So put a heavyweight Cabinet Minister in charge of this, not serial waffler @NickTorfaen

The Epstein files may be the only case where we wait until all the perps die of old age before we get around to prosecuting them.

In how many more ways can #Labour ensure its death as a political party?

Fuck industry, fuck mobility, fuck public opinion, let's just honour an illegally manipulated vote of a decade ago.

#Brexit

Today is Ides of March. Am taking no chances & got new table.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @andertoon.bsky.social )

I still think about this a lot.

9 Mar 1454: b. Amerigo Vespucci, Florence #otd Merchant, self-publicist, mapmaker. The only human being who may have claim to have an eponymous continent. [And before anyone starts to @ me - the post is v. carefully worded]

Farage looking for candidates to stand in the upcoming local elections.
#Farage #ReformUK

This:

Posted: Name a better trio than onion, garlic, & ginger. Reply: Investigation, Impeachment, Imprisonment Reply: Blood clot, announcement, champagne

🍾💥🥂

Eastern Daily Press: Six planets to line up in the sky over Norfolk this weekend.

It’s JUST over Norfolk. Tough titties to the rest of the planet.

Lloyds investigating after using staff’s bank account data in pay talks CEO Charlie Nunn tells employees that issue ‘created some concern’ but insisted ‘we definitely have listened to it’

When Lloyds Bank have finished investigating Lloyds Bank's use of people's private data without explicit permission, I suggest Lloyds Bank investigates Lloyds Bank's investigation, just to check that it was fair, objective and unbiased.

Introducing the Sackbut YouTube video by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

"Eight pieces of …" ( #jazzsky series 37)

"Jazz" outside "Jazz": C

#6: Paſtyme wt good companye (?Henry8 Tudor c.1510)

7m ->7m40s

Phil Dale: sackbut (as 15th-18thc tb called north of Italy)

2020

For all Eu instrument (esp. brass) innovation ~Dale varies the tune. Improvisation normal in 16thc!

😱😱😱

Well, now we’re on our own. What the hell from the devil’s GOP..

This:

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement.

West Midlands Railway joins publicly owned Great British Railways The transport secretary says thousands of rail passengers will be using public services from Sunday.

West Midlands Railway joins publicly owned network

London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway will be publicly run from Sunday.

The two services, operated by West Midlands Trains (WMT), will join Great British Railways, the new publicly-owned body set to run the UK's rail network.

👍

Result!

The classy move would have been to give Machado the FIFA Peace Prize in return.

How large is Greenland, really? Your map may be deceiving you Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is.

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is.

Fury as Peter Mandelson appears on BBC despite Jeffrey Epstein links The BBC has been met with fury after Peter Mandelson appeared on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme

Still refuses to apologise to Epstein’s victims . He’s one arrogant B. And shouldn’t be anywhere near politics or TV .

Ich bin ein Greenlander

In Cambridge where a combination of an early start and freezing cold weather meant that I just about had King's College Chapel to myself this morning.

Take a tent, the queues at customs will be enormous. 😉

Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

Thought experiment: put Farage in the Lords.