On this International Day of Peace, I am delighted to join hearts with faith leaders from around the world. May we build the world we dream of.

Two thirds of Labour’s promises are on track or achieved. But sadly, politics isn’t about balance sheets—it’s about perception. Stephen McNair reports.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

BBC News: Yvette Cooper is at "a conference". She's actually attending the United Nations General Assembly. #r4today

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

The WHO has classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic," writes Christine Sexton, while experts warn of its harm to bees and other insects. Why is Southend Council still using it? Read more 👇 and see 🧵

My Ukrainian flag coloured flowers are thriving. I’m thinking of getting more for other pots to over winter. Both Ukrainians and these pansies are so strong and beautiful, they both will survive such hardship as long as they’re supported

I made some short explanations of Ancient Greek Pottery shapes for my classes: ✨Part 1: common shapes✨

EVERYBODY. SHOULD. WATCH. THIS 👇🏽

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

Our ‘protected’ chalk reef is set to have sediment dumped on it for another 10 years – so we’re seeking a judicial review. It’s a fight not only for the Sussex coast, but for of all 91 Marine Conservation Zones around the English coast. buff.ly/GEfcxEz #StopDumpingOnOurReef

Seven Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/seven-palestinians-killed-israeli-forces-across-gaza-dawn

More than numbers. At night, russia attacked Ukraine with 598 drones and 31 missiles. 12 people were killed in Kyiv - among them three children, aged 2, 14, and 17. More than numbers.

15.30 today

✍Immigration: who do we think we are?  How far back in your family do you have to go to find an immigrant ancestor? By Dr Pam Jarvis ‪@drpam.bsky.social‬

I’m not the only one who thinks Trump has taken his fan boy obsession with Putin way too far in making the White House into his own Kut Price Kremlin.

Something is truly rotting in America — an autocrat rises, truth dies and too many look away. America’s fall is quiet – but it is happening Guy Anthony Ayres reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/some...

On this day in 1913, Sheffield metallurgist Harry Brearley created what’s widely regarded as the first stainless steel — an alloy that resisted rust as well as wear. Tasked with finding a longer-lasting gun barrel, his experiments with chromium steels produced a metal so resilient it

Iran’s death machine: why the world must stop the next massacre Iran slaughtered thousands of citizens with impunity 37 years ago; it’s happening again and we must not look away By Zolal Habibi @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Former President of Ireland went to bear witness herself. The shame on Britain.

Former president Mary Robinson has issued a stark warning that governments failing to act decisively to stop the humanitarian crisis in Gaza are “increasingly complicit in genocide” jrnl.ie/6788515

With UK news shows reporting more than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed English Channel since Labour came to power perhaps it would be a good time to remind Nigel Farage & others that Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

If you’ve ever helped an elderly neighbour navigate a banking app, call a helpline or read a tiny screen – you’ve witnessed digital exclusion first-hand. We must stop designing customer service systems that exclude. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

👣 78,000 y/o footprints: #Neanderthals on the beach. 😲🤯 www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com 🏺

Very sad news: Brian Fagan has died. After archaeology at Cambridge he moved to the US, professor of anthropology UC Santa Barbara & writer of all things archaeological, shaming the rest of us by his output. I have a fond memory of interviewing him for British Archaeology, at our new overgrown home

A year of Labour: a welfare disaster in the headlines, but is the big picture being missed? Stephen McNair takes a look at what Starmer’s government has done (and what still threatens to undo it). @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

Having walked around this area a number of times I’ll be there on the @righttoroam.bsky.social event. Excellent article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Today's Exhibit of the Day? A colossal amethyst geode! At ~13 ft (4 m) tall & 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), it's as heavy as 3 compact cars. Formed 135 million years ago, it started as colorless quartz—becoming purple after millennia of natural radiation, heat, & trace contaminants.

🇺🇸🧢 Escaping MAGA and Christian Nationalism in the US… …a fascinating personal account that gives a lot of clues about how to break people free from the cult.

This rock crystal sphere with an inscription in Greek letters was found in a woman's grave in Årslev (Denmark) dating to the 3rd c. AD. The inscription, "ΑΒΛΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ" is presumably an abbreviation of the palindrome ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ, a textual sequence exhibiting symmetry in its . ...🧵1/4 📷 me 🏺

Wrote this on the big problem that the hard right have with London - if ethnic diversity and high levels of migration really are the major causes of decline in the UK, then why is the region with the greatest diversity and largest number of migrants, doing so well?

Great piece for On London by the brilliant @christabelcoops.bsky.social. If fewer "White British" means national decline, how come the nation's capital is content with diversity & the UK's economic powerhouse? www.onlondon.co.uk/christabel-c... @philipstephens.bsky.social

Catastrophic cost of £40bn to the UK economy from Brexit now effectively confirmed.

When Does Consciousness Emerge in Babies? Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be measured www.scientificamerican.com/article/when...

Georges Seurat has drawn this laundress washing clothes on a river bank in three basic shapes of light and dark: head, blouse, and skirt against a shaded background. By eliminating gratuitous detail, he has given her a monumental stillness, as if fixed in time. The date is 1881.

I just introduced my 17 yo daughter to this much-loved poem. If you beat yourself up mentally though you don’t hurt others, if your brain is different so your thoughts are loud and tangled, if you’re conscientious but still very strict with yourself, then it’s also for you:

Everywhere in Ukraine, you’ll find places commemorating fallen defenders in different ways. The one I saw in Poltava isn’t as large as in a Kyiv — but it’s still big. Even one lost life is too much. I want the world to see.

Winter solstice, 6:50am South Australia

💧 Sinkholes. Leaks. Sewage trucks on standby. A Norfolk town is bursting at the seams – & Anglian Water says it's "a balancing act." Growth is soaring, infrastructure is cracking. How long before it breaks completely? Owen Sennitt reports 🔗 Read more: eastangliabylines.co.uk/regions/norf...

The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.

My latest post charting the erosion of free dissent in the US open.substack.com/pub/christin...

The Pax et Concordia Mosaic  from Tipasa is a stone mosaic mensa (banqueting table) with a decor of #fish and marine animals and the inscription In Chr(ist)o Deo/ pax et concordia sit/ convivio nostro. From the Necropolis of Tipasa-Matares, circa 4th AD. #MosaicMonday 👀