One day I shall finish my to-read pile* *no, I don’t believe it either.
The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️
found gay club MANDY'S in Covent Garden ?1970-1979 ... seems to have been quite well known, must try to get it at least a mention in the book during the copy-edit ... 1979 new management named it 'Hell', to play off the recently opened 'Heaven' ... anyone know precisely when it opened or origins?
This is absolutely staggering. A US pilot based at Lakenheath raped and half-strangled a woman despite her clear stated boundaries and the case was heard by the US military at the airbase, not in an English court. Horrendous on every level.
The GuardianA US fighter pilot strangled a woman in England. Why did it end in a ‘degrading’ military trial?
The dishonor this man has inflicted is unforgivable.
Unofficial BBCNews (World) BotHegseth attacks Europe over 'invasion' of migrants in D-Day speech
Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administrationwww.nytimes.com
Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay so we're taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look at, then giving them out again to other people who haven't read them yet. For free. What a system. ❤️ #LoveLibraries #GreenLibraries ♻️