Stephen Clarke
@stephenclarkehist.bsky.social
Wannabee Historian. Studying at University of Greenwich. Political Liberal and Eurofederalist. I always have time for people who are experts in their own field.
Masterful interview by Count Binface including comments on The Odyssey in ancient Greek... youtu.be/6sj2m3SCXC8?...
Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell Interview Count Binface.
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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@markpackuk.bsky.social would any @libdems.org.uk be breaking party rules if they went?
Carol Hedges@riotgrandma.bsky.social · 4h ago🇬🇧⭐️🇬🇧⭐️🇬🇧⭐️🇬🇧⭐️🇬🇧⭐️🇬🇧 Got a few hours to spare?
Is this why Douglas Adams used the number 42 in THHGTTG.
Association of English Cathedrals@englishcathedrals.co.uk · 3h agoSouthwark Cathedral is the latest to host ‘The English Cathedral’, featuring Peter Marlow’s unique photographs of the naves of each of England’s 42 Anglican cathedrals. On display from 21 July – 31 August 2026. https://ow.ly/kjzH50Zu5tX
A plan for growth can’t wait until the October Budget. Burnham must restart talks with European leaders now.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION CONFIRMS MARINE ONE WAS BRIEFLY TOO CLOSE TO PASSENGER AIRPLANE - STATEMENT
With the holiday season well underway, we're reflecting on our recent solar-powered ice cream adventure in Westminster. ☀️🍦 It was a great way to start conversations about how electric technologies like solar panels can help households, businesses and community spaces cut their energy costs.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
If you Have been telling me you saw rain today. Well good for you. My forecast says maybe slim chance 19% on Sunday but probably nothing until the 15th August and even that never breaks 50 % in any hour. Not Happy.
mom having a conversation with a friend she'd stopped talking to because of very toxic politics Person: So we can never be friends again? Ma: I am not saying that, there is always the next life
Some of us have absolutely no wish to boycott Amazon.
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
An exterior view of the Great East Window of York Minster with its beautiful early 15th century tracery. 📸 My own. #TraceryTuesday #YorkMinster
Why amongst other things we need to Bin the Beef. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases
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Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 2d agoEarth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
I love this woman & her reporting
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3d agoTurns out, Katie loves sharks. Like really really loves sharks. And that's why the NYPD and FDNY's surveillance state against sharks hits home for her. That's this week on the Hell Gate podcast. Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gZa...
Today's ahistorical gem. Tell that to the Romans, sunshine.
![Besides 'dark Satanic mills', industrializing England saw an enormous increase in the production of cereals, meats and food in general; [highlighted] it saw the invention of the dinner party [end highlight] and the conspicuous display and consumption...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bnbpp3aocg2lov5halfqz5ex/bafkreidtoda23nt5cmfgc3nxvioqlyyhltdwiwio62xwqxpump5mzjqf2a)
heard an interview recently with an anonmyous wall street bro who said his employer would not subscribe to the president's truth social insider trading scheme because they did not want to go to prison when the rule of law returns
It was always meant to. How else do you get that much free publicity?
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d agoChristopher Nolan’s masterwork is a smash hit. It has also driven plenty of people mad ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
It has lain at the bottom of the Thames Estuary since 1944, carrying 1,400 tonnes of wartime explosives. Now, work is finally about to begin on removing the SS Richard Montgomery's iconic masts – its only visible presence above the waterline. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
Britain’s most dangerous shipwreck needs urgent attention
The SS Richard Montgomery, a wartime wreck that still contains 1,400 tonnes of explosives, is still a major threat
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Friends and coworkers asked why I was limping. Couldn't tell them I literally slipped on a banana peel and fell. It hurt like hell and I can't be arsed with cartoon jokes.