Cover for "DOCTOR WHO AND THE DINOSAUR INVASION" (1976). Art by Chris Achilléos. #DrWho #DoctorWho #scifiart #dinosaurs

Plus ca change. Trollope, "Phineas Finn", 1867.

"Well, lads, I haven't been able to get hold of any gunpowder, but what I have got is a consultants' report on the cost of restoring the building. If we just wait it out, they'll let the place collapse and/or burn down all on its own." "Nice one. Pub?" "Pub."

The accusation that the Lords are “obstructing democracy” by supporters of the assisted dying bill is a ridiculous one that shows up the flaws in this process that have been there from the very beginning – which have repeatedly been covered up by heated rhetoric (1/?)

Headlines from every single time NATO invoked Article 5

Bask in the greatness of the YOR THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE poster!

Response to 2024 summer riots failed to address root causes and links to racism, report says www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

*whispers* *hey, most of the world, you know we should boycott the Olympics and the World Cup, right*

For the first time in many years, Londoners and visitors can now walk along the north bank of the Thames from Westminster to the Tower of London within metres of the river. See more: londonist.com/london/great...

Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight

Anarchy in the UK! St George's Beckenham tearing it up at Britain's national, royal church tomorrow with a lovely bit of Mendelssohn about dashing in pieces princes and nations. Smith and Harwood too. Should be a nice start to the choral year! @westminsterabbey.bsky.social

Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder - 'The Derbyshire Lady': 18th century FART song youtu.be/tOGwkDKzRoA ========================= #earlymusicnewsorg #earlymusic #earlymusicnews

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Start your Christmas celebrations by joining us in St Margaret's Church for a service of Lessons and Carols at 6pm on Christmas Eve. The service will be sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort and will include favourite carols and traditional readings. www.westminster-abbey.org/christmas

Daddy will explain about these stones.

oh wow it turns out that you can close a very important building for a period of time to do much needed restoration and renewal rather than constantly dragging it out for decades at much greater expense i wonder if theres a lesson there for someone www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bar...

The St Margaret's Choristers sing As Dew in Aprille from Benjamin Britten's much-loved A Ceremony of Carols. Hear more from the choir in the St Margaret's Advent Liturgy, which is available to watch on demand until 6 January at: www.westminster-abbey.org/worship-music/watch-services?id=15931

m.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d7... St Margaret's Choristers of @westminsterabbey.bsky.social Tallis, Leighton, Dyson, Wheeler. @multitudeofvoyces.bsky.social.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

So many questions

"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today

St Margaret's Choristers of @westminsterabbey.bsky.social. Three words: Holst Nunc Dimitis. www.youtube.com/live/B-qhE9A...

Seems like a bad time to introduce assisted dying, but what do I know?

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Everyone is welcome to join us in worship as we stream Evensong live from the Abbey at 5pm (GMT) today. The service will be sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort and you can watch live or on demand at: www.westminster-abbey.org/worship-music/watch-services

Oh how brilliant an hour this was at the Dickens Museum yesterday. "The Trial for Murder" was new to me; somehow I don't think I will forget it and its face of impure wax. Masterful storytelling.

Katie Lam MP explains why Disney had to pull the plug on Doctor Who.

Niche. @quiresandplaces.com

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyK_... All killer, no filler Saturday evensong from the combined choirs of @westminsterabbey.bsky.social -- Bruckner, Leighton, Dyson, Bairstow.

"Who do you think you are, an actual tod warrior?" @athleticomince.bsky.social

A Purcell-fest from @westminsterabbey.bsky.social yesterday, courtesy of their girls' choir, St Margaret's Choristers and Consort. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAQ...

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

What a frustrating experience this has been.

I have dealt with my BIG FEELINGS about people saying mean things about London by writing this about 57 things I love in London. There were 100 things I loved, but it got too long for one email. London is inexhaustible. naomialderman.substack.com/p/57-things-...

Off to @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social with the choir of St George's, Beckenham, this weekend. Good stuff!

Headline needs work

A favourite memorial from @exetercathedral.bsky.social. Born Nutcombe Quicke in 1727 he attended Cambridge University & in 1753 married Anne, daughter of the Bishop of Exeter. He became Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral & in 1792 changed his name to Nutcombe Nutcombe to receive an inheritance.

That time Rod and Emu turned up on Blue Peter and it ended up looking like a painting by Caravaggio

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

India stopped. Siraj didn’t. open.substack.com/pub/wickets/...

'There comes light from heaven' - Measure for Measure (V, 1) #ShakespeareSunday

'Or you can be Honky Tonk...'

London is full of gimmicks & porno films.

We currently have a vacancy for a chorister who'll be in Year 12 to join us in September, so if you know a girl who loves to sing, find out more about the choir and how to join by visiting our website: www.westminster-abbey.org/st-margarets...

The last service of the year in @westminsterabbey.bsky.social for St Margaret's Choristers. Durufle, Smith, Brewer, Weir.

Odd moment in Warriors of the Deep when a slightly unlikely-looking guard breaks the fourth wall and peers 40 years into the future, as if to say directly to me, "Why are you still watching this shit?" As she is about to be electrocuted by the Myrka, she has other things to worry about. #doctorwho

Gloria! Friday 11 July. @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social will celebrate the founding of its Girls’ Choir - the first cathedral in #London to do so - almost 25 years to the day since they sang their first Evensong - with a special gala concert, ‘Gloria!’.