A la recherche des chantiers de construction des bateaux nordiques, des hypothèses intéressantes sur degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #BronzeAge APRAB - Asso. promotion recherches âge du Bronze

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The pure and simple genius of Viz Comic . . .

Happy Ides of May! ❤️

While trashing universities. The UK government's policy had become incoherent to the point of parody. We need to start again.

First is David Petts from Durham Archaeology!

It's dissertation marking time. One of the joys of double marking and having to agree marks with a colleague is that if I mark lower than the other person I'm convinced they think I'm a heartless bastard, and if I mark higher I'm convinced they think I'm a credulous loon.

How Rishi Sunak press conferences work. Reporters put their hands up, but this is what the prime minister has in front of him...

England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming. None of these are in #Northumberland . Northumbria Water’s link to “A map of our bathing waters” is broken (nwl.co.uk/services/bathi…) suggestive that these aren’t safe either. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

My new book is out this week. I'll be signing copies at L'Autre Rive café/bookshop in Berrien tomorrow 14H-16H30. This is the first of two books I'm doing this year about this medieval Breton pilgrimage. Grateful for any publicity. #Brittany #Bretagne #pilgrimage

30 years today since the night which inspired Tony Blair to pen the worst paragraph in history

Should you require any further evidence of how the UK media works, they’ve been silent on this issue for the FOUR YEARS that Elphicke was a Conservative MP, she defects to Labour and within FOUR DAYS it’s front page news.

The biggest story today is that the then-Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice was a direct witness to a criminal attempt to pervert the course of justice, and covered it up for four years because it involved one of his political allies.

Someone has to pay for Tory corruption and it will be us. Working class kids won't be included in the civil service, Black people won't get on because of a structural lack of diversity, and women will suffer unequal treatment. And the rest of us - who will continue to be ruled by…

“When I was Lord Chancellor I completely forgot, for four years, that Natalie Elphicke had lobbied me about her ex-husband’s sexual assault trial, until she crossed the floor and joined Labour.”

This is lovely.

Laura Kuenssberg, 'Why didn't the Conservative party do something about Natalie Elphicke lobbying ministers about he husband's court case?'

David Cameron, 'I've only just seen the story in the papers, I've got no idea about it.. Natalie Elphicke is a Labour press office problem,…

Last year’s Eurovision was an unexpected, diverse celebration of support for Ukraine. Uplifting and communal. Tonight’s is a cold refusal by the organisers to see that Israel’s genocide casts a long, dark shadow over all the glitz and glamour. Here’s hoping for mass disruption.