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Here’s one of my favorite photos I’ve ever captured: the moment the international space station transited the lunar terminator, captured in broad daylight using a 14” scope. These shots require precise planning and a bit of luck to pull off, and I still can’t believe it’s real!

Reading Tony Blair's views on AI, I remember the story of how the PM who talked of the new high-tech economy only got a mobile phone after leaving Number 10, whereupon he texted Alastair Campbell: ''This is amazing! You can do words and everything''.

🧵Some thoughts on the 'most non-religious parliament' having watched all 600+ swearing-ins... - overall 40% affirmed, 60% swore an oath. Lab & LD split almost exactly along these lines, but only 9% of Tory MPs affirmed, suggesting it's about tradition as much as religiosity.

We have election data! Full datasets with constituency and candidate-level vote shares, electorates, etc are now attached to our Commons Library briefing: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

Meanwhile, at the other end of things, the first privatised service was ... possibly a rail replacement bus. Start as you mean to go on!

My favourite anecdote from the brilliant Damian McBride book Power Trip

Really interesting from an information literacy perspective: people trust the same information more when it's "conversational" than when it's just straight written text.

before Wikipedia abolished spoiler-warnings, we had them on, in no particular order: a) The Three Little Pigs b) The Diary of Samuel Pepys c) Hamlet d) The Passion of the Christ (yes, the film)

50 years ago today I joined the Diplomatic Service. On the first day we were given this booklet, which turned out to be rather alarming for someone whose experience of abroad was mainly backpacking. By para 2 of the Introduction it was clear that there were pitfalls everywhere! 1

While previous histories of the 1832 reform legislation have focused on WHO got the vote, Mapping the State instead focuses on WHERE people got it. Read this new #OpenAccess book, published with Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping-t…