Bookworm Bean

200 years on Shelley's still right "the House of commons is not a representation of the people" but exercises sovereignty 'in contempt of them in a hospital for lunatics" #brexit #Parliament

So we’ve been keeping a small (very fluffy) secret… 👀 A truly historic moment for our conservation zoo ❤️

That man is Knight Hospitaller Marshal Matthew of Clermont! A real person! Very little is known of Matthew and his life before the crusades. However he fought in the Fall of Tripoli in 1289 before escaping by sea. This leads us to 1291 and the fall of Acre. On May 16,…

Today @Ed_Miliband has announced the prices he is willing to pay new renewables in the upcoming AR7 round of the CfD scheme Look how expensive they are!!! The average wholesale power price in 2024 was just £73 /MWh But he is willing to pay up to 57% more for offshore wind.…

The 1940 census included "Solomon Gemorah." I can just see the smirks on the faces of Morris and Miriam when they thought of that one.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Maximum strike prices for Ed Miliband's missing wind auction are out. Gruesome. Offshore wind: £113/MWh Higher than last year. Highest in a decade. And that's before all the extra costs of grid, backup, and wasted wind. As a comparison, the average cost of…

And this is why the engine purrs... @Alichat66 @FlavellG @rose1_scarlett

Richard Hermer's old friend, Nick Lowles, seems to have had the usual narrative lined up and ready to go.

I’ve come to realize… Martha and Mary aren’t just sisters in Scripture: They’re the two sides of my mind wrestling daily. One side is always busy, anxious, needing to serve and solve; the other side quietly longs to sit at the feet of Christ and just listen. Lord, teach me when…

I actually feel bad writing this, because most of you weren’t there. But last night, 50 of us met to read The Iliad. It was the best conversation I’ve ever been part of. Big questions. No surface-level takes, no pretending to be smart. Just sharp minds. Join our Book Club!

There are reportedly 700K empty homes in the UK, with 265K classified as vacant long-term and 2.2m people looking for housing (nationals and foreign). It would be interesting to hear from Starmer how he intends to address the issue.

Ed Milband is a massive liar. He is challenged here about whether the government is committed to its promise to lower bills by £300. First, he tries to shift responsibility for failing to deliver it by claiming that it was based on "independent modelling" by a third party.…

From Churchill and Orwell - Orwell is writing about what he saw as happening after the war. He wrote this in 1941. Prescient.

A reminder that women, like men, risked their lives behind enemy lines. If captured, they faced Gestapo torture and were sent to concentration camps. Many female agents and spies were brutally killed.

Let’s not forget that most of what we’re now borrowing is spent on meeting the cost of previous borrowing. The OBR reckons we’ll borrow £143 billion this financial year 2025/26 (it will be more than that). It also estimates we’ll spend £111 billion paying interest on existing…

Lewis makes his famous argument in his book “The Abolition of Man” It warns that the death of Truth is the death of man. Literally He demonstrably proves that relativism will erase mankind from existence How so?

CS Lewis predicted moral relativism will destroy mankind So far, history has proven him right… though it’s not too late He said there’s one last solution to escape a world where “everything is permitted…”🧵

Javier Milei, a staunch admirer of Hayek, delivers a blunt verdict on socialism “Socialism is always and everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it has been tried. It murdered over 100 million human beings.”

The UK Government's Human Rights Memorandum on the Chagos Surrender Bill says Chagossians have no right to self-determination, only Mauritians do! Shameful

There's a lot to unpack here!

This is what modern “decolonisation” looks like. Everyone gets a cut of the money except the actually colonised.