Phoenix44
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@latimeralder Thanks, Latimer. Here's a look at the scale of the problem. Best to you and yours, w.
Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
🪨 This man lived in Britain 2,000 years ago. 🪨 He was killed four times ⚔️ Today, you can see exactly what he looked like 👁️ On 1 August 1984, a peat-cutter in Cheshire pulled what looked like a piece of wood off the conveyor belt 🚜 The peat fell away. It was a human foot. The workers stopped the machine. The police came. Then a Cheshire archaeologist called Rick Turner came too. He took one look at the leg and he knew. This was not a recent murder. This man had been here a long time 🕰️ They lifted him out of the peat. Skin still pliable. Hair still on his head. A face. Calm. Recognisable. 2,000 years old. And looking back at them. He was a man in his mid-twenties. Five foot six. Strong build. Reddish-brown hair. Trimmed beard. High cheekbones. The face and build of a man you might walk past in Cheshire today 🤝 His fingernails were polished. His beard had been trimmed with fine shears. His hands had done no heavy work. Not a labourer. Not a slave. Someone important. He was the kind of man a community puts forward. 🕯️ His last meal was a charred griddle cake. Mistletoe pollen was in his stomach. Then he was taken to the bog. First, a blow to the head. Hard enough to crack the skull. Then a garrote, tightened around his throat. Then a knife, drawn across his neck. And then he was laid face-down in the bog water 💧 Four deaths in one afternoon. Performed carefully. By people who knew exactly what they were doing. Mistletoe was sacred to the Druids 🌿 Their priests cut it from oak with a golden sickle. This was not a crime. This was a ritual. Lindow Man was likely chosen. Honoured. Offered. For centuries, Rome told us the Britons were savages. Without writing. Without civilisation. Without faith worth respecting. His body says otherwise 🪨 Sophisticated. Groomed. Cared for. Buried with reverence. A society that took his death seriously enough to lay him where the peat would preserve him. For 2,000 years 🕰️ Rome came. Rome went. Saxons came. Normans came. The land was farmed, fought over, built on, sold. The bog stayed. And inside it, so did he 💧 Until 1984. Today, he is in London. The British Museum. Room 50 🏛️ Behind glass. Schoolchildren press their hands to it, leaning in to see his face. 2,000 years old. And still there. 📖 Read the full story, get the lesson plan, share the facts → proudofus.co.uk/stories/lindow… ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He is one of us. Not a stranger. Not a curiosity. Our ancestor 🤝 Same faces. Same hands. Same island 🇬🇧 Every story we tell, a supporter paid to keep alive. Without them, these stories stay in the past. Without you, the next one never comes out. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
'This exhibit completely dismantled everything that I thought I knew.' Former pro-Palestine activist Taryn Thomas joins @JoshxHowie to discuss whether the Nova music festival exhibition has the power to change minds on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week. As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that. First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence. And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous. In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event. Here's the bottom line: Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news. The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world! But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it. That’s the opportunity this reporting missed. bbc.com/news/articles/…
EVERY weather station, both rural & urban, in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, set a new May temperature record yesterday. Unprecedented. For the climate sceptics out there, the game is up. Go and bore someone else with your nonsense.
