'I'm shocked, shocked I tell you'.theguardian.com/music/article/…

The oldest surviving airworthy Fairy Swordfish takes to the skies for Navy Wings event RNAS Yeovilton today.

They knew last November? Eight months ago? I post this not to add to Huw Edwards' misery, but solely to contrast it to the hell BBC News (UK) inflicted on Sir Cliff Richard with their prurient smears and sensational live-filming of the raids on his homes, without any arrest or charge.

Well, this unusual. The UK's national broadcaster restricting replies.

I am obsessed with the idea that it was once ever possible to call for a special train just for you. From the memoirs of Daisy, Countess of Warwick whose journey from socialite to socialist probably deserves a thread one day. 20th Century Posters Tim Dunn

The weekend before this photo was taken, BLM protests (which were illegal at the time) caused chaos in central London & elsewhere leading to dozens of police officers injured & over 100 arrests. Starmer cannot credibly stand up to violence in 2024 when he kneeled to it in 2020.

You couldn't make it up.

As authentic as an espresso from a motorway service area.

I’m seeing the devastation that is happening around the country, and it’s hard to watch. Tomorrow, it will be 5 years since my wife died, so I know a thing or two about grief, anger, pain and I’m seeing a lot of that at the moment. If I may, I'd like to tell you a story. 1/20

This 2023 cartoon by Morton Morland never gets old.

This Lorenz SZ40 cipher machine was found in a scrap yard in Belgrade in 2021. It was purchased for scrap value of 4000 Serbian Dinars (approx 34€ / £29)! What a bargain!! Current whereabouts unknown, could this be the only Lorenz in private hands? TNMOC Bletchley Park

Thread of cats stealing food in paintings 🧵 1. Still Life with cat by Desportes, 1705

A reminder that The Three Musketeers ends with a total of four musketeers.

Assassins’ Creed Shadows is caught reusing assets. Now, as a dev, I don’t have a problem with this in general until… Until you bill yourself as AAAA game, and claim this is why you are raising prices, worthy of charging 130 dollars for your games, while being a multi-billion

This Winter, please help the son of a toolmaker find clothes for his family. Every Louis Vuitton bag donated will go to a vulnerable wife. 🙏🏽

Oxbridge discourse has been won. There isn't anything after “you shouldn't go to prison for child pornography because you didn't go to Oxbridge.”

The Secret Intelligence Service has identified the man who made the #Pager sale to Hezbollah. Seems he left his business card. #pagers Temerity Drax

David Lammy has sparked a diplomatic row after writing in a recent blog post that Azerbaijan has been able to "liberate" territory in a conflict widely regarded as an ethnic cleansing. dailysceptic.org/2024/09/19/dav…

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