I've long thought the PM should get a clothing budget: they'd all be UK brands and UK made, publicised every month in a good news story about showing off the Best of Britain. Then you give them to good causes or auction them off for charity. It's win/ win/ win. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Downing Street says the way the donations were initially declared has been changed.
The 1st draft of this week's Andrew's Previews for @britainelects is done. With 20 by-elections on Thursday, advance warning that that day's piece will probably be divided into two parts. Subscribe to medium.com/britainelects to get the Previews delivered straight to your inbox!
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Very much enjoyed the question in today's quiz GP asking for the title of this 1961 photograph by Walter Chandoha. (I didn't know it.)
Local Elections Archive Project: By-election results 3rd October 2024 added andrewteale.me.uk/1juc Quite a lot of changes this week!
You know how I love weird treaty consequences? The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'. That's the .io domain everyone loves so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
Fun fact: this means the sun will finally set on the British Empire. Once handed to Mauritius there will be a point in the day in which all remaining British colonial possessions (and Britain itself) will be in darkness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
It's by-election Thursday! - 4 polls today, defences 3 Lab 1 SNP - What happened next to Albert and the Lion - And the city that gave us some well-known computer games... Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.bsky.social: