Ed Mortimer

Disaster. Nestlé giving up.

A Night Full of Ghosts

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Time for my annual recommendation of beautiful festive song A Night Full Of Ghosts by @smalltownjones.bsky.social
Link to sp*tify but you should try to buy the album Sky Down To The Ground - treat yourself!

My first all-ages book. This one's special.

Not really very slow by historical standards.

I did a Freakzone for BBC Radio 6!
Availible on BBC Sounds for the next 29 days...

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Reveries & Ritual: A British Solo Acoustic Guitar Primer Drawing on the music of John Fahey and Bert Jansch, the new generation of UK solo guitarists is maintaining—and expanding on—tradition

Thanks a bunch to Robin Murray and @bandcamp.com for featuring me and some good buds of mine on their recent Bandcamp Daily piece on British fingerstyle guitar. Much obliged!

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Hadn't spotted you here. It's nicer.
Welcome.
Nearly time for my annual recommendation of A Night Full Of Ghosts...

Classic British film- great performances in this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.

A little girl in a Manchester department store is upset by doves in Santa's Grotto when one lands on her head, December 1954 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).

That's very much how i feel.

Gessler orders the arrest of William, but where is he?

🍎 WILLIAM TELL (1958) 10:30am #ConradPhillips #WilloughbyGoddard in 'The Hostages' #TPTVsubtitles

Great line-up today on Talking Pictures TV.

Just watched Stingray and now regretting having made plans for much of the day...

Marina
Aqua marina...

But if we raised the flag outdoors and it started raining, it was a matter of urgency and honour to take the flag down immediately. You NEVER left the flag up in the rain: it was disrespectful.
That's what i think when i see all the flags now: you're dishonouring the flag and the nation. Be ashamed.

When I was in the cub scouts, and later the scouts, raising and lowering the union flag were important start and end points for the weekly meetings...
1/2

What is the source of the mysterious missile attacks on Marineville?

Dive under the sea with... 🌊 STINGRAY (1964) 10am 'Emergency Marineville' on #TPTV

@dannythechamp.bsky.social
Top night out with Danny and the Champions of the World at Omeara, London.

@chrisrainier.bsky.social
Fascinating slot last night supporting @gweniferraymond.bsky.social at @ivyhousenunhead.bsky.social
Weird Hawaiian guitar and what Gwenifer Raymond described as a "psychotic guitar" unlike any other 6 string, the strangest tunings...
Do catch Chris if you get the chance.

In a wasps' nest there are lots of cells - too small for a wasp to fit inside. The pieces I have are all empty so what are they for? Storing food? Insulation?
#wasps

Why does Marco Rubio dye his hair? It looks quite unnatural.

Realistically, what are the chances of a(nother) putsch against Putin?

And if there were one, what chance it could be more effective than the aborted Wagner group coup?

The question is, was any part of the Telegraph article factually accurate?

Our event on the civil service fast stream will be starting in 45 minutes.

Tune into the livestream and submit your questions for our panel 📺❓ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/civil-...

Now playing: Flower Lady by Phil Odgers feat. Sid Griffin
From the album Ghosts Of Rock 'N' Roll.

2024 General Election 2024 General Election Results and Analysis from the Electoral Reform Society

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Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit

◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley

◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas

...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Also, who was the secret premier league footballer who used to write in The Guardian?

Whatever happened to Darren Tackle?

What's this, David, your motivational speech for the day?

I'm going back to the duvet...

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked! Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

I disagree with many of the choices in this list and with the ordering. But few list articles have made me happier- just knowing there is an 'Aimee Mann's greatest songs' list makes life better.