Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer.
I'd genuinely be better. #VoteBinface

Roger Tichborne as a young man. He is slim, slightly mournful-looking, and has an unimpressive moustache

The Tichborne Claimant, probably Arthur Orton, possibly Tomas Castro, and probably not Roger Tichborne – a very overweight man with sideburns and a cigar in his mouth, wearing a three-piece suit and a watchchain

Well, it’s 172 years today since slim francophone Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne was last seen alive – a few months before he was presumed dead, and about 11 years before a 27-stone cockney butcher turned up from Australia claiming to be this long-lost heir to a fortune... 🧵

If I’m taking a lot of beans on my EasyJet flight I always book a seat with extra legume.

Half of the Earth is covered by water, the rest is covered by Bernardo Silva.

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.

A swan's arse in the air

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the river.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Photo of the side of an old car. The front open window shows the face of a man and a woman. In the rear window, a young boy's head can be seen from behind the open window.

19 April 1926 | A Dutch Jew, Joseph Olman, was born in #Rotterdam.

In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his parents (in the picture): Eliazar Israel and Cornelia. They were murdered in a gas chamber.

L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos

Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵

Richard.
Your new profile pic.
Yes it’s all very nice but did you know someone has set fire to your trousers?😳

It’s 76 years since the world was robbed of Gerald Tyrwhitt, aka Lord Berners, who was responsible for this splendidly weird building

Your next government

Frankenstein (1910). Kind of wild to consider that its release is closer in time to the publication of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel than to the present day

The Lilla Cross, which stands in Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire.

A West Saxon assassin named Eomer tried to kill Edwin, king of the Northumbrians, in his hall by the Derwent #OTD in 626. A thegn, Lilla, leapt into the blade’s path, dying alongside another man, Forthhere, before the assailant was slain. The Lilla Cross 📸Phil Catterall

Manchester Canal, painting by Stephen Bewsher.

What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions

A 🧵 with the evidence:

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

18 April 1882 | A Polish man, Jan Mucha, was born in Wolica. A carpenter.

In #Auschwitz from 20 October 1942.
No. 68813
He perished in the camp on 1 December 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle YouTube video by Nuclear Vault

In 1951 as fears of nuclear war intensified the US government made this delightful little film called Duck and Cover.

Unnerving is not the half of it.

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Image from one of those dodgy Victorian-era sensationalist pamphlets, probably the Illustrated Police News, showing various scenes in the Pimlico Poisoning Case, such as a vicar reading Ovid to a young woman, said women asking if there must be an inquest, and the chemist where her alleged lover bought the liquid chloroform

It’s 140 years to the day since the not guilty verdict on Adelaide Bartlett, accused of poisoning the husband who was 11 years older than her, possibly in order to take up with a Wesleyan minister who had bought the poison, and who – they claimed – had the dead husband’s blessing to woo Adelaide 🧵

In 1979 I went to an early Specials gig and I got hit on the head when they were throwing demo cassettes into the crowd. I’ve still got the ska to prove it.

I brought an injured crow in from the garden and on closer inspection we saw it was a vel-crow. We’re trying not to get too attached.

Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.

Lovely People.

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Manchester, 1976, photo by John Bulmer. The shoes!

Canal at Ancoats, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87).

Neighbours in the Sandford St area of Salford clubbed together after the First World War to provide a memorial for the men of the neighbourhood who died.

Photographed here October 1961.

Sadly, the Imperial War Museum have designated it as "lost".

Jesus talking to Donald Trump after he’s shit his arse up his back

“Fuck me Donald, you don’t half reek of shit”