Mike Harding

Gallops

A print (stolen from my partner Clare Caulfield) of a stylised New York City scene. Taxis trundle past shopfronts and tall buildings, figures stand at traffic lights. The original was done in watercolour, pencil and printmaking techniques, it is beautiful and I’m well proud of her (A) for making this and then (B) battling the thieves who are stealing it by selling prints, phone cases and other naff items and passing it off as their own.

My partner has had a truly rotten couple of weeks discovering that her beautiful artwork has been stolen & sold by sellers (a print we purchased to do detective work👇🏻) on Amazon, Temu, Redbubble, Etsy & others.

Please visit her own Etsy shop & cheer her up www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Clar... Thanks 🙏🏻

He’s got heel spurs.

A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that.
Don’t be that voter.

Most people in England & Wales are not Christian, and it’s axiomatic to a free society that religious beliefs - or the lack of them - are irrelevant to civic participation. Britain is a pluralist, not a Christian, society; and this is one more reason to fight Reform UK.

New free to read substack - you pay nowt…https://mike567.substack.com/p/why-everything-has-turned-to-shite

The Board of Peace!

Correct. No other explanation. He really does seem quite gutless.

Heptonstall, west Yorkshire, photo by Michael Ryan.

Amen. So far it seems Starmer has insisted that though Russian interference is being investigated - the remit does not include Brexit. Ridiculous and suspicious.

He’s been arrested for fraud and misuse of his office not for sexual abuse of minors.

The (white)US is about 300 yrs old. The GB Empire lasted some 200. ( E India co to Partition of India) so don’t lecture me on Culture. India was the most powerful trading nation on Earth until GB invaded. Cf Dalrymple ‘ The Anarchy ‘

A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a man out walking in the countryside with his dog. Muddy tracks in fields lead towards a leafless tree in a hillside, the man and his dog pal in silhouette against a cloudy white sky. The branches of the tree hang over the landscape against a gloomy grey backdrop, crows in flight making their way home to roost. A cold and wintry scene, it makes you want to be indoors with a nice cup of tea.

No more feeling anxious about whether the originals of my Woman in Black illustrations are too expensive, I’ve been in such a worrisome mood recently.

I think they’re pretty good value.

This is an unpublished illustration I made.

£100 plus P&P

Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com to purchase.

He’s a chemical engineer that got lucky. Not a genius, not a great contributor to the sum total of human happiness any more than other “kings of industry”

We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out.

They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.

I get why Matt posts this nonsense every day, outrage pays.
None of this is on the current government.
Open borders? Brexit.
Soft-on-crime chaos? Tories.
Highest taxes since the 1940s? Tories.
Shafted pensioners? Tories.
Farmers driven to despair? Brexit.
Hotels for migrants? Brexit + Tory failure.

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

Martin Davies (@martindavies631844)

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Not only dead right - but URGENT!!

Jim nails it again.

When will the USA get rid of the medieval court that is now the executive of what seems no longer to be a democracy?

It brings out the worst in people. So much blind hatred and lies. Particularly re grooming gangs. One fool stated that close on a million girls had been raped by them. Some of the stuff is from Putins bots - a lot of it is home grown.

Me and Genevieve have been married 4 yrs. to other people😇😇😇

Histoty will show how Labour was destroyed by 1 means testing pensioners heating allowance, 2 the Burnham sour milk fiasco and 3 Mandleson / Epstein. (The world knew Mandy was a crook.)MorganMcSweeney couldn’t read the room if it had been papered by Janet & John. Labour - Gorton? Sadly I doubt it.

Yes. It’s both frightening and depressing.

I just stumbled back into X and now feel I need to shower. Like Germany 1936 it’s full of Nazis who don’t understand that its the guys who come in on the private jets that have ruined this country, not the people in the rubber boats.

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre Grafter vs Grifter: Green Party Plumber Smashes By-Election Rival!

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Thank you @robespierre1794.bsky.social 👏

The Art of the English Murder Apologies to George Orwell

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Said it outright.

To mark St Brigid’s Day, the oldest Irishwoman in Liberia, Sr Ann Kelly presented a St Brigid’s cross to the youngest Irishwoman in Liberia, Maeve Begley. Today we celebrate the legacy of courage & compassion that has been passed down through generations of women in Ireland. Irish Embassy, Liberia.

He’s got the eye. Best wishes for his future.