Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

‘It’s changed me’: Jeff Goldblum says he has stopped eating meat after working on Wicked Actor said discussions about animal cruelty with director John Chu had led him to join Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in renouncing meat

Jeff Goldblum turned vegan after working on Wicked:

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Join #JackHargreaves as he takes us 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) at 8:30am #TPTVsubtitles

Very true indeed, Presidential pardon 👇

Mike Johnson refuses to swear in the new Congresswoman Grijalva from Arizona. She will be the final vote for the Epstein file’s release which Donald Trump desperately is suppressing. Johnson has a make believe excuse but it isn’t true.

Express rapped by IPSO over inaccurate headlines nine times in 2025 so far IPSO finds the Express website to have published "significantly" inaccurate or misleading headlines six times in the past three months.

The Daily Express has been fined 'nine times' so far this year by IPSO over inaccurate headlines but you would never know it.
When will the UK press be properly punished for deliberately publishing disinformation? #IPSOfail

BBC Radio 3
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins
A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

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Through the Night

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Susan Spain-Dunk, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Stephen Bell
Two Scottish Pieces for orchestra Op 54

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Felix Mendelssohn, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra & Renaud Capuçon
Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op 56 'Scottish'

It irritates me that a lot of the british media are using headlines like 'Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa' Completely over looking the rest of the poor bastards that live there who have lost everything.

YouTube video by Jagged Blue - Topic The New Colossus

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I think you can see the evident disgust on the part of much of the Irish political and media establishment and calls for "something to change" in the presidential election process as a desire to essentially discipline the electorate for how it voted

#Halloween memes, part 6.

#SeasonOfTheWitch
#GotherThanThou

Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor in The Birds (1963)

Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor in The Birds (1963)

Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor in The Birds (1963)

Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963)

The Birds (1963)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

YouTube video by Spitting Image BRAND NEW Prince Andrew album responds to allegations…

'Prince' Andrew Windsor releases new album:

youtube.com/shorts/h_lUS...

Petition: Referendum changing the UK from constitutional monarchy to a democratic republic We think there should be a referendum on the future of the monarchy & the type of government they want to be part of. Stay as a constitutional monarchy or become a true & secular democratic republic. ...

Petition to abolish the UK monarchy and replace it with a democracy:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Sinfonia (Cantata No 42, 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats')

I used to think Palestine was occupied by Israel. Now I realize most of the world is occupied by Israel.

YouTube video by Worthydeal Funny Video Shorts - Outragrageous Vintage British Retro Clips You Won't Believe 9

Out of touch judges:

youtube.com/shorts/X_bvi...

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Maurice Ravel & Julien Libeer
Sonatine (3rd mvt)

This spooky season, the scariest thing isn’t ghosts—it’s a wannabe dictator leading the world’s most powerful nation. 🕸️ If you don’t want to live in a dictatorship, volunteer to help pass California’s Prop 50. You can volunteer and make a difference from anywhere eve if you're not in CA! #YesOn50

No waste, all taste: Max La Manna’s comfort food pantry-raid recipes There’s little waste but lots of texture in this crispy rice with peanut–chilli crunch, toast loaded with charred broccoli and white bean smash, and a tasty tomato and lentil pasta bake

No waste, all taste: Max La Manna’s comfort food pantry-raid recipes

searching through my archive photography to establish a corpus for a project, and came across this

He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.

He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.

He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.

But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.

EUROSTAR GOES DOUBLE-DECK:
Eurostar confirms order for 30 new double-deck trains from Alstom, similar to TGV-M, with option for 20 more, in service from May 2031. The 200m sets can run to/from London as 2 x 200m with 1,080 seats.
(Another move in the Battle for Temple Mills...)

Ah the challenges of a modern world and digital exclusion.

Age Concern is campaigning for a more accessible world & we have written about it...

The cartoon 👇 may be funny, the reality not.