Simona McKenzie

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My interests #EarlyYears #CrimeFiction #Drama #Theatre #Books #Gardening #Cooking 🎭 🎥🎬🐈📚📚🎶🎵👨‍🌾🇮🇹

Dear Sima Kotecha, Don't just tell us about early releases by Labour since July 2024. Do include the 10,083 released early by the Tories. It wouldn't change the overall problem much, but it would be an unbiased presentation. Now, on to probation. #BBCPM

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

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In 2027 Italy, Spain, Poland, and France will go to the polls. We all know that Musk will abuse X to help far-right parties win in Europe because he wants to destroy the EU. Isn’t it time to ban X in the EU? Or are you fine with the far right taking over the EU? For God's sake, wake up, #EU!

Europe 2027: Meloni, Le Pen, and the right-wing assault on EU

In a little over a year, Italy, Spain, Poland, and France will go to the polls, while in Germany, an agreement will have to be found to elect a new president of the Republic

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🚌 Spent the morning down at the local bus depot with Jackie Snape, Chief Exec of Disability Action Yorkshire, celebrating the huge win - time restrictions on disabled bus passes to be scrapped 🥳 This change will make a huge difference to the lives of disabled people. 👏 Thanks again Andy Burnham!

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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders $31m more than to fire victims/survivors. 72 Britons died in fire due to faulty cladding. US shareholders sued for inadequate disclosures about cladding, received $74m compensation. Victims of fire, their families received $43m. No one prosecuted.

Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims

Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people

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"A water industry source said these plans were not published to avoid alarming the public. The government said the plans were not published for security reasons" Following Starmer's line, Burnham & Co. refuse to inform the public about what's coming Insane www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans

Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’

theguardian.com

An enchanting Minoan jug made by a master potter some 3,500 years ago! Marine style decoration brings an underwater world to life with Nautili swimming among rocks, coral, and seaweed 🐚 🌊 🪸 The relief seashells add another dimension to the design! Heraklion Archaeological Museum📷 me #Archaeology

My photo shows a Minoan clay jug known as the Poros Ewer. The jug has a round body which tapers down to a slender circular foot. It has a single curved handle ornamented with applied relief seashells along the handle length. The neck has a trefoil (three-lobed) mouth. The jug has a yellow slip background with black hand-painted decoration which is an exquisite example of the mature Minoan ‘Marine Style’. The body is covered with dense painted and relief decoration depicting an underwater seascape. The main decorative theme is the floating nautilus (cephalopod with a smooth coiled spiral shell from which many curled tentacles protrude). Fifteen nautiluses are depicted around the body of the jug. They swim singly or in pairs in a seascape indicated by seaweed, coral, sea urchins, and three-lobed rocks in relief (meaning the rocks are raised from the surface of the vessel). In the background a scale-like pattern suggests ripples on the sun-dappled sea floor. 
Mended and restored. Maximum height: 26.2 cm. Rim diameter 11.6 cm. The jug was excavated in 1986 in the Neopalatial cemetery of rock-cut cave tombs excavated south of the port settlement at Poros, a suburb of modern-day Heraklion. Dated 1500-1450 BC. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

A 3,400 year-old Egyptian glass kohl tube and applicator! ✨ It belonged to a woman named Merit, and was part of her beauty case. Glass was a luxury material at that time, making this a precious possession. From Merit’s tomb (TT8), Deir el-Medina. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

The Museo Egizio photo shows a small deep cobalt-blue glass kohl tube standing on a grey display surface. It contains a dark wooden applicator stick, of which only half can be seen. The main body of the blue glass tube is decorated with white and yellow festoons (a repeated curved motif like a garland). The festoons were created by wrapping white and yellow glass rods around the surface of the tube while it was still hot, and dragging them with a pointed tool across the surface to produce the festoon pattern. The top of the glass tube widens to look like an open petalled flower with blue petals edged with yellow arranged around the neck of the tube. The bottom of the container also widens slightly to form a base to stand on. This glass container held kohl, a dark cosmetic made from soot, fat, and antimony, which was applied to the eyelids and eyelashes with the applicator stick. 

This kohl tube belonged to Merit. It was found in her makeup box, inside her tomb (TT8) at Deir el-Medina, dated 1425–1353 BC, 18th Dynasty. It was excavated by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906.