Jonathan Bennett

Kept underneath her bed with the rest, I assume?

YouTube video by Geoff Marshall The Greatest Gathering, Ever!

VIDEO - So, this is a bit special. I think I need to lie down for a week after three intense days of the events, AND! putting this together. Enjoy 😀👍

youtu.be/9K-e5Cr62vg

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

A reminder that BlueSky lets you add captions/subtitles to videos, as well as Alt text. Please remember #Deaf and #HardOfHearing people rely on these to understand videos. They're not just a "nice to have". #accessibility

Online Safety Act: "a little inconvenience is a small price to protect our children"

Asking people to drive responsibly where there are children: *tumbleweeds*

Case in point being red traffic signals.

We are a land of weasel-cheats. Racist, stupid weasel-cheats, too. That's all, really. The hypocrisy is mind-blowing.

iSocket: UK Power Cut Alarm And Freezer Power Failure Alert Device The first UK-ready power interruption alarm, since 2009. iSocket sends power cut alerts straight to your phone — ideal as a freezer power loss or failure alarm.

Short answer: not quickly and/or cheaply
Long answer: Does the UPS have any kind of data connection? You could use that and some kind of SMS API but it's non-trivial. Alternatively there are these things, but it's not cheap: www.isocket.uk/power-cut-al...

Back in the Dark Ages, when a 486 was a fast PC and computer magazines were thick enough to hold a fire door open, I was a tech journalist. I was constantly amazed by how bad some of the articles in competing magazines were - the writer clearly didn't know how computers actually worked.

Have fun! We all like different things, and I realised that looking at a bunch of static rolling stock in a very crowded yard probably wasn't my kind of thing, but obviously it does appeal to a lot of people. Great that they have this opportunity.

Yet another reason I'm not sad to be missing the whole event.

#MRDA

Facebook comment reading: "Is it possible to buy some Lynx Africa or a bar of soap in advance or will you be providing this to select guests such as those with tripods and A3 size backpacks, trolleys and whatever else they wish to bring from home for their one day out a year ?"

Downing Street refuses to clarify BSL stance amid inaccessible briefings No 10 has failed to say whether it has changed its policy on British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation of government press conferences, a day after Keir Starmer issued a second inaccessible statement in the space of a week.

No 10 has failed to say whether it has changed its policy on British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation of government press conferences, a day after Keir Starmer issued a second inaccessible statement in the space of a week.

Love this part of the world.

The irreplaceable John Peel at a mixing desk.

Magic Treat Brolly there. They'll be appearing live across the country next month. Now the latest from The Fall.

Fucking hell. This new version of Sgt. Pepper has taken a dark turn.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Well *someone* has to take over now Ozzy's dead...

...and kerbs of sufficient height for a game of kerby.

I say chaps. England appear to have won the footie.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

RIP Tom Lehrer, a seriously underappreciated genius. Poking fun at the idiots in power before many of us were even born.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

If I ever win the lottery I'm going to open a jam shop in Matlock Bath called Mrs Gibson's, decorated with Biscuit references (e.g. a portrait of Syliva Plath), but, and here's the kicker, employ a bunch of teenagers and not let them in on the joke.

Hello @zoefranklinld.bsky.social, as my MP I'd like you to read this whole thread to see how people are being manipulated into thinking people are angry about some things, but not about others. Clearly far more people at Trans Pride than at any anti-immigrant protest.

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

In "Legitimate Concerns" news.

41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.

For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Big Daves Gusset

If you know, you know.

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.

poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...

Folks! Am doing an update to my Request Stop map, not been updated for quite a while!

have any NEW Request stops come along recently, or have previous Request stops now become regular ones, do we know?

thanks all.