Tories eh?

That's not a song. THIS is a song. youtu.be/ed0jsVgIHu8 via @YouTube

The world's tallest church is about to get its crown. On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years after Antoni Gaudí's death, the Sagrada Família will inaugurate the four-armed cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ.

Nigel Farage is facing questions over a £5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP @vicderbyshire runs through the timeline #Newsnight

Voyager 1 is about to cross the line no human creation has crossed. One light-day from Earth. 16 billion miles of cold nothing. 49 years of real travel for what light does in 24 hours.

This is very cool 🚇 A 1938 tube train travelling through Holborn, London.

May the fourth be with you

Probably the greatest individual male athletic performance ever recorded.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Israel accounted for almost half of the world's journalist deaths this year. It says Israel has now been the deadliest country for journalists for three consecutive years.

Israel killed Rico Pramudia in South Lebanon. He died of his injuries today. He wasn’t a fighter — he was a UN PEACEKEEPER from Indonesia. Israel killed him anyway. And not a single whisper from Western media. No international outrage. No justice. No accountability.

Peter Mandelson worked every day to try and prevent a redistribution of wealth and power in Britain. That is why he was rewarded with a top job. Our political system is built by - and for - a corrupt clique. We will carry on campaigning for a society that works for us all.

I presume the Sporting Directors are out as well @ChelseaFC ?

🎶Don’t let the Spurs go down the league🎶😂

Chelsea and Strasbourg fans held a joint protest over their Blueco ownership ahead of the Blues’ game vs Man Utd at Stamford Bridge this evening.

The protest was a landslide. For the people who chose to ridicule it, you look like absolute fools now. You have the audacity to call yourself a fan. Hang your head in SHAME. They are watching, they are shook. Nowhere to hide. Game over. #BluecoOut 👊🏼

The scale of the 2011 Japan tsunami is hard to comprehend

Congrats to @NotAProjectCFC for today’s protest and to the Strasbourg folks for coming over to help coordinate. Looking forward to participating in the next protest @ChelseaFC

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, UK features five mini-roundabouts arranged around a central circle, enabling complex multi-directional traffic flow. 📽: WIRED

Every weekend on earth started here. 🇬🇧 In the factory towns of Victorian England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 In the early 1800s there was no weekend. Six days a week. From first light to last. Sunday the only day off and even that wasn't guaranteed. So British workers invented their own. They called it Saint Monday. If you'd worked hard enough by Saturday night, you simply didn't come in on Monday. Music halls opened Monday afternoons to catch them. Factory owners could not stop it. In 1842 a campaign group called the Early Closing Association made a deal. Give us Saturday afternoons. We'll give up Monday. It took fifty years. But slowly, across the manufacturing towns of England, Saturday afternoons began to free up. Then football arrived. The Football Craze of the 1890s needed a time to play. Saturday afternoon was right there. ⚽ But it was still only half a day. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a man named John Boot opened a new factory - so efficient it produced far more than he could sell. He had two choices. Lay workers off. Or give them Saturdays. He gave them Saturdays. Full pay. No deductions. It worked. Other factories followed. The two-day weekend spread to America. To Europe. To Japan. To every country on earth that adopted the modern working week. Every lie-in on a Saturday morning. Every Sunday afternoon. Every thank-God-it's-Friday. Your ancestors fought for their right to own their time.🇬🇧 Make yours count. 👇 Your support pays for the research, production and hours it takes to get it right. Stories like theirs don't find themselves. Be part of us. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be Proud Of Us.🇬🇧

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧 For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge. It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames. Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years. When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury. Then people started building on it. At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️ Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn. The longest inhabited bridge in Europe. You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river. In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥 In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice. The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊 Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt. London Bridge stood for 622 years. Then in 1831 they demolished it. The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames. So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰 He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert. Where it still stands today. 🏜️ Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years. We sold what replaced it to Arizona. Did they teach you that? We will. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is a community of ordinary British people keeping extraordinary British history alive. No ads. No sponsors. Just us. If that matters to you, join us at proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

What a brilliant , moving post match interview from Frank Lampard after Coventry City’s promotion. Paying tribute to some who are not regulars was typical and thoughtful. In my few exchanges with him, I always felt I was talking to a top human being. And I was right.