Paddy probably did more for getting good food to people than any other restauranteur in Liverpool…ever!! If you are of a particular age the Everyman Bistro was a rite of passage…a lot of people owe him a big thank you for what he created.

And goodnight!

She's a revolting individual

Paddy Byrne died yesterday. The creative catalyst behind the Everyman Bistro and then the Pen Factory. The Bistro was a cultural oasis that served great food, drink and music. The salad bar in the 2nd room was something to behold in Liverpool in the 80s. Vale Paddy.

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THEY'VE ACTUALLY GONE AND DONE THE REGGIE PERRIN BIT

This morning in the rain

Well I for one think that the Home Secretary trailing "significant changes" to the asylum system on a white supremacist's site, and being boosted by the clownshow political editor of a far-right news channel will be a great start to next week for Labour.

I wrote about this street in Liverpool and about memory and myth for the 12th edition of Science & Magic, full of splendid writing as ever. You can read the magazine here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-... (Photo taken from the window of what used to be O’Halligan’s Parlour)

Train to Nowhere

I am obliged to report that when the No 10 spokesman gave this part of the statement there was a brief but heartfelt outbreak of laughter from journalists, one of whom later asked if the PM might thus be interested in a bridge he had to sell.

3 maggots fight over a rotting corpse www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Says man who gave "island of strangers" speech. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it. It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.

Tim Davie resigning from the BBC over the edited Trump video is like Al Capone being jailed for tax evasion: sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.

Miserable performance, Liverpool, miserablist.

Morning

So let me get this right. We had to leave the EU to control immigration, and we are going to control immigration by emulating the stringent immigration system of Denmark, which is a proud and happy member of the EU.

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@robbiedavison.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky!

This. A thousand times this. Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.

A 15-point win for VA gov. A 5-point win for VA AG in a race he was expected to lose. A 13-point win for NJ gov, in a race that was expected to be close. An outright majority in NYC in a three-way race. A 30-point win for Prop 50 in CA. #BlueWave #Election2025

So Mamdani's Mummyji made Monsoon Wedding

Well, that was rather good.

Arrived just in time for tonight's match v Franco's Team #nopasaran #brigadasinternacionales #YNWA @weare1of100.bsky.social

Folk will do well to remember this next time rail workers take industrial action. The RMT's strikes against removing guards are the only reason this man was there to save so many lives. Trade unions are vital to society.

Ekitike well pissed off being subbed.

Sweet

Haha Martinez

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Lord Heseltine on charlatan Farage

Edge of Darkness, Troy Kennedy Martin's brilliant, dark thriller is on iplayer and BBC4 tonight. Haven't seen it since it first aired in 1985, can't wait. Edge of Darkness, Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074p8c via @bbciplayer

Upper Jordan, Sefton Park in full flow

Several millenia ago, I bought a rain poncho from the middle isle in Lidl (I know), today it makes it's dog walking debut. 🌧

At the annual Texas SandFest, in 2019, the winner artwork by British Columbia-based Damon Langlois. The name of his sand statue: Liberty Crumbling

Exactly this. Reform has no greater ally than the Starmer’s failure of leadership, his weakness and moral cowardice on immigration and asylum. When was the last time a party with 5 MP’s set an entire agenda for a party with 400?

If Greens start consistently leading Labour in polls, and beating them in local elections then the logic of tactical voting which Labour has been relying on could flip savagely on them. As Caerphilly by-election shows, "Only Labour can beat Reform" doesn't work if voters know it isn't true.

Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist"

Can someone in BBC Radio 4 broadcast the wonderful Ladies of Letters starring Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Now, she will be among the first of thousands of peaceful protesters, mostly pensioners and disabled people, to face trial in Keir Starmer’s 36-minute kangaroo courts www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

3-2 flatters us. Humiliating performance from both players and manager.

If ever you needed more motivation to oppose the data centre, they want to build down the road

No Kings & No Royal Family

Grit in the oyster

Strikes me as more corruption: totally in the pocket of Israeli donors. This has to stop: Ireland limits political donations to 1000 Euros. And the explanation is clear: the rampage of these genocide-supporting yobs in Amsterdam.