We wanted to understand how working-class Trojans felt about the abduction of Helen. So we talked to three drunk Greek soldiers at a dinner party in Aeaea.
Sebastian Dobson
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“What is the use of a book.. without pictures?” Full-time photo dealer, part-time historian & occasional writer on Japan and early photography.
So the same people who didn’t have a problem in 2019 with election literature in Chinese now want to outlaw election literature in Irish, Gaelic, and Cornish?
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3w agoReform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/reform-uk-plans-to-jail-candidates-for-using-irish-gaelic-or-cornish-on-election-leaflets/
This makes the NKVD’s recruitment of Philby, Burgess et al. in 1930s Cambridge look positively amateurish.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4w agoA six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or simply for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, ancient Thebes, c. 1479–1425 BC 📷 The Met #Archaeology #Art
Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.
When Charlie Kirk died Nigel Farage gave a speech where he condemned the "quite despicable" comments about him and promised Reform candidates would "never, ever engage in such conversations" about its opponents. Will he be condemning Trump?
NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter… IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
In praise of Jeremy Bowen
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
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‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
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According to the Daily Mail, the first casualty of war is weight loss…
🏴 Witches of Scotland tartan 🏴 Scotland’s newest weave is more than just a pattern – it’s a long-overdue apology. The tartan commemorates the thousands of Scots, mostly women, persecuted under the Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. Pic: Scottish Register of Tartans
I wonder how much Trump is charging the US government for the use of the Mar-a-Lago Donald T. Trump Situation Room™️?
Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Inevitably a bunch of radio stations played I Got You Babe at 6am this morning. The really EVIL ones will play it again at 6am TOMORROW morning.
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
Bloody hell. To balance incoherent ramblings on the Pretti shooting by Trump-supporting, UK resident Lionel Shriver, BBC World at One follows with mealy-mouthed ramblings on the Pretti shooting by Trump-supporting, UK-resident Jennifer Ewing of Republicans Overseas. 🤷
such a lovely thing to think about
If you see this, post an Archer.
Eleanor G@zaichishka.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf you see this, post an Archer
Port Townsend Washington at the ICE/Gestapo protest yesterday. This one shattered me. Photographer - Anna Maria Wolf
Lora Ries, “Director of Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation” (so good they named it twice), is commenting on the shooting of Renée Nicole Good on Radio 4’s PM and guess what? 🙄 bsky.app/profile/joeg...
Joe Gordon@joegordon.bsky.social · last yr.Just wanna highlight a quote from a Heritage person in there: The amount of due process that deportable aliens get is, what I would say, excessive,” she said.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.