More news from the party that supposedly protects woman and girls. Reform UK controlled councils in Essex have banned libraries from promoting International Women’s Day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, June Painting, Ultramarine and Yellow, 1996 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129270

I love football, an escape for me from the ghastliness of the moment. To see it traduced and politicised by Infantino and Trump is so depressing. There will no doubt be some Las Vegas inspired opening ceremony presided over by the Orange One. I wish traditional footballing nations had said no

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Ruud is bang on: FIFA heads must roll.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Bruce Springsteen is remarkable. He is nearly 77, performs like he was 30, but most importantly in this moment he is one of the most prominent, articulate, fearless and emphatic critics of Trump’s regime. I’m proud to be his contemporary

Trump seems to have a special hatred in his evil racist heart for Somalis. This detention of a legitimate World Cup referee is disgraceful and FIFA should intervene. They won’t of course because they facilitated this football circus in the USA. Corruption is everywhere

I’m not religious, but if I was, I’d say that there is a special place in Hell for Netanyahu

Norway’s World Cup publicity photo. Haaland makes a superb Viking

All a bit surreal but it seems #safc are having an Elvis themed away kit. We have a deal with the Elvis Estate Granit will have to grow a quiff #WiseMenSay

‘We have a shared sky and stars’: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world

Detail from the sculpture by Fenwick Lawson which portrays six monks carrying St. Cuthbert’s coffin to safer places in response to the Viking raids on Lindisfarne. This version of the sculpture is from St. Mary’s Church on Lindisfarne. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Lindisfarne

Heard that a dear friend had died today. We had known each other for 66 years. We were ejected from many a class for giggling. Had many a great night out dancing. Her dad worked down the pit, but like many of my generation Ann took the educational opportunities she was given and flourished. RIP Ann

So Tony Blair, friend of Trump and the tech brothers, advises Labour to be more like Reform

Bob Dylan was 85 yesterday

Alan Shearer is on MOTD

Europe here we come #SAFC

#safc 10 mins extra time . Do they just make this up

#SAFC. Just gets better…

Great to see O Nein’s input in our goal. Can’t believe what I’m watching. Never would have dreamed last year that we would be playing like this and with the possibility of a place in Europe. Whatever happens bravo Régis and the Lads. It’s been a fabulous season

#SAFC looking very good !

Poor Boro. Whole thing a farce . They were on the beach, thought the season was over, and then had to get ready in a few days. Hope EFL have learnt a lesson

Come on the Boro !

I’m watching the French series The Line, on ITVX. It has been going a long time evidently, but I have only just caught up and am really enjoying it. It’s set in a French village during World War 2 and it reminds me of that wonderful German series Heimat, which was set between the Wars

youtu.be/pEO8i2c_QI8?... THE KINKS 'Sunny Afternoon'

This is purported to be the Southampton spy. Has an Ealing Comedy quality about it

BBC News - Southampton expelled from play-offs for spying on Middlesbrough - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I went to see Paul Simon last night and it was the most extraordinarily beautiful show. Possibly the quietest gig I've ever been to, which is mad considering there were about 12 musicians on stage. Meditative, celebratory and inspiring, it reminded me once again how great he is, how lucky we are ❤️

Guardiola would be a good fit to restore the Italian national team to former glory. He will be a very hard, if impossible, act to follow at Man C

The 4801 Armchair by Joe Colombo for Kartell, Italy (1965)

Natalia Goncharova, Rayonism, Blue-Green Forest, 1913 (dated on reverse 1911) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135919

Poor West Ham

#SAFC. Great result - !!!

Sorting out old photos Me at 13 in 1963 in Rome on a school trip with the nuns. I was attacked by a plague of wasps shortly after this photo was taken. I wonder why ?

This artwork is an oil-on-canvas painting titled Soleil de Nuit (Abandoned Playground), created by the famous American Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray in 1943.

Ancient amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen en.natmus.dk/historical-k... #Archaeology

A doctor caught while trying to flee the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, carrying the tools of his profession. The finding is the latest extraordinary discovery at the Archaeological Park of #Pompeii, made more than sixty years after the excavation of the Orto dei Fuggiaschi. #Archaeology

Public school boys give other public school boys a leg up shock.

In 1836 some labourers found these 2,600 year-old wooden figures whilst cleaning a ditch at Roos Carr, near Withernsea, East Yorkshire. One of the men is said to have given one of the ancient ‘dolls’ to his daughter to play with! 😱 Hull and East Riding Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Plaster head and arm https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31203

Peonies

#StreetArt by #Oniro in #Italie

"Group of Three Girls", 1935. Oil on Canvas, 92.8 × 66.5 cm. (36.5 × 26.2 in.) Amrita Sher-Gil (Indian artist, 1913–1941) National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India. #art #painting #illustration

…”best possible field of candidates”. Not you then, Wes ?

Best wishes to David Byrne, who celebrates his 74th birthday today 🎂 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Old Grey Whistle Test 1978 #talkingheads #davidbyrne #psychokiller #punkrockhistory