Pulp poetry.
In one of the lead features from the current issue, @jamesriding.bsky.social investigates the death of Joe Deacy, a 21-year-old man who was found unconscious on a driveway in County Mayo.
the-fence.com/justice-for-...
Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Munich Air Crash. It’s important to read about the story/understand its significance to Manchester, football and beyond. A while back I wrote this 8000 word article about it. Please have a read no matter who you support: gjfootballarchive.com/2025/02/06/t...
📚For a few brief decades, Birmingham had a bookshop scene that reflected the city back to itself: diverse, political, practical, trade unionist, academic and scientifically forward looking.
Whenever Trump faces serious legal peril, one thing he says is "if they can do this to me, they can do this to you".
What all those in the US should realise is that if they can do this to Minnesotans, they can do this to you.
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
Sound on… Best $15 I’ve spent in a long time. Happy 2026!
These are unsettling times.
Happy World Pasta Day to all those who celebrate.
Here's another clip to celebrate Cliff's 85th birthday. This one features him walking around Birmingham in his 1973 film Take Me High. Look out for brutalist landmarks like the Central Library (RIP), Alpha Tower and New Street Signal Box
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So Brummies aren’t left out.
Some great footage of #Birmingham 50 years ago.
Six days a week Fred Davis travels the eerily empty streets to run his business in the Vegetable Market.
This edition of Look Stranger was originally broadcast on BBC2, 28th November 1976.
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🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social
We are here in Birmingham today. Can't say I like the place.
30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...
True Bond. Pure class.
6 minute timeline cleanser #Queen
Here’s a short poem called ‘On Falling for a Meteorologist’.
Crafty friends The Divine Comedy have the most wonderful new song Invisible Thread. It’s lovely but also I’m in bits now. youtu.be/5VXSQQ5YDIU?...
Birmingham New Street to London Euston
Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone
These two train journeys are about the very worst and very best our transport network has to offer.
The latter train journey is one of the pleasant in the land.
The former train journey is horrific.
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
Remember what Scotland thinks of Trump. Janey Godley got into some “good trouble” back in the day with a sign that said it all.
Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
From Wikipedia, this quite wonderful pre-war poster.
"See Birmingham's charming suburbs by 'bus."
(Love the apostrophe before "bus".)
The Asphalt Path
A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.
In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.
And now for today’s climate forecast …
Gonna take this opportunity to bust a bit of a myth about the mobile phone network during 7/7.
The wider London phone network never went down. The Security Services, TfL and the Met Police all wanted it up.
But it DID go down briefly in the Square Mile. Due to a C&C issue nobody had spotted. /1
