On this day in 1964, The Beatles made their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The programme was watched by an estimated audience of 73.7 million.

Do nearly 1 in 20 over-50s in Northern Ireland suffer from PTSD?

New research says 4.74% are living with PTSD right now, and almost 60% say their worst trauma is Troubles-related.

Understanding the facts matters.

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A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

The famous guitar riff for Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" originated from a "circus melody" warm-up played by guitarist Slash during a 1986 jam session.
While Slash played the riff in a joking manner, bandmate Izzy Stradlin recognized its potential, and the band built the song around it.

Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)
The Hand of Miles Davis, New York, 1986

The music of Sly & The Family Stone will keep us dancing to the music forever. Rest in power, Sly.

Why is there such a generational divide in views on sex and gender in Britain? | Susanna Rustin I believe the key lies in our respective life stages, says social affairs journalist Susanna Rustin

Why is there such a generational divide in views on sex and gender in Britain? | Susanna Rustin

‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free

‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online
The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

The image of frivolous women who've been "radicalised" (because they're too spoilt, passive and stupid to have their own politics) reminds me of how men spoke of feminists when I was growing up. Also of anti-suffragette propaganda. Laughable to be so sexist then call for a focus on "real issues"

Humblebrag: Akua Reindorf KC was my pupil. She has far outshone me in every way. Akua is a fab lawyer, and does great work as an EHRC Commissioner. Akua happens to be a disabled, gay, working class woman of colour who is a single mother. She's the Nemesis of the knit your own yoghurt wokerati.

McCartney Recorded: December 1969-February 1970 Producer: Paul McCartney Released: 17 April 1970 (UK), 20 April 1970 (US) Personnel Paul McCartney: vocals, guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, o...

20 April 1970:

McCartney, the debut solo album by Paul McCartney, is released in the USA.

"They were almost throwaways, you know? But that’s why they were included. They weren’t quite throwaways…"

See more:

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The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all

The reaction to women celebrating the For Women Scotland legal victory only serves as a reminder that while the law is the law our culture remains dead-set against women who say no.

My final column for the Observer.

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Le Ballon Rouge, ( 1956 ). Albert Lamorisse, 🎥.

“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

Kneecap salute Móglaí Bap's late father at Belfast show Kneecap paid tribute to band member Móglaí Bap's late father at a sold-out Belfast gig on Saturday night, hours after announcing his death.

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Short letter to Irish Times, detailing the grief felt by the letter writer at Christmas, after the loss of his wife.

What a letter.

YouTube video by hankschannel Who is Creating The Non-Human Army

Many thanks to readers for pointing me to this. It confirms that the four accounts I blocked over the last two days were all disbots—disagreement bots—programmed to stiffly, politely, but somewhat unreasonably disagree with benign assertions. A foreign op is possible, yes, but also a commercial one.

YouTube video by arfer Dusty Bluebells 1971 Belfast kid's songs.

Dusty Bluebells, a 1971 BBC documentary by Davy Hammond about children’s street songs and games in Belfast at a time when the city was being torn apart by political and sectarian violence, making the innocence of it all painfully poignant youtu.be/UdpXTFy3zlw?...

Adorno: "Lies have long legs, they are ahead of their time. The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power not only suppresses truth...but has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false..."

I am reading Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx and Rowland Barber and so far it's one of the best accounts of early 20th-century New York I have ever read.

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

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RIP John Prescott, you filed your copy quicker than any music journalist I’ve ever met amp.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

Guardian strike: Staff agree 48-hour walkout over Observer sale to Tortoise Guardian strike vote: Staff agree 48-hour walkout in protest at proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media

700+ journalists at Britain’s only liberal newspaper(s) believe that something has gone so profoundly wrong in their own organisation that 93% of them have voted to go on strike
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