So happy to see this White Lion, a rare beauty in good care and safe haven from hunters. Thank you for your service to this beautiful animal. 🙏♥️

Where is Elon? Lost in space.

For months I went nowhere except shops+occasionally pubs. Tonight I went to the LPO/Edward Gardner Edinburgh Festival concert; Holst's Planets+ Rachmaninov's Paganini variations played by Beatrice Rana. It was special, & concert+train tickets+a drink came to less than £50 so not

Meet the Japanese woman who survived two atomic bombs thetimes.co.uk/article/japan-…

On August 6th 1889 the Savoy, the first London hotel to be lit by electricity and with electric lifts, opened ; in 1926 Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, a US Olympic gold medallist, became the first woman to swim the Channel. Her time of 14 hours and 31 minutes was achieved in rough

Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr is cutting off funding for mRNA vaccines, when they’ve been proven safe. I can’t believe this idiot is running American healthcare. He’s going to be responsible for death and sicknesses. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Meet the Zyklon B heiress who is sailing to Gaza - Brendan O'Neill spiked-online.com/2025/08/06/mee…

On August 7th 1840 a new act of parliament prohibited the employment of boys as chimney sweep climbers ; in 1958 an appeal court quashed US playwright Arthur Miller’s conviction for contempt of Congress over his refusal to give the House Un-American Activities Committee the names

How to avoid being scammed thetimes.com/article/abdb07…

Get thee to a nunnery, Bonnie Blue - Jenny Holland spiked-online.com/2025/08/07/get…

Birthdays today, August 8th, include U2 guitarist David "The Edge" Evans, 64, and actor Dustin Hoffman, 88.

On August 8th 1709 Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrated the earliest recorded model hot-air balloon flight, to the Portuguese court ; in 1929 the German-built airship Graf Zeppelin began its round-the-world flight. Completed in just over 21 days, it set a record for the

Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story - Fraser Nelson thetimes.com/article/63b7ff…

I saw the new #WeaponsMovie. I'll not watch it again but it mostly held my attention, & I found the first two thirds of it quite interesting. Not so the latest Jurassic World film, which I yawned & slept through over half of. #films #movies #cinema

On August 9th 1588 Queen Elizabeth I addressed troops at Tilbury, Essex, during preparations to repel a potential invasion by Spain. She is reported to have said: “I know I have the body of a weak & feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, & of a king of England

In defence of whataboutery - Brendan O'Neill spiked-online.com/2025/08/09/in-…

Remember, Hamas admits their massive tunnel network is for protecting their fighters and for attacking Israel - they are NOT for protecting civilians, who are not allowed inside. Israel invests in bomb shelters and the Iron Dome. But Hamas uses Gazans as cannon fodder & for PR.

Today's Sunday Times cartoon, depicting David Lammy & JD Vance, by Ella Baron

We'd rather gush pieties than benefit from oil - Dominic Lawson thetimes.com/article/9cd52a…

Prince Andrew's biographer: The Queen knew what was going on thetimes.com/article/43da9f…