Duncan Field

Album release anniversary today…

Released June 25. 1984

Prince - Purple Rain

#albumanniversary #vinylsky #nowspinning #nowplaying
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look, if people are starving, they really should try eating cake

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Nigel Farage says first thing he would do as PM if he won a GE would be to remove UK from the ECHR

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights

That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.

THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

What makes you think they don't want to do the big things to fix the country? It's only been 9 months and while I haven't agreed with every decision they've made and their PR/comms has been terrible, they have already made a positive difference in fairly challenging circumstances.

This is how Kent County Council spends its money.

They could even employ Eric (now Lord) Pickles to lead it, since he has a long history of destroying local government.

I think current ministers are terrified about it for that very reason.

Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

Bannon the latest in the “Britain doesn’t manufacture anything” brigade. It’s a lazy trope you hear repeated in the media a lot.

In fact the UK remains the 8th or 9th biggest manufacturer in the world. 10% of our GDP with some of the most advanced manufacturing anywhere.

Bluebells flowering in the woods

Roll out the blue carpet

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

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🇫🇷 President Macron has just addressed the nation. It was a good, clear-eyed & powerful speech. Quick summary (1/5):

Oh in that case it was definitely a full on Nazi Hitler salute

Full statement by Lord Watson and Prince Harry outside the court today

Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week

My message to Zuck

Greenland/Denmark, Canada, UK and EU are all under threat from the new US administration.

It really is that simple - and Europeans need to wake up to this reality quickly.

It's hard to see NATO surviving Trump's term if this is at all serious. As I said at the time, supposedly "pro-NATO" and "pro-Ukraine" British Conservatives supporting Trump were obviously deranged.

And of course: The Tories who failed to implement those recommendations are still pushing for a national probe to "go beyond previous inquiries and focus specifically on the institutional and political failings that enabled the systematic and barbaric attacks to take place." Badenoch announced in the past hour the Tories will propose an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing Bill on Wednesday for a full national inquiry. It's a pitched battle with Nigel Farage to see who can get the most retweets from Musk on the issue, and at the moment the Tories look to be winning — even if Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ends up with the cash prize

useful summary via Politico

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Fog in the Field

Mohamed Salah has a goal every 131 minutes for Liverpool. The best ratio in Liverpool history.

Also, this is just "they need us more than we need them" in slightly different words. He's just phoning in the Brexity unicorns now 🦄

Mind blowing stuff

An open letter to the BBC Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

With Farage back on Question Time last night...

...here is your reminder that Farage was on BBCQT a record-breaking 35 times before he became an MP.

And, further, that the panellist selection on BBCQT has been heavily slanted to right-wing think tanks and commentators over the years.

Massive away win for the little fella.

The Telegraph's current recipient of the Katie Hopkins unpaid internship, brings her usual light touch to the debate, quoting Layla Moran MP. "@CharlotteCGill “the hard work starts now” What’s that? State-sanctioned murder? Quote @LaylaMoran 1h I’m delighted that the bill has passed. But the hard work starts now. This has been an excellent debate. I’m glad it will continue. 330-275"

The rights of the terminally ill vs the inanity of the terminally shrill.