Owen

[Owen @pfowen]

@UKMemes2026 Great Malvern, red Lion is up the hill. The Naggs Head is 1/2 mile to the right, a gentle downhill, and much better.

But quality sign.

[Owen @pfowen]

@AdHaque110 https://t.co/vO3K2hDPiS

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

Some people are asking why Spain still possesses territory in North Africa. A better question might be why North Africa is now Muslim and predominantly Arab.

The Mediterranean coast of North Africa was part of the Roman Empire. During the early centuries of Christianity, the region became such a stronghold of the faith that one historian described it as the “Bible Belt” of the ancient world. Three popes came from North Africa, and Latin became the dominant language in urban areas. This strong community of Christians in North African actually contributed significantly to the early spread of the faith into the Iberian Peninsula.

The character of the region began to change after Muslim Arab armies conquered the region in the seventh century. Those same forces also crossed into Europe, with the Moors conquering most of the Iberian Peninsula. Christianity survived in North Africa for several centuries but steadily declined as Christians faced forced conversion, persecution, and exile. Spanish and Portuguese efforts to recover territory in North Africa met with limited success. One notable exception was Ceuta, which Portugal captured in 1415. Ceuta held an important strategic location, as it had been a base used to launch the attacks on Spain and Portugal that led to the long subjugation by Muslims there.

After its conquest by Portugal, Ceuta again became overwhelmingly Christian. It later came under the Spanish Crown in the late 16th century. Morocco besieged the city from 1694 to 1727 in one of the longest sieges in history, but Spain retained control. Since Morocco gained independence in 1956, it has continued to dispute Spanish sovereignty over the territory.

Over the centuries, Muslims gradually returned to Ceuta. Economic migration, combined with higher birth rates among the city’s Muslim population, has substantially changed its demographics. Today, Muslims make up roughly half of Ceuta’s population.

Looking at the last 2,100 years of Ceuta’s history, the city has spent considerably more time as part of the Christian European world than under Arab-Muslim rule. It has never been part of the modern Kingdom of Morocco. The claim that Muslim-majority Morocco has an inherent right to Ceuta because it is located in North Africa ignores the greater part of the region’s history.

[Owen @pfowen]

@AdHaque110 Legal question: What county’s laws apply to people in Ceuta?
Is that country recognised as part of Europe?

Or are you suggesting that 300 years of treaty based Spanish administration is really just colonialism, and somehow invalid?

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️
https://t.co/qe6hRdOlgl

[Owen @pfowen]

Four little frogs chilling at the cool end of the garden.

[Tolly 🐢💨 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇮🇪 @TollytB]

The great Sphincter of Geezer.
🐢💨

[Owen @pfowen]

@theliamnissan Oh no!

[Owen @pfowen]

@Bebo_Bols02 This cover of New Order’s True Faith put its hooks in me:
https://t.co/mgcvNnFbFJ

[Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK]

Another interesting statistic.

Between 1980 and 1999, 35°C was reached just 5 times. It was rare & exceptional.

Between 2000-2020 we reached 35°C 18 times.

Between 2020-2025 we reached it 23 times.

Talk about a step change. We reached 35°C the same number of times in 5 years, than we did in 40 years.

[Matthew Ford @warmatters]

So much for protecting Britain from hybrid threats!

The owner of this platform and friend of the President of our number 1 ally pays to send an extremist English nationalist to Russia to collude against British democracy…

Try defending against that! 🙄

https://t.co/zLGjbTmJ6e

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Why did Boris Johnson accept a £1m gift from the same billionaire who gave Farage £5m?

What did Nigel Farage AND Boris Johnson do for the biggest lump sums of cash ever given to British politicians?

So glad to see this trending. #HarborneReceipts

And follow @thenerve_news

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄

Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇

So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves

Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage

🧵1/23

[Owen @pfowen]

@laurthegoblin Be honest about admitting depression is effin hard on its own.

Robin Williams: "People don't fake depression. They fake being okay".

What do they want: hard to say truth, or faking it?

[Owen @pfowen]

Solstice sunrise on the Malvern Hills.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

I’m sorry, this is total bollocks. I have been looking after my river for a decade and you have done absolutely nothing to support me and the other hundreds of volunteers who give up their free time to do your job for you and to stop the river we love from dying.

This picture is the part of the Aldersbrook that we haven’t yet restored. Do you agree that allowing one of the ancient rivers of London to disappear beneath a layer of sewage, silt, rubbish & knotweed is a disgrace? If so, when can we expect EA teams down in the river to sort it out?

[Liveuamap @Liveuamap]

New video shows "flying disc" was caused by impact of a missile, launched by Russian Air defenses
https://t.co/gBzFlqVKwK

[✨діана кулик✨ @IamBohhi]

⭐ FUNDRAISER FOR DAD ⭐
Fellas, my father needs these tools for their drone missions, to repair and build more of them. 😏

For better and bigger fireworks!

We need a total of 684€ to pay for these 5 tools. If you could help my Pp is
[email protected]

Thank you!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@elonmusk Cat check: These figures are bollocks.

[Owen @pfowen]

@MadelaineLucyH Because his dick fell off?