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Interesting they have to protect the Thatcher mannequins with wipe-clean vitrines in case any of the Faithful get carried away with themselves.

Very strongly recommend this articulate explanation of things that front bench politicians of a party of government shouldn't need to be told.

It is both physically and psychologically deeply awful! And yet it is somehow considered not on to complain about the heat - this country!

I adore Storm In Heaven, it’s what makes the Gallagherification of Ashcroft such a tragedy

@harrysword.bsky.social

Richard Ashcroft – Lovin’ You | The Quietus The Verve singer returns, but he's treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores

"Oasis are back from the dead. They’ve resurrected their old support act... History repeats itself; first as tragedy and second as farce. Big pungent farce, of the strength Jim Royle would expel after a particularly sprouty Xmas dinner." @spinal-bap.bsky.social 💯👞🥧

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This looks fantastic – and I love a lot of the samples of the work that'll be sold. Paintings! Of things! Yes!

same here, it is very odd. I would love someone to do a study of the engine sound and its resonance with music, there was a Spit at We Have Ways fest and it didn't sound quite right, didn't quite do it for me, and I wonder if it was Griffon-powered

This is beyond @accidentalp.bsky.social. In fact, a few reasonably-priced public speaking lessons with Alan Partridge would count as a wise investment – and be tax-deductible too.

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1972: Mother Thames - Lady of the London docks | Look Stranger | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

The BBC Archive on YouTube is giving me so much joy at the moment (and also a bit of sadness as this kind of doc just don't get made any more). Have you watched this one? Incredible scenes of the old docks, and a wonderful gender-defying character at the heart of it

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This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

really enjoyed listening to this one, Stu

yes and it seems really limiting to police books / art for worthiness before reading them. That is not the point of art! I mean I am unlikely to read Atlas Shrugged, but that is because it sounds incredibly boring as much as anything else.

I felt a lot clearing...

Ah, the scents of autumn - the gentle yet rich earthiness of rotting leaves, perhaps the dry acrid whiff of a bonfire, the sweet and sour of apple fall and, especially strong this year, the curiously manly cum pong of the flowering ivy

I grew up down the road too, I love the place BUT that extreme, solipsistic, woo woo, antivax, conspiracy side of the culture is dangerous and awful - I’ve heard plenty of horror stories about people in the valley about the worst aspects

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
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Yeah same, taking on the hyped and revered US series just feels like a mammoth task and I lack the will. Have you watched Babylon Berlin, by the way? That might be more up yer strasse

Yeah I have a massive void for telly between 1997 and 2010ish (apart from the first series of The Office which I remember we used to watch at yours before going to Trash, and Curb) as I was too trollied and out all the time

Yes perhaps I am too actually - I wonder if it’s something most of my generation watched on video or dvd later in the 90s? My parents watched it, but it was definitely deemed “not suitable” for me

Twin Peaks for me

A lovely bit of the world that. Excellent ale too - I imagine that’s the sort of place that might have had Wherry on

What a magnificent looking pub! Where is it?

I probably feel the same about Methodism to be fair

Glorious aren’t they? Gives one hope.

God help us if there’s a war / they don’t deserve a war etc

Well obviously #notallhippies, but I do think the woo woo / antivax / conspiracy theory wing of hippiedom - and that is quite a big wing - are dangerous

I was slightly joking but also suspect they are still stuffed with dodgy cranks and weirdos and that puts a very firm ceiling on their appeal

Books arranged by spine colour, oh dear

These sorts of people drive me round the bend, they are why I could never move to the otherwise lovely valley towns of Hebden Bridge, Stroud or Totnes - would be terrified of meeting them on the reg at school gates. Drop the crystals, take yr vaccines, cut yr hair, enjoy a lamb chop, sort it out.