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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 5h

"Can you make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you have a head like a skull."
"Does not everyone have a head like a skull?"
"No."
Alec Douglas-Home died 30 years ago today.
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2022 Politician of the Year (dead)

He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5h

One of my favourite quotes (and not just because the same applies to me)!

Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 5h

"Can you make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you have a head like a skull."
"Does not everyone have a head like a skull?"
"No."
Alec Douglas-Home died 30 years ago today.
thelionandunicorn.com/2022/12/28/2...

2022 Politician of the Year (dead)

He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak.

thelionandunicorn.com

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 14h

Habeas Corpus, did she die in vain?!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

Question: Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?

Trump: Suspending who?

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir

The man who ended up smoking 30 cigars a day after trying to quit cigarettes also comes across in his book as level-headed, self-aware and savagely funny. Here’s what the late rock legend can teach us...

www.theguardian.com

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 2d

www.thetimes.com/article/3dc7...

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

People claim London crime is rising because it suits them, Met commander says

Nigel Farage and right-wing commentators seek to portray capital as ‘lawless’ despite evidence to the contrary

www.theguardian.com

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 3d

South Eastern trains have made this weekend a joy........

a man in a suit and tie sitting at a table

ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting at a table

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 3d

I have not sat through a single Harry Potter film.
Comic book franchise films likewise.
Friends I never found funny.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 3d

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It’s not enough to be up for the fight – Keir Starmer mus...

A harder challenge lies ahead for the prime minister – persuading voters and some within his party that he can deliver

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 5d

"Friends Martin Viljasaar and Henri Jaska formed a "Duck Commando" of Indian runner ducks to fight Spanish slugs in Harku, even renting them out after training."

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Crack duck unit eradicating Spanish slugs in Harku Municipality

Friends Martin Viljasaar and Henri Jaska formed a "Duck Commando" of Indian runner ducks to fight Spanish slugs in Harku, even renting them out after training.

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 6d

My book Marshal Ney:Fall From Glory is available on Amazon in paperback and on kindle.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp

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Maria von Trapp teaches Julie Andrews to Yodel

YouTube video by Rodgers & Hammerstein

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Six minutes of terror: how Manchester synagogue attack unfolded

Witnesses screamed ‘he’s got a bomb’ and ‘shoot him’ before suspect was killed by armed police

www.theguardian.com

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 6d

www.thetimes.com/article/8777...

Len Pennie affair shows we are hurtling towards a post-literate age

The lack of reaction to a reviewer accusing the popular poet of a lack of originality is a fresh reminder that literature, and reading, are no longer considered vital

www.thetimes.com

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 7d

Just had a very spirited game of peekaboo with the cat during which I got increasingly more animated while he just stared at me

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 14d

Master thread of posts for The Adventurous Historian.

#AdventurousResearch

The Preview

www.patreon.com/posts/memoir...

Memoirs of an Adventurous Historian: Coming Soon | The Adventurous Historian

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8d

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim.

A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service

And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier.

This does not happen often, and it should happen far more.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive

Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up child...

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 8d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... Couldn't have happened to a nicer person........

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 8d

Facebook is strange. I followed a page on Hollywood cinema legends.
Reel appears.
"The four actresses with the biggest breasts in Hollywood!"

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 8d

What a wand.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."