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Andy Taggart

@millbrookandy.bsky.social

Liverpool born, husband, dad, Gdad, enthusiastic amateur birder and Uke player. Lover of brown beer, the great outdoors and grown up politics

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The Fall - Lay of the Land (OGWT)
YouTube video by citizen2 The Fall - Lay of the Land (OGWT)

@desdelboy.bsky.social belated posting for #FallFriday
A great song with possibly one of the strangest videos
youtu.be/1cVegCDlbkA?...

07.12.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love Peter Brook paintings - got a couple of prints adorning our living room wall

07.12.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NHS to pay 25% more for US drugs

That's an extra Β£3 billion a year

Why?

Because Brexit, taking us outside the EU, makes the UK weaker than if we were inside the the EU

02.12.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 10

Just not going to find a cuter bird

02.12.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He can now even quote the Telegraph which has declared Brexit to be an economic failure

02.12.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have stopped listening to her - apart from on a few pet issues, she never pushes back on the drivel spouted on her show

02.12.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going by recent polls its even less than that, surely it's time for the government to take a more robust approach to this creeping fascism

02.12.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Far from being an expert but did the Diplock courts result in significant miscarriages of justice akin to those that have happened in England with jury trials?

02.12.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing says I hate drug traffickers more than releasing a convicted major drug trafficker

02.12.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn those rapist hating Liberals upsetting their poor convicted felon supporting dad. What's the world coming to!

02.12.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure exactly what a wuss-weasel is but sounds spot on

02.12.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Another bitter injustice’ say Hillsborough families as report finds β€˜fundamental failures’ by police The report highlights complacency,

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
The BBC omit a key word in the second paragraph - before "killed" it should say "unlawfully" as per the report
So 97 people unlawfully killed and absolutely no-one held to account

02.12.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spot on for some senior BBC reporters

02.12.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You should ask your colleague Shelagh Fogarty to apologise after she repeatedly accused Rachel Reeves of lying

02.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#fallfriday
The last Briton on the street
He's in a radio fuzz
He's dead and beat
No longer reflects our daft fate

Photograph Kevin Cummins

youtu.be/1cVegCDlbkA?...

28.11.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Terry Waite Sez (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Terry Waite Sez (Remastered)

Sounded sour and frustrated with the pressure of his own life. #Fallfriday

28.11.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Life should be full of strangeness
Like a rich painting
But it gets worse day by day
I'm a potential DJ
A creeping wreck
#Fallfriday

28.11.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector

Never believe the Tories and their media.

26.11.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 286    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
Bottle of beer

Bottle of beer

Mine opened a short while ago

23.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know - Europe really needs to up its game to make the USA less crucial

21.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This really isn't rocket science - completely unprovoked country A invades country B who's to blame? Unless you're Trump or Farage the answer is pretty simple

21.11.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

21.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Farage and Gill

Farage and Gill

Absolutely and this is not a photo of Farage and Gill together

21.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never underestimate the stupidity of a Trump voter

21.11.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What policies exactly are people supposed to be fleeing? Improved workers rights? Extension of breakfast clubs for primary school kids? Increased funding for the arts? End of no fault evictions?

21.11.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People are going by what they see actually see happening to prices in the shops rather than his nonsensical lies.

21.11.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Quiet, piggy!"

#DonaldTrump

21.11.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5832    πŸ” 1338    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 67

You begin to wonder what the point of these reports are when you know there will be zero repercussions

20.11.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Been using peat free compost for years and the garden looks just as good as when I was using peat based compost esp when I mix in farmyard manure

20.11.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is no cure for their poison except to challenge its assumptions. Nothing is gained by pretending to agree with it, or mollifying it.

18.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 322    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

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