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:
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🚨 Experts warn Select Committee that First Past risks an election that is "simply indefensible".
Speaking to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee, Professors Toby James, Maria Sobolewska and Alan Renwick say government should now be looking seriously at electoral reform.
I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax.
Please don't share.
I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue
162 MPs have accepted a combined £2.9M linked to the private healthcare sector.
While the NHS is pushed to its breaking point, we want to dig deeper to find out exactly what that money is buying.
You deserves to know the truth. Help us fund our next investigation: link in bio.
Criminal syndicates
England's water companies have 1,200+ criminal convictions.
Execs rewarded for dumping sewage.
Occasionally fines on companies are announced but then waived or deferred.
No corporate licence to operate revoked.
No exec fined/prosecuted.
One law for us, another for them
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
❌ The Mandelson-Epstein emails again highlighted how the UK's lobbying transparency regime is woefully inadequate.
Poor transparency allows well-connected individuals and companies with deep pockets to influence decisions that should be made in the public interest.
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This is the greatest interiors feature I have seen in years. A home lived in By a real human being: Tour Richard Hell’s Book-Filled East Village Home www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.
Richard Stupid Tice would like to clarify that the £100k in tax he hasn't paid is different to the £92k tax he hasn't paid or the £600k tax he hasn't paid. Just in case anyone didn't appreciate the extent of his tax dodging. I mean fiscal prudence.
Chairman Meow...
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:
Saw a whole row of portaloos get pushed over like dominoes, I so hope noone was in one!
And use the loos while you were there! 😉
We used to go to the swimming pool every year and I think they stopped it eventually, probably for that reason! That was quite a handy thing about Reading, you could pop to the pool and go get something to eat in town at normal prices.
Yep, handy for a shower!
Ah fair cop John, clearly got my serious head on! 😁 Happy Saturday to you!
I don't understand this take tbh, I'd be happy seeing the Greens, Labour and the Libdems take seats. I'd even take the Tories at a pinch. Anything but Reform and the other further right parties.
Help Your Daughter Navigate the Online World: Developing Critical Thinking Skills In today's digital age, it is more important than ever for young people to question the content they consume online. Recent data shows that 32% of children aged 8-17 have encountered worrying or nasty content online in the past year. Furthermore, even older teenagers are feeling less confident in their ability to distinguish what is real from what is fake online. As parents, you play a vital role in helping your daughters develop the critical thinking skills needed to stay safe. Here is how you can start the conversation: 1. Question the Source Encourage your daughter to think about the motives behind what she sees. For example, if a celebrity or influencer promotes a product, is it because they truly use it, or are they being paid to advertise it?. 2. Recognise Reliable Information Discuss how to spot "fake news" or extremist content. Helping them understand that not everything they see is true is the first step in protecting them from being influenced by harmful or misleading information.
At my daughter’s school they do stuff like this. Really helpful.
Isn't this just what you have to do to get elected under FPTP?
You're asking a man who was mainly very drunk and went to quite a lot of festivals! 😁 I only did Glasto once (Cure headlining, Sinead, Archaos) and that's the only one I can remember having truly bad weather.
I can't remember if it was this gig, it blurs into one a bit, but at one festival I remember standing watching the Cramps playing Psychotic Reaction and thinking Lux (RIP) was getting the harmonica bit wrong. Then he threw up on stage and rolled around in it while wearing bikini bottoms. Rock n roll
Poster for Reading Festival 1990. Headliners are The Cramps, Inspiral Carpets, and The Pixies.
Year before was a banger as well. I remember the Inspiral carpets having an amazing light show and, I think fireworks, they were good but The Pixies blew everyone's wigs off and only had a few coloured lights. "And this I know his teeth as white as snow.." 👌😁
Seems to boil down to 3 things, we desperately need to decarbonise, we need to wrestle control of energy (among some other things) out of the cold dead hands of big corporations and private equity, and she needs the votes under a FPTP system that no longer really works. Not sure how you balance that
Is 13.5K an acre the going rate for woodland?
