Robert Foxon

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...

Tube web spiders arrived in Bristol sometime around the 1700s after hitching a ride on merchant ships arriving from the Mediterranean. They burrow in holes in walls and form distinctive webs within. Their bite is said to be very painful but as they seldom leave their burrows, bites are quite rare.

Some lovely photos from a trip on Wednesday afternoon, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Kings Langley Arts and Crafts Society (KLACS). Thank you so much for joining us. Looks like the rain didn't spoil your day 💙 #MondayMood #Community #Charity #Boathire #Ukcanals

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

‘Not-me Nigel’ Always someone else’s fault. Nigel Farage fumes at ‘staff incompetence’ for half-empty Reform event www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

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Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

Coincidence corner: Tory peer Lord (Tariq) Ahmad and Qatar From the latest Private Eye, out now.

This is important to know.

The "Great Pumpkin" pays a visit to St Mary's church, Haseley (one for the Snoopy fans🙂)

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Lib Dems, third for most of my life, have never had anything like this. The party currently has over 70 MPs but is almost invisible. Yet when they do a stupid stunt for attention, the media gets very angry. Maybe, you know, stop just platforming Farage all the bloody time?

Left or right

“Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?” (The name of the supplier should come as no surprise) https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantir-led-secret-review

Lest we forget... 💰 'Using his second home allowance, Bernard Jenkin claimed £50,000 in rent on a farmhouse owned by his sister-in-law, just over the road from a country home part-owned by his wife.' (May 2009) #politicslive www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop...

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554 MPs, 85% of the total, were elected in 2024 with less than half the vote in their seat, up from 229 in 2019. Under First Past the Post, most local voters backing someone else is now the norm.

It's always worth reiterating that freedom of movement is a two way thing. As someone who benefited from it as a student in the 1990s, I'm very glad that the issue is being discussed again in the UK. It would be nice if it could be in a sensible way this time.

Aaaand another great thing about Scotland ... simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. An underground system that takes you round town. Round...circle...done! Now pub! I'm toying with the idea of adding maps to my books and pinpointing where the witches and gods are...

Carl Spitzweg, German (1808-1885), Hexenritt, c 1875, oil on cardboard, 24.1 x 19 cm

🚨 Cal Roscow, B4B Director of Campaigns: “After 7 years, a generation of young Brits have been robbed of the chance to study or get work experience in the European Union Opportunities that even Reform UK’s own education spokesperson benefitted from, so we would expect to see cross-party support”

So he DOES know how elections work.

Followers will know I'm far from an uncritical Andy Burnham or Labour fan. But as Prime Minister of an actual government, with a huge majority, I'd say he has more of a mandate than a part-time MP leading a bunch of racist malcontents forever falling out with each other! Wouldn't you?

I get really confused by Gresley's 2-8-0s. He seemed to keep tinkering with them and creating multiple variants and sub classes. No 63965, on a pick up goods at Essendine in September 1956, is I think, a plain O2, and not one of the many he futtered about with, unless my 1957 abc has got it wrong.

Nigel Farage has given Reform UK candidates permission to publicly support the serial criminally convicted fraudster, thug, stalker and far-right activist who founded the English Defence League. This is who they are. Never forget it.

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Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Let's go Desert Bus! If you're seeing this and would like to help good people doing good work for a good cause, go give them a watch or drop them a donation if you can afford it!

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

There is literally nothing in this article to justify the headline. And that's a problem when a lot of people will only read the headline. bsky.app/profile/anan...

On our guided experience, ‘Y Tren Nadolig Fictoriadd’, you can learn about the Victorian origins of many of our present-day Christmas Traditions, tales of distinctly Welsh ways of celebrating, and practices now lost to the mists of time.

🇷🇸 "Given Serbia’s recent history, how was this remarkable democratic experiment even possible?" 🗳️ "One answer lies in the movement’s ability to rally a wide range of people who wanted to counter the perceived corruption of Aleksandar Vučić, the authoritarian president."

This is such a critical issue for European sovereignty. 'The EU is fighting Elon Musk's Starlink on at least five fronts – from blocking access, to boosting rivals, to drafting new rules aimed directly at undermining Musk's growing dominance over the space business.' archive.is/202610270502...

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