Republican members of Congress aren’t confused or deluded. They know they’re letting unhinged criminals destroy our democracy. They’ve simply concluded that it’s good for their political careers.

Five hours apart

The impressive northern border of Hadrian's Wall near The Sill, Northumberland, for #RomanFortThursday 📷My own, May 2025

‘Beside the river’ The Stream, 1976 Artist: David Palmer

What. The. Fuck. #r4today #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Stonehenge

Thursday.

Morning #FilmNoir fans!

That's why ramping up the anti-migration rhetoric was so disastrous for the Government. All they did was raise the salience of their opponents' argument while doing nothing to solve the root issue. Especially when combined with actually *cutting* benefits and support for people in deprivation

Dog and Cat Love 🫶

Thursday

😡This is a scandal Our Freedom of Information request reveals £6 million to be spent on Deloitte + Addleshaw Goddard to advise government on new PFI What about Labour's manifesto promise? "The NHS will always be publicly owned and publicly funded" ⁉️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Unfortunately, there's not a poster online for it, but I've just learnt - courtesy of the brilliant Kim Newman - that, in 1972, the cinema release of Mutiny On The Buses was a double bill with Jess Franco's Castle of Fu Manchu! #FilmSky

Bond will be a fresh-faced British actor.

Me at any social situation involving a buffet #foxfrens

One for @jonreed.bsky.social

Scott Monument railway poster, c.1950

Why I am going to see far more concerts now in smaller venues, part 85. That Alexei Sayle routine about seeing a dot on a stage five miles away: 'It says on the ticket MICHAEL JACKSON but it might as well be MICHAEL HESELTINE'

In Memoriam Angelo Muscat 24 September 1930 – 10 October 1977 Age 47 Maltese born actor Most famous as the silent Butler in The Prisoner Was also in Doctor Who and a BBC adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Also appeared in The Beatles' TV movie Magical Mystery Tour

They REALLY want to go with this line?

🚨 Govt is paying Deloitte £3m to advise on using public-private partnerships for new neighbourhood health centres. 👉 This is public money, being used to ask private firms whether we should privatise. 📰 Scan QR for more info FOI by @weownit.org.uk

This is the opening song on my recent album ‘Amazing Things’ it’s called ‘Nobody You’d Know’, I hope you like it. The album has had some good reviews and can be bought from hefnet.com vimeo.com/1072991386

They've lost the 9yos

Barred Owl (Strix varia): This 63cm (25in) Owl species is native to eastern North America and has also expanded it's range out to the west coast where it is regarded as invasive. Terrific photo of a Barred Owl taken by Maranda Mink in Canada. #barredowl #owl #bird #nature #wildlife #owls

Boris Johnson tells The Sun that Reform are a threat to national security because "they are on record as saying that NATO provoked Putin's aggression" against Ukraine. Very true. In other news, here's how Boris Johnson responded when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2016

A huge congratulations and thank you to 15 year old wildlife photographer Shelby Grant, whose stunning badger photo has been selected as the front cover of our 2026 calendar! :) You can get your copy here: protectthewild.shop/products/pro...

Berkshire's forgotten hillfort, Perborough Castle, crowned with golden trees. #HillfortsWednesday

Danny Thompson RIP The Pentangle “Light Flight” youtu.be/2tyVezuUtCA?...

Details on the upcoming ‘James Bond’ film • Denis Villeneuve will start casting next year • Will be a ‘fresh faced’ British actor likely in his late 20s or early 30s • It could be an origin story about how he got recruited to MI6 and attained 007 status • Aiming to release in 2028

Tom Baker messing around with his waxwork at Madame Tussauds. #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

How many times does this shite have to get debunked?

Got distracted this afternoon. Had a play with this gem, its a favourite in the stash Todays #RetroTech Seeburg Rhythm Prince - Analogue Drum Machine Mid 60s, superb Electromechanical design, typical of Seeburg. Lots of Jukebox Tech inside 110v, Tempo, Volume, RCA Jack Output, about 60 years old

This Day in Buster…September 24, 1923 Buster Keaton’s hit movie, “Three Ages" has its general U.S. opening. #oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilm

For every £100 of electricity you are paying £25 which is being extracted as profit. This is on top of the costs of abandoning zonal pricing in Scotland, and paying for infrastructure to send additional electricity out of the country. Scottish consumers paying the highest bills in Europe.

I don’t know why she’s leaving, Or where she’s gonna go, I guess she’s got her reasons, But I just don't wanna know, Cause for twenty-four years I've been

"the autism problem" "the migration problem" "the trans problem" Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

The economics of Farage/Johnson/Trump, do you see where this is going?.

Danny Thompson RIP He's played with The Pentangle, Kate Bush, Everything But The Girl, ABC, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Rod Stewart, John Martyn, David Sylvian, T.Rex, teh Thunderbirds theme, Peter Gabriel oh god all sorts

A mid-day pick me up! If Lady Liberty hasn't given up on us, then we've got this. #SheShed

I didn’t understand a word of this until I imagined Peter Davison’s Doctor breathlessly rattling it out at high speed while simultaneously trying to defuse a bomb, and then it made total sense.

Enemy of the rational world. The Guardian is right... so now reconstruction formally begins. It'll be interesting to see what (new) alliances emerge, and how the US adjusts to slowly becoming ever more marginalized. The harm Trump's done is likely irreparable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Child poverty in Scotland is lower than 30 years ago and falling, unlike the rest of the UK. But there is much more to do - by working together, we must deliver more joined-up services for families, when and where they need it. This is what Whole Family Support is all about.

Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025) ❤

Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

one day this korg-only synth album will happen

Kushal Sureka and wife Preety, moved to UK January 2020 to work as chartered accountants. In past 5 years they paid £100,000 in tax (Farage & Tice used tax havens to avoid paying UK tax) contributing to society & have indefinite leave to stay They’re more valuable than 2 tax dodging millionaires🤷🏼‍♂️

NEW: The SNP have called for Keir Starmer to order a full inquiry into the allegations that his top aide broke the law by hiding £700k in donations Morgan McSweeney was in charge of Labour Together when it was fined over its handling of donations www.thenational.scot/news/2549059...