#MusicChallenge Day 72: A Song With a Musical Instrument in the Title youtu.be/TGZznJXY1Xc?...

OK. My career just peaked.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

Left: President Trump, "Try finding wind farms in China, there aren't too many of them" Right: There are 10,066 wind farms in China (operating, announced, construction, and pre-construction)

Blyth Harbour. Oil on paper. #art

Blyth Harbour Northumberland. Unfinished

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

Utterly astonished to get this.

34 ex pupils have now come forward to speak out about Farages bullying and racial abuse they suffered at school.. It’s a great shame he didn’t go to my school because anyone racially abusing kids, especially younger ones would get a beating from their peers to make them mend their ways & it worked❗️

A quaint corner of Newcastle. Oil on paper.

Famous Cragside, Northumberland

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Latest painting efforts.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits

Thanks to the Royal Birmingham School of Artists for selecting my work for the exhibition in January.

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

The best dog came to visit

The UK’s laziest Councillor? Reform UK’s Councillor Shaun Knowles in Northumberland has been paid £9340.67 since becoming a councillor. An FOI has shown he’s sent 2, TWO emails since May! He’s attended just 1 meeting (in Sept) since elected. Reform UK wasting tax payer money.

Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...

This sums up the state of the national media to me.

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

I found this tribute to Blossoms band in Stockport. Oil on paper.

That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC. SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

The old police station, Blyth. Oil on paper.

My goodness, they’ve even got the boxy acoustics on the narration. This is remarkable

Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality Here's a taster #eukconf25

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements? Photo collage ➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi ➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi ➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi ➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Yup.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Kilpeck Church door. One of my door series.Oil on paper

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...

That's a LOT of current/former Disney talent. @thr.com $DIS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

It’s to my eternal bemusement how something that once so terrified the world can now be shrugged off so easily without championing the sheer scientific brilliance to achieve it. It should be a constant reminder to stand against the anti science anti vax approach so many have

@reformexposed.bsky.social www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Castle Street, Edgeley, Stockport. Oil on paper.

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Another appropriate classic for our times: www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

This is important if you want to know what Reform UK is planning and who they are working with. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...

Over on the hell hole that is twitter fossil fuel lobby groups are in a frenzy over a Gaurdian article abiout a temporary arctic sea ice extent loss pause. Maybe someone should teach them about how ice spreads as it thins or the global situation zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

The normalisation of racist hate and the fearmongering about "foreign paedophiles" by the mainstream media and politicians has allowed Tommy Robinson and his moronic followers to set the agenda... So now a doting grandad is too terrified to leave his home www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

C/O Northumberland _adventures. Bamburgh Castle in the evening light.