I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

🚨 NEW: Channel 4 is planning to air a special Dispatches documentary on Saturday titled ‘The King, The Prince and Their Secret Millions’ The title is now known after several delays by Channel 4 "Documents not seen in public before reveal who's paying them, and for what."

Are you ready? “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” will air from Sunday 10th November at 9pm on BBC1. You aren't going to want to miss this phenomenal finale! #WolfHall #ThomasCromwell #HilaryMantel #HenryVIII

Joan of Arc’s signature ! ‘The new exhibition ⁦@britishlibrary⁩ on Medieval Women is full of wonders

What the government *actually* spends our money on (MPs’ expenses & staffing costs isn’t even on the list) 👇🏼

Reader, he did not pay his own air fare

Councils have essentially become social and children's care funding agencies, which, as most people don't use those services, means they don't really understand where all their council tax is going...

Two big detached houses are being replaced with 93 apartments on the famous Bishop's Avenue in London. An example of how attractive densification can be, and also of a new style emerging in London apartment architecture, notable for abundant decorative tiling and brickwork.

This is brilliant news. "All prosecutions of people accused of wrongfully using a 16-25 Railcard to obtain a discount at the wrong time of day are being withdrawn and thousands of previous cases are being reviewed, the company said on Monday." https://t.co/tMtkUGAnid

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Euston has (immediately, as of right now) on the orders of @LouHaigh turned off its annoying giant advertising board that replaced the departure board. But the thing is… it was purposely designed to be annoying, to cover up for lack of investment.

There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius. Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same way at roughly the

Another scale busting map! September rainfall for the UK. Huge variation but parts of southern England seeing over three & a half times their average rainfall. Incredibly Bedfordshire & Oxfordshire saw their wettest month (of any month) in at least 188 years.

Just so we’re clear: It is currently a golf club. Part is becoming a tennis club, the rest is becoming a new public park. There is no park being lost forever.

Median disposable household income was £34,500 in 2023, according to the ONS. It was £34,700 in 2020. And is only 0.8% higher than 2013.

This is interesting. According to the International Federation of Robotics, UK businesses are investing in industrial robots at an unprecedented rate. A big deal, given the UK dramatically lags most other developed economies in robotics uptake. Biggest increase was in car sector

This is the story everyone is talking about at Labour conference today… Whispers that Reeves could change fiscal rules to allow more capital spending, including moving National Wealth Fund and GB Energy off the government’s balance sheet..

We didn’t

Adding density in cities is important, but tends to be contentious, so it is normally wise to do it in the most unobtrusive and deferential way possible. Here is a model example from Covent Garden in 2022: two storeys added with effectively zero impact on character.