I can thoroughly recommend listening to the two most recent episodes of Quiet Riot. These take a sometimes comical, sometimes angry, always relevant, look back over the year with regular presenters, @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social plus @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Hopefully burned some Christmas food! Central #parkrun in Plymouth.

This morning, I am off to Central #parkrun in Plymouth. It looks like it will be dry but cold.

Christmas Day means parkrun day. I went to PlymValley which is my closest. Some deer were out and about on my journey down to the valley and I got some photos. It was lovely to see my friends, Nicola and Rob, after the event to exchange greetings and to grab a couple of photos. #parkrun #devon

Who on here is parkrunning tomorrow morning? I will be at Plym Valley in Plymouth with some friends. How about you? #parkrun

Another one to file under "This is NOT normal behaviour by a supposed democracy and ally". This isn't about censorship, if it was the US would be sanctioning Russian and Chinese government figures who really are suppressing free speech. www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)

Just noticed that “The Heroes Of Telemark” is on BBC 2 just now. Always takes me back to a TA Bounty Camp in 1982 somewhere in the East Ridings of Yorkshire when this was our one and only film offering.

Tom Cleverley has predicted there is plenty more improvement to come from Argyle's 13-goal top scorer Lorent Tolaj after the Swiss striker completed the first EFL hat-trick of his career in the 5-1 defeat of Doncaster Rovers. #pafc

Back to parkrun in Central Park for the first time since March. Been busy touring other park runs since then. I was 211th out of 480 but when adjusted for age grades, I was 123rd. That sounds better! 😊 #parkrun

Heading back to Central parkrun in Plymouth today for the first time since March. Too many people in my opinion for the location and I usually set off way too fast at this one. Wish me luck! #parkrun #plymouth #devon

Not ever calling the Gulf of Mexico anything other than that either, FYI.

Turning Point USA and America’s Jugend….

Remember how they said we needed Brexit to save our fishing fleet? The number of fishing boats operating out of Hastings has decreased from 60 in 2016 to 16 today. Brilliant!

His mother was an immigrant. His wife is an immigrant. His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants. Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.

I had set myself a distance target of 1,000km to run in 2025. This morning, I passed that target. #running #oldermenrunning

I bought gym shorts online from Castore. They use Evri for delivery. Evri received them last Thursday at my local delivery centre. Since then: radio silence. Three enquiries to Evri via their useless Bot have failed to elicit a response. Two to Castore also result in silence. 🧵1/2

🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.

People of the UK: you might want to rethink you travel plans.

Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron. WAIT - I think I see a pattern.

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

The Trump administration's foreign policy strategy attacks allies including the UK & has been enthusiastically greeted by the Kremlin. Last month, the USA announced a 'peace deal' the Kremlin had written. And in the UK, the media is full of people still wibbling about 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

I’ve had blokes telling me they could easily do what I do, many times. But this…

Listen to this American still working 40 hours a week when he's 88 because his wife got sick and he had to sell his house. This is what they want to do in the UK.

Seems appeasing Trump is going to cost the NHS (and us) £3bn a year. At some point we need to wake up to the fact that the USA is not much of a friend and we were much better off more aligned to Europe. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.

MAHA my ass.

Kash Patel who, as Congressional witness, refuses to answer questions from Democrats and insults them now wants Dems to answer his questions. What a chump.

My running drills today were done around Home Park Stadium so that I could visit the club shop afterwards. #pafc #running #plymouth #devon

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

Random Argyle #pafc 🇳🇬

NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in. Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

Four laps and a bit added on. Now I am officially knackered!

US President Donald Trump has assailed Democratic politicians who told members of the US military they must refuse any illegal orders, calling them traitors who could face execution

Does he even own a suit?

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Ah yes, the economic Golden Age of Trump where grandma goes without.

So what does Trump’s u-turn on releasing the Epstein files mean? Has the DOJ now finished cleaning them up?

Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right? www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...

The far right has never been patriotic in any country where they've set up their stall destroying all that is good In past lives before borders, nationalists were ultra religious devil smiters, hate makers and witch takers. Their only intent is to wield power and control - most often violently.

Today's parkrun was Tamar Lakes. Another trip out with my running buddy Cheryl to what was a new location for us both. This is the first parkrun I have done which is in two counties at once! Half is in Devon and half is in Cornwall. Are there any others that do this? #parkrun #devon #cornwall

It this really isn’t it?

After giving it some thought, I am going to extend my parkrun tourist streak this week by slogging my way up to Tamar Lakes on Saturday morning. Has anyone here done that on? The weather should be dry although I expect it to be rather damp underfoot. #parkrun #running #devon #cornwall

To be very clear - questions of whether Epstein provided compromising information on Trump to Putin - which then in turn explains Trump’s dangerous subservience to Putin - is back on the table.

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Fun fact: Today is the 1 year anniversary of Farage's foreign national girlfriend Ferrari buying his house. With unexplained wealth. That should be investigated...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?