“We expect everyone involved in teaching to maintain appropriate professional standards and to treat students with respect.” That was Oxford University's response when [Un]Captured asked about a male tutor wearing giant prosthetic breasts to work. Biochemistry lecturer Matt Rattley has kicked off the autumn term with new photos wearing his infamous ‘norks’ - including one in a lecture theatre with students. The university declined to discuss individual personnel matters. Full story at [Un]Captured 👇

The Green Party member, Lubna Speitan, behind the “Zionism is racism” motion is close friends with an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to bomb passengers landing at Heathrow from Israel. It can now be revealed that Ms Speitan offered to testify in the defence of Minh Quang Pham, jailed in the US for a plot to detonate a backpack filled with shrapnel dipped in rat poison in the airport arrivals lounge. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

If the devil has all the best tunes maybe this lot really are Christians?

🎭 William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman” who used used the Bard's name as a pen-name, according to a new book. Read the full report from @Craig_Simpson_ here ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01…

Harriet is very clever and clearly a fan of the show. Usually when two players have an out of nowhere conflict it’s because they’re BOTH Traitors and she’s clocked it #TheTraitors

Harriet throwing Hugo under the bus for being a barrister whilst being an undercover barrister is QUEEN behavior #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

Woman of the Day maidservant and healer Geillis Duncan of Tranent, East Lothian, was executed OTD in 1591 at Castle Hill, Edinburgh. Her crime? She was skilled at healing the sick — too good, in fact, curing people that even doctors couldn’t help. Obviously she must have been a witch. Consider the evidence. Trained in the classical traditions of Hippocrates and Galen who lived over 1400 years before, doctors in the late 16th century swore by the power of leeches, used chemicals like mercury and antimony, employed cauterisation and turpentine, and dispensed painkillers like opium, mandrake, and hemlock. They worked only for those wealthy enough to afford their services. Everyone else had to rely on local healers, usually women who used local herbs and rituals, and what would they know of Hippocrates and Galen? Yet Geillis, who worked for the deputy bailiff of Tranent, slipped out of the house at night without explanation and returned after tending to people and curing them or alleviating their pain. “This Geillis Duncan took in hand to help all such as were troubled or grieved with any kind of sickness or infirmity, and in short space did perform many matters most miraculous...made her master and others to be in great admiration, and wondered there at.” — Newes from Scotland, 1591 An ambitious man, keen to be of service to his king, her employer was aware of James VI’s obsession with ridding his kingdom of the malign influence of witches. In the royal mind, they were everywhere. When James returned from Copenhagen with his new bride Anne of Denmark, the ship was beset by storms. Someone had to be responsible; there was no other possible explanation. A hasty witch hunt in Denmark in which two women were terribly tortured into confessing that they had raised the storms that threatened the voyage, sending devils to climb up the keel of the ship, was all the proof he needed. In September 1590, the two women were burned as witches at Kronberg. Hugely impressed by such a decisive outcome, James set up his own tribunal in Scotland. It was so easy: torture someone mercilessly until they confessed and named a co-conspirator, then do the same to the co-conspirator till they gave someone else up. It was remarkably effective. So keen was he to get results that he personally questioned impoverished old women under torture till they gave up their wicked secrets, but all of that came later. The pathfinder was Geillis’s employer. He personally applied pilliwinks (thumbscrews) to Geillis and then had her “thrawed” (twisting and turning a rope around her head). When that didn’t produce a confession, she was stripped bare, shaved all over, and every crevice of her body examined for the Devil’s Mark (a mole or any slight imperfection). He found one on her throat. After days and days of sleep deprivation, torture and intense interrogation, the girl - she was still in her teens - confessed all: a pact with the Devil, attendance at a witches’ sabbath at the North Berwick kirk on Halloween 1590 with over 200 witches, plotting with them to raise the storm to sink the King’s ship, and personally trying to poison James VI. Geillis was brought to Edinburgh and tried before a commission appointed by James VI who took a personal interest in the case (I bet he did, oh I bet he did). She was convicted of witchcraft and sorcery, strangled at the stake and then her body burned at Castle Hill - but not before recanting her confession. Well, she would, wouldn’t she? Some people will say anything to avoid a horrible death. Geillis’s ordeal is considered to be the spark that ignited the North Berwick Trials: around 70 people were accused and at least 30–40 executed in Edinburgh and Lothian between 1590 and 1592. Shakespeare found them rich material for Macbeth, in which the three witches cast spells that purposely created storms to destroy ships. When did the madness stop? Not for another 137 years. The vast majority of the accused were women, about 80%, and the last person to be tried and executed of witchcraft in Scotland was Janet Horne of Dornoch in 1727. That’s because everyone knows what a woman is.