Finally got to see @pixiesofficial.bsky.social after 35 years of being a fan. Well worth the wait! Excellent support from Big Special who I've been wanting to see for a significantly shorter time.

V excited. I've been waiting 35 years for this!

EXCLUSIVE - My interview with Keir Starmer "I love soccer and I’ve been a Liverpool supporter for the last five weeks, since it became certain they were going to win the title"

EXCLUSIVE - My interview with Keir Starmer

"I only watch films which grossed north of £800m at the box office, which does tend to limit the breadth of my consumption"

Now live on my Substack...

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

WATCH | Cory Booker reveals how he managed to not use bathroom during record-breaking filibuster

More here: tinyurl.com/yc38ufyx

Amazing live too, totally mesmerising

The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun.

An ultramarathon like no other, Barkleys is so tough only 20 runners have reached the finish line since its inception in 1986.

Find all you need to know in our Barkley Marathons A-Z.

🔗 www.inov8.com/blog/post/a-...

📸 David Miller

#BarkleyMarathons #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump.

Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.

Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side

Trump and Vance are reprehensible traitors to the Western World.

Zelensky is the greatest Western leader and anti-fascist of our time.

Europe must back Ukraine all the way.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

What a brilliant and different gig last night - Adult DVD in the round amongst the crowd

YouTube video by Larry & Paul Labour "Taken Over" By Tories - #BrokenNews

⚠️ BREAKING NEWS: Leaked Docs Confirm Labour Party Infiltrated By Conservative Party.

👇🏻 Please like and share this latest #BrokenNews report.

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EU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs scheme The UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic.

How many gracious mutually beneficial offers does the EU need to extend to the UK…

…while Trump & Musk fire hostility toward us…

Before Starmer & Reeves can see who our friends are?

It’s mind-boggling.

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X.
1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg ITV regional jingles on the piano

This year ITV turns 70. I miss the ITV I grew up with: a network of local TV stations with their own identities. So, from Anglia to Thames, here’s my tribute to regional ITV and its jingles.

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave

They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”

Never allow them anywhere near power again
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

YouTube video by Larry & Paul Jazzball - Larry and Paul

🎄 JAZZBALL is the perfect stocking filler for lovers of jazz AND football. Buy your copy this Christmas. 👇🏻

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Daniel Kebede joins NEU sixth form members at the strike rally in Leeds.

Our members have brought their version of A Christmas Carol to one of the biggest Scrooges – chancellor Rachel Reeves’ constituency. They are taking action to win pay justice #PayUp24.

📷 Matt Wilkinson

It was an excellent gig

Solidarity from Notre Dame Leeds!

Today is the third day of strike action that teachers are taking in non-academised sixth form colleges. Educators never want to be in this position, but we are standing up for the future of education. #PayUp24

Sixth form teachers at Notre Dame Sixth Form College in Leeds are on strike today to stand up for the future of education.

We will not solve the recruitment and retention crisis in colleges while the government fails to ensure fully funded, fair pay offers for all. #PayUp24

Wow! Fontaines DC in Leeds tonight. Brilliant.