“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Nigel Farage wants a mandate for corruption. Hopefully he'll get a by-election versus a man wearing a bin instead: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just another monday... A grumpy #squid on a Greek #fish plate from Apulia, dating 330-300 BC. Fish plates were decorated with various examples of seafood. They were invented in Athens in the 5th century BC. Most of them are found in Southern Italy, where they were produced in... 🧵1/2

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

When I was growing up, space exploration was BIG. Books, music, TV, the news … But nobody did it better

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

little demon, france, 15th century

🏺A really wonderful faience hedgehog-shaped rattle from Egypt, now on display at the Brooklyn Museum. 📜 Check the link for an x-ray image showing the pellets inside to make it rattle! www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

If houses had been set on fire *by* ethnic minority people, I suspect the BBC would have somehow rediscovered the active voice

MPs had damn well better decide this morning whose side they're really on before #PMQs at noon. Either they back liberal democracy and the rule of law or, by continuing to mouth weasel words about 'legitimate grievances', 'two-tier policing', 'back doors' and the like, they don't. #TimeToChoose

It's just remarkable that if you're white, male, and conservative you are allowed to call for political violence that would get anyone who doesn't tick all those boxes absolutely pilloried. The group with the fewest legitimate grievances in society provided the widest grace to rage. Wild.

The fact he’s calling it DEI, which is the American version, and not the British EDI just shows it’s importing this blatant American culture war bs.

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

Can’t believe how UK media has failed to call out Pete Hegseth who used the D-Day commemoration to trot out a racist ideology the Nazis would have applauded. It takes an American historian Heather Cox Richardson to tell it like it is

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

A Sumerian Bearded Bull's Head from Mesopotamia, dating approximately to 2600–2450 BCE.

Lunch time! Old woman cooking eggs, 1618: a great early work by young Diego Velazquez of Seville. Today is his birthday.

Reform also want to repeal the handgun ban, raising the distinction possibility that they think the best way to eat a steak is to shoot it.

an enormous and influential tract of British media has no interest in addressing the fact Nigel Farage is a far-right agitator, and that is a complete failure

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty! Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy 📷 Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria

This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.

I’m holidaying in Crete and came across this little guy in a souvenir shop! A copy of the hedgehog-shaped Cycladic vase from Syros! He’s coming home with me! 🦔 😍

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Are you referring to the book ‘Careless People,? The one Meta don’t want to see publicised? #CarelessPeople

Here’s a closer look at the 3,400 year-old Minoan ‘Bull’s Head’ clay rhyton. A pouring hole at the mouth was used for making offerings, or filling cups, probably with red wine!🍷 From Knossos Little Palace, Crete, 1450-1375 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

A well camouflage heron in Inverkeith Park

The earliest known depiction of the #Trojan #horse, showing the #Greek warriors hidden inside, ca. 670 BCE, 📷 National Geographic. #History #art #mythology #artwork

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

For today's #MosaicMonday a hilarious #Roman mosaic depicting a boisterous #dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents. Life without #dogs is possible but pointless! 😊🐶🐕 On display at the Archaeological Museum Irbid/Jordan. 📷 Alex Brey via www.flickr.com/photos/looki...

#AllMetalMonday The extraordinary 57.5cm tall C3 BC #Etruscan figure, called (in recent times anyway) Ombre della Sera, as it recalls long shadows cast at the end of day. Inspiration for Giacometti is pretty clear..... Now in Volterra's Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, stopping people in their tracks.

Death Mask. Tashtyk Culture, South Siberia (3rd-4th centuries BC) #sculpture

From Chinese media.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

In particular, Britain has endured a decade of woefully inept leadership. An era of slogans in place of details.Leaders chosen because they match the ideological obsessions of activists rather than from any belief they can do the job. www.ft.com/content/e885...

I wrote this about Boris Johnson in 2021. It also applies to those, like Nigel Farage, who aspire to become prime minister. When a candidate for high office is taking millions of pounds in personal gifts, that is not a private matter. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2021/05/forg...

‘The Speech I Wish Keir Starmer Had Given’ Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats

Might have to post this annually until we do something.

My longer take on UK politics - we've become addicted to simple solutions to run away from the Brexit contradictions, and they inevitably don't work causing a vicious cycle of discontent. The necessary reset must seek to make a services economy popular. ecipe.org/insights/res...

The inexplicable excitability of political correspondents, as their nation withers and disintegrates

A stunning #Greek rhyton (drinking cup) in the shape of a wild #boar's head, 350-320 BC. Vessels such as this one were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, the content had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down. 📷 me, taken 2021 at Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe🏺

The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian dog figurine, a very good boy for some 3,400 years! 🐾🐕❤️ This lovely leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

Yeah – no more Tories! Other than Danny Kruger, Suella Braverman, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Nadine Dories, Sarah Pochin, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Jake Berry, Andrew Rosindell, Peter Bone…

This ancient ‘network’ mosaic glass bowl looks modern, yet it’s about 2,250 years old! Made by spiralling thin threads of twisted glass over a convex mould, it’s a wonderful example of the innovative skills of Hellenistic glassmakers! Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

It's not even been 2 years yet! Labour has delivered more of its manifesto in that time than the Tories managed in 14. You just never get to hear about behind the modern media wall of sensationalism. Here's just a taste.

Ancient Mycenaean ceramic artist: I don't know, I think I rushed the painting, and I don't love how the nose came out... Their friend: Relax. It's for a cemetery. Everyone will be mourning, and after that, nobody will ever look at it again. Artist: Promise? Friend: Promise. 3200 years later: