If you: 1. Need to get guests to studios, and back home after, or 2. Need to get staff safely into work or back home after the tube has stopped running You need to use taxis or private hire. If you do that via contract, it’s cheaper than paying full price each time.

Mabel and the moon. Our morning walk today - phot can’t capture the beauty of the low setting moon. It was a stunner. #Staffordshire

Staffordshire Solstice.

Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...

And those who had rather die than live in war-torn, famine riven, or repressive countries had better “do it! and decrease the surplus population!”

Strong agree. Get out of your own way. The story happens in the mind of the reader anyway.

Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!* *I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻

Entertaining Mr Bennett, a FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

They missed opportunities to save lives…. But, didn’t miss opportunities for political friends to make £billions from VIP Lane PPE and Covid Testing deals.. Viplanebook.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.

Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.

Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.

Somewhat archaic use of the word ‘overlooks’ also… unless they were implying something else? Or perhaps a new definition of the word entirely - one that means ‘showing up and paying respect’?

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

Excellent. I hope so!

I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away

This gives me hope.

Someone also needs to ask them where the flags are made!

The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt

Absolutely this. Come on Keir! Imagine for one moment if the person saying these thing was not a RICH WHITE MAN but… oh, I dunno…

- Saturday Open Day - Photographer @philshallcross.bsky.social and Architectural artist @stevehenshall.bsky.social representing their respective exhibitions today at www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk ..

🔗 Read the full piece www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

This is true👇🏻

Because this intelligent, targeted use of valuable police resources will make our country SO much safer* *Not 😡

Here we go, then! ‘Fresh from his heartfelt performance as Howard in Through It All Together – a moving tribute to football, family, and resilience – Reece will now step into the iconic role of Scrooge, bringing his trademark depth and northern grit to Dickens' timeless tale.’ #Leedsplayhouse

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

What stupid question and an utterly boring choice! I’d rather have a large piece of mixed woodland and meadow. Presumably, as with the jet or yacht, I’d have plenty of staff - to manage it for me and for wildlife. (Dear YouGov - not everyone is a complete arsehole)

Solidarity with our sister union in the States

City of Fire and Beautiful Bricks’ Exhibition at The Glosthouse, Longton. Stoke-On-Trent. www.theglosthouse.co.uk An ongoing exhibition of Works both new, and never before exhibited. Painting : Drawing : Collage. Poetry : @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social #Stoke100 #SoT100

The reason we’re here is the obsessive political fixation on gaining the votes of an unreasonable minority while counting on the notion that the reasonable (silent) majority have no choice but to keep voting the same way. So it’s absolutely in our hands to shake this belief in taking us for granted.

Took me a minute to workout that the ‘cabinet’ being referred to is a cupboard, and not the government. However this statement may be true of both.

City of Fire and Beautiful Bricks’ Exhibition at The Glosthouse, Longton. Stoke-On-Trent. www.theglosthouse.co.uk An ongoing exhibition of Works both new, and never before exhibited. Painting : Drawing : Collage. Poetry : @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social #Stoke100 #SoT100

Maybe I'm just exhausted by these hate filled times we are living through, but this brought tears to my eyes.

A standing ovation for someone found guilty of tweeting about burning migrants alive. She was sentenced to 31 months for inciting racial hatred. The judge said “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.” Who’s calling this out?

Chris Mason is a profoundly unserious man who writes about politics as if it were a video game with no real consequences. True to form, this article is purely about optics. Not a single policy is mentioned www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A grim week of migrant-bashing, and for what? People will suffer – and Labour will gain absolutely nothing | Diane Taylor

I love the gentle and polite tone of his approach, the direct way in which he protests genocide, and the utterly lost look on the interviewer’s face when he does so. Bravo, Mr Bonnevile.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

This is my flag.

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?