Maureen Millar

I made this postcard move - Bembridge Windmill, Isle of Wight

Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

17-02-265

Dear Middle-Aged Moaners,

as a pissed-off bloke in his 70s, I deplore in the strongest possible terms your lazy assumption that all old people approve of Reform.

No. They are, like the Tories before them, like the tech bros ahead of them, a peloton of cunts.

Yours,

A STATE PENSIONER

Factory farming is the single biggest cause of animal cruelty.

We wont stop until we end it.

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world The most disturbing revelation so far

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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Yes, it’s bad times. Have to remind myself of Leonard Cohen’s There’s a crack in everything.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Andrew O’Hagan · Push Me Pull You: Creating the Beckhams In his best moments, David Beckham is a reverse Dorothy Parker, curving another déclaration folle into the back of the...

‘In his best moments, David Beckham is a reverse Dorothy Parker, curving another déclaration folle into the back of the net.

“We’re definitely going to get Brooklyn christened,” he said, “but we don’t know into which religion.”’

Andrew O’Hagan in 2024:

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Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

While purporting to care deeply about the funding of other organisations and the importance of free speech, Lord Young's FSU won't reveal who funds the er ... Free Speech Union

Excellent work from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...

‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’

Amia Srinivasan:
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Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...

‘Netanyahu’s abiding fear is not that peace can never be achieved but that it might be.’

Jacqueline Rose on her encounter with Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Once again Nigel Farage has been denied a knighthood. Still eligible for a white hood.

Keir Starmer: Stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals I just signed the campaign calling Keir Starmer to stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals

Sign & share to stop the US food the orange fascist wants to send here. #Brexit disaster.
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
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YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises Under Milk Wood (BBC)

Featuring some absolute banging actors, and filmed across various locations in Wales, England and the USA, I probably watch this recording of Under Milk Wood at least once a year. It’s the dog’s dangly dooglies.
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Just a little something for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to read when they sweep my social media if I mistakenly get on a plane to the States…

This is as good as everyone says. And putting the particular party to one side, I hope it might show there is appetite to read about local government more generally and that newspapers should invest in this. I’d read a weekly column portraying a different council each week…

YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025 Exclusive: More than 150 anonymous channels using cheap AI tools to spread false stories about Keir Starmer, study finds YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK. More than 150 channels have been detected in the last year that promote anti-Labour narratives, as well as outright fake and inflammatory accusations about Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025

‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry

‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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YouTube video by Lady Mia Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs - Fast Car Grammy Performance

Very few things as nice and heartwarming as Tracy Chapman's smile when she realises the Grammy audience are cheering for her song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfH...

YouTube video by JAGGL113 JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

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YouTube video by Canned Poo Joni Mitchell- Amelia live 1983

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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

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YouTube video by Paul Whitewick Why I Am No Longer Welcome HERE

Private security guards, tankerloads of water, and the Trump-supporting billionaire Steven Schwarzman

A brilliant short film from @paulwhitewick.bsky.social about his recent experiences walking on public highways around Schwarzman's 2,500-acre Conholt Park Estate:

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“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”

―from ‘The End’ by Samuel Beckett

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Meera Sodha’s recipe for za’atar roast vegetables with whipped feta | Meera Sodha recipes Toss spiced roast veg with creamy butter beans, fresh mint and zesty lemon, then pile it all high on a big platter

Meera Sodha’s recipe for za’atar roast vegetables with whipped feta | Meera Sodha recipes

the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair fashion shoot 'Hollywood 2016', with a load of A list actresses dressed in black sitting or lying draped around, looking moody, not smiling, a lot of skin on show, primped and sultry. Diane Keaton stands on the right at the back, grinning straight into the camera, also wearing black but in a long sleeved black coat, high neck and black wide brimmed hat. They were her own clothes. She looks like she was enjoying herself enormously.

I always loved this picture.