Peel Classics

Brexit’s tragedy: we gambled on free trade just as the world turned protectionist; we dismissed European continental solidarity as the platform for our security just as events made it more important than ever; and we bet the farm on the Special Relationship just as Trump arrived.

@Sarah404BC Ahh, The lost musical art of cat-playing...

Six years ago today 13:50. Much missed. 😿🌈 Having moved house, we don't find the rare stray hair anymore… (sound up 😸)

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

Bronze Age Mycenaean Greek tholos/beehive royal tomb known as the "Treasury of Atreus" & "Tomb of Agamemnon". Mycenae, 1300-1250 BC

🏛A beatiful snowy Athenian Acropolis filmed on 16th February 2021. ❄ (🎥 Aris Ziotopoulos. Music added by me via Filmigo)

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

The Curse of Private Equity Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores. Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages. Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Assets stripping continues. What next? theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Curse of Private Equity. Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years, Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services. Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist. thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

This is so tough, for young people especially.

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago! Which is your favourite? ❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

When we warned of Putin's rising dictatorship in the 2000s, we were dismissed as fearmongers, even hysterics, in the West. Now a similar process is underway in the US, with Trump following the Putin playbook. My latest in The Atlantic on fighting Putinization: 👇

Thank you so much, Lissa! Glad you enjoyed it

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

@carolecadwalla So well deserved. You are a brave and brilliant journalist

Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/

What Greek Mythology Teaches Us About Women’s Rebellion Many female characters in Greek mythology offer models for today’s challenges - but ancient Greece was strict patriarchal: women were considered minors under the guardianship of fathers/husbands greekreporter.com/2025/06/15/gre…

Icône du musée archéologique national d'Athènes, cette épée en bronze brille par sa poignée aux incrustations d'or et de lapis-lazuli dont le motif en écailles s'achève par deux têtes d'aigles. Mycènes, XVIe siècle av. J.-C.

35 yrs of England water privatisation. Companies have 1,135 criminal convictions 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage in rivers, 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn debt, people robbed. £112m exec bonus, last decade Must end privatisation. leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nation…

Sculpture group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros from the 'House of the Poseidoniastai' on the Greek island of Delos. Aphrodite holds a sandal in an attempt to fight off the advances of Pan. Dated to 100 BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 me.

Over 3,000 years old!! A rather smug-looking Mycenaean anthropomorphic vase, dated 1250-1180 BCE. Found at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. It kind of reminds me of those posh hoity-toity butlers you see in period costume dramas! 😂Love it! 🥰On display at the Archaeological Museum of Mycenae. 📷 By me.

Bronze Age Greece Frescoes from Thera, Knossos, and Mycenaean Thebes. 17th - 13th century BC