Private Peter Thiel viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry alarms museum staff

Peter Thiel didn't come to the UK to look at the Bayeux "tapestry", I'm sure. Why was he here? And who gave him the special favour of a secret, private viewing? And who else was with him? #R4Today

More evidence here that the far right takes academia very seriously, and puts considerable effort into buying its influence: "Vaughan’s [chief of staff at Thiel Capital] broad aim was to build a network of conservative influence at Cambridge and other elite universities"

How did Peter Thiel get a private view of the Bayeux Tapestry even before the king,President Macron & the Prime minister.. perhaps George Osborne could explain. #r4today

Today is Norman Day on Radio 4, with a series of different programmes about the Norman Conquest and Bayeux Tapestry At 4pm there’s a special episode of You’re Dead To Me about 1066

Finally, we don’t actually know who MADE the bayeux tapestry! The French maintain it was their court ladies; this seems unlikely based on materials and technique; the strongest theory currently is English nuns but look at the size of it. Not a small group.

#r4today According to reports, Palantir ghoul, Peter Thiel, got in before King. Why did a foreign man who wants rid of democracy get a private viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry before our monarch? George Osborne clearly swims in the same swamp as Thiel. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I saw the Bayeux Tapestry in 2007, bet they've added loads to it since then x

As a proud Flemish girl I am really disappointed nobody mentions that the beautiful case exhibiting the Bayeux tapestry in London was made in Flanders, Belgium. #r4today

Wonderful media coverage of the unveiling of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum & the power of cultural diplomacy. High time now for the UK to follow Macron’s lead & allow the Parthenon sculptures to be exhibited in their original home in Athens.

Sigh, Nick Robinson interviewing George Osborne this morning ostensibly regarding the Bayeux Tapestry and trying to make it about the "small boats crisis". Will we next have Mason asking Farage how Reform would have stopped the Normans?

#R4Today made it part of their 'celebrations' of the Bayeux Tapestry and pressed Osborne about it. Then a piece about the 'numbers' asking "when will we see a significant drop" whilst neglecting to spell out that the numbers had halved.

The fact that these tech billionaire-funded racists have penetrative the University of Cambridge to the extent they have really ought to be a bigger story bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

#r4today presenters have chosen to ignore the existence of food banks that millions rely on to be able to feed their families. I reckon the amount of coverage of the Bayeux Tapestry on this single show is longer than all of that devoted to the issue of food banks poverty over the last year.

R4 is having a Norman Day because we’ve gone mad for the Bayeux Tapestry. But I’m really enjoying this discussion on What Did The Normans Ever Do For Us happening right now. Interesting chat about class and French influence for example. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Given it is apparently 'Norman day', here's the piece I wrote when the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry was announced by Macron in 2018 to everyone's surprise. So much still pertains! normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/p... #BayeuxTapestry #Normans #medievalsky #skytorians.