Anne
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🥁 **Top Ten Images of the Year · #3 of 10**
How lovely is this church?
Another from my *Pocketable Churches* series — All Saints', Billesley, Warwickshire.
Once at the heart of a medieval village, now standing solitary in a copse.
How lovely is this church?
Another from my *Pocketable Churches* series — All Saints', Billesley, Warwickshire.
Once at the heart of a medieval village, now standing solitary in a copse.
December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🥁 **Top Ten Images of the Year · #3 of 10**
How lovely is this church?
Another from my *Pocketable Churches* series — All Saints', Billesley, Warwickshire.
Once at the heart of a medieval village, now standing solitary in a copse.
How lovely is this church?
Another from my *Pocketable Churches* series — All Saints', Billesley, Warwickshire.
Once at the heart of a medieval village, now standing solitary in a copse.
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Shocking that this is needed
January 1, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Shocking that this is needed
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RMT members who work as DLR cleaners for Bidvest Noonan are on the picket lines demanding company sick pay.
Currently, they've only been offered sick pay if they're dying!
How low does a contractor have to go before TfL steps in?
Currently, they've only been offered sick pay if they're dying!
How low does a contractor have to go before TfL steps in?
January 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
RMT members who work as DLR cleaners for Bidvest Noonan are on the picket lines demanding company sick pay.
Currently, they've only been offered sick pay if they're dying!
How low does a contractor have to go before TfL steps in?
Currently, they've only been offered sick pay if they're dying!
How low does a contractor have to go before TfL steps in?
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🥁✨🎉 **My Top Image of the Year · #1 of 10**
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🥁✨🎉 **My Top Image of the Year · #1 of 10**
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
The jaw-dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Betjeman said it was “worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see.”
🤔 He was right.
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The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
January 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
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Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby.
This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts.
They love complaining about what they voted for.
This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts.
They love complaining about what they voted for.
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby.
This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts.
They love complaining about what they voted for.
This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts.
They love complaining about what they voted for.
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Jackie Chan speaking about Gaza. "Recently I watched a video. A child was asked, 'What will you be when you grow up?'"
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
December 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Jackie Chan speaking about Gaza. "Recently I watched a video. A child was asked, 'What will you be when you grow up?'"
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
"He said, 'Children on our side don’t grow up.' My tears just came falling down instantly."
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Jeez. This is completely insane given the disastrous impact Farage and his championing of Brexit has had on UK farming
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
Farmer support for Reform UK jumps to 40%, FW poll shows - Farmers Weekly
Disenchantment with the Labour government and lasting memories of the previous Conservative administration have played into the hands of Reform UK, with a
www.fwi.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Jeez. This is completely insane given the disastrous impact Farage and his championing of Brexit has had on UK farming
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
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Could have been the UK, we had 3 times as much oil and gas.
Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.
Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.
January 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Could have been the UK, we had 3 times as much oil and gas.
Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.
Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.
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This is obviously a joke, but we should absolutely destroy the AI data centers
Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
This is obviously a joke, but we should absolutely destroy the AI data centers
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“The trauma and rage in us is potential energy.
Past years have been demoralizing for so many but future ones need not be so.
Take care. Strategize. Take the time necessary to build with worthwhile people. Let 2026 bring some beautiful possibilities” ~ kolektiva.social/@AnarchoDogg...
Past years have been demoralizing for so many but future ones need not be so.
Take care. Strategize. Take the time necessary to build with worthwhile people. Let 2026 bring some beautiful possibilities” ~ kolektiva.social/@AnarchoDogg...
January 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
“The trauma and rage in us is potential energy.
Past years have been demoralizing for so many but future ones need not be so.
Take care. Strategize. Take the time necessary to build with worthwhile people. Let 2026 bring some beautiful possibilities” ~ kolektiva.social/@AnarchoDogg...
Past years have been demoralizing for so many but future ones need not be so.
Take care. Strategize. Take the time necessary to build with worthwhile people. Let 2026 bring some beautiful possibilities” ~ kolektiva.social/@AnarchoDogg...
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It was reputed that when the bell ringers approached Fenny Compton's church of St Peter and St Clare to ring in the New Year at midnight, a large eye would stare at them through one of the bullet holes (from the English Civil War) in the church door.
#NewYearLore
#NewYearLore
December 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It was reputed that when the bell ringers approached Fenny Compton's church of St Peter and St Clare to ring in the New Year at midnight, a large eye would stare at them through one of the bullet holes (from the English Civil War) in the church door.
#NewYearLore
#NewYearLore
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OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
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The MAGA right is fighting each other again. The losers are their constituents.
December 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The MAGA right is fighting each other again. The losers are their constituents.
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Last day today to download this fascinating sounding book in this great series
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
doi.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Last day today to download this fascinating sounding book in this great series
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Hooklanders have many names for twilight. Among my favourites are 'the blue hour' – capturing the sky's long-stretching towards bruise – and 'rook rest'. The latter holds part of my practice. I love to stand before wood edge at rook rest and here their gossip of the dying day. – #EmilyCBanting
December 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hooklanders have many names for twilight. Among my favourites are 'the blue hour' – capturing the sky's long-stretching towards bruise – and 'rook rest'. The latter holds part of my practice. I love to stand before wood edge at rook rest and here their gossip of the dying day. – #EmilyCBanting
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Such a beautiful close of the year!
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Such a beautiful close of the year!
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Why DO so many people hate someone who lied his way into power and now spends all his time reneging on promises and sucking up to the rich while assisting a genocide? It's a mystery to be sure.
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Why DO so many people hate someone who lied his way into power and now spends all his time reneging on promises and sucking up to the rich while assisting a genocide? It's a mystery to be sure.
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Instead, sab groups across the country are continuing to watch and disrupt hunts wherever they raise their heads, utilising tried and tested methods of direct action to rid the country of a vile elite practice which garners the support of nationalists and far-right figures as an emblem of ‘tradition
Sabs confront annual foxhunting carnage - Freedom News
Hunt saboteurs were out in force over the holiday period to monitor and disrupt hunts across the UK ~ punkacademic ~ With a ban on trail hunting …
freedomnews.org.uk
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Instead, sab groups across the country are continuing to watch and disrupt hunts wherever they raise their heads, utilising tried and tested methods of direct action to rid the country of a vile elite practice which garners the support of nationalists and far-right figures as an emblem of ‘tradition
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A seasonal object. A Woman's coif, made in Britain, c. 1590-1610 Linen embroidered with blackwork, silver-gilt threads, with a design of holly sprigs
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A seasonal object. A Woman's coif, made in Britain, c. 1590-1610 Linen embroidered with blackwork, silver-gilt threads, with a design of holly sprigs
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Experts said Israel hopes to use Somaliland as a base for strikes on Yemen and a destination to deport Palestinians to.
Israel Becomes First Nation to Recognize Somaliland as Independent State
Experts said Israel hopes to use Somaliland as a base for strikes on Yemen and a destination to deport Palestinians to.
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Experts said Israel hopes to use Somaliland as a base for strikes on Yemen and a destination to deport Palestinians to.
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Capitalism claims to empower each of us to be economic agents, rewarded for our activities, and vulnerable to competition.
If that was true, billionaires would not exist.
They do, because capitalism has morphed into monipolism. Without redistributive tax, it'll only get worse.
And he knows it.
If that was true, billionaires would not exist.
They do, because capitalism has morphed into monipolism. Without redistributive tax, it'll only get worse.
And he knows it.
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Capitalism claims to empower each of us to be economic agents, rewarded for our activities, and vulnerable to competition.
If that was true, billionaires would not exist.
They do, because capitalism has morphed into monipolism. Without redistributive tax, it'll only get worse.
And he knows it.
If that was true, billionaires would not exist.
They do, because capitalism has morphed into monipolism. Without redistributive tax, it'll only get worse.
And he knows it.
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Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
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