Max Johnson

Victorian writers understood how revolutionary the railway was, revealing Britain to itself for the first time, reshaping the countryside with its viaducts & tunnels, a miraculous metal monster of speed & steam. Chance meetings with strangers; brief encounters. No 3: Thomas Hardy

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on Saturday. bit.ly/4kRBjlH

I’m not really a Labour supporter. I voted tactically in attempt to dethrone the vile Tory.

These are the people employed by billionaires who are going to tell you not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn

I think the term 'nimbyism' was a way to shame people who wanted to protect their local areas. Protecting something beautiful or a community that works well is a healthy response and it is appropriate to want to preserve it. We need more nimbyism rather than less.

"In my most frank assessment, I would say that they are criminal. In my entire career have I never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force" Lt. Antony Aguilar tells Jeremy Bowen @BBCNews #Gaza #GazaStarving

Are you a fan of Miss Diana Rigg and "The Avengers?"

Geoff Butterworth He broke his back at work and whilst convalescing he had started to paint …. Watercolours I love his work and find it homely , certainly for me as I’m from the area The dustbins in the second painting had to take ashes from the fire so were metal.

The train network enabled Dickens to organise his legendary reading tours. The railway fascinated him - and terrified him too after his Staplehurst rail crash experience. The latter led to him writing what has become a classic, atmospheric ghostly tale, cleverly adapted for TV.

ITV News reporting a Jewish Israeli protestor in Tel Aviv, "I am personally a grandson of a holocaust survivor" "My grandmother always used to say that starvation was the worst thing, the worst suffering" "So I feel a moral obligation to end it"

We need to say goodbye to Zoos Seaworld The circus Rodeos Bullfighting

You can hear @HistoryBowsh talk on his new book #Meiktila, at St Mary’s Church, Blandford St Mary DT11 9ND on Thur 31 July at 1pm 4 @lastthurslunch. You shall be entertained, informed and as incentive, the first glass of wine is FREE. Tkts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-last-thu…

With the 60s over, LWT goes full dystopian with a long-forgotten series The Guardians. A puppet PM who suggests "democracy is a form of group suicide", rule enforced by the paramilitary Guardians of the realm. The series was considered by the ITA unsuitable for NI transmission.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the…

A Reuters investigation reveals Elon Musk deliberately sabotaged Ukraine’s 2022 counteroffensive by cutting off Starlink service at a critical moment.

“Children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death," reports @unicef. And the U.S. is complicit. We can debate the terminology to apply, but it is unconscionable that in 2025 the United States and most of the international community are averting their eyes from this.

BREAKING: Israel is now massively bombing South Lebanon. No military targets. No justification. Just pure terror and destruction. Israel has violated the ‘ceasefire’ over 4,000 times in just 239 days. And not a peep from the so-called international community, of course.

Holy fucking hell. This is fucked. — A Quebec man while out on a boat in Canadian waters was detained by the U.S. Coast guard and put in jail cell. — Here’s a summary of the Quebec man’s boating incident with the US Coast Guard: •He complied initially but stated he wanted…

Israeli guard tells German Catholic abbot to hide his cross… Would you have the moral conviction of this priest?

An apple I found in an old abandoned orchard , when sent for DNA testing no cultivar match could be found , I took scions and have a nice healthy tree , the original tree has since perished