As if…

Another Derwent Water photo. Unfortunately, after two days of walking, I’m currently feeling my age (& my feet are feeling 20 years older). Not sure what I’ll be up to doing tomorrow…

Bending against the wave, will we snap!

Social media staring back

Hello Labour bright sparks. This is what you should be saying… 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our media has always behaved as if we’re already the 51st State. Since BBC News was taken over by right wing propagandists, it’s just got a little bit worse.

Sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

I’ve lapsed into the collapse of civilisation again… so here’s another nice photo

Exciting postdoc opportunity with a fab PI in beautiful Basel

I expect the BBC will now be reporting that London is under Sharia Law…

I’ve complained. A bit futile, but maybe if enough people keep complaining. We pay for these charlatans masquerading as journalists…

Last one for now…(but better than bemoaning the end of civilisation)

There were nice photo ops wherever I looked this morning …

Derwent Water still looking none too shabby this morning

There’s a bit of Derwent Water in this one…

Derwent Water, again…

Derwent Water

Near Keswick

Windermere…

Unfortunately, those are pretty much the only people who can speak up against it without first having to deliver a very long exculpatory ramble that begins “Despite what I said earlier”.

The COVID enquiry and last night’s ITV documentary shone light on a dark time - when billions of pounds of public money were shovelled into the pockets of private investors rather than public institutions - wasting existing expertise, wasting money, wasting lives in the process.

And who said men can’t multitask? No problem watching football & cricket at the same time…

Congratulations to Lancashire Women! They won anyway, despite being deprived of key players.

Back in the day, when U.S. military fought fascism—not aided it, not worked for it, not bowed to it.

Just had a quick look at the BBC website. Couldn’t find anything. Certainly not prominent. Every utterance of Farage was a main headline story.

Here she is at Lime Street Station, not quite dancing with Ken Dodd…

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I’m seeing quite a few posts from people surprised that BBC political coverage is shit again today. It’s always shit now. Shit is their default setting. They’ve been taken over by people who demand (right wing) shit.

If you think this is bad, you should see the bargains you get for UK politicians! 😅

Liverpool MP Bessie Braddock dances with George Harrison at the Carl Alan Awards, March 24, 1964.

When Reform come to power, I can see this catching on as their ICE-equivalent uniform…

‘We also think that Nigel is right & we should all obsess about asylum seekers making it the number 1 issue’ Smart by name…

Very typical media behaviour…

Journalist from The Sun complaining about inaccurate reporting

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Well. That’s certainly cleared that up… Meanwhile, as Lancashire’s women face up to a final tomorrow, they have their best players taken away by England, just as the men did on T20 finals day. Equality of contempt!

The only policy area they ever show any interest in is immigration. Even then, with no depth or nuance.

Just finished reading Middlemarch for the first time. All 888 pages. Do you know what, it’s actually very good (despite a slight hint of Mills & Boon towards the end). Felt somewhat bullied into reading it by literature people on Bluesky banging on about it. So, feel free to keep banging on…

A lot of nonsense right wing stories doing the rounds in the pubs at the moment. Just to clarify some of the issues. There is a two child limit for claiming UC. Sickness benefit is £118.75/week. To bring a spouse to UK need income £29k p.a. Only 1.6% of population cannot speak English well.

I only had to look up the meanings for three words… (& I think I saw Waning Gibbous Moon at the Band on the Wall in the late 70s)

My ideal kind of left wing alternative probably wouldn’t involve the comrades slagging each other off on the fascist friendly X platform & threatening each other with legal action, but perhaps that’s just me.

Remembering Middlesbrough-born football manager Brian Clough, who died on this day 2004. ‘Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.'

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

Taking liberties with a Gandhi quote that (apparently) might itself be fake news… ‘What do you think of our free press..?’ ‘I think it would be a good idea’