*New Post* My latest post discusses the story of Hannah Phillips, who folklore states drowned on the eve of her wedding. Discover her story and the maiden's garland that still bares her name. #Folklore #Ghosts #Shropshire #hauntings nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-s...

Keats’ House, partially concealed by mellow fruitfulness.

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism. Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

It's not uncommon to label all of the rooms in a facility for dementia patients

A Publisher with a Conscience: Fly on the Wall Press flyonthewallpress.substack.com?r=12bk80&utm...

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

More poems like this, please.

I'm just asking questions.

Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps: The right defends economic power. The left resists economic power.

The artist Keith A Pettit spotted this photo and came up with this wood engraving based on it. I love it. You can find out more about Keith's work here: www.keithapettit.com

This speech from Rachel Reeves is kind of frustrating because it shows that the Government can command the airwaves when it wants That's something it has almost totally failed to do so far - over challenging racism, boosting the laws it has passed, tackling Reform, rebutting Tory ILR plans, etc etc

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

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They'll never find a lookalike to play him in the film.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Nigel Farage dismissed female victims of grooming gangs who didn't fit his narrative. He doesn't give a shit about victims. He just wants to push his own bigoted agenda www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Private Eye.

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

[Eight hours later:] MEPHISTOPHELES *cocooned in spreadsheets and post-it notes, and reeking of caffeine*: Look, are you _sure_ you wouldn't prefer to play blues guitar? Most people who take this deal just want to play blues guitar.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

In case anyone is wondering what this cat I met was saying to me here it was "I despise the way modern TV documentaries are so frantically worried about losing the viewer’s attention, employ endless precaps, lazily emotionally manipulate with overplayed songs and talk to me like I am a small child."

Farage: epic grifter

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

😕 We are all paying for this vanity project

Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

Car: "Depress clutch to start." Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."

When our political commentators are having cosy chats with future UK 🇬🇧 leaders about mass deportations & the danger of multiculturalism with their privileged education & analysis are they not capable of looking up ICE & the reality of such policies . They can look up Nazi history too .

"Many haws, many sloes, many cold toes!" Old country wisdom says that an abundance of hawthorn berries and sloes in autumn is a sure sign of a cold winter to come. Have you seen a plentiful crop of haws and sloes in the hedgerows near you? #WednesdayWisdom #nature #folklore

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Only the Sounds of the Wood, painting by Holmfirth-based artist Pippa Ashworth. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Wonderful

A quick YouTube short. 🎶 Steve Winwood.🎶

Folklore has it that any avatar of the Queen of Owls becomes her eyes. Every carved effigy, every tempera icon is part of intelligence. A thousand wooden spies whisper our secrets to her. – #CLNolan

Everyone should be more Virginia Woolf

Cows they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone There’s many things I could have done But cows got in my way

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

So far, the content and presentation at the Knesset hardly bodes well for future peace. No mention of hope or reconciliation. No recognition of the suffering of Palestinians. It’s just a glory fest for a bunch of out of control narcissists. Peace and Freedom for all. I hope for better leadership.

Joanna Lumley killing it as usual. "I'm an immigrant" I say this frequently when bigots are complaining about immigration and they immediately stop because they can't say what they are thinking. Except that one Brit in Spain who literally said "but you're white" before realising what he had said.

Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end. But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy. (Times)

A video released by Andrew Snowden MP has sparked bemusement after he accused Labour of misunderstanding fighter aircraft while misidentifying one himself in the same video. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/tory-mp-conf...

‘Seventieth Birthday’ - #RSThomas (Between Here and Now, Macmillan) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

I adore this ghost ridden land 🦇 #ghosts #Shropshire #paranormal #Folklore

I can find 11 and it’s ruined my weekend