Can you still buy it? My fave at primary school back in the 60s, particularly when we added some sherry (Bristol Cream of course) to the mix.

Indeed. I've known several older friends with larger houses who took years to sell as they had rural settings, long before the VAT change. And what is the issue with getting a lodger? Why is this such a challenging option? Sigh...

Now 56% rejoin!

Most effective is probably those vibrating tanks people use for retainers.

Fighting the good fight

We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.

goodlawproject.org/s/6ca0fc

Italy’s far-right government revives holiday for saint at ‘core of our nation’s identity’ Millions of Italian workers expected to get day off every 4 October in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi

Ironic that Meloni's crew want to celebrate St Francis, the wokest of Saints. Maybe Starmer should make St George's day a holiday too. Touché, Reform.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Absolutely correct.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

A week at the going rate in Oxon.

Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

Thank you! You always come up with the most eye catching and beautiful artifacts. Such a relief from the present day news.

I'm the same although trying to encourage a move to Signal where I can.

Photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament made of a band of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. The band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in); length of headband 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in). Dated c. 1648-1540 BC.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Done to Layla Moran.

Joined as a positive step in 2025.

Agreed. The whole thing was wonderful but I was particularly struck by the perfection of the costumes. They could have walked out of Holbein's paintings.

Shout out to Radio 3 for excellent Christmas programming - this is what I pay my licence for. Wonderful music and so open to Europe that if I close my eyes I can almost pretend that Brexit didn't happen.

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