A short video of Carraig Fhada lighthouse this afternoon.

It’s not often I’m moved to tears but the sheer scale of lives ruined by the #postofficescandal is horrifying. Disclosure has given a platform to those ordinary decent people in Scotland caught up in utter madness

If you've just finished reading How Westminster Works and Why It Doesn't, we've arranged this audio art performance to demonstrate its main themes.

Fun game for bored readers: try culling possible book titles from a famous text. I found the following from Byron’s Childe Harold: ‘Barter breath for Fame’ ‘untaught Melody’ ‘the sullen Tear’ ‘Love rides the Wind’ ‘frolics ever New’ ……. Now I just have to write the books!

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SATIRISTS

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account beat the algorithm & be seen!🙏 To make it worth sharing, here's a Goldfinch in my flowering Cherry tree 😍 Thank you very much! 🐦😊 ♥️

Chaffinches

“You’ll like Clacton, Ted. We can go on the pier”

every year, roland garros (the french open) asks an artist to create a poster for the tournament today, the collection has become an *incredible* display of tennis as modern art let's take a look at some of the best ones — starting with this iconic 1984 poster by gilles aillaud

I just cannot imagine as a candidate in the election that the first thought I would have on learning it was going to happen was to head to the bookies. These people are all Biff from Back to the Future 2.

Announcing the winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024 - Hisham Matar with his novel My Friends [Viking Books UK]. Congratulations Hisham! #OrwellPrizes2024 With thanks to our judges Alexandra Harris, Lara Choksey, Simon Okotie and Ross Raisin.

Good morning! Who dresses better? Alpha males or little dogs? Let's explore. 🧵

never thought I’d feel sorry for the tory party and I was right, I don’t

Fourteen years of monstrous, brutal Tory leadership is finally over inews.co.uk/opinion/fourte…

Idea for a podcast: We team up the Netherlands right back Denzel Dumfries with Workers Party leader and recently deposed MP George Galloway for lively chat about politics and football Dumfries and Galloway - new from BBC Sounds

Can't. I'm too busy thinking up hypothetical horrible ways I could die for absolutely no reason other than to give myself more anxiety.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

The Great Pyramid is the oldest of the 7 Wonders of the World — and yet it's the only one still standing. So what happened to the other six? Here's what we know about them... (thread) 🧵