Kit Buchan, ‘A great work of feminist art’: how the Bloomsbury group’s Famous Women Dinner Service got a place at the table (Guardian; #skystorianswww.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s 1932 collection of 50 hand-painted plates, left to languish for 80 years, forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition
Coughing, sneezing, sore throat, headache, maybe other symptoms, and still going out and mixing? You might be unintentionally spreading COVID to people who are vulnerable. Remember, only the most severe cases are being detected through hospital testing. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Doctor Joseph Ambani has warned that the XEC variant of Covid-19, which is currently surging across the UK, has the potential to fuel a tripledemic this winter
These people are despicable...
Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges www.themarysue.com/utah-book-ba...
Conservative book banners in Utah are targeting Little Free Libraries and want to make the owners susceptible to criminal charges.
Within the next 6 months, half the global human population will be facing water shortages. That’s over 4 billion people facing water scarcity during 2025. This is from Bloomberg - not from an alarmist eco-communist website.
With half of the world’s population facing water scarcity, The Future with Hannah Fry explores how technology may be used to reverse an increasingly dire spiral.
🚨If you're an O negative blood donor, your blood is universal & can be given to anyone. That's why its so important that we have as much O negative blood as possible. The NHS urgently need O negative donors to book an appointment to give blood #GiveBlood🙏❤️www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...
So many lovely cat photos on bluesky. Thinking today of my gorgeous cat Lyra who passed away 3 years ago. #Caturday#ProofOfCat#CatsOfBluesky
For services to the UK. (Top work from Tesco marketing team.)
Star of Daily Star’s web stunt given fake heritage mark after proving itself less perishable than Truss’s premiership
If you want to know what giving back the Elgin Marbles is going to be like, the absolute hysteria over the Chagos Islands is a good indicator: huuuuge media fuss, actual country remarkably unbothered/not 100% sure what it is if they're honest
“The Gaza war is a mass disabling event, where the casualties are not only those who die but those who survive.” On the 1st anniversary, I wrote about a hidden horror: the plight of disabled Palestinians - and the tens of thousands of civilians maimed by Israel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With every bombing, more people are left to survive without the devices and medications they need, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan