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Since my stroke reading about how language works in the brain. Also ancient languages, eg. Greek (including Linear B), Latin, Gaulish and the languages of Roman Britain. I live in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, UK.
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i will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.

submitted 44 days ago • 125 comments

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

submitted 48 days ago • 448 comments

I spotted this sign outside the Arlington Bar on Woodlands Road in Glasgow yesterday, and it made me laugh. Definitely one of those Only In Glasgow types of thing. #glasgow #sign #keepglasgowweird #woodlands #onlyinglasgow #soupoftheday #glasgowpubs #bankholidayfun #pub #humour #tennentslager

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

I still believe it all should've ended the moment he mocked a disabled reporter.

submitted 71 days ago • 68 comments

“Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.” ~ David Graeber

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Sarah Palin loses retrial of defamation case against New York Times Jury finds newspaper not liable for allegedly defaming former Alaska governor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

submitted 60 days ago • 136 comments

I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

The problem with trying to punish someone out of their views is that it rarely works. 🖊️ Zaid Jilani

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 60 days ago • 754 comments

Also we visited the nearby Trethevy Quoit.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The real reason why stone circles were built! Lovely day on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK today.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!’ Adolph Hitler to Max Planck.

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Anyone who thinks Labour isn’t progressive hasn’t been paying attention. Look at the laws it’s passed so far – radical reforms that the Tories will find difficult to stomach. 5 of the most exciting:

submitted 75 days ago • 32 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 69 days ago • 208 comments

It’s 80 years since Bergen-Belsen was liberated. Listen to the survivors Read their words

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

How Feargal Sharkey first got interested in protecting our waterways - in Hertfordshire’s rivers.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

There's a temptation to romanticize the early internet as "good," and the current internet as "bad." This is overly simplistic. The early internet sucked for Black people, and women, and Black women. I was there. The reason I know so much about these fashy VC losers, is I came across them as babies

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

The US constitution: a guide From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

unherd.com/2025/04/keep...

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 69 days ago • 31 comments

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

submitted 66 days ago • 311 comments

Link to The Great Trump Uncertainty - my latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/gavinesl...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

If Trump is preparing to deport US citizens to private prisons in other countries, imagine what his regime will do to tourists. It’s not safe to travel to the U.S. Cancel your plans. Go somewhere else. Don’t spend money there, don’t support fascism and don’t take the risk.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

submitted 69 days ago • 46 comments