We're living in the era of the autocrats, in the US some states are banning womans reproduction rights, banning books, be very careful what you say or you'll be cancelled. This is Orwells 1984 happening now, it's very scary & must be fought against.

Reading a book on Robert Shaw, in Jaws he had to do a monologue about the Indianapolis, 1st shoot he was drunk & after 10 hrs Spielberg said "That's it, cut" next morning Shaw phoned Spielberg up & said "did I humiliate myself" "only slightly Robert" Sober, he got it spot on next time, in one take.

I'm totally against censorship but when it threatens womans safety & they're being sexulised by Grok AI it's time the UK shut X down completely. Musk is an unbalanced drug addled individual as insane as his one time friend Trump. Can't ppl see how dangerous those 2 maniacs are?

I can't watch the news @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social #bbcnews telling us news about madman Trump, they report is as if it's normal what Trump is up to, they may throw in a remarkable or unprecedented & that's the extent of their incredulity,what he wants to do is clearly insane.

As long as they don't try it in Vietnam, they got their arses kicked the last time they tried it over there.

@officialpdc.bsky.social What uninspiring picks for the 4 wildcards for the new Premier league, young darts players from abroad deserved a chance instead of Clayton, Pryce & Bunting, they offer nothing new.

Signed but I won't hold my breath Starmer will discover some courage .

Amorim sacked by Man Utd, Celtic manager Nancy has just been sacked after only 8 games in charge, forget the Lottery if you want to be rich become a football manager, be absolute rubbish, pick a fight with the powers that be & get sacked with a £3m pay off, try at another gullible club & begin again

Starmer hasn't a political spine, his cowardice in politics disgusts me, he tinkers around the edges of closeness with EU, benefits, immigration, stealth taxes instead of wealth tax, backed down with farmers, jokes with Reform instead of exposing them, BBC's board, there's never nerve or boldness.

What a cowardly bunch UK politicians are, & European, we need time to judge whether Trump has broken International Law, "What!!" He's been doing it both terms he's been in office, it's in tatters. We have a Prime Minister who can't even stand up to his own rebels never mind insane leaders.

Noticeable absentee there is Rory Gallagher.

I love the mellow buzz one gets from drinking a 10yr old malt whisky, especially when it's freezing cold outside with ice & snow making being inside with just the candlelight giving one a cosy cosseted feeling.

@skysportsdart.bsky.social In tonights final can you tell the producers or whoever is in charge of the cameras to limit shots of the crowd, it's getting ridiculous, getting to the point that after every six darts thrown we get the crowd, it's ruining the enjoyment & disrespectful to paying viewers

He was a really bad ruler, totally illegitimate, rigged elections, ran Venezuelas economy so poorly that a quarter of its population fled the country, ruled by repression to stay in power & his kleptocratic rule robbed a resource rich country. But you're right what Trump allowed in Gaza is worse.

@mirrorsport.bsky.social Why do you continually ignore Middlesbrough, in todays football pullout there's all the teams below Boro in the championship, no mention for Boro as usual. I'll buy a different paper from now on.

I watched a new documentary on Chevy Chase expecting to hear some debauched behaviour, what a disappointment, a bit boring really. He did a lot of coke, acted like an arsehole now & again but seemed genuinely liked by friends & colleagues, a bit of a crazy funny talented exhibitionist is all he was.

Snowing really heavy now, this is where the country grinds to a halt, pathetic really, we just got on with it back in the day, it snowed for 3 months in 63 & I don't think I missed one day of school, now they close them straight away.

Were you aware that union leaders have said that an astonishing 45% of their members intend voting for Reform. Voting to lose any workers rights they now take for granted, which I find mind boggling. They have every right to feel disillusioned with main parties, but do they have to be so stupid.

Only a manager who wants a big pay deal would go to Chelsea, they're a joke of a club, unloved outside their own fan base, not even hated, ppl are indifferent to them. When Maresca was sacked, & he was sacked, ppl just shrugged, nobody is ever surprised by managers being sacked at Chelsea.

Chickenpox vaccine is now available. If u're an adult & never had it as a child get vaccinated, I never had it as a child & caught it off my children, they were fine, every part of my body was covered in spots,even my gums & tonsils, I lived on ice water for a week, It was horrific,get vaccinated.

Jools Holland's Hootenanny has started, real musicians, great music & the fabulous Imelda May, now we can't start ringing in the New Year in style. Happy New Year fellow sufferers of the Miseries Of The World.

Why is Kemi Badenochs attorney General Lord David Wolfson acting on behalf of Roman Abramovich in the case of missing billions that the UK government want released to give to the Ukraine? a conflict of interest here surely that Badenoch must know. To act on behalf of a Russian oligarch is shameful.

England supporters club have said only half the fans expected have applied for tickets for next summers World Cup, they warned FIFA over the extortionate ticket prices & were ignored. They should never have held it in Trumps America with crawling up Trumps arse Infantino thinking only of money.

It's estimated it will take 7 years to clear the rubble in Gaza, for Palestinians the horrors will last a lifetime & beyond & that demented psychopath in the Whitehouse welcomes the monster responsible for it all.

Why give honours to ppl doing a job they're very well paid for? at least Idris Elba is doing something for young ppl, Richard Osman gets a MBE for writing books with ludicrous plots that earn him a fortune, for once I'd like to see someone refuse the honour & say "give it to someone who deserves it"

It's why I never defend the bbc, it's about time the licence fee was scrapped & they go to subscription, let's see how popular they are then.

Netanyahu meeting with Trump shortly in Florida, it's now become normal that the American president of a once proud country now shamelessly meets & befriends the world's mass murderers.

Russia Ukraine Peace talks as reported by sky news, there was a memorable moment when Zelenskyy's poker face fell as Trump said "Russia wants Ukraine to succeed" what a stupid thing for Trump to say, it's hard to know if Trump's just ignorant, tuned out of detail or in Putins pocket say Skynews.

I watched a Doc about the American civil war, a prison camp 4 confederate troops, meant to hold 10,000, 33,000 were cramped in, denied tents they slept in the open with a blanket 4 warmth. Rations a day were half a teaspoon of salt, 3 of beans,1 of cornflower. One can imagine the squalor. Horrific.

Watching The Godfather & Don Corlene says "I'm drinking more red wine than I used to" & I said to the TV screen "So am i" then he said "They say it's good for you" & I said out loud "I hope so" If doctors come out & say "We've gotten it wrong with red wine, it does more harm than good" I'm screwed.

Are ppl aware what is still going on in Gaza under Trumps farcical peace plan, over 2 million Palestinians are displaced, no heat or running water & babies are dying from the cold, children as young as 8 are called suspects by the IDF & are threatened with violence if they cross so called safe zone.

On the ID channel about Killers in areas of the US friends will say "such a kind man, very religious" blah blah, "really gentle person, devout Catholic" blah blah, "she seemed so nice, regular church goer" blah blah. When describing somebody you'll never hear a Brit mention religion, why would they?

It never stops for Ukrainians, it's similar to what London had to put up with during the Blitz in the 2nd World war, relentless bombing with the Ukrainians seeming to have the same spirit as the Londoner's showed. Putin is a sick evil man just as Hitler was but he'll never break Ukraines spirit.

Don't get a job where you can be replaced by AI,get a manual job that AI can't replace, imagine the working class ppl ( bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, rubbish collectors, labourers etc) ppl who have actually kept countries working & running properly becoming the elite. It's about time.

I can't answer DMs because they want face recognition & private details which i refuse to give them, they have my e-mail & photo that should be enough.

Our Xmas cakes made by my wife's friend, one for the family & one each for my son & daughter to take home with them. Our youngest grandson said "They're very elegant" he's from the South & very well spoken with no trace of an accent, how they understand our teesside accent is a mystery.

Watching TV news media & press reporting on the Epstein Files it's incredulous how many are saying, "There's no suggestion of any wrongdoing, what!! There's every suggestion of wrongdoing, it's all there apart from film of them actually having sex with the victims. Shows the power the elite have.

Greta Thungberg arrested for supporting Palistine Action hunger strikers, how absurd, no wonder #Labour trail behind in 4th place in the polls, meanwhile Israel are bulldozing down Palistinian homes to make way for more Israeli settlers. Am I antisemitic because I believe Israel is an evil state.

I'm not a Labour voter but Pubs banning Labour MPs from their premises is pathetically prissy, why didn't they do it under the tories when every 14hrs a pub had to close, then up to 2 a day & the trend got gradually worse, 700 in 2023. Lab voters should boycott the pubs banning their MPs.

The UK will never rejoin while Starmer is PM, he's a political coward who hasn't the courage to take on the right-wing press, his red lines are lines of cowardice.

Oh No!! Chris Rea, "Driving Home For Christmas" best Christmas song there is has died. He's from my home town Middlesbrough, we used to drink coffee in his dad's cafes. I was reading an interview he gave to a national paper only the other day. He loved Christmas he was saying, such very sad news.

Outside M&S I bought a Big Issue, only £5, the poor guy selling them was freezing his balls off & most ppl just walked by him. Where's the Christmas spirit, the same ppl watch A Christmas Carol & get all teary eyed at Scrooges redemption, what a bunch of tight arsed mean spirited hypocritical arses.

Introductory passage to Vladimir Nabakovs Laughter In The Dark: "He loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster" The story unfolds of a wealthy man with status who left his wife for his mistress who never returned his love, an unrequited love that destroyed him. How many go the same way.

I saw a poll on a TV show saying Home Alone was the top Christmas film with Elf in 2nd place, if you're one of those people who thinks Home Alone is a superior Xmas film than Elf I wouldn't want you as a friend, I wouldn't want to know you at all.

@skynewsrss.bsky.social eventually shows the photo of the man formerly known as Prince, now plain Andrew Windsor laying across 5 young women while Maxwell grins & leers in the background.

No evidence of impropriety in the Epstein photos say the news channels, yeah those dirty old perverts leering were there to play chess, the blanked out faces of the young girls (victims)were chess masters who didn't want the publicity of being exposed as prodigies of the game at such a young age.

If this gov & the previous one don't want an investigation into the brexit referendum it's because they're fearful of what it will reveal, rejoining the EU would benefit the UK immensely, it would solve most of the UKs economic problems & the benefits would be huge, why don't they want that?

To be fair the American fan was shouting out obscenities so good for Rory.

I'm really pleased Rory McIlroy won BBC'S Sports Personality Of The Year award, he won the Masters, helped Europe win the Ryder Cup & told an American Ryder Cup fan to "Go f**k yourself" he deserved it just for that.

I presume this exasperation is down to the England cricket team. They should apologise to Australian & English Barmy Army fans, forfeit the remaining two tests & come home, they're clearly not a side that can play test cricket at the highest level, a 5 day test is impossible with such a poor team.