Jim Easterbrook

Many years ago I landed face down on the footpath at the side of the road. My cycle helmet was noticeably thinner at the front than before. Even with the helmet I felt woozy and was seeing bright lights for a while. Without it things might have been a lot worse.

As @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social said 'The story has turned into being about 2 bad boys, Mandy and Andy, and not about an elite group of men creating a den, cut-off from the real world where they could behave as they want - which was about corrupt finance and brutalising women.' #Epstein

Had a fun afternoon at www.novelty-automation.com today with a couple of chaps I was at university with. Tim Hunkin (who I hugely admire) was there fixing one of the machines but I felt unable to talk to him.

In another timeline Starmer wouldn't have appointed Mandelson and the Murdoch press would have ragged on him for a year for his diplomatic ineptitude, pissing off Trump needlessly, and then quietly forgot about it when Mandelson turned up in the files,

I don't think I've ever had any form of anti-tetanus vaccination. Yet another of those things I ought to get around to I suppose.

Phwoar. Would you just LOOK at the spandrels on THAT. (By which I mean of the iron and glass canopies on Skipton rly station, designed by Trubshaw for the Midland Railway. Long-time fan, here.)

Braverman says she's "come home" to Reform Ltd. Does she not realise how many Reform supporters would tell her to "go home".

#bbcpm Farridge does seem to attract a lot of traitors.

Is there anyone on Trump's "Board of Peace" who isn't a criminal?

Copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand.

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Narcissistic personality disorder, cognitive decline, and sole unchecked authority to authorize the use of US nuclear weapons is certainly a bracing combination.

Some people don't yet realise that the Nobel peace prize has been totally worthless ever since they gave it to Kissinger.

I haven't listened since it stopped being entertainment.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) saying Trump’s threatened new tariffs on wine imports could personally benefit him because he’s also in the wine business. Below the text is a photo of four bottles of wine with large “TRUMP” labels.

I'm old enough to remember when Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest.

An image captured from ALL THAT MIGHTY HEART (1963)

ALL THAT MIGHTY HEART (1963)

I'm sure Farridge is claiming enough MP's office expenses to pay for someone who can "do computers". If not, maybe one of his generous donors could provide someone.

#bbcpm I do hope we won't be subjected to long extracts from that "speech". Or short extracts.

All done, except for labelling the jars. I think I first made #marmalade in 1992, so I've sort of got the hang of it now. Stirring a seething pan of boiling marmalade is as close as I'll ever get to being an alchemist.

Today is #Marmalade making day for me. One batch will provide all the nutrients this bear needs for the next year.

I do, of course, delight in all the lovely aurora pictures I'm seeing on my timeline today, but why oh why oh why is it always cloudy where I am when auroras are forecast to be visible in southern England.

Until a decade or so ago I had not realised that democracies were so vulnerable to being taken over by enemy countries. All they need do is to get their proxies to win elections.
I think that's a hard problem to fix.

#bbcpm Starmer's excessive appeasement of Trump is looking more ill-advised every day.

I assume Mr Brohiri is not a hedge fund manager.

Serial rail fare evader faces jail over 112 unpaid tickets Charles Brohiri pleaded guilty to travelling without buying a ticket a total of 112 times.

Example B
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hedge fund manager 'in £42,550 train fare dodge' A senior city executive is believed to have avoided £42,550 in train fares after exploiting a loophole and only paying a third of the cost.

Compare and contrast.
Example A
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Is there anything more pointless than "punishing" someone for "plotting" to leave the Tory party by throwing them out of the Tory party?

He does have all the best lines in Galaxy Quest. One or two of which I suspect weren't in the script.

#bbcpm In the first episode of HHGTTG Ford buys six pints of beer for under a fiver. And the barman is delighted when told to keep the change.

We had a black and white dog and my Dad used to joke that we got it because the licence was cheaper

I'd rather see proof of his mortality. And soon.