Jennifer Iles

Former academic researching and writing about tourism on the Western Front battlefields. Now an artist painting landscapes and florals. Pro Europe.🦖🇬🇷

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

This entire campaign was sold with a sense of desperate urgency, yet Esther Rantzen is still with us and Parliament is again being pushed to rush one of the gravest moral and legal changes imaginable. We cannot even guarantee decent care for the living. Why would anyone trust the state with assisted death?

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Here we go again then 🙄
https://t.co/9HrC2RvvYI

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Dear restaurants,

Bring back the physical menus. Nobody wants to be scanning QR codes when they're hungry.

Regards: The whole world.

[Tim Thurlow @TrenchTrotter]

A tale of two statues. Many of you will know of the wonderful French soldier statue watching over the fallen @CWGC cemetery at Vignacourt, Somme. A statue commissioned by the people of the village in grateful appreciation of the fallen. There were C.C.S. Here in 1918. More….

[Bwpb @Bwpb11]

David Hockney

[Poppyscotland @poppyscotland]

#OnThisDay in 1940, a week after the Dunkirk evacuations, 10,000 men of the 51st Highland Division were captured at St Valery. Most would spend the rest of the War in brutal conditions as POW’s. Today we remember the “Forgotten 51st”.

#LestWeForget

[Jennifer Iles @JenniferIles]

@ww1cemeteries @CWGC It looks terrible.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Shocked to hear David Hockney has died. His huge achievement was to make serious painting look effortless. He carried forward one of the most sustained investigations into vision, space and representation by any post-war artist. British art has lost a giant.

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

Such a fantastic and truly illuminating lecture today at @britishmuseum ‘Ancient Israel and Judah in the British Museum’

And what an incredible speech by Director Dr Nicholas Cullinan;

“Free speech and free expression are non-negotiable.”

“We did not — and will not — surrender to the heckler’s veto, threats or intimidation.”

“Protests are a healthy feature of democratic life when organised peacefully within the law. But disruption that prevents permitted conversations has no place in our civic spaces.”

“This is a difficult moment for the Jewish community. Institutions face opposing pressures. Our test is to ensure ideas can be examined openly, without intimidation.”

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up

"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"

Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt

Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?

https://t.co/s4lIJWp8O1

[Cecil Vyse @VyseCecil]

The weather has become so determinedly unseasonal that I am considering packing away my straw boater alongside the Christmas decorations.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Well that's awkward.

[Football and the First World War @IainMcMullen]

Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Have you heard of the Military Intelligence Museum?

It’s moving to one of Britain’s best-kept secrets: the London Tunnels.

Built to protect us during the Blitz and hidden for nearly 70 years - these mile-long tunnels are about to open to the public!

I’m proud to be an ambassador for this exciting project!

Follow: @mi_intel to stay up-to-date and show your support.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

#OTD in 1944, D-Day+4: Allied soldiers wade ashore after disembarking from transport vessels along the French coast, four days after the D-Day landings.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brian has a pup. The fell has not seen one in a while, and the fell has opinions, and so does the pup, and almost none of them are correct yet.

His name is Moss. He is a Border Collie, fourteen weeks old, black and white and entirely convinced, and he has arrived on a Cumbrian hill to learn the oldest job a dog has in this country, which is to move sheep without harming a hair on them, using nothing but position, patience, and the strange ancient power that a collie carries in its eyes.

Because that is the thing about a collie, the intricacy that makes the breed what it is. A collie does not herd by chasing or biting. It herds by "the eye," a fixed, crouching, predatory stare inherited straight from the wolf, the look that says to a sheep "I am a hunter and you will move," delivered by a dog that has been bred for a century and a half to feel the entire predatory sequence right up to the final pounce and then stop, and hold, and never complete it. A working sheepdog is a wolf that has been taught to do everything except the last thing. The control is the whole art.

Moss has the eye. He does not yet have the control. He has, this week, "gathered" a watering can, a wheelbarrow, three hens belonging to the neighbour, and Brian's wife's washing, dropping into the crouch and giving each of them the full ancestral stare before attempting to move it somewhere it did not wish to go.

Brian is not worried. Brian has done this before, more times than he will say, and he knows that the instinct arriving wrong and early is exactly how it is meant to arrive, and that the job now is years of patient shaping, the pup working beside an older dog and an older man until the wolf in him learns the one rule that makes him useful instead of dangerous: everything except the last thing.

Moss gave Doris the eye on Tuesday.

Doris, who has been stared at by better, carried on grazing.

Moss sat down, confused. The first lesson on the fell, delivered free, by a ewe: the look only works on something that believes it. He has a great deal to learn. He is exactly where he should be.

[Aimee 🧚🏻‍♀️ @aimee_daisies]

This afternoon Princess Anne, as President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, unveiled a new memorial at Brookwood Military Cemetery near Woking to commemorate more than 400 forgotten World War One casualties 🖤

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

The stained glass window dedicated to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in the church at Angoville-au-Plain, Manche, Normandy, France. 🪂

[Jane Waring @CreeAnt]

Hi @BBCkatyaadler I’m just wondering, when is it time to talk about women’s rights, if not in a session about women in politics?

[Jennifer Iles @JenniferIles]

What a great success story.

[Trees for Life @treesforlifeuk]

Red squirrels on camera 🐿️ At one of our former release sites just outside Golspie, there have been sightings of thriving #redsquirrels, including kits.

“Having lived in the Highlands for nearly 30 years, red squirrels have always felt like magical creatures that we could never expect to see. So it’s been wonderful to see their numbers increase over the past few years, and it still feels a little unreal that they’ve become part of our everyday lives.” - Georgia, local resident

We’re helping red squirrels return to parts of their former range, and it’s wonderful to see so much enthusiasm from local #communities as they welcome these iconic animals back.

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/xbbHe0ihc1