Ian Fedden
@onlyif.bsky.social
Unskilled Labourer. Interests are science, art, music, literature, history, sane politics. Mad about books, cats, astronomy...& Deep Purple. Also wine & craft ale.
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One of the best reads of my life. I remember devouring this book in the mornings before setting off for school.
What a joy it is to reread this masterpiece, close to fifty years after I read it for the first time. In the intervening five decades, we came to know her husband Charles, who taught in the History Dept at Portland State University (Diane’s first job), /1
July 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
One of the best reads of my life. I remember devouring this book in the mornings before setting off for school.
A short film from my old mate Mark. Marking D-Day in Dorchester.
youtube.com/watch?v=JDR6...
youtube.com/watch?v=JDR6...
D Day Military Convoy - Over 100 vehicles - Dorchester England
YouTube video by Mark Rigler
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May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A short film from my old mate Mark. Marking D-Day in Dorchester.
youtube.com/watch?v=JDR6...
youtube.com/watch?v=JDR6...
Read both The Bone Chests and River Kings by Dr Cat Jarman. Both of them are excellent books. I find detective work in history endlessly fascinating: a satisfying narrative approach which reminds me of science authors following the evidence in science literature.
April 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Read both The Bone Chests and River Kings by Dr Cat Jarman. Both of them are excellent books. I find detective work in history endlessly fascinating: a satisfying narrative approach which reminds me of science authors following the evidence in science literature.
Love it when an expert articulates about contemporary events in a way that matches how I feel about those events: Brexit in the context of the European security crisis. 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺
More than a bit 'ick' to say so, I know, but I think this is one of the best, and maybe one of the most important (in terms of the issues involved), of the 460+ posts I've written on this blog over the last 9.5 years.
The new global divide makes Brexit an anomaly. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on the choices facing the UK, what they show about the realities of sovereignty, how they're already changing domestic politics, and what they mean for Brexit:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
March 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Love it when an expert articulates about contemporary events in a way that matches how I feel about those events: Brexit in the context of the European security crisis. 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺
Slava Ukraini.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Slava Ukraini.
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Exactly this.
Today it’s exactly three years ago that war criminal Putin started his brutal invasion against Ukraine…with Trump siding with Putin, Europe needs to increase its support urgently … send more weapons and build an European Defense Community !
February 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Exactly this.
Stunning observations on the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Foretaste of knowledge to come.
www.eso.org/public/unite...
www.eso.org/public/unite...
“Out of science fiction”: First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observat...
www.eso.org
February 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Stunning observations on the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Foretaste of knowledge to come.
www.eso.org/public/unite...
www.eso.org/public/unite...
NATO is dead. Europe must look within and unite. The alternative is to be picked off one by one by Moscow.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan
French president Emmanuel Macron calls for urgent talks in Paris on Sunday amid fears US leader is sidelining allies
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
NATO is dead. Europe must look within and unite. The alternative is to be picked off one by one by Moscow.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
I do hope this is true...!
January 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I do hope this is true...!
The strange death of centre right politics. Since the 2008 market collapse the traditional right seems lost without purpose. In Blighty, 2008 begat austerity which begat Brexit. For many right wingers the rabbit-hole of ethno-nationalism now beckons.
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
The centre right: killed by economics
Why has the Tory party abandoned the centre-right*? This is the question posed by what Lewis Goodall has called the "Powellization" of the party. When Robert Jenrick echoed Enoch Powell by speaking of...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The strange death of centre right politics. Since the 2008 market collapse the traditional right seems lost without purpose. In Blighty, 2008 begat austerity which begat Brexit. For many right wingers the rabbit-hole of ethno-nationalism now beckons.
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Ed Davey gets it right.
January 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ed Davey gets it right.
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
Fascinating observations on what could be pre-Life. Begs lots of questions on the origins of life.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’
Researchers from a Spanish laboratory observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms
english.elpais.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Fascinating observations on what could be pre-Life. Begs lots of questions on the origins of life.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
First image of a multi-planet system by ESO. The image features 2 giant exoplanets.
I remember as a child in the seventies reading astronomy books (thanks Patrick Moore!) and being sad that I wouldn't live long enough to know or see other solar systems. Yet here we are!
www.eso.org/public/image...
I remember as a child in the seventies reading astronomy books (thanks Patrick Moore!) and being sad that I wouldn't live long enough to know or see other solar systems. Yet here we are!
www.eso.org/public/image...
First ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star (uncropped, with annotations)
First ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star (uncropped, with annotations)
www.eso.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
First image of a multi-planet system by ESO. The image features 2 giant exoplanets.
I remember as a child in the seventies reading astronomy books (thanks Patrick Moore!) and being sad that I wouldn't live long enough to know or see other solar systems. Yet here we are!
www.eso.org/public/image...
I remember as a child in the seventies reading astronomy books (thanks Patrick Moore!) and being sad that I wouldn't live long enough to know or see other solar systems. Yet here we are!
www.eso.org/public/image...
Neighbour on our road has an ornament of the Lion Man in their front garden. Always smile when I pass it.
The remarkable ‘Lion Man’ from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, carved in mammoth ivory, with an estimated age of about 40,000 years. It is over 30 cm tall…
December 11, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Neighbour on our road has an ornament of the Lion Man in their front garden. Always smile when I pass it.
One tyrant down.
Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.
December 8, 2024 at 12:30 PM
One tyrant down.
I think we all know this but somehow there appears little momentum in dealing with it...a dangerous lack of leadership and unity plus too many wannabe tyrants taking advantage.
Sir Richard Moore, head of MI6: "In 37 years in the intelligence profession, I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state."
"We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe."
news.sky.com/story/flatpl...
"We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe."
news.sky.com/story/flatpl...
Head of MI6 says 'I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state' as he warns Russia would not stop if it wins in Ukraine
Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said that if Russia wins in Ukraine, China would "weigh the implications, North Korea would be emboldened, and Iran would become still more dangerous".
news.sky.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:18 AM
I think we all know this but somehow there appears little momentum in dealing with it...a dangerous lack of leadership and unity plus too many wannabe tyrants taking advantage.
One eye to Georgia.
November 30, 2024 at 8:21 PM
One eye to Georgia.
Reposted by Ian Fedden
Death of Star vs Birth of Cell
November 28, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Death of Star vs Birth of Cell
Reposted by Ian Fedden
Reposted by Ian Fedden
The optimism that letting Putin keep part of Ukraine will be the end of it all seems to be based on ignoring everything he does and everything he says.
November 24, 2024 at 12:16 PM
The optimism that letting Putin keep part of Ukraine will be the end of it all seems to be based on ignoring everything he does and everything he says.
Reposted by Ian Fedden
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus said he wants you all to have free healthcare.
Love,
God
Jesus said he wants you all to have free healthcare.
Love,
God
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus said he wants you all to have free healthcare.
Love,
God
Jesus said he wants you all to have free healthcare.
Love,
God
A week off work so it snowed.
November 23, 2024 at 11:15 AM
A week off work so it snowed.