Iran "also sick of British food discourse", say sources

That’s what’s sending me. That’s…that’s not a stabby sword. And because he’s using it like a stabby sword, his reach is rubbish.

Let’s get one thing completely clear YouTube video by blumineck

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The Young Sherlock series is, of course, based on the series of YA novels that started in 2010. And has the approval of the estate.

Bewildering.

Martian leader shortly before the events of War Of The Worlds:

Trump campaign adviser calls Lord Mandelson 'an absolute moron' Lord Peter Mandelson will be the UK's next ambassador to the US, an appointment he describes as

And that was publicly known *at the time*. Main thing was career diplomat Dame Karen Pierce was coming to the end of her posting: most ambassadors to the US do 4 or 5 years tops.

I've just checked a couple of the portals I use for @westcountrymodern.bsky.social purposes.

Exeter: name but no address.
Torbay: name and full address (including one from a councilor).
Plymouth: name but no address.

Except then you are asking people who have - or are - victims of abuse to disclose that to a planning officer in order to have their details redacted. That goes against the public sector principle of only gathering info needed to do your job. Far easier to redact names when publishing all comments.

That would also mean an antagonistic applicant who gets angry about someone objecting could go round and intimidate them.

And it continues to ignore that once an address is in the public domain, someone's stalker can find and act on it. Nowt to do with planning: everything to do with safety.

Also, you can also comment to support a planning application. But someone that antagonistic - and who thinks the DV angle is minor - probably never does that.

See also this case.

I’ve worked it out. They end up working for Charlie Chaplin. Because of the moustache.

Ah. Barefoot and pregnant.

We all knew it was coming.

You’ve already alluded to the fact that all of us are suckers for the distraction device. So why target kids alone? We’d all be better off if the worse addictive systems were regulated.

When I was a teen, I’d been taught to know where phone boxes were, in case of emergency. They don’t exist any more.

So if you want girls to have phones for safety walking home, you need an on-site means of locking up the phones. Adding massively to the admin burden at school start/end.

How does it fit with the policy around ending violence against women and girls, as well?

Teen has had a phone since they started walking home by themselves on the highly reasonable grounds that I want them to be able to dial 999 if they need to.

A detention is the system working.

Training people - of all ages - to have impulse control is better than just banning things.

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.

That’s one of our main problems right there.

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

Congrats!

Let's unbox the copies of my Eighth Doctor history book, Leap of Eighth - with a foreword by Paul McGann!

UK pre-order: telos.co.uk/shop/doctor-...

(I'm based in the UK so the information within regards this side of the Pond unless otherwise specified)

#DoctorWho #8thDoctor

UK Weather: Cornish village endures 50 consecutive days of rain The exceptionally wet start to 2026 has seen the Cornish village of Cardinham confirmed as recording 50 continuous days of rain as Matt Taylor explains.

We had more than 40 days and nights of rain around here in January. It got soggy but local farmers were not building arks.

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

I think there were indeed great floods. Just none of the rest of it.

There is archaeological evidence suggesting that humans had to move due to rising waters 8,000+ years ago.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Quite Unfit for Females (1921) | BFI National Archive YouTube video by BFI

Rummaging around for more details about something later this month, and found this silent newsreel from 1921 on the BFI's YouTube.

"Football: quite unfit for females"

youtu.be/Ecp6T8mZSCY

posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen 🗃️
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The deadline to register to vote in the May 7th elections is at 11:59pm TONIGHT (April 20). To register, visit www.gov.uk/register-to-...

If you're reading a book and you come across a story within a story (ie, a kid's story being told by one of the characters) which formatting are you (the reader) least likely to skip over; if the story is in italics or if the story is slightly indented?

Creating accessible resources for health and social care If you're affected by sight loss, we're here for you

The RNIB's clear print guidance (link on webpage) recommends avoiding italics as it's harder to read.

I would nearly always want to skip italics, but am a bit better at reading indented text.

Always try to outrun the police car.