For sale! A very beautiful and rather large antique French carpet - roses against a black ground. 295x195 cm. The photo below shows it folded up. £100 or reasonable offer. Not including postage, but happy to drop it off around Oxford/West Oxfordshire. DM or reply below for details.

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It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

We're running out of time. 🚨 🌎

Douglas Parr, Greenpeace UK’s chief scientist: "Alarm bells should be ringing in government that doubled chances of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires will make life in the UK look very different, very quickly."

https://bit.ly/3WCmrOn

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Gorgeous

You seem to like when
I show you
something from Kyiv grocery stores.
I like showing it too.

Freshly baked bread.

Doing my first ever TEDx talk in tralee as part of Tralee TEDx festival - nerves (maybe! 😬) but also looking forward to it - it’s a family affair as the sisters company, quest and thrive, are running wellness zone part. Tickets if you’re around below #speirgorm www.tedxtralee.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

There's 20% off my bird illustration & w'shop on zoom this Saturday
You'll learn:
✒️ how to draw birds & apply this to several species
🧠the neuroscience of how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health from a ST best-selling author:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

Attorneys representing a producer for Chicago’s WGN television station who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week in Chicago, say the incident “should be alarming and horrifying to every person in this country”.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is tyranny.

If you're overseas & would like to order a copy of #OnceAYear (out this week UK & Ireland), here's a link to one of Ireland's most iconic family-owned-and-run bookshops. It's fab, will sell online & ships globally 📚😊

www.kennys.ie/shop/once-a-...

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social #booksky #Spéirgorm

For reasons, I have taught Malthus twice in the last week or two. In both rooms, I have forgotten to wipe the whiteboard clean, so I like to think that it looks like someone is going around writing FAMINE DISEASE WAR just to freak people out.

I said months ago that Badenoch was trashing a key convention regarding opposition in matters of security.

Today was sadly a continuation of it. Imagine declaring that it's UK criticism that has "strained relations with Israel", rather than Netanyahu's war crimes.

Desperate, immoral, and so cheap.

Do you have any cherished family photographs? National Trust photo curator Catherine Troiano takes a look at some beautiful photographs from the Victorian and Edwardian periods - and explains the tell-tale clues that help to date them:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Sisyphus, but for obscenely wealthy people - every day they generate untold wealth and then it all gets distributed to the population and they have to get up and do it again tomorrow.😈

Day 287 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Pablo Rochat is an artist who turns everyday ideas into witty magic

I honestly feel many people are sick of performatively confrontational presidential candidate debates.

The constant interruptions, prickly haranguing, random hypotheticals, repetitive dredging of controversy instead of hearing about values, character, vision.

We deserve smarter discourse.

#Aras25

Maybe instead of asking about candidate's pets a week before polling day, media could ask candidates their view on existential threats like #climatechange? Just a thought..

#Áras25 #SpéirGorm

Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever

This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."

Great result. I'd like to applaud the protest, the review of police action and the fact that an apology was made, and to amplify your point that vague & broad laws result in unlawful policing. But I can't share because of that 'forced to' in your image - it's unhelpful & detracts from the real win.

History in your hands within an hour(ish).

Here's how quick and easy it is to register for a history card and start ordering up 1000 years of documents.

Register now: www.thelondonarchives.org/your-researc...

#Archives #LondonHistory

Off to teach at Oxford Brookes this afternoon. I'm an associate lecturer on their Publishing MA. To give you an idea as to how university finances are going: a few years ago I did 36 hours of teaching on this module, this year I'm doing 6.