Wonderful to have Great Great Grandfather JFGoodey thanked in #graffiti on the #Colchester #Rec some 150 years later @AncestryUK @WDYTYA_UK #Genealogy #Goodey #Essex #history #Newtown

He is a Russian Asset

Now the Court case is over there needs to be a Parliamentary investigation in to this and any other 'Russian' incidents in the last 2 years. Farage has many questions to answer - he alleged an address was firebombed - he alleges hs phone was hacked by the Russians which led to public disclosure of his hidden £5million. - he has previous with Russia - never forget Nathan Gill Farage should no longer be able to hide behind the attention seeking games he is playing - these are now clear incidents of national security Wider figures should be looked at too - Robinson was in Moscow this week, he actively promoted the 'attacks' and the conspiracy story about 'rent boys'

I once asked Henry Kissinger after a press conference what a superpower should do to avoid looking weak. ‘Don’t start a war,’ he said. He meant Vietnam, but it seems particularly relevant now.

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced. Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available. The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it. The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed. Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows. The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses. Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved. B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

Photographed in colour exactly 100 years ago, I have cleaned-up this dramatically-lit autochrome portrait of British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) (one of the principle founders of the Labour Party). It was taken in 1926 by Olive Edis and is not colourised.

My ideal, predicted scenario. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner rules that Farage should have declared £5m. That triggers Electoral Commission to determine if Harborne was a permissible donor at the time. (I suspect not). They find he wasn't and open criminal investigation. Police/NCA get involved and discover numerous other "donations" laundered from around the world. Farage goes to prison.

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun Shine on you crazy diamond Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky Shine on you crazy diamond You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon Shine on you crazy diamond Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light Shine on you crazy diamond Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

It’s the 35th anniversary of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Kevin Costner was the star, but Alan Rickman ran away with the movie. He turned the Sheriff down twice, then demanded full creative control. Once he got it, he went all-in and made a top-tier ’90s villain. Legend.

15 June 1936. The Westland Lysander was aerodynamically advanced; being equipped with fully automatic wing slats, slotted flaps and a variable incidence tailplane. These refinements gave the Lysander a stalling speed of only 65 mph.

The first thing Nigel Farage will introduce if he is elected is Health Insurance. The NHS correctly costs £200bn a year. In the USA Health Insurance is £14,000 a year per person £14,000 x 50m adults is £700bn a year. £500bn a year profit If you can't afford that you are dying

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is STILL under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'. Please RT this until this until he no longer is. Thank you

Translated This is a man who is terrified of scrutiny Here is a man unwilling to be questioned or challenged Here is a man who will only allow you to hear what he wants you to hear No transparency , no accountability, no challenge A coward hiding behind pre recorded video

🚜 🌾 🐄 🐖 🐓 Lincolnshire farmer Nick Allpress the Brexit tragedy. Many farmers were misled to believe Brexit would mean control, prosperity and a better deal for British agriculture. Instead they have watched: 🚜 Farm support slashed & IHT burden 🌱 Seed and inputs delayed by border bureaucracy 🥕 EU exports & imports hit by new barriers 👨‍🌾 European workers replaced with labour from much further afield 📉 Imports undercutting domestic production Nick’s point is devastating: “That boat’s sailed.” The idea that British workers would replace European seasonal labour simply did not happen. Brexit didn’t end dependence on migrant labour, it just changed where the labour came from and made the system more complex and expensive. Meanwhile British food security is washed away by lower standard imported food, impacting public health and weakening national security.

🚩🚩🚩 this is very significant. Up to Jan 2024 Harborne could have been registered as a permissible overseas donor for 15 years. In Jan 2024 the law changed and you now have to register every two years. That's probably why the number change. But had Harborne registered when he donated to Farage in April. I suspect not, hence the non declaration & cover-up. If not it was an illegal donation. Prove me wrong @Nigel_Farage.

The liars of Brexit are suddenly being exposed They have got away with it for so long - sooner or later it was going to catch up with them. Is this yet another reason Farage is in hiding

RT @peterjukes: British commentators dismissing @carolecadwalla’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica have not only failed to read the e…

The Irish playright George Bernard Shaw, photographed 119 years ago, at the age of 51. I have cleaned and enhanced this very striking Autochrome portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn, taken in colour in 1907 via the Lumiere brother's newly-patented colour glass-plate process.

"Covid vaccines didn't work" 🤡🤡🤡

NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve_news investigation by me & @LuciaOC_ (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts