K M Flett

Parliament debates foreign interference in UK politics. No Reform MPs attended, but several turned up to a book launch on money laundering On 9th February there was a Parliamentary debate on foreign interference in UK politics in Westminster Hall. The debate came after a public petition calling for it received 114,000 signatures (many…

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10 years on. Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale February 14th 2016 I was at Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale on Saturday (14th February 2016) It has attracted some comment on social media and muttering elsewhere. In my view the idea of holdin…

10 years on to the day of one of the quintessential craft/indy beer events, Beavertown's 4th birthday at Tottenham Hale (14th Feb 2016) comes the news that Brewdog is for sale
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Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 Beard Liberation Front 14th February Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard…

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Brewdog for Sale: Results & Prospects Brewdog for Sale: Results & Prospects Those interested in indy beer (or craft as it was known) can hardly have missed a story that has been all over the media today. Consultants AlixPartners ha…

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The Sunday Times Rich List 2020-2025. The fortunes of Brewdog founders Martin Dickie & James Watt & Wetherspoons Tim Martin The Sunday Times Rich List 2020-2025. The fortunes of Brewdog  founders Dickie & Watt & Wetherspoons Tim Martin The media is very bad at history so while the Sunday Times 2025 rich lis…

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Prominent Scottish craft brewery enters administration Overtone Brewing Co entered the Scottish craft beer market in 2018 after head brewer Dan Miller and founder Bowei Wang opened the business in Yoker…

I'd missed this. This one makes me sad.

The Times on High Court decision on Palestine Action. Shabana Mahmood should stop playing to the political gallery & drop an appeal The Times is no friend of Palestine, Palestine Action or protest in general. However its Editorial on 14th February concludes that the High Court decision that a ban on Palestine Action was unlawfu…

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Saturday lunch at the Crofts, Roath. Pint of cask, cheese&onion roll, cat

The Guardian on Gramsci & monsters The Guardian has an interesting piece on a line from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Noting Gramsci’s words about the old is dying but the new cannot be born, morbid symptoms appear, it arg…

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No time for Reform's pro-Putin views(they share culture war perspectives) & I suspect that if push came to shove the Greens would end in a similar place to their European counterparts(i.e pro-NATO). I remain unimpressed however by Starmer's Captain Mainwaring impersonation

Never mind Dickens. We have Anthony Trollope to thank for the introduction of the pillar box, which meant that people could post their Valentines without the prying eyes of the postmistress.

Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 Beard Liberation Front 14th February Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard…

My Hairy Valentine 2026 @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social has shaved @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social in the vote for the most revered & best loved beard
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A World We Have Lost. The Victorian Post Office on Valentine’s Day Before the current commercialised Valentine’s Day, which dates from the 1950s, there was a peak in the nineteenth century. Ronald Hutton in Stations of the Sun notes that by 1825 the London Post Of…

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Photograph of family with Mrs Snoddy shaking hands with LCC officer

Happy Valentine's Day❤️. On this day in 1951, Mr and Mrs Snoddy, their two children and pet tortoise moved into a three-bedroomed flat in Gladstone House, the first residents of the Lansbury Estate in east London. We built 162,584 new council homes that year.

Valentine’s Day Cards: Victorian big business I’m not expecting any Valentine’s Day cards on Saturday and I’m not sending any. If I feel so motivated social media will do, although the cat prefers real twitter to the virtual …

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August 2025 Government loses Times letters page on Palestine Action ban; February 2026 ban found to be unlawful. Government unaware of the First Law of Holes August 2025 Government loses The Times letters page on Palestine Action ban; February 2026 ban found to be unlawful. Government unaware of the First Law of Holes The above is The Times letters page…

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. Government continues to ignore the First Law of Holes
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Wetherspoons Tim Martin backs Reform’s pubs ‘plan’ Tim Martin has form when it comes to Nigel Farage. He was to be found in a supporting role in Farage’s Brexit campaign. What Wetherspoons actually gained out of Brexit seems unclear but this …

Tim Martin is good at pubs & very bad at politics. There is a reason why most of the hospitality industry hasnt backed Farage's back of a fag packet plan to 'save' pubs. Reputational damage
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Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 Beard Liberation Front 14th February Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard…

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10 years on. Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale February 14th 2016 I was at Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale on Saturday (14th February 2016) It has attracted some comment on social media and muttering elsewhere. In my view the idea of holdin…

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Owen Jones on Palestine Action high court win | The Latest The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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10 years on. Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale February 14th 2016 I was at Beavertown’s 4th birthday event at Tottenham Hale on Saturday (14th February 2016) It has attracted some comment on social media and muttering elsewhere. In my view the idea of holdin…

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Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 Beard Liberation Front 14th February Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Jeremy Corbyn voted My Hairy Valentine 2026 The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard…

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Indeed it was in Cleveland, fortunately no more. It was certainly seen as strong at 5.6% but things have changed in that respect

The return of Thornbridge Imperial Stout Thornbridge have re-brewed the beer once known as St Petersburg on the Burton Union system at the original 7.7%. They point out that the original name, rightly, is no longer appropriate given Putin…

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I first drank Old Peculier when living in Saltburn(N.Yorks) in the second half of the 1970s. The Middle House in Marske by the Sea was a Theakston's pub. It was available in London in 275ml cans. Anyway time moves on

Wetherspoons Tim Martin backs Reform’s pubs ‘plan’ Tim Martin has form when it comes to Nigel Farage. He was to be found in a supporting role in Farage’s Brexit campaign. What Wetherspoons actually gained out of Brexit seems unclear but this …

Tim Martin is good at pubs & very bad at politics. There is a reason why most of the hospitality industry hasnt backed Farage's back of a fag packet plan to 'save' pubs. Reputational damage
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What's App is sometimes a conduit for interesting messages. It says a 'wide range' of Labour MPs have written to Shabana Mahmood suggesting the Government does not appeal the Palestine Action judgement (with picture of said letter). McSweeney's gone. A test for whether new times are in place perhaps

What a month. Mandelson, McSweeney, Moral Compass, all gone Visit the post for more.

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August 2025 Government loses Times letters page on Palestine Action ban; February 2026 ban found to be unlawful. Government unaware of the First Law of Holes August 2025 Government loses The Times letters page on Palestine Action ban; February 2026 ban found to be unlawful. Government unaware of the First Law of Holes The above is The Times letters page…

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. Government continues to ignore the First Law of Holes
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