Fran Malloy

I'm enjoying Small Prophets, so will give Things You Should Have Done a look.
Really 'enjoyed' Waiting for the Out, also on iplayer.

Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation - Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation

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Hi Peri,
Just had a look at the TV schedule and it was actually the "Matt Allwright Show" on channel 5 today that was graced with Owen's contribution...

Owen frequently appears on the "Jeremy Vine Show", channel 5 on TV in the UK.

I bet he’s sweating now.

Can't believe I forgot to celebrate Justin Webb Day yesterday. Must have been distracted by all that normality in America

Yeah, definitely the wood polish version.

Please share. 💔

ARTE

Board of Peace - Season 1

If you've heard me cite the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, to describe what Trump is doing then you'll enjoy this little bit of genius as much as I did...

Contemplation…Linocut print, 85cm-68.5cm. 2025
#linocutprint #linocut #printmaking

Currently showing at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 130 Years, exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, on till the 20 February.

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

An Open Letter to Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting as NHS Resident Doctors Commence Their 5-day Strike 17/12/25 Dear both, In 2016, when junior doctors (as we were then called) went on strike against Jeremy Hunt’s reviled new contract, he deployed exactly the same tactics as you do today. He tried to divide and rule BMA leaders from their members, to turn public opinion against striking doctors, to smear us to the press at every opportunity. His favourite term of abuse was “militants”, though you favour words like “self-indulgent”, “irresponsible”, “dangerous”, “reckless,” “abandoning patients in their hour of greatest need.” Jeremy Hunt learned from his mistakes. He has spoken publicly about bitterly regretting his bullying tactics. You, on the other hand, appear to have learned nothing from 2016. You assume the worst of the young doctors out on strike today – that they care only about self-enrichment, that they don’t give a damn about their patients. You could not be more wrong. They hate striking, which is a desperate act of last resort. But what choice do they have? Today’s young doctors face something beyond ludicrous - the modern farce that is NHS doctor unemployment. You, Wes Streeting, the man responsible for NHS workforce planning, lead a system so broken that there are doctors today literally unable to find jobs in the NHS you claim to be rebuilding. What a travesty in a country so desperately short of psychiatrists, GPs, radiologists, acute medics and NHS doctors of every kind. You offer the creation of some (not enough) new training posts to striking doctors as though this is benevolent, gracious. Well it’s not. It is frankly grotesque to say, “I won’t pay you more, but I am willing to decrease (though not eradicate) the chances of you being unemployed next year.” Small wonder we’re losing resident doctors to Australia in droves. Every attack and smear you deploy against resident doctors over the next five days only exacerbates their despair. Slo…

I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer &
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort.

Please read.

Live updates as protesters demand hunger strike action at HMP Bronzefield

LATEST: An ambulance has arrived at HMP Bronzefield, the prison where Qesser Zuhrah, 20, is on her 46th day of hunger strike

Activists have been outside the prison for 10 hours calling for medical attention for her

Thought of you when I saw this poster at the weekend @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social

A somewhat psychedelic linocut of a hare

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

Too late for me,(embarrassed by how little I earned some years),but a great idea.

Same.

F*ck sake !
What an absolute bampot !

Think that's a heron, left. Definitely twigs, right.

These👇🏼180-125 yo Victorian ink bottles are still available as posy-making kits in my Etsy shop. Each kit is designed to improve mental health & includes a booklet about the neuroscience with how-tos,a dried flowers posy (see photo),stationery extras & a hand-printed box:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Congratulations on yer new wee granddaughter Ivy !
Ye've got many, many happy times ahead wi' her.

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

Today I heard an MP, on @LBC, say #water nationalisation doesn't work as Scotland has worse water pollution than England. This is a complete lie. See figure below,
2024.
Some of the cleanest water in
Europe (ref provided).
Disgraceful. England, fight for nationalisation.

Looking soggy for Palestine demo in Edin (1pm Sat start at St Giles) but still happy to speak. Given today's arrests I've contacted a solicitor & made arrangements to let stepdaughter into my house. Ridiculous precautions but nowhere near as crazy as the average day of genocide in Gaza.

"Fascists will never be able to ban love."

— Greta Thunberg, Budapest #Pride2025

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 Greta Thunberg©️

Thanks for that shout out.
I've just downloaded the show.
Cheers.

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.

The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth