Like A Rolling Stone 🥌 #BobDylan

Beautiful

This is some game. #safc

The boys before the match Hoping to come out with real purpose in 2nd half #safc

Something mindblowingly petty about banning asylum seekers from using taxis for medical appointments

Albrecht Dürer, Six pillows, pen and ink on paper, circa 1493

so evocative

Exquisite

Helen Frankenthaler #art

RIP, Jack Shepherd. He attended Newcastle University Fine Art Dept, before going to drama school He was a subtle and compelling actor who graced an extraordinary period of TV drama, as well as being a fine stage actor

The Adoration of the Magi https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/the-adoration-of-the-magi

I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.

Rehanging pictures. John Craxton on the left

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Winter Sea https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/winter-sea-1937

Anna Hymas

Anna Hymas

Inevitable end to Trump’s charade of negotiations with Putin over Ukraine

Fish plate - Southern Italy c. 2,350 years old Used to serve fish, with a depression to hold a dish for perhaps a sauce. Now in @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday National Museum of #Wales ( Cardiff ). Crescentic bronze plaque with triskele decoration, from Llyn Cerrig Bach lake deposit ( 200 BC - 100 AD). #Archaeology #History #artwork

Scotland-fantastic !

Our studio in B.Box Studios, off Stoddart St, Newcastle upon Tyne, is 1 of many opening from 10am to 5pm on 29th & 30th November 2025. I will have paintings, handmade prints and handmade books for sale. More of my prints will be at Northern Print, Stepney Bank. You’re welcome to visit & chat :-)

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Chair. Alvar Aalto. c.1930. Image: CMoA.

Ireland-fabulous ! #football

What about the things Trump has said about London, Khan and Sharia Law. Surely they are libellous ?

Whoever thinks Wes Streeting would make a good PM is deluded. The trouble is any viable candidates have been written out of Starmer’s carefully curated front bench and made generally invisible

Great to see Ireland’s win last night. Made my week #football

A national campaign calling for higher taxes on Britain’s wealthiest individuals arrived in Newcastle this week, with the Patriotic Millionaires UK bus pulling up on Market Street in steady rain emblazoned with the message: “Tax us, the super-rich.” 👏👏👏

Of all the wonderful creations of Paula Rego I saw this morning at Norwich Castle, this masterpiece has really stayed with me. Her ability to find inspiration in nursery rhymes - here, “Hey Diddle Diddle” - just amazes me.

If this period of extreme right wing populism ends we must urgently look at our education systems. It has never been more important that young people are encouraged to think critically. We must challenge lauding of ignorance, the rejection of expertise and knowledge. We must invest in learning

The irony of Trump dismissing the Epstein files as a “hoax”, usurping the power of Congress, and trampling on the DOJ’s independence is that any attempt to stop the release of files only adds to the appearance of a cover up. Trump's desire for control could be his undoing.

Luxurious duck-shaped vessel carved from a single piece of rock crystal around 3,500 years ago! From Bronze Age Mycenae, it is said to be an exquisite example of imported Minoan stoneworking. Probably used to hold oils or cosmetics. National Archaeological Museum Athens Greece 📷 me #Archaeology

BBC News - Trump threatens BBC with legal action over Panorama speech edit www.bbc.com/news/article... I sincerely hope that The Mayor of London issues a counter claim re Crime & Sharia Law in London. It's the only action

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage. GB News:

Richard Bawden - Hedgerow. #Linocut

Labour should be defending the BBC. A mistake was made, but despite being politicised by Tory infiltration in recent years, they still provide a great service. This passivity in the face of fascistic Trump and Farage is pathetic. We will go the way of the US if we don’t defend our institutions

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Quisling

Yep

Heraclitus was inspired by an ancient Greek decorative theme known as ‘unswept floor’ (asàrotos òikos). He created this mosaic, seemingly covered with scraps of food from a banquet, for the dining room of a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Read more: understandingrome.substack.com/p/the-unswep...

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

The central panel from the ‘Geometric Mosaic’ which decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire. The mosaic is now part of the collections at the Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #RudstonRomanVilla

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Just remembered that Status Quo are responsible for one of the few LP covers that have ever made me laugh out loud. #GetAGoodGoodDeal

Still buzzing afterSAFC’s draw with Arsenal. It’s extraordinary how far we have come in a relatively short time. Our approach is analytical and thoughtful. No histrionics from manager or players, just a measured and professional approach across the Club

A decorative mount from Roman Norfolk that once formed part of a crown worn by priests during Roman religious ceremonies. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #RomanReligion #NorwichCastle

Corneille (1922-2010) [Holland] — 'Personnage dans une ville avec aeroplane', 1951. Oil on canvas (90 x 65 cm).

Bravo, #SAFC ! We are a canny team like