When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Why does it look like a sticker book for 5 year olds?
I don’t think the swooping fringe is very monk-like though… ?
Small wooden egg cup shaped like a person, with a black side fringe - looks a bit like a young happy Hitler
Is it just me or does this egg cup look like a happy Hitler?
What, the sun-rain-wind-sun-rain-clouds-hail-sunshine weather?
Social media can certainly make me feel bleak right now ☹️ - I find limiting time on here helps
Tuxedo cat sat atop a fish tank against a white background and under a red sign that reads ‘BASTA!’
My cat suggests everyone just BASTA 🐈⬛
Great choices! 📚
Tuxedo cat lying on top of a fish tank
Her favourite nap spot 🐠
She was born in Northumberland and now has a College named after her at Durham University
Yeah, it makes me laugh how annoyingly random it is 😂
Nice article. The 6-7 frenzy is younger than teenagers though - the tweens should get their glory!
Just back from a winter solstice swim - a fast 1.5k in the Thames - perfect chilly Christmas start ❄️
One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
Looks fab - congratulations!
Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Aerial shot of a winding River Thames banked by green fields
This is the route I swam this morning (though under rainier skies) - a beautiful spot
An implacable brown and tan rabbit guards a door.
None shall pass.
Tuxedo cat stretched out across top step of brightly carpeted stairs
You shall not pass!
Shot of inside of the Sheldonian theatre, university of Oxford, with crowd starting to fill the seats
In the beautiful but uncomfortable Sheldonian Theatre waiting for Ian McEwan to arrive 📚 #oxford #books
Stonehenge and grey clouds overhead
Always funny driving along the A303 and getting a great view of Stonehenge and the tourists
Back home but thinking about 7pm at the beach when the sun goes down (sound up for waves) ⛱️
Just asked my 9 yr old and she didn’t know
View through a stone doorway over a hillside of Italian trulli - traditional houses with distinctive conical grey stone roofs
My current view over the trulli in Alberobello 🇮🇹
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
Quadrangle of the Bodleian library with sunshine and shadows on the library walls
Waiting on the library to open & trying to figure out which wing will be shadiest over the course of the day 🥵
Fox walking along a wall with a black cat peering down at it from a fence
My cat outraged at the cheeky fox in our garden in broad daylight 🐈⬛ 🦊
Close up of a fox looking directly at the camera
Excuse me, is that breakfast pancakes I can smell?
