This is total bullshit. It is just caving in to bigotry; www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!! the long wait is over! Arsenal have won the Premier League. #Arsenal #EPL #Champions

HS2 was always a bad idea once it stopped being anupgrade to the rail system between London and the north of England. The reduced specification makes even less sense seeing as it only goes from Birmingham toWillesden in west London. The cost of this mess is ridiculous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

More evidence, if we actually needed any that Farage is a shifty, lying, grifting scumbag. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last night's dinner; chicken breast steak in a white wine, mushroom, cream and saffron sauce with griddled asparagus and basmati rice. We drank a Cheverny Pinot Noir/Gamay blend from the Wine Society with it. #cooking #springfood #simplefood #Cheverny #WineSociety

The evidence from Farage's lengthy career as a full-time professional politician demonstrates that he is lazy and unwilling to spend any of his time getting involved in the business of doing actual politics. He just swans around, pocketing dosh from whoever he can scam it from.

More D&D figures from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social ; #Nerdlings #wargames #D&D #JonHodgson #tieflings hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2026/05/tief...

It's all over! Champions' League Final ahead. We go again, #COYG #Arsenal

So close! Big Vik should have buried that one. #COYG #Arsenal

Argh! almost an equaliser. Lucky escape. #COYG #Arsenal

Bukayo!!!!!!!!!! 1-0 to The Arsenal Good work by Big Vik too. #Arsenal

Slightly diminish a book Four Children and It.

Corcoran is, to put it mildly a vile, nasty piece of shit. If there is one group who aren't under-represented in the legal world, it is white people. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Well, that could have been worse. not a great second half from us, though. That should have been a second penalty for us, I think. We need to step up next week at the Emirates, though. We go again. COYG.

1-0 to the Arsenal! Big Vik wins a penalty and scores it. COYG!

Anne Bonny and Mary Read by Bad Squiddo; #Nerdlings #Pirates #wargames @badsquiddogames.bsky.social hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2026/04/pyra...

If you live in or near Bristol and you are a wargamer, this is for you! #wargames #wargaming #bristol #nerdlings hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

If you don't think that there is something seriously corrupt about the relationship between Farage and Harborne, it's time to think a bit harder; www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This morning's breakfast, an omelette with beansprouts, spring onions and a red chilli, with sriracha sauce. I had leftover beansprouts that needed using, so this seemed like a good idea; #breakfast #cooking #omelette #beansprouts

It saves the recipients from binning them, I suppose. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Chili and lemongrass marinated and fried tofu with a Thai-style rice noodle salad; #food #salad #cooking #vegetarianfood #tofu

I've made a cheese and leek quiche for tomorrow's evening meal. It'll be nice with salad. #food #cooking #frenchfood #quiche

A very sensible piece about UFOs and the American obsession with them and alien visitations; www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

And this is why we don't want or need any for-profit companies in the NHS. That is £1.6bn not being spent on patients. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I'm not sure why Iran should trust the USA at all. After all, the USA, in cahoots with Israel did launch an unprovoked attack on Iran. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

That's it. No title for Arsenal again this year. We were utter rubbish, no guile, unable to keep possession and indecisive and feeble in midfield and up front. Another pathetic display. We have no chance of even one point at the Etihad. #Arsenal

Arsenal are playing like useless muppets today. Faffing about with the ball around our own penalty area has led to a second Bournemouth goal. If we don't win this, I reckon we have thrown the title away. #Arsenal

Saturday breakfast; 2 fried eggs, 2 rashers of smoked back, 2 slices of black pudding and 2 fried tomatoes with wholemeal Irish soda bread from Joe's Bakery on Gloucester Rd, Bristol. #RateMyBreakfast #Breakfast

Saturday breakfast; 2 fried eggs, 2 sliced of black pudding and 2 fried tomatoes, with wholemeal Irish soda bread from Joe's Bakery on Gloucester Rd, Bristol. #RateMyBreakfast #Breakfast

A final few 61st Foot for my 28mm British Peninsular War troops for Sharp Practice. Click the pic and scroll down to see them all. #Nerdlings #Victrix #NapoleonicWargaming #PeninsularWar hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2026/04/61st...

Oh, look. A convicted criminal who lives in Hong Kong has donated £4m to Farage's racket; www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

OK, so the nice sunny evening says lets have an Aperol spritz or several to me.

Some command bases for my 28mm Averhand Warhammer Fantasy Empire project using Wargames Atlantic figures; #Nerdlings #WarhammerFantasy #Averland #Oldhammer hippolytastinyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2026/04/back...

The only time I ever went in a TGI Friday, it was utter shite. I doubt that any revival would be different. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Well, that was inevitable. We have been shit all night and the defending for that goal was like watching amateurs in the park.

Dried porcini and shitake mushroom pithivier with tenderstem broccoli. We drank a Johann Wolf Rheinpfalz Pinot Noir with this. #cooking #frenchcuisine #vegetarianfood #GermanWine

Labour tearing up its final shreds of environmental protection and animal welfare credibility, "Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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But, unlike on the USS Gerald R Ford, the toilets actually work on our two. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This needs to happen quickly, and the ban on crypto donations should be applied retrospectively. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is brilliant. A happy story in a world full of woes and depression; www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nigel Farage - a man who will say and do anything for money, it seems. Doesn't that make him some kind of prostitute? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Why is this far-Right scumbag allowed to fund any political platforms or groups in the UK? He shouldn't be allowed within a million miles of our politicians. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think that this Corbett-Dillon idiot is a bit too fat to fit into his Hitler-Jugend uniform any more; www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

In other words, don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what tax you can avoid paying to your country. Not exactly patriotic, is it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

He sounds like an immature and insecure pathetic narcissist www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, Trump wants help from the UK now. The answer should be a resounding NO. His mess, he is responsible. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'm loving the Where's Wallies in the crowd at the Stade de France. #SixNations #FRancevEngland

I don't like these pale blue shirts France are wearing. What was wrong with the proper blue ones? #SixNations #FrancevEngland