They should not be on screens AT ALL (beyond specially made TV programmes). If you want to keep them occupied while you do things, try having a playpen that contains all the noisy toys in one place as a contained din-making zone. 100% guarantee this will work. They will be ecstatic.

When the A Team made an episode in Ireland

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

The happiness of this blind little dog when she was adopted is indescribable . 😍

Well, in a new record for gendered patronising, the eBay call handler called me “darling” no fewer than three times in the same call. Then when I asked to escalate I was accused of shouting every time I tried to finish a sentence without interruption, then cut off. I will be closing the account.

Our latest IOE Blog post on this theme. The new book is currently in press. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2026/03/...

Spent a terrific day with colleagues from the @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social College of Experts, hosted at the Churchill War Rooms. It is a splendid venue and absolutely fascinating. Strongly recommend a visit. Picture is of the conference room which was originally the WW2 boiler house. Really well done.

The alpha mothers who do it all — meet the real life Amandas. Comments are not enabled for this article lol. Probably just as well because otherwise we’d all be asking where the blokes are. www.thetimes.com/article/6ece...

Cartoon by Jeff Koterba

HOWLING

'We can't justify a £52 lunch': Middle-income families cut back on days out. So if you recall we balked this weekend at £25 each to visit Duxford Air Museum. Instead two very happy young men went to see Cambridge United play at home for £14 each and had a lovely time. We worked on the allotment.

'Club vibes without the hangover': The twenty somethings going out - in the gym. I’m not sure this is a new thing - when I was in my 20s I used to meet my friends down the gym, go to squash club night together, have lunch or dinner in their bar together and do sauna/hot tub together. Easily 3x week.

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

If anyone is looking to buy a second hand shed I may be able to assist with this purchase.

HMRC ‘unlikely to be lenient’ with tax exiles fleeing war-torn Dubai. Returning Britons likely to face massive hit from both income tax and capital gains tax.

Primary school teacher. Me and my colleague who teaches the other class take turns to make maths worksheets for both classes to do. Made him one where the answer to every single sum is 67 and you could hear the shrieks across the school.

Remember those secret bases the US had that got revealed cause people were uploading their running paths to a fitness app and it was hey check out this perfect polygon in the middle of the desert I ran

Got a language exchange student staying and we thought we might go to Duxford Air Museum on Saturday for a bit of a day out. School is doing London and Cambridge sightseeing with them. Haven’t been to Duxford for some years. My goodness! Eye watering prices if we all go! 😮

Automated voice guidance featured anywhere from water heaters to bullet trains has become ubiquitous in Japan, yet few people might stop to consider why such services almost always use female voices.

they literally renamed the entire company after this

oh the fallout from this is gonna be FUN

The New World assembled a team of 20+ journalists to review 15 hours of GB News programming against the Ofcom code. What they found might not surprise you – but the total failure of Ofcom to do anything about the channel should.

Make school pupils take money exam, charities demand. I say go further, and have them work in partnership with responsible adults to ensure school finances work well. Nothing will concentrate their minds more than (controlled and supervised) responsibility. www.thetimes.com/article/5577...

I agree. The point of university is to better understand the world. If you get a credential that can be used in the workplace, that’s a bonus.

It is possible to end school shootings. This is the story of how the UK did it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We sometimes have to get students practising handwriting for three hours longhand so they can sit particular types of formal examination, as they’ve lost the writing stamina (if they ever had it at all).

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

These are wild times when a funeral service is the most inspiring thing you’ve seen all week. Grateful for this man’s leadership. Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson🙏🏼🕊️🕯️

Suspected widespread use of AI to select targets and launch attacks on Iran raises questions and fears that human control of war machinery could be slipping, according to a leading expert.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

This happened to me and I now read for a living. Be warned.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Omg I don’t know how I forgot that Elizabeth Gaskell went on a tear for 2years gathering evidence and trying to be a whistleblower about the abuse that the Brontës suffered, after Charlotte Brontë’s death such wild story and should be more known, esp. since she also suffered consequences

Want, have always wanted, considering doing second PhD precisely for this purpose.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

Lavinia Fontana (1552 – 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as her family relied on her career as a painter. Her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children. #CelebratingWomen

Sainsbury's branch in Elephant and Castle ejects man misidentified as offender. (Reading between the lines, it seems to me he was guilty of the crime of shopping while brown). They’ve said sorry and given him a modest voucher. They are lucky he’s not suing for defamation.

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

Breaking: Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

How does he sleep at night?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Everyone ready to file Subject Access Requests with that prick wearing Meta specs at the next professional event you attend?

Sophie Blanchard 1778 – 1819 was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. She was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued his work, making more than 60 ascents. #CelebratingWomen

Our Deal was clearly too Artful for them. But they do get a steady income stream of 60m users in return. So I’m not sure what the fuss is all about.

If you think public spaces can be hostile for women now, wait until every man can use their Meta facial recognition glasses to identify any woman they see, slide instantly into their DMs, and then get mad when they don't instantly and positively respond. Burn this company to the ground.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.