bardd, 'The Poet's Stone', that stands beside the southernmost of two east-west (or west-east) prehistoric tracks through the #Conwy mountains of North #Wales. #Legend had it anyone sleeping in the cromlech would wake up either a poet or mad. #TombTuesday #folklore

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward. Why can't Labour just say this?

Big Ag joins Big Oil & Gas to make the compromising of the Climate COP process complete www.theguardian.com/environment/...

THREAD. A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage to the derelict moorland cottage where a vegetarian ex-butcher once lived with a bull he had adopted, named Scrunch. You will find the story in the alt text...

"Most of them initiated their own persecution and risked death to get here just because they wanted to stay in an asylum hotel in Essex where they could be abused by locals" Marvellous and spot-on by @mrjohncrace.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A glimpse through the topsoil of #Stonehenge for #StandingStoneSunday Like an iceberg, there is more of these bluestone below the surface than above Unlike icebergs, it's not because they're less dense than saltwater 📷 of the @buarchanth.bsky.social trench excavated April 2008 #WhatLiesBeneath

Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS? Of course you bloody do. Come with me. Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake. Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday

In 2018, Bannon’s plans for a new US-European far-right alliance - involving Salvini, Orbán, Farage, etc. - were circulated directly to Epstein, even as he was providing logistical and travel support to Trump's former chief strategist /8

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

At least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, Israeli data shows

#Conwy is such gem. A beautiful, bustling, charming, friendly town with loads of excellent independent shops like Edwards of Conwy, Baravelli's chocolates, Vinomondo wine, the Cheese Room, amazing bakers etc. I 'might' be taking a few things home with me 😗😋 #NorthWales

Conwy Castle, #NorthWales. Along with the defensive walls encircling the town, it cost Edward I the astronomical sum of £15,000 to build, 1283-87. Darkly atmospheric, haunted by jackdaws, pigeons and the ghosts of soldiers and kings... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwy_C... #medieval #castles

Great atmosphere in Conwy today for the half-marathon, thirteen miles round the Great Orme 😯 Our son-in-law was running so we made a weekend of it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #NorthWales #castles

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned" Half of Gaza to be stolen, the Palestinians to be left to survive in the remaining ruins of their country Monstrous, criminal and indefensible www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

But Trump said his tariffs don't raise prices

Come for the sheep, stay for the alt text

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

It honestly does seem to me that Labour should raise income taxes, including on people like me. I am willing to pay my share if it means some hope of a functioning state that can achieve things rather than lurch perpetually from one crisis to another forever in damage mitigation mode.

#BBCNews - Fossil fuel emissions rise again - but renewables boom offers hope for #climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ClimateChange

Presumably the Daily Telegraph and GB News will go big on this story?* Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote. *waits until end of time www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

El Presidente — in every dictatorship — follows the same playbook. It is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.

Richard Burton lighting up in every interview on BBC 4. No wonder he had such a gravelly voice #RichardBurton #TalkingPictures