I made a tune for WB Yeats' The O'Rahilly and made a rather feeble demo of it in layers starting with the vocal, added scrolling text and guitar accompaniment. So I more or less get part of Yeats' Nobel Prize now. More than Bronzo anyway. stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

When it comes to insurance claims for car accidents, insurance companies advise us not to admit liability. Now Trump sees an opportunity to extort money from the BBC. They could have simply said that it's inevitable that some errors occur from time to time and we're sorry it wasn't our finest hour.

I have been paralysed & a wheelchair user for 17 years. Since then, I have flown hundreds of times. I have never had worse service than this morning at Heathrow T4 Arrivals.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them. Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment. snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Fast train on the Chiltern Line this evening. I think you can see why I once called the cops on kids playing on the tracks. The fast trains don't stop at Sudbury Hill Harrow and come around a bend onto this section of the line.

In case anyone thinks it's one-way traffic. The vast size of Russia makes it harder to defend when Ukraine can reach any part within a thousand miles and further with special ops, and Russian war criminals have to check under their cars every time they go out.

THINGS KNOW [...] There's a runcible spoon - You know the one, the only one - it lives for you, for you alone. On the pavement, a scrunchie, Black. It's stalking you, knows You notice it's always a round. stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/t... #poetry

Photo: Random peppers growing from some seeds that must have been in the waste water from the kitchen

Before bedtime, every night as I sweep the floor, I apologise to the mice for not leaving them any crumbs and explain to them that it's for their own good.

Starting to think cinemas should issue 'film comprehension certificates', with special tiered screenings for people who don't understand films. These could be paused every ten minutes, for them to ask questions such as: 'who's that?' 'where is all this happening?' 'what year is this?', etc

The work continues - like painting the Forth Bridge - as more of the archive comes on line. But press the menu too right hand corner & you can browse the masses of stuff already there, visit the shop and a lot more.

Wood ducks are cavity nesters and frequently use nest boxes. After the ducklings hatch, the next day, after the female ensures it is safe, the ducklings jump out of the box to start their adventurous life. Photos taken in my yard. #Birdoftheday theme #takeoff 🪶

Why did the US move 10,000 troops toward Venezuela plus ships & 5000 sailors? Who is in charge? What is their plan?

Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957

My musical tribute to Pauline Collins who has died aged 85. She was brilliant and award-winning in the film Shirley Valentine. But I will always remember her as parlourmaid Sarah Moffit in the 1970s ITV drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

First night The New Venture Theatre in Brighton. Pic on left at start of Act 1, pic on right start of Act 2. It’s quite the wild ride!

Does anyone else think that Zohran Mamdani's loud-shouting for his entire victory speech sort of ruined it? It took away all of the shine. He told Trump to turn the volume up. I'd suggest @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could turn it down a bit. Don't become like Howard Dean or Neil Kinnock ended up.

Pete Hegseth's "warrior culture" is big enough to bomb and sink sad little boats with possibly fishermen or random helpless individuals in them but when it comes to Russia it shrinks and shrivels to a worm and hides in the dirt. And there under the dirt it cowers with the slimy slug known as Bronzo.

Gilson Lavis, drummer with Jools Holland's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra and all the way back to Squeeze passed away this week. Always looked like he was loving the music in some of my favourite clips from Jools' shows, as in this clip with also much-missed Ronnie Spector. R.i.p. youtu.be/pX96uS-FEAY?...

YouTube's pretty good guess about what I might like this morning #YourMix

The Kostroma Power Station in Volgorechensk, Kostroma region, in Russia was struck last night. A large fire can be seen. With its capacity of up to 3,700 MW it is one of the largest power stations in Russia. It is around 730 km (450 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

Latest Morning Star cartoon, out in print today

"Remember remember the fifth of November." It's Guy Fawkes night. I hear lots of fireworks outside. Here's a Willesden Herald post from 2004. I took the photo outside Willesden Green station. Their Guy - an effigy of Saddam Hussein. "A Penny for Saddam" willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2004/10/23/a...

New York Times gift article - In praise of Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" podcasts of his radio show, of which there are about 1000. Initially it was the solution to the NY Times journalist, Sarah Viren's, insomnia but eventually she became an avid and constant fan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

New York's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's full victory speech. This may be the Trump family's Ceauşescu moment. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social youtu.be/JC1h6rJQBvs?... #BedtimeForBronzo #Zohran

I once wrote a literary fiction short story which won third prize in the Willesden Herald competition and got read out loud by a proper actor on the night. I’ve just remembered it got put online. I am very proud but also might die of embarrassment if you watch it youtu.be/xHJVBJmlAzk?...

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Journalists should know this thing about open questions. Even salesmen know better than that ("Does your product do [whatever]?" "No." "Goodbye." ... Correct answer: "Why do you want to do that?"). If they kept in mind the good old five Ws "who, what, when, where and why" they'd get better answers.

Delighted to have a poem in the Fig Tree about a day at the Crazy Golf in the off season…⛳️

ロンドンの「王様の道」はなんとなく「腐った道」… (「馬道」の読み方を間違った…) ( ;´ - `;) London's "Rotten Row" is some sorta... the "King's Street? (Aaaaand I messed up the Japanese reading for "bridleway") :[

This is a very good, informative account of the CBS interview with doddering old Bronzo Trump. youtu.be/swuvpgpSfzE?... #BedtimeForBronzo

Bullying by China, fear of expensive lawsuits and worries about the safety of staff are interfering with essential research. China is interfering in Britain's internal affairs and trying to hoodwink the world. Others too - Trump's USA, Putin's Russia, every other Mickey Mouse regime. They all stink.

Part of the reason why the AI bubble is about to crash like the Hindenburg. It's unreliable, giving wrong answers with no accountability for the random damage caused. And people like Elon Musk are inject their own flavours of poison into it by massaging results to support their own misconceptions.

#BlessedAndCursed #Christmasstories #submissionDeadline TONIGHT! Send your 800-2000 word story to [email protected] by 11.59pm UK time on Sun 2 Nov. liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n... #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeSubmissions #XmasStories #WinterStories #FlashFiction #ShortStories

On October 26, 2025, a Russian Il-76 with aircraft tail number TA-78765 and linked to the Russian mercenary group Wagner landed in Caracas, Venezuela. The plane is operated by Aviacon Zitotrans, which is on the US' and other countries' sanction list.

Our local Iceland supermarket (Greenford Road) has all types of Flora margarine 1kg packs @ £4.65 for 1 and just £5 for 2 (sic). #bargains #London

I had a poem in my first book called 'An Ontological Proof for the Existence of Ern Malley', which wasn't very good but does suggest an effort to say that if existence is not a predicate, that doesn't rule out other interesting qualities being possessed by the subject: www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...

This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.

You've peaked too soon. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Everyone will be exhausted by all the hype before long, if they're not already. Get real.

But are the latter still princesses, now that their father is no longer a prince?

If Trump says that a person can run for a third term as president, Obama's looking quite fit. It would be so gratifying to see Barack Hussein Obama smash Bronzo to smithereens. #BedtimeForBronzo

We'll be continuing our issue spotlight over tomorrow and next week. In the meantime, do read the whole thing! badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

I am delighted to announce that we have reached the total in just 48 hours. The entire sewing, dressmaking and costume community rallied round to save our beloved Maureen Rose. Good job everybody!

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

On the midi-plan arête; in the distance: the Périades and the Grandes Jorasses From “Between heaven and earth” by Gaston Rébuffat, 1965.

TEANNTAIGH #focalanlae www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/teann...

Balm for the tortured mind. youtu.be/3rn2N0ZbLEQ?... #NowPlaying Ana Carolina and Seu Jorge - É Isso Ai

I can't bear to watch this. I will support any measure that puts the people responsible for this from the top man and his coterie and backers to the operatives on commission in jail for a good long term. It's possibly time to for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on the United States.