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The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
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16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
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So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Most universities are on a knife edge and subsidising everything from foreign student fees are the only thing holding them together. If this goes through it’s over for half the universities in England
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Most universities are on a knife edge and subsidising everything from foreign student fees are the only thing holding them together. If this goes through it’s over for half the universities in England
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That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
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It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?
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February 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Become a member of our Library and Archives and use our Reading Room.
Gain access to:
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✔️A world leading collection of printed books, journals, unique manuscripts, artwork and archives.
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Learn more buff.ly/412DnR7.
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Gain access to:
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From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
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How to scare people around the world:
UK: Boo!
FI: pöö!
FR: hou!
DE: buh!
ES: uhh!
JP: kekeke!
CZ: baf!
RU: oo-oo!
MX: ¡Buu!
NL: boe!
IT: bù!
UK: Boo!
FI: pöö!
FR: hou!
DE: buh!
ES: uhh!
JP: kekeke!
CZ: baf!
RU: oo-oo!
MX: ¡Buu!
NL: boe!
IT: bù!
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
How to scare people around the world:
UK: Boo!
FI: pöö!
FR: hou!
DE: buh!
ES: uhh!
JP: kekeke!
CZ: baf!
RU: oo-oo!
MX: ¡Buu!
NL: boe!
IT: bù!
UK: Boo!
FI: pöö!
FR: hou!
DE: buh!
ES: uhh!
JP: kekeke!
CZ: baf!
RU: oo-oo!
MX: ¡Buu!
NL: boe!
IT: bù!
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16mm footage of chicago i shot on a bolex camera from the 1930s
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
16mm footage of chicago i shot on a bolex camera from the 1930s
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But he didn’t become British by getting famous. He became British by building a life here. Just as a factory worker, or a doctor, or anybody else does.
Billionaires want you to hate immigrants, so we don’t blame them for our problems.
We won’t fall for it.
Billionaires want you to hate immigrants, so we don’t blame them for our problems.
We won’t fall for it.
October 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
But he didn’t become British by getting famous. He became British by building a life here. Just as a factory worker, or a doctor, or anybody else does.
Billionaires want you to hate immigrants, so we don’t blame them for our problems.
We won’t fall for it.
Billionaires want you to hate immigrants, so we don’t blame them for our problems.
We won’t fall for it.
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Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋
Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.
The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.
The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋
Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.
The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.
The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” - Wole Soyinka
"The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
www.aljazeera.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” - Wole Soyinka
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"The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
www.aljazeera.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
