Sarah Elizabeth Cox

In an interview with Bloomberg, Farage has said that Nathan Gill was "one bad apple" - unintentionally being accurate because he forgot the rest of the proverb.

I can't BELIEVE they don't do best out of three falls or something?! I do enjoy rooting for the little guys and the little guys are like 140kg though.

I REALLY want to do some kinda early '00s reality show style programme like Supersize Vs Superskinny where we get a bunch of modern boxers to do the 1880s boys diets and training regimes! It would be SUCH GOOD Youtube 😆 But possibly unethical...

Man that stunning yukata Hoss is wearing seems to be foreshadowing what could happen next. 🤗

Anyone in the UK still driving a Tesla or using Twitter is directly supporting homegrown fascism. Not some nebulous overseas concept; racist violence in this country. There is literally no excuse for it.

I walked ten marathons in a month (well, 24 days!) for Tommy's last June while on mat leave and I really struggled to get donations, tbh. It was fun to do, generally, I got really fit and listened to a lot of podcasts. Barely raised anything for the cause though. SO many pressures on people's money!

Particularly ironic in this case when the campaign is representing people who notoriously have a very difficult time finding employment, have some of the worst poverty levels etc. But yeah, they'd rather use AI than help an artist out with a little work.

Exactly. There are other scenes where the people in them have these sort of grotesque distorted faces. Mind blowing it has been used.

I know, right! This was produced by a very small charity campaigning for rights for a minority group in Wales, and then shared by a magazine on IG that represents that group. Several people underneath saying 'erm, we got artists, we do great art, why the hell you using AI?'. It only damages them!

It gets funnier the more I look at it, but that's not the POINT.

AI generated image of a woman writing in a notebook using both hands at the same time. Her left hand holds a pencil. Her right hand holds a pencil. Half of another pencil is sort of snapped in half in the middle of that hand. The fingers are delightfully bendy.

This is an image currently being used by a really worthy, important, campaign on Instagram - it's part of a clearly AI generated short animation full of similar awfulness.

Why. Why???!!!!! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

It does nothing to help the cause.

Don't have money to pay an animator/filmmaker? Don't do an animation.

Barley Men 🥹

Telegraph health writer Lauren Shirreff stands in front of Clacton Pier posing with some fish and chips for a story with subheading 'Nigel Farage's constituency has the lowest life expectancy of anywhere in Britain - can health checks really avert the crisis?'

Happy Thursday!

Raises a lot of good points, tbf, and has some great seagull fat-shaming in a picture caption.

I've never heard anyone describe Clacton town centre as 'quaint' before 😆

However, the McDonalds is a perfectly normal size.

www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

Son's nursery has just messaged to let us know that the babies will be having a photo taken with an owl next week. No particular reason.

Hah I do like this explanation (it's me, I'm the old geezer), but they don't advertise it at all! I don't know if Wetherspoons even KNOW you can read all the old newspapers in there for free 😂

Inside A Thousand Blows season 2 with Steven Knight Plus, creator Steven Knight gives us the low-down on what to expect from our return to the historical East End

OH yes. Season two - another six episode series - was shot back to back with season one in 2023! It was just announced the other week as airing on Disney/Hulu on January 9th next year (a little later than I'd been anticipating!) :)

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A 5ft 5 on a good day but VERY MUSCLEY 50yr old Stephen Graham, with tattoos on his chest and blood under his eye, boxes barefist with Malachi Kirby as Hezekiah Moscow, a much taller Black Caribbean man. Both men are shirtless. They're in a Victorian boxing pub.

❌ 28 years old
❌ one eye
✔️ muscles like iron
✔️ IMMENSE

Not bad, eh!

Stephen is, as always, incredible in A Thousand Blows, and just WAIT until season II.

I did try with the eye, eh.

Meet the real Henry 'Sugar' Goodson in my book, He'll mostly be fighting an old guy in a church.

Next year 👩🏻‍💻

"For weight and for hard hitting," said he, pointing to a man of some 28 winters, of immense build, with muscles like iron, and with but one eye, "I don't think there's a chap to equal Sugar Goodson. He'll stand in the centre of the ring and he won't budge an inch. He may not plant so many hits, but when be does get one in, then woe be to the chap who gets it." " Yes," continued my informant, placing his head on one side, and admiring, with the eye of a connoisseur, all the good points of "Sugar,"...

Jan 1884: a columnist for the East London Observer visited an unnamed boxing pub - likely the Blue Coat Boy or Blue Anchor - for the night, getting a tour of the top characters on the scene.

Here's his description of Henry 'Sugar' Goodson (the man who inspired Stephen Graham in A Thousand Blows):

Who….who are the other suspects?

A year ago they told us they had small animals coming in. A little petting zoo. I assumed rabbit, hamster? Then forgot all about it.

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My 11 month old is sat on a woman's lap, milk bottle hanging out his mouth, doing Reiki hands over a massive snake.

Son's nursery has just messaged to let us know that the babies will be having a photo taken with an owl next week. No particular reason.

I also genuinely like it! Double Espresso AND a Flat White in one cup for £1.81 in central London??? Yep.

Woke: Being an independent woman chilling in a pub alone

Broke: Making it a 'spoons

Bespoke: Wetherspoons with your laptop AND BNA UNLIMITED FREE ACCESS to 19TH CENTURY FIGHTS AND MURDERS 💪🏻

Screenshot of some of the online databases listed on the Barbican Library website here https://col.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/default/?rm=LENDING+LIBRAR0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7Ctrue

Something I only discovered a few years ago - free membership of the City of London's Barbican Library (you only need a UK address) gives you *remote* access to a great range of online resources - inc BNA (altho offline today) & other newspaper databases 😃
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/lib...

😯😯😯😯😯

I have never replied 'leather trousers required' to a lady on the internet before, I swear, but: leather trousers required 🥹

Ooh yes that makes sense!

Hah, you're welcome 😂 I've got a subscription at the moment so haven't checked if it still works since last year, but it had done for years, and in every branch I tried to use it in!

Black and white photo of badass looking Japanese jujitsu fighter Taro Miyake in white robe and poloneck type jumper, arms crossed, looking like he'd beat the shit out of you in 5 seconds flat.

Iris Miyako, also reported as Miyake, 18, was originally reported as Japanese, then English with Japanese parents. Can't find any sign of her on a census etc under this name. Taro Miyake was a very well known male Japanese jiu-jitsu wrestler in the UK at the time, whose name she may have adopted? 🤔

Libraries too and - I don't know WHY - but Wetherspoons!? I am almost certainly the only one sat in there with my 1885 Sporting Lifes and a cheap but just about drinkable wine, but perhaps they should advertise it! 😆