Clive Mitchell

What a face! Beautiful Strength.

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…

I live in an ordinary working town in the Midlands. The only thing we're in any danger of revolting over is the state of our roads. I'm disappointed in the Labour govt, and would like food inflation to do one. Apart from that I'm basically a happy bunny.

Calgie is the Senior Political correspondent at the Daily Express and about as in touch with reality on the ground in Britain as a Bunyip on acid riding a penguin called Bert across an undiscovered galaxy.

Have just ordered this! Looking forward very much to reading.

❤️

Lore?

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Looks like our black bamboo is undergoing a very rare flowering. Assume it's going to die once done? Kew Gardens may be able to shed light, thanks! @rbgkew.bsky.social

Version 2 is loads better. We have two Norfolks (who knew?), a West Ridingo, Tuhdley Molip and the intriguing Sesex...

Democrats flee Texas to block Republican redistricting map backed by Trump The redistricting would create five new Republican-leaning seats in the US House of Representatives.

It is staggering that the world's flagship democracy does not have something like the UK's Boundary Commissions, which take these districting decisions out of direct party control. (And this was true long before Trump).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absnailing.

Quite. It's the opinions on here that are free, not the journalism.

I believe in Georgia this child is eligible to vote.

just read an incredible 13th Century account of a feudal uprising where a duke's son was killed by rebels who used a trebuchet to knock him off the battlements with the only available ordnance: a peasant's decapitated head. apparently it was the first serf-face-to-heir missile

no, *you* shut up 😁

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BBC Proms - 2025 - Mozart and Bruckner - BBC Sounds The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth and pianist Mariam Batsashvili.

Am listening to the extraordinary and beautiful performance of Bruckner's 7th symphony from this year's BBC Proms, with BBC Scottish SO and Wigglesworth. Fabulous and utterly life affirming
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Contrast with current house building in England which has, for many years now, been complete crap. Feeble, flimsy, soulless boxes. We've stored up a dreadful legacy for the future.

A new global ordure

Warm, gentle, placid, moist, pleasant.

Congratulations Eoin!

A photograph of a front door. A sign says 'Yarra House'

No, you're a house.

Bluesky only ever gets going when the US & Canada start waking up.

I think they were all fed after midnight

I asked ChatGPT what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what it said to me:

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

Flood the Fens!

Quite. It was a masterclass in pushback from Powell.

❤️

13 years ago today, I snapped this while crossing London Bridge on my way into town.

Such a moment of optimism and pride in London and these islands.

So what this country needs right now.