Mark Foley

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

1 of my favourite films!!Saw it as a teenager on tele.Couldn’t get a grip on where it was heading.Just
couldn’t get the motivation of characters cos of my age but that’s what hooked me.I recognised character types of Guinness,Segal,Sydow+wanted to know more.Max Von Sydow has remained my fav actor.

YouTube video by ECM Records Arvo Pärt - And I heard a voice... (Official Video)

For fans of Arvo Pärt, he turns 90 tomorrow. ECM has released a CD of his latest choral works by the group Vox Clamantis, titled "And I heard a voice," and here is the title track.

It’s so good it verges on the unbelievable. The fact that he hears this in his head and then writes it is astounding…..

Ooooh! I saw that in the reception of the Tate Modern Liverpool 10 years ago. It’s undeniable!!

My mate Chris used to share vhs tapes of UFO stuff with Reg Presley from The Troggs and do Freedom Of Information requests from Ministry of Defence. Reg was really into Crop Circles!!!

Was it at a gig? Did you take the vhs?? It might have been just a home camcorder video of him holding his guitar saying… “Here’s the Chemtrail Truth…. it’s all bollocks” 😆

12 hour journey home from hols in Brittany yesterday and mistakenly gave the kids the ipad in the back of the car and asked them what film they wanted to watch…. three times in a row! 🙈

I just don’t think you guys are ready for the takedown…..

Ha! Amazing. We are in Brittany and the only way in and out of Pont Aven is a narrow single lane bridge on a via-duct with a double hair pin bend at the end 😆 I’ve only driven on the wrong side of the road once so that’s a plus!

Screenshot from IMDB of the film “Somewhere In Time” with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

The Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour film Somewhere In Time had the same effect on my fascination with the uncanniness of the past and I genuinely had many dreams in the following years of travelling back into the past…

I’m currently reading it for the first time. It’s amazing and got me hooked! I’m already looking forward to re-reading it in 5 years time :)

‘The Welsh language has been aggressively oppressed’: Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales Inspired by the ‘enchanted, sapphic feeling’ of the coast and with bat sounds for drums, this Wales-obsessed band sound like no one else. They explain how queerness, neurodivergence and anti-coloniali...

had a wonderful time speaking with welsh language gothic trio tristwch y fenywod about feminine melancholy, neurodivergent unmasking in experimental music, and minority languages as anti-colonial resistance 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦇🪄🏔🔮 @nightschoolrecords.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

I think failure undersells what has been a conscious and malicious effort to demonise and scapegoat immigrants of all kinds.

…ahh yes, a good myth travels far and wide :) That pesky Knowledge always causing trouble and mischief!

Page from a book of Folktales.

We look up the places on maps and we’ll visit all the places in in the stories. Next time we go north we are going to Llyn Tegid!

…the kids a bedtime folktales story of how Taliesin came to be (greatest of the Welsh poets) from 1400 years ago and it turns out…. magic was real!!! You had it spot on :)

I finished The Valkyrie audiobook and loved it :) I loved the diary style storytelling from the main two characters and the fact that the magic element was taken by the characters as another layer of politics/power to be navigated rather than some mysterious force. By coincidence I was just reading…

The Zeitpyramide ('time pyramid') by Manfred Laber (1932–2018) under construction in Wemding, Germany. The pyramid began in 1993, the town's 1200th anniversary. With a new block added every ten years, the structure should consist of 120 blocks when complete in 1190 years, in the year 3183.

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Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email (alyssacole717@gmail.com) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩
Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.

That looks like Midi notes on recording software. I’m gonna stick it in Logic and see what it sounds like!!

Privilege (1967) / Edvard Munch (1974) . Director: Peter WatkinsScreenwriters: Norman Bogner, Peter Watkins / Peter Watkins & Cast This essay is presented as part of the Ninth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, a festival found…

A great long read on the films of British filmmaker and documentarian Peter Watkins by brilliant film blogger Roderick Heath filmfreedonia.com/2025/06/06/p...

I read the book first. The premise is the same so I didn’t have to work out from scratch what was going on but the film was so different and strange. I was immediately hooked.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin.

English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth
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Orpheus, 1956
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Update 26: POSTPRODUCTION UPDATE #7 · MY LAST MOVIE No sooner had I sent out that last report than I heard from Gibby at Tippett Studio. The puppet Strindler's eyes have arrived! So I'm sending out this brief report to share the good news.Above are the...

It was the highlight of my teenage years watching all those films with the enthusiasm pouring out of him in the intro. He’s got a kickstarter which I chipped into for him to make his last film. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

I can’t remember 😆 The whole thing is a mass of overstimulated blur! But… that one scene is quiet and calmly expresses so much about an important part of human nature and counterbalances all the mayhem.

I re-watched all the 4 films recently and the whole story/concept/arc hinges on this one scene.