This week in Politics

Seeing Donald Trump being so awful actually made people forget how right wing Giorgia Meloni actually is.

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This is Reform reality. It is also an indictment on those who elected them. Any position representing people comes with responsibility. Any job in service comes with learning, research, understanding of the role. It must have been quite a shock that you have to do the nitty gritty after slogans

John Eric Bartholomew (Eric Morecambe) who brought everyone sunshine was born 100 years ago today

I have a print from 1580 and books from the 1740s. The never need charging, never need upgrading and they'll still work when everyone on here has long passed. #Books

Wes Streeting to meet Sir Keir Starmer

We now go live to Chris Mason who will explain why the 1327 Tver uprising against the Golden Horde could spell disaster for Keir Starmer

We now go live to Chris Mason who will explain why Alaric I 410 ce sacking of Rome could spell disaster for Keir Starmer

We now go live to Chris Mason who will explain why the 1497 florentine bonfire of the vanities could spell disaster for Keir Starmer

We now go live to Chris Mason who will explain why The Paris Commune is a disaster for Keir Starmer

Tonight on BBCFour at 00.30 . Art Lovers Guide: Lisbon with @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and Alastair Sooke. You can watch it now on BBCiplayer 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Arrowe Park Hospital is NOT a specialty facility. For Covid, they did the same thing. It is nowhere near the school of tropical medicine and has no isolation block. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not the fact that I woke up to find Britain turning to billionaire fascism frightening. It's not the fact that I woke up to the mainstream media crush fest on Reform that I find frightening. What I find frightening, is that I'm not surprised.

#elections Please read this if you are ready to defend equal rights. We have to protect the hard won rights earned through blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice.

And then I told them that the five million had nuthin to do with my political activities and what are they gonna do about it? Bing, nuthin

Americans. You can have all the rubber suited superheroes you like, but you can't beat the debonaire panache of John Steed and Adam Adamant

Handmade by me. Ceramics

The Liverpool you never see in tv dramas. Because we are apparently all drug dealers or bent coppers in badly lit concrete jungles.

The BBC has nade a drama set in Liverpool. Yet again, if it's not about The, everyone has to be a criminal. We can sell drugs, steal , be a gangster but not your Barrister, or accountant. In the meantime, here is a painting by Britain's greatest equestrian painter, George Stubbs, from Liverpool.

Are we starting with the Double Gloucester, then moving on to the Red Leicester?

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I grew up in Liverpool in the 70s and 80s. I'm used to an Orange man loudly dissin the Pope. Donald, yer Da sells bingo dabbers outside the Mecca . Yer meffy blert. www.instagram.com/reel/DXENgkz...

Top History from Janina Ramirez. Being this close to those artifacts. I know, it's nerdy, it's geeky...it's greeky. You can feel a buzz, a current of history electricity from things like this and @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social knows exactly how to bring it to you. So watch it when it comes out 🤘🎸

#UniversityChallenge I'd rather lose with a different team....This is getting on my nerves. it's a little bit wanky.

Me and my pals faces looking at people on social media calling this a four day week. Yeah, sure. All the things that you consume, use, buy just magically happens!

Everyone on the planet to Trump voters who are saying 'I didn't vote for this'

This is American intelligent journalism from The New York Times @nytimes.com It's getting worse isn't it.

This Day in History with Professor Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social give him a follow

The McGanns are a sound bunch. Have a look at what Joe is doing as a caseworker in Liverpool.

jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/ep-274-kerry... Having a coffee with Jo Durrant's Beautiful Universe. The Magic circle and musicals. Rupert the Bear and his role in diabetes management. Science and art are not separate worlds here!

SIMULATE THE BLOCKBUSTER!

Me, patiently listening to a room full of people all agreeing with each other about Art and History. Then it's my turn...

I don't care what anyone says. Romy and Michele's High-school Reunion is a boss film and Janeane Garofalo as Heather Mooney is the best thing about it. Fab.

Tonight at 9pm (21.00) on Sky Arts, FREEVIEW. Art's Wildest Moment: Mannerism. With the one and only Waldemar Januszczak @januszczak.bsky.social Great Art telly on a blustery night.

Ellie and Angela are hilarious and brilliant on #Pointless. My fave contestants in ages. 💚

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TV quizzes....Just saying a surname for an answer is cheating. You can't just say 'Cherry' or 'Steadman'. People say this when they've forgotten the first name.

He's done some great work, but for me, Jeremy Brett is the quintessential Sherlock Holmes.

Can everybody stop volunteering Idris Elba to be James Bond. Have any of you actually asked him if he wants to do it? Ask him how his day is going, would he like a brew. No....it's all me, me, me. Poor fella might just want a coffee and a Danish.

youtube.com/watch?v=4lql... Here is a short story by my friend R.P. Serin. 'Into the Blizzard and Out of the Cold'.

This is what people see when they say to me: 'But I've Googled it!' As their argument.