Angus Sawyer
@aardgoose.info
Coder and caver with an enthusiasm for Border Collies and maps.
Creator of CaveView (3d cave survey web application)
https://aardgoose.github.io/CaveView.js/
Occasional contributor to https://threejs.org and Firefox.
Creator of CaveView (3d cave survey web application)
https://aardgoose.github.io/CaveView.js/
Occasional contributor to https://threejs.org and Firefox.
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We always thought this was just a sock...
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We always thought this was just a sock...
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I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
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The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.
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The biggest problem in our political system is that there is no immunity to snake oil salesmen across the entire political spectrum. Every system designed to prevent rogues and challenge ideologues has broken down over the last few decades.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The biggest problem in our political system is that there is no immunity to snake oil salesmen across the entire political spectrum. Every system designed to prevent rogues and challenge ideologues has broken down over the last few decades.
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Polanski is a crank and a quack. A man who sold himself as being able to enlarge breasts through hypnosis is not a suitable candidate for parliament regardless of all the other unsuitable candidates and MPs we already have.
A person is not "qualified" to be PM in the same way as they are qualified to be a surgeon or a mechanic. You can picture Polanski learning the technical aspects of government a lot more easily than you can picture Farage or Starmer acquiring the necessary ethical or humanistic qualities.
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Polanski is a crank and a quack. A man who sold himself as being able to enlarge breasts through hypnosis is not a suitable candidate for parliament regardless of all the other unsuitable candidates and MPs we already have.
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More here about how we really, REALLY need to charge the narrative around 'Treasure' and precious metal finds...
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bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s...
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Solid-gold rant incoming…
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Before I go any further, I want to state that the theft and destruction of heritage across the world is not unco…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
More here about how we really, REALLY need to charge the narrative around 'Treasure' and precious metal finds...
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bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s...
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bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s...
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Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'.
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'.
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
1/2
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless.
So awful.😔
#Archaeology 🏺
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
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Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
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Maybe they can fax us a copy...
Cartoonist: Mars Riley
Cartoonist: Mars Riley
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Maybe they can fax us a copy...
Cartoonist: Mars Riley
Cartoonist: Mars Riley
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This is notable in the light of Goodwin’s recent arguments on X that people from minority ethnic background are not British even if they were born and brought up here. I asked the Reform press office last week if they had a response to Goodwin’s views; silence so far.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is notable in the light of Goodwin’s recent arguments on X that people from minority ethnic background are not British even if they were born and brought up here. I asked the Reform press office last week if they had a response to Goodwin’s views; silence so far.
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
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Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...
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Greens are cranks. From top to bottom. Every policy area. They should be regarded as being no different from Reform in the threat they represent.
Polanski in negotiating with murderous dictator Putin
"It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."
Polanski on working with Starmer
"Keir Starmer is not a man I would be willing to work with"
"It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."
Polanski on working with Starmer
"Keir Starmer is not a man I would be willing to work with"
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Greens are cranks. From top to bottom. Every policy area. They should be regarded as being no different from Reform in the threat they represent.
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them
Trump: "For 1,000 years, communism has not worked"
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting.
www.theguardian.com/society/2...
www.theguardian.com/society/2...
Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in
Smith, 35, was released in error from Wandsworth prison on same day he was jailed for fraud
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting.
www.theguardian.com/society/2...
www.theguardian.com/society/2...
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We need more reporting of local government. This is quite a thread...
Cllr Daniel Taylor, currently on bail pending trial over allegations that he threatened to kill his wife, has attended today. Given he missed every other meeting since his arrest, he would have been disqualified as a councillor had he not arrived today.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We need more reporting of local government. This is quite a thread...
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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Today seems a good day to repost this.
It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment
And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*
It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment
And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Today seems a good day to repost this.
It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment
And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*
It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment
And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*