Rick Walton

Thanks to everyone (especially @adambarnett.bsky.social) for the suggestions. There were so many pro-Putin statements by Farage, we turned them into a Griftmas Advent Calendar bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Blatant #whitesupremacism. Oppose & rebel.

He is not well.

If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.

*May also be targeting these/that gig*...

#HillfortsWednesday & we just put out a new episode on the hillforts of Cornwall! >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0P...

This is the beautiful Bury Down enclosure, with a much fainter but still visible outer bank, south east of Bodmin

Michael Cheval (Russian, born 1966)
Discord of Analogy, 2014
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP

Brilliant piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on why the Nigel Farage racism allegations matter.

If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Three sessions in to a new #cricket season. Well, the coaching bit. Fabulous.

Should probably do it for a living.

#pathway #coach

Top work!

Goodish finish looked likely, to #Stars #Scorchers. But late errors or misjudgements from decent batters gift it to the home side. 5 wkts lost, for 25? Can't be competitive, doing that.

#WBBL

#Wolves #United as inept as you'd expect. Home team should be 5-down but no. This is #ManchesterUnited, playing against the worst team in history, without a central striker... & offering the customary gifts. 1-1.
#Amorim should withdraw #Mbeumo #Mount #Amad to make a point about *standards*. Can't.

Outside chance I’m biased but #PowerChords is good & still plenty time to get it before you-know-what. Tell your fave #indie #bookshop to push hard for it or cheat & buy on-line.

#books #music #punk #protest
#Christmas #sales 🎄🤓

www.amazon.co.uk/POWER-CHORDS...

Graphic with a bright blue sky and the London skyline at the bottom. A white stork is flying across the centre. Text reads: “Mayor of London. Great news. A breeding group of white storks will be resident in London for the first time in 600 years.”

Great news for London’s wildlife.

Proud to support this historic moment through my Green Roots Fund.

Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources Concerns over recording of meetings at coordination centre excluding Palestinians that was set up to provide support for Trump’s Gaza plan Israeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions. The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”. Continue reading...

Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources

Two HUGE chances for #Shaw. (Personal view? Over-rated, but hey-ho). #City should be 2-up.

#WSL #LeicesterCity #ManchesterCity

Hey @cerysmatthews.bsky.social
One final attempt at nobbling you. Think you would like my new book on growing up through punk. Happy to send you one.

#PowerChords #punk #protest
#music #books

Don't mind #Archer manifesting dislike of #Smith and #Aus. Use that contempt; control it.

#Eng #ashes25

You should! 💥🎸

Reminder that goddess of boogaboog Ms. @TimWhitleytimw1 curated a #PowerChords Tribute #Playlist in my honour.
1. Awww, shucks.
2. Go listen.

#music #books #punk #newwave

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Tt...

Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...

Hunger strike in British jails and no one bats an eyelid.

Please let’s get the word out.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

Almost one of those 0-0 massacres, with #Liverpool almost light years ahead. But #Wirz again getting plenty touches for no impact, & the reds not clicking around the penalty box, means some of us are almost snoozing on the settee. Half-time.

#Leeds #PremierLeague #analysis 🤓

#Salah to #Saudi, soonish?

#Liverpool #Leeds #football
#analysis 🤓

Mariners. Nolton. Emporium for #books. & *everything*…

#Pembrokeshire #Christmas
#sales 🤓

#Starc bowling pretty much flat-out, at #Stokes & #Brook. Great sight.

#Ashes #Aus #Eng

I kid you not. Power cut(s). But laptop alive, on battery. No sound as #Eng inevitably falter. Meanwhile I have just finished #Hamnet. I am genuinely a bit tearful.

#Ashes #trauma
#books

Absolutely. Aware of the fillum... not sure how bothered I am, about that. The book is tremendous. Back into now, whilst Eng (probs) capitulate...

Alternative plan will be to turn sound down (& barely look) & finish off #Hamnet, which I have devoured in two days.

#books #Ashes #trauma