I have a political opinion. It doesn't define me.
I'm a pagan. 'nuff said.
I love art. You'll find a lot of it in my posts.
I'm a Tudor geek. You'll find a lot of that too.
I rarely swear. But if you're right wing, a racist, a holocaust denier, a homophobe, or similar, I might.
Today's the feast of St Thomas More and St John Fisher, 16th Century English Reformation martyrs, here by Margaret Agnes Rope at Kesgrave, Ipswich. In Hilary Mantel's brilliant 'Wolf Hall' More comes across as a heartless zealot and Fisher as unworldly and gullible, which is perhaps not unfair, though they were both more complex than that.
Kesgrave HF: https://t.co/kI4449v9pK
If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker.
Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”.
He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was given a suspended sentence.
It comes up when you Google him.
He won in the council election.
He’s now a Reform Councillor.
In the UK today there’s a large number of people who no longer even think about the victims of rape, even when the victims are kids. They no longer think about the victims of stabbings. Or train crashes.
Their ONLY thought is : please let the offender be brown, black & a Muslim
Nobody is vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and Trump knows it. This is a visible example of his corruption--a no-bid contract to some crony followed by sky-high cost overruns, and shoddy construction to boot. Classic Trump: I didn't fuck up, it was my enemies.
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
― C.S. Lewis
Stephen Yaxley Lennon
Convicted for
- assaulting an officer in 2005
- assault at a neo-Nazi rally in 2011
- football hooliganism in 2011
- using a false passport in 2013
- mortgage fraud in 2014
- contempt of court in 2019
- stalking a woman in 2021
- libel in 2024
What a patriot
4hrs since the first reports of the stabbings in Scotland
Silence from
- Badenoch
- Philp
- Timothy
- Farage
- Yusuf
- Lowe
- Patrick Christys
- Adam Brooks (despite 8 tweets)
2 tier concern or 2 tier hypocrisy?
'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'
Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://t.co/koxgcemjp7