NickMalago

This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2

That first game since October when the final whistle goes in daylight.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

The scene outside any Irish funeral.

The Malago, Colliter’s Brook, Pigeonhouse Stream

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Mel Machin Man City manager playing for Gillingham?
+ Green Shield Stamps ( Double on Tuesday)

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

August 82, Locarno Ballroom Bristol.

Kate Bush
The Clash
Prefab Sprout
Radiohead
Allen Toussaint

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Only seen them live three times: Oct ’92 at The Fleece, Nov ’97 at the NEC with Mrs B pregnant with our daughter… and last night, with that same daughter — and our son (his favourite band). A stunning evening with the GOATs.

Cumberland Ale

🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵

Talk-bait

That'll teach him not to ask Robert Jenrick for information about football.

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Choosing to stand with the far-right foreign football hooligan against the local police force: this, apparently, is what British patriotism looks like in 2025. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ligaverachtungsehnsucht

Liga (league) + Verachtung (contempt) + Sehnsucht (longing) hating the league, yet longing to stay in it.

“Florence Nightingale was seen by the Florentines as a daughter of the city who gave her name lustre abroad.
Her inclusion in Santa Croce’s memorial cloister places her alongside artists scientists & reformers recognition that compassion & moral courage are as vital to civilisation as art & science”

If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today

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It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Recall Trump and his daughter being asked what they had in common. Trump replied "sex" Ivanka "golf". Both weird answers.
Brian Clough was asked what he and Nigel had in common. Brian replied "We both love his mother "
That's the right answer.

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

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Meadow Lane?

Twenty bloody years ago this weekend at Glastonbury and all I’m saying is I was ahead of the curve.

Debris is a gem of song.