www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - Getting really frustrated that Labour are going more right-wing on immigration. I want leadership in the other direction. I want the Gov to say Stop. Currently ashamed that my country is sliding Right to this degree and disappointed that my Gov is chasing lies.

So, still listening the the Revolutions Podcast, currently on Series 8, pretty successfully hooked. So, when you’re in a quiz and the question is what year was the French Revolution, the answer can only be “Which one?”

Just finished watching all the series of “Bones” and looking for a familiar boxset to reignite my hope, so I am settling back into Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom”, which always restores my faith, right from the cold open. Highly recommended. Here comes Will McAvoy on vertigo meds….

Still addicted to the Revolutions podcast. I’ve just finished listening to my 4th revolution (English, American, French & Haitian). Humans do truly horrendous things to each other when civilisation goes to hell. I really don’t think we are that far evolved, just a bad year from murderous chaos.

@daraobriain.bsky.social Wow, we just left your show in Eastbourne. You are an amazing story teller and you had us on the edge of our seats. Great show, but also I want to give you a massive hug for going on that journey. Thanks for sharing Dara. Just Wowzers xxxx

The thing with being obsessed with podcasts, listening chronologically, is when I get a new show, I listen to all the backlog before falling back into my regular timeline - OCDish behaviour. I have discovered “Revolutions” podcast. Now fascinated by English Civil war and American original colonies

Sit Rep Podcasts 11thMay2020 - Starting to discuss the secondary school kids won’t be back in school until Sept 2020, but nurseries & some primary years could be back soon. Social distancing won’t be possible there. Still a belief that immunity is gained permanently after a single infection.

Sit Rep Podcasts 11thMay2020 - lockdown rules were being relaxed, depending on the “R number” but asked to stay off public transport if poss, but BJ’s Gov didn’t work it through with the devolved leaders in Scotland and Wales. You could now sit on a park bench with someone you don’t live with.

Sit Rep Podcasts 5thMay2020 - Chem companies are urging people not to ingest bleach, thanks DJT. Emergency hospitals are looking like they weren’t needed(yet). The Isle of Wight is testing the new NHS COVID app. A lead of the Gov Sage group resigned for breaching lockdown rules.

Sit Rep Podcasts 1srMay2020 - BoJo back to work in No10. Rumours were running around the health of the North Korea leader. We’re clapping Thursdays at 8pm for healthcare workers. Vaccine testing was underway. Captain Tom is doing his laps of his garden. Trump Covid guidance is all over the place

Just heard this quote for the first time today and it sings to me. I will live this everyday

Just done a long car journey which gave us the chance to listen to the fascinating podcast “We Have Ways of Making You Talk” and some of their mini-series on D-Day. Really well done Al Murray and James Holland #wehavewaysofmakingyoutalk

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

Read Amanda Grange’s Mr Darcy’s Diary in 2 days - to be clear, Elizabeth’s Mr Darcy, not Bridget’s Mr Darcy. Haven’t lost myself in a book that intensely for a while. Would have slowed down the family bits at the end, but otherwise a book I was reluctant to put down and sad to finish

Just finished reading “The Colour of Time” by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral. Fascinating worldwide walkthrough the historical context behind recolourised photos, making linkages between events as I had never read before, through daily life and drama 1850-1960. Really worth it if you can get it.

Sit Rep Podcasts 26Apr2020 - Covid is everywhere. BoJo is out of hospital. Trump just recommended bleach to fight the virus. Death rates are insane. PPE is a rare thing. Lockdown mental health concerns are foreseeable. Air is cleaner. People are discovering they can WFH pretty well, except with kids

Hi Bluesky. I tend to post about history and my podcast listening. I am way way way behind chronologically, so currently at the crazy days of April 2020. Maybe you get nostalgic, maybe you roll you eyes…