The best possible monument to Annie Alexander (1867-1950), paleontologist, geologist, educator, philanthropist. Breaking all those restrictive social norms and rules took guts and stamina ⚒️🧪 www.geological-digressions.com/annie-montag... Image credit: ReBecca Hunt-Foster
Brightening comet set to shine in autumn sky. Fingers crossed everyone. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A newly-spotted comet is set to appear in the autumn sky but it's not clear how bright it will become.
I’m in Greece and it seems like the world is ending to the east and west of me
Merchant ship rescues dozens of migrants from yacht in distress off southern Greece
Greek authorities say a merchant ship has rescued dozens of migrants from a yacht in distress off the southwestern coast of Greece.
Stephen Tierney: Towards a Principle of Positive Engagement?: The House of Lords Constitution Committee reports on The Governance of the Union ukconstitutionallaw.org?p=26050
Over the past decade the House of Lords Constitution Committee has immersed itself in the principles, purposes and operation of devolution. Last week marked 10 years since the referendum on Scottis…
Ahead of the election, many of us said Labour and Tories were largely indistinguishable. Delighted to get rid of Sunak’s shower of right wing loons, but apprehensive about Starmer’s Labour which is miles right of where Lab should be. Depressingly we were correct. They are only marginally better.
Also not showing much sign of being more competent, which was the only other real component of their potential to be better, apart from replacing corruption with probity which they clearly haven't. Not sure they will be better at all, until they face opposition within their parliamentary MP group.
We need more #Allotments right now, in place, ready for now and for our future generations. We buy land for new allotment sites, because we know that they are needed not just for the 1000s of people on allotment waiting lists, but for the people who are to come, who will also want to grow their own
