🔶🥳Liberal Democrats gain control of Dorset Council from the Conservatives.

We are back in the West Country.

#LocalElections2024

Isn’t the 80s without an armpit hugging bass #TOTP

The Festival of Britain was officially opened OTD in 1951. A national exhibition, designed as a tonic to a war weary country, the event combined art, architecture, science, technology and design on the main South Bank site and around the country

A lovely short thread

Best name on a thesis, ever

You Whites!!!!

Excited for Salisbury’s playoff semi-final tomorrow, and so I’ve got ‘Sons of Kingstonian’ in my head. Football muscle memory dies hard

Yes please

Technically true.

Though Neville Chamberlain went to Mason College that became part of Birmingham Uni soon after he left. And Ramsey MacDonald went to Birkbeck before it was a University.

Apparently the sole judge of whether a university is ‘highest performing’ or ‘lower quality’ is the average UCAS tariff of its UG students. This is, of course, nonsense.

We tried Salisbury FC's £40 hospitality tickets 🤍

Here's how we got on at the Ray Mac Stadium...

For Wittgenstein's birthday, a playlist of his favourite music compiled by his brilliant biographer, Ray Monk. 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/4v540…

Well that's the league done, but we are not finished.

We must reflect on a sensational season, a real togetherness and fight! Congratulations to the Dutts & Harty along with the backroom team.

Thank you for your incredible support and we go again on Wednesday!

YOU WHITES!

Tory MP and former health minister Dan Poulter has defected to Labour, saying this to Toby Helm and The Observer which broke the story: “It feels to me that the Tory party has gone from being a pragmatic, centrist, centre-right party which focused on and understood the importance…

Happy Birthday Ludwig Wittgenstein! (26 April 1889). Often considered one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. In his lifetime, he published just one slim, highly influential and dense book, the 75-page Tractatus Logicus Philosophicus (1921), one article, one book…

Parklife by blur is 30 years old today! To celebrate I thought I'd play one of my favourites from the album on this right nice harpsichord.

Clover Over Dover...

🌴🎹🌴🎹🌴🎹🌴

Still can’t believe Andy Rourke has gone. Honestly don’t think I’ve heard anything as beautiful as the bassline to That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore - the mellifluous spine around which that song - surely The Smiths’ greatest - ebbs and flows

I think about this song often - 15 years old, and utterly for now: Building a Wall (2018 Remaster) music.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrHkD… via @YouTubeMusic

We're pleased to announce that Science, Innovation, and Technology Secretary, Michelle Donelan has appointed The Baroness Bull CBE and Prof. Sir Ian Chapman as new non-executive directors to the UKRI board.

More about them and their roles: orlo.uk/Gy2v4

Yes this is the basic contradiction in the policy. Rwanda must sound terrible to be a deterrent. But it cannot be considered terrible or else they'll look like bastards. It therefore exists in both states simultaneously.