I didn’t mean Lynne! Absolutely she was qualified. Everyone after her… not so much.

In fairness the previous one was a woman... with no library quals. There is a trend across the whole country that the only competent people are scientists and/or business executives, and it's just utterly philistine and depressing.

Funding from private equity though? Some might say the national library shouldn't be overly exposed to that world...

Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!

bear with me but... wouldn't it be wild... if the head of the British Library had ever been... a librarian??

They tried 'someone with other strengths' with the last CEO appointment and she lasted less than a year.

!!!!!

Seriously so weird. How did we get into a situation where we have an elected Labour government who are scared to be seen as a Labour government?

Those multicoloured tabs around the top right book as well! In case you lose your place and need to find a particular blank page very quickly

He was in the first Dune after this, wasn't he, but yeah agreed.

the horror

Taking the money from overseas aid budgets is fundamentally wrong headed. If you want to fund public transport, do it with car fuel duty.

My glimmer of hope lasted less than 24 hours. He isn’t even officially prime minister yet and already fucking it up left and right

I just don't know what's going to happen with London jobs outside very specific sectors (financial sector). No way to make it work unless you have a crazy commute from somewhere that isn't London, and then you burn out from the long days

Sadly it’s total flag shagging. There is a guy from Chesterton filming himself and his little friends with a big ladder putting them up and putting it all on Facebook. Local Facebook groups are full of people saying ‘if you don’t like our flag you can leave the country’ 😡

😍 but why are two of them upside down? *twitches*

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

I think I would unpick a few of the button placket stitches and poke some dark interfacing in so it lies either side of the stitch line. Iron on and sew a few small stitches across the area to hold in place, then resew the placket down?

Hahaha excellent

Is this a typo or was the cake somehow evil?! 😂