David Brocklebank

This entire thread is a delight.

Fantastic. We're up to the modern day.

We took the kids to today's show in Leicester. They loved it. Their first ever comedy gig. We spent the rest of the day having jokes read to us and judging the quality of poo on pogo stick and Spewnicorn pictures. The books are a real cultural investment in their future.

Have you never milked a magnesia? They don't like it.

Families often have to travel over an hour to reach specialist treatment. This support eases financial pressure at an incredibly hard time and will help with things like the cost of fuel, train fares, and lost income.

Massive love to the families and charities that have campaigmed for this.

Families of children with cancer to have travel costs covered The government sets aside £10 million a year to help families and young people under 24 access cancer treatment.

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

It's easy to miss the good work the Labour government is doing at the moment.

I spent 4 years as a hospital inspector and 5 years in NHS patient experience, so I know this is an important change that will make a massive difference to families of children with cancer.

Can't help but notice that your wikipedia page doesn't mention that you also retired 2 years ago. Another cover-up.

(This continues to be one of my favourite bluesky interactions).

I start all my DMs with "Ahoy hoy" and await a response. I'm a traditionalist in that sense.

Good of him to guarantee that the reds will be staying up too.

Really enjoyed @matt-forde.bsky.social's political party with Keir Starmer. Always manage to get the big boys to relax into it more than most interviews so you get a sense of the person behind the public image. Need to listen again as can't remember what he said his dad did for a living though.

We truly are living through Hollywood's fourth golden age.

Trying being a millennial with young children. Makes you feel old in a whole different way.

In the iconic words of Joey Tribbiani, "What's all your furniture pointed at?"

This is great. Always good to add to the long list of people that are smarter than me.

I pledged for Be Funny or Die mainly based on your Twitter threads of comedy analysis. Was that £50 pledge worth the thousands of hours you spent on there? That's really for others to say.

Totally agree with Joel on how social media is changing for people who used to use it to try to reach a wider audience rather than just share with existing fans. I imagine for anyone involved in creative industries, it's probably quite a scary but freeing experience.

This series is starting to 'feel' quite long if it's any help. I suppose that's more of a philosophical project.

As a Saka captainer, then it's clearly just natural justice and in no way controversial 😉

Seems a bit pendantic.

I'm only halfway through the New Left episodes, so no spoilers, please. Now, back to this Mao fella, who seems pretty promising in 1949.

Tell me about it. I'm still waiting on my flipping chicken.

A photo of Barbara Castle outside of the House of Parliament- copyright belongs to the Parliamentary Archives.

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!

Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!

This was done despite fierce opposition.

📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

A picture of John Cusack on the 7 1/2 floor in the movie being john malkovich.

I've found the Rightmove photos.

Repealing the two-child limit in full is the most powerful policy lever the Government can pull to drive down child poverty rates.

Read 'No half measures' now ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Menzies Campbell, politician and sportsman, 1941-2025 Former Lib Dem leader brought up in Glasgow tenement was key figure in party’s success in 2000s

Very sad to hear of Ming's death - he was such wonderful company, mordantly cynical at times, and with a sensationally dapper wardrobe - he and Elspeth were a very glamorous pair - and it's quite a life story www.ft.com/content/891e...

Jam Tomorrow You probably think you know what life was like in Britain after the war. But what myths do we tell ourselves about the pre-digital world? From coal to contraception and ID cards to school beatings, Ro...

Why have some Britons always been unable to countenance ID cards? How would digital ID work?

Listen to @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, Edgar Whitley of the LSE and more on a vintage ep of Jam Tomorrow - scroll down the feed to get to it.

listen.podmasters.uk/JTID

Which one's YOUR favourite? This is mine.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs.

So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.