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The only people this benefits are Putin and Xi

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Always a fascinating view of London then and now. Well worth following. alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/e...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Solar farms boost for birds! What wonderful news. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/05/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

💥 Reform UK says it's a £350m scandal. 🧐 It's actually… a spreadsheet. Before you light the torches, maybe check what a framework is first? The Bear explains their rookie error ⤵️

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Poor little Gemini AI couldn't cope with a #genealogy query. Though to be fair it did cope with a simpler one and was mostly searching in the right places. What it didn't tell me, what I already knew, that the critical #parishregister for the early #1600s is missing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 18 days ago • 228 comments

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

submitted 20 days ago • 1715 comments

Morning early birds. Want to see something functional yet historic and also a little bit pretty? This is part of the common seal of York and depicts a triple towered castle. 1/2

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The more I think about it, the more I feel that the general panic that Farage might become PM is doing the man an enormous favour. Labour and Tories positioning themselves only against him, helps him, it doesn‘t defeat him. Complacency is bad, but so are feelings of inevitability. 👇

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.

submitted 20 days ago • 244 comments

In GE2019, the Tories got 56% of seats on 44% of the votes. In GE2024, Labour got 63% of seats on 34% of the votes. We need to change this system so that seats match votes - voters should get the MPs and policies they vote for. #ChangeTheVotingSystem

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

BOOM!💥 The number of @bsky.app users just hit 36 MILLION!!! 👏 BlueSky is absolutely nailing in it in every way. LETS KEEP GOING, LETS MAKE BLUESKY THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ON THE PLANET

submitted 26 days ago • 233 comments

Tower Subway and the Mystery of the Southern Entrance alondoninheritance.com/london-trans...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The Speaker of the House of Commons should set an example for all MPs by rejecting the freebies that are offered to him. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/171418/...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Our #LocalStudies shelves boast numerous histories of Derbyshire places. Here’s a particularly good example, taking 4 years of research to put together. It’s an informative, entertaining read, whether you’re Coton in the Elms born and bred or not. #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth #LocalHistory

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

About the trade deal opening the UK to bioethanol... a terrible, destructive use of land #ClimateEmergency www.reuters.com/business/env...

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

After weeks of media attacks on #NetZero, we learn in one day that 1000 new jobs will be created at a second giga-factory in Sunderland, that plans for 4.7GW of offshore wind have been advanced by the Crown Estate, & Ed Miliband approves a 400MW solar farm. Result? Zero column inches.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Only in a capitalist world where arms companies making bigger profits is more important than the lives of children & babies ... "Why is the world allowing this deliberate starvation to continue? This is genocide." via George Rodger

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Brexiter Steve ‘hard man’ Baker says Labour’s trade deal with India is great news, “furthering free trade in the national interest outside the EU” But Steve doesn’t say that a customs union deal with the EU would be 20 times bigger. Or, of course, what Tory EU-phobia has already cost us.

submitted 40 days ago • 41 comments

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

submitted 42 days ago • 580 comments

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. I like to think that ‘foreswunk’ is to be exhausted before you even begin.

submitted 45 days ago • 34 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 50 days ago • 562 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 50 days ago • 629 comments

A reminder: Russia signed a treaty with Ukraine in 1997, accepting that Crimea was part of Ukraine. In 2014 Russia infiltrated Crimea and seized it. Now Pres Trump proposes that Ukraine should accept the loss of Crimea, and blames Pres Zelenskyy for refusing this peace deal.

submitted 53 days ago • 14 comments

This is what we all feared. The United States and Russia bullying brave President Zelensky into a terrible deal. Time for the United Kingdom and Europe to stand up to Trump and seize the Russian assets so we can go it alone.

submitted 54 days ago • 72 comments

#Genealogical name of the day. 'Base born' Thomas Careless Walthall baptised in 1777, did his mother say she couldn't care less about his name or was it imposed on him by the vicar!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Labour ministers are apparently ruling out scrapping the two-child benefit cap - in other words, choosing to keep 600,000 children in poverty. Meanwhile govt refuses to consider a wealth tax which could £24bn. Hard to find the words for this level of unnecessary cruelty.

submitted 55 days ago • 91 comments

Your 'doom quote' for today: “Think about that for a moment. We’re experiencing, in our lifetimes, a heating episode that is probably unique in the last 4.6 billion years." www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/o...

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 58 days ago • 181 comments

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

submitted 61 days ago • 555 comments

I am convinced he’s sending innocent men to a death camp in El Salvador without due process is so he can send whoever he likes to prison without due process. If you think he’s stopping with immigrants you are very much mistaken.

submitted 62 days ago • 57 comments

That wonderful moment in #genealogy when you excavate your rusty Latin to discover that a 1686 marriage licence shows a woman as 'vidua' thus tying her back to a completely different family and maiden name.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

In case you missed it ... When we were in the EU, there were signs all over the place showing how the EU was investing in our towns and regions. And best of all, EU funding was shared out EQUALLY and FAIRLY across all parts of the UK, regardless of which party was in power. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 64 days ago • 30 comments

This is what it's come to. Really is time the UK government remembered we are European too.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

"Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxSw... Image is from April 2025 AMMES Newsletter #MEcfs #CFS

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Junes Ladies Hair Stylist, Durham Row, Stepney - 1986 alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone asked the people of Clacton what they think about this?

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

This early 19th century map of part of the liberties of Belper, Duffield and Makeney is one of the largest we have, measuring just over 3m by just over 4m. You can unroll it in the Searchroom if you really want to, but the digital copy is much easier to look at! #SomethingBig #Archive30

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

For UK peeps not following climate science across the pond, these came yday: An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios" www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Israeli forces have killed or injured 1000 children - IN A WEEK. [Source: UN] 1000. All children. In one week. Rarely has a war crime of this gravity been met with such international acceptance and inaction. Historically shameful.

submitted 69 days ago • 10 comments

We invest in NATO because we invest in freedom. For 70 years, we have stood with our NATO allies for a secure future. #WeInvestInFreedom

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

It's great to see decent Americans fighting back against the 🍊🤡 and his new oligarchy. Greetings and support from your friends in 🇬🇧

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment