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This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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That first game since October when the final whistle goes in daylight.
January 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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The scene outside any Irish funeral.
Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland after their meeting with US Vice President and Secretary of State.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The Malago, Colliter’s Brook, Pigeonhouse Stream
The Nene, the Blackwater, the Frome and two branches of the Avon.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.

Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Mel Machin Man City manager playing for Gillingham?
+ Green Shield Stamps ( Double on Tuesday)
January 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
August 82, Locarno Ballroom Bristol.
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Kate Bush
The Clash
Prefab Sprout
Radiohead
Allen Toussaint
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Only seen them live three times: Oct ’92 at The Fleece, Nov ’97 at the NEC with Mrs B pregnant with our daughter… and last night, with that same daughter — and our son (his favourite band). A stunning evening with the GOATs.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cumberland Ale
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Talk-bait
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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That'll teach him not to ask Robert Jenrick for information about football.
I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Choosing to stand with the far-right foreign football hooligan against the local police force: this, apparently, is what British patriotism looks like in 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ligaverachtungsehnsucht

Liga (league) + Verachtung (contempt) + Sehnsucht (longing) hating the league, yet longing to stay in it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Florence Nightingale was seen by the Florentines as a daughter of the city who gave her name lustre abroad.
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdboB7vo/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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September 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.
September 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Recall Trump and his daughter being asked what they had in common. Trump replied "sex" Ivanka "golf". Both weird answers.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.
July 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM