It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of Julie Pritchard, columnist for LeftLion and the founder of the original Nottingham Forest fanzine 'The Almighty Brian', who passed away after a short illness on 17 February 2026. π
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A great photo of Harold Larwood padding up before a net session during the 1932-33 Bodyline series. By no means a hopeless batsman, he scored his Test-best 98 in the series and in his first-class career overall scored three hundreds with an average of 19.91
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Marchβs Photo Challenge - βFavourite Placesβ.
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The #RAC have proved to be pretty useless, it took them 8 hours to reach my daughter's broken down car. That's a ridiculous length of time.
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By not reading the Daily Mail?
28.02.2026 11:10 β π 186 π 36 π¬ 1 π 0Reminds me of Monty Python and the Ministry of Silky walks π
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An amazing award-winning photograph by Darren Pateman as players in a 3rd grade game at Cessnock on October 19th 2002 realise how close to them the fire has come. Pateman was on his way to photograph the fire when he spotted the match in progress. The game went on.
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Some of the different architectural styles at Nottingham Trent University.
An interesting mix of architectural styles, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street. #Nottingham #NTU #photography
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𧱠Exploring "Byker Revisited"
In the 2000s, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen returned to Byker to photograph life in the Wall Estate that replaced the streets she showed in the 1970s.
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Reuters is out with a writeup of how their photographer Phil Noble got the picture of Andrew in the car
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Derek Randall recoils from a snake, 6th Ashes Test, Sydney, February 14th 1979. It was actually a rubber fake, lobbed behind Randall by Graeme Wood. Randall came out to bat at No.3 with England needing three to win, which they did by nine wickets to secure the series 5-1
Derek Randall recoils from a snake, 6th Ashes Test, Sydney, February 14th 1979. It was actually a rubber fake, lobbed behind Randall by Graeme Wood. Randall came out to bat at No.3 with England needing three to win, which they did by nine wickets to secure the series 5-1
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A nice documentary on photojournalist David Burnett. #photography
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You can always rely on Neil Young!
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This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.
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Wasteland wanderer: how Tish Murtha captured the beating heart of Tyneside
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Apparently this weekend there will be constant rane, hale, gails, drissle, thundre, litnin, hy tydes, tawnaydoes and frizzing colde..
Really bad spell of weather.
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
06.02.2026 07:14 β π 744 π 434 π¬ 52 π 64βEveryone involved pretends they had absolutely no idea.β Ian Hislop, Private Eyeβs editor, appeared on Tonight with Andrew Marr to discuss the Epstein files, and the cover the Eye ran in reference to the paedophile sex trafficker all the way back in 2011.
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Beestonians! Assemble! Sunday!
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Home Thoughts From Abroad....
My final offerings. Nottingham is well known as the rebel city. We celebrate, we protest, we display our art. We accept diversity.
My move to Minnesota meant that I still enjoy these magnificent traits.
Nottingham strong is Minnesota strong.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
Artwork depicting the execution by shooting of prisoners. The scene is set against a wall with fallen bodies on the ground, illustrating a historical event from Auschwitz
Black and white illustration depicting several people in a rustic setting, clearing rubble and debris. One individual in the foreground holds a shovel and wears a hat. A sign with the text 'Hurrah! Ich bin wieder da!' is also visible.
Sketch depicting a prisoners of Auschwitz at work.
3 February 1915 | Pole Jan BaraΕ Komski was born in Bircza. A painter; He arrived at #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles (no. 564).
He escaped on 29 December 1942, was imprisoned again (no. 152884), transferred to Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen & Dachau. He survived.
Obama is not mentioned in the Epstein files
Kamala Harris is not mentioned
Joe Biden is not mentioned
#SupportECHR
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Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, βOld Man Leedsβ 1965.
A Derbyshire councillor said βwe are not Nigel Farageβs chattelβ as he and nine Reform UK colleagues resigned from the party.
Source: Derbyshire Times
#UKPolitics
Vintage Brownie Hawkeye. Part of my vintage camera collection. #oilpainting #art
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A young child in a snowsuit marches in a protest while holding a hand drawn sign depicting Liam Ramosβ hat.
Taking this photo today absolutely broke me.
Downtown. Baltimore, MD. 2026.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
