An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.

'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'

You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This archivist just wants somewhere to put the damn stuff tbh. Most museums we deal with can't accept now and are unlikely ever to be able to in the medium term.

Promises of a large centralised facility occasionally pop up but fade away into the void within a few months

The Government’s vision for archives in England - Archives sector Archives at the Heart of Society In 2024, The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) commissioned The National Archives to create the Government’s new strategic vision for archives. We partner...

Hardly noticed but at the end of last week the Government vision for archives in England was launched. No money attached as far as I know. Aim is for archives to be 'at the heart of society' through being accessible, inclusive and sustainable
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

This is what's coming down the tracks if we open the door to Reform. They will take a sledgehammer to arts & culture, taking us back generations in how we care for & interpret the past. Hold the line.
Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺

To quote The Truth by Terry Pratchett:
He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

This was published in 2000.

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We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment
Putin must be laughing his head off.

Whenever I talk about (the lack of) secret passages, someone always asks: "But what about priest holes!?"

Well, they *are* real, but are much less common than imagined & do not connect with hidden tunnels.

Read more on the Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog:
triskeleheritage.com/2026/04/21/m...

A horned god with spear and shield - a local god from Roman Maryport in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport, Cumbria. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Maryport #Cumbria

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .

Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.

And nowadays not in the Guardian either.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These are the people Wes Streeting is allegedly putting in charge of sections of our NHS.
Are you happy about that?
I’m not!

Long after trump consumes his final cheeseburger these guys will be stepping on your grandchildren's heads to build castles in the air.

Palantir shares slide after manifesto post denouncing 'regressive' cultures Tech company faces backlash after 'cartoonishly evil' post denouncing pluralism, 'harmful' cultures and scrutiny of public officials

Get these right wing fanatics out of the #NHS

#Palantir

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If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.

Whenever I hear that students should expect to be offended at university I always think of like an accountancy student.

“And now we’ve finished the cash flow statement onto the next section of the course: MEIN KAMPF!!!”

Opinion: There is no free-speech right to a university platform The UK government’s bill to tackle university cancel culture would give it unacceptable powers to control academic debate and student protest, says Professor George Letsas (UCL Laws).

Opinion: There is no free-speech right to a university platform | UCL News - UCL – University College London share.google/hZbgCMPh6uTk...

The Prof nails it here

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.

Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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Get his ass

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

"We need to pursue the clearest, simplest approach - electorally, politically, logically and economically. That is the campaign to rejoin the European Union, without complication or caveat." 👏👏👏👏 open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A baffling new twist in the long-running saga of Aberdeen’s lost artworks and artefacts. As we reported in 2023, some of the 1,330 items identified in 2021 as missing from Aberdeen’s museum and art gallery collections were found. But the council would not confirm which, nor how many.

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Definitely giving an air of "You want some do yer, come on then" before falling over in a gutter 😄

Nigel Farage has said that he wants to move towards an insurance based healthcare system.

The NHS wasn’t built in Wales just to be a destroyed by Reform UK.

A vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote to protect and strengthen our NHS.

Captain on our flight leaving Portugal on Monday...

"Sorry for the craziness in the airport this morning. Please don't take your frustrations out on our crew. If you want to blame anyone it's the 52% of you who voted for Brexit" 😂

Brexit is just so unforgivably tedious. This boring, boring shit is the end result of turning prejudice into policy… impractical, costly, tiresome, stupid failure.

Kent County Council selling off more art. Not good. KCC only runs one museum but maybe their suitablility as a governing body needs to be checked by @museumsassociation.org

FFS! that should read car, not cat. I don't currently have a cat but based on recent experiences of other people who do, cats do need MOTs (of a sort)

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

a baby is sitting on a couch with a messy hairdo and making a face . ALT: a baby is sitting on a couch with a messy hairdo and making a face .

*Big sigh of relief as cat passes MOT *

Mechanic:.". You are due a new cambelt this year though, as your car is ten years old
£600! (Roughly)

Me:.

Screenshot of POLITICO London Playbook email, showing Palantir sponsorship

Oh, FGS -

@politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates.

That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.