Derrick Leigh
@tuwaqachi.bsky.social
Retired social worker exploring the renaissance of the digital era. Science, arts, dna, genealogy, computing, food, agriculture and land management.
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A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference about weight-loss medications.
Man Collapses In Oval Office
A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference about weight-loss medications.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference about weight-loss medications.
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Image Edmund of Langley remonstrating with the King of Portugal, Ferdinand I. (15th century) Courtesy of The British Library. Given the present incumbent I'm not surprised he has no tights on. 2/2
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Image Edmund of Langley remonstrating with the King of Portugal, Ferdinand I. (15th century) Courtesy of The British Library. Given the present incumbent I'm not surprised he has no tights on. 2/2
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The title Duke of York has hardly been out of the news lately but where did it originate? The title was first awarded to Edmund of Langley, (1341-1402), the fourth surviving son of King Edward III, founder of the House of York. 1/2
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The title Duke of York has hardly been out of the news lately but where did it originate? The title was first awarded to Edmund of Langley, (1341-1402), the fourth surviving son of King Edward III, founder of the House of York. 1/2
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Today's Cartoon- Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today's Cartoon- Peace Prize
US tech companies want to invest £31 billion in UK tech infrastructure. Fine, but with so much now invested in AI ($27 trillion last I heard) that has every sign of being a bubble that will burst when AI inevitably doesn't deliver, with catastrophic results worse than the South Sea 1720 fiasco.
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
US tech companies want to invest £31 billion in UK tech infrastructure. Fine, but with so much now invested in AI ($27 trillion last I heard) that has every sign of being a bubble that will burst when AI inevitably doesn't deliver, with catastrophic results worse than the South Sea 1720 fiasco.
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There's been an 'incredible response' to the local legend right away
Boddingtons runs out at two Manchester pubs during first weekend back at bar
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There's been an 'incredible response' to the local legend right away
Poppies emerge in my garden
Against a sea of white and yellow daisies
Yesterday there were 4
Today there are 6
Soon they will all be gone
I did not set out find this beauty
But it seems to have found me.
I will make the most of it.
Against a sea of white and yellow daisies
Yesterday there were 4
Today there are 6
Soon they will all be gone
I did not set out find this beauty
But it seems to have found me.
I will make the most of it.
May 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Poppies emerge in my garden
Against a sea of white and yellow daisies
Yesterday there were 4
Today there are 6
Soon they will all be gone
I did not set out find this beauty
But it seems to have found me.
I will make the most of it.
Against a sea of white and yellow daisies
Yesterday there were 4
Today there are 6
Soon they will all be gone
I did not set out find this beauty
But it seems to have found me.
I will make the most of it.
Magna Carta clause 38:- No legal officer shall start proceedings against anyone on his own mere say-so, without reliable witnesses having been brought for the purpose.
May 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Magna Carta clause 38:- No legal officer shall start proceedings against anyone on his own mere say-so, without reliable witnesses having been brought for the purpose.
This guy and his cronies are putting thousands of satirical writers out of work. How can you satirise or parody something so utterly ludicrous?
I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'
Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.
www.bbc.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This guy and his cronies are putting thousands of satirical writers out of work. How can you satirise or parody something so utterly ludicrous?
I wrote this four years ago.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wrote this four years ago.
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recount.blog/2021/01/22/f...
I understand the US wants the UK to repeal equality legislation as a precondition of a trade deal between them. UK, are you ready to answer the question? "Yes, it's NO DEAL!"
April 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I understand the US wants the UK to repeal equality legislation as a precondition of a trade deal between them. UK, are you ready to answer the question? "Yes, it's NO DEAL!"
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In 1392 Richard II eliminated tariffs on eel imports, & asked foreign merchants to bring eels "from over sea, where they are abundant, to London where they are dear."
He knew that higher tariffs meant getting less of what you want. Oh, the lessons that eel history can teach us...
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He knew that higher tariffs meant getting less of what you want. Oh, the lessons that eel history can teach us...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In 1392 Richard II eliminated tariffs on eel imports, & asked foreign merchants to bring eels "from over sea, where they are abundant, to London where they are dear."
He knew that higher tariffs meant getting less of what you want. Oh, the lessons that eel history can teach us...
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He knew that higher tariffs meant getting less of what you want. Oh, the lessons that eel history can teach us...
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So, the US wants to impose trade tariffs on what it describes as "the worst offenders". How about we impose tariff sanctions on those countries who are the worst offenders for environmental harm? Who would they be? Let me think...
April 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So, the US wants to impose trade tariffs on what it describes as "the worst offenders". How about we impose tariff sanctions on those countries who are the worst offenders for environmental harm? Who would they be? Let me think...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A typical piece of hypocrisy.
A typical piece of hypocrisy.
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A typical piece of hypocrisy.
A typical piece of hypocrisy.
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I think a US state visit to the UK might be postponed, just for a decade or two.
March 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I think a US state visit to the UK might be postponed, just for a decade or two.
The actions of the US government including failing to recognise Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine are acts of avarice and moral cowardice so heinous that they call for more than mere condemnation by what is left of the free world.
February 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The actions of the US government including failing to recognise Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine are acts of avarice and moral cowardice so heinous that they call for more than mere condemnation by what is left of the free world.
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February 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
So the US President wants to "make a deal" with the UK? Well, Mr President, speaking on behalf of many people in the UK I can say that you have nothing to offer my country that we want and you can just go fuck yourself.
February 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So the US President wants to "make a deal" with the UK? Well, Mr President, speaking on behalf of many people in the UK I can say that you have nothing to offer my country that we want and you can just go fuck yourself.
The new UK Land Management Scheme neatly divides the map into 3 areas of farming, nature and infrastructure, achieving a new height of folly by simultaneously creating a false trichotomy and three false dichotomies.
January 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The new UK Land Management Scheme neatly divides the map into 3 areas of farming, nature and infrastructure, achieving a new height of folly by simultaneously creating a false trichotomy and three false dichotomies.
The people and government of the UK take a very poor view of foreign citizens who attempt to interfere in its domestic affairs. If the US government can not prevent its citizens from doing so friendly relationships between our two countries can not continue.
January 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The people and government of the UK take a very poor view of foreign citizens who attempt to interfere in its domestic affairs. If the US government can not prevent its citizens from doing so friendly relationships between our two countries can not continue.
The recent death of a special forces veteran in Las Vegas was not a terrorist act. It was a symbolic suicide. It will probably not be the last. The choice of location and vehicle were significant but the method of death was a sidearm. The device constructed was not a bomb but a funeral pyre.
January 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The recent death of a special forces veteran in Las Vegas was not a terrorist act. It was a symbolic suicide. It will probably not be the last. The choice of location and vehicle were significant but the method of death was a sidearm. The device constructed was not a bomb but a funeral pyre.