Julian Power🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

“Son of No-one,” but also, a motherfucker.

Post something WOLFFY…

Oh, this is fantastic!
(Sound on)

Albert Spica, the monstrous gangster in THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER portrayed by the great Michael Gambon at one point is in the restaurant and says "Gold! Everything should be sprayed gold!"

This has been on my mind of late.

Arresting over 450 people for protesting peacefully is absurd. Sickening. Un-British. #Palestine

There’s no “inching” needed.
When someone tells you who they are-

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

John Blanke, trumpeter to the court of Henry VIII, in a painting of the period. He is a black man, wearing the orange & grey livery of a courtier, and a green & gold turban. He’s playing a trumpet from which hangs a banner of the royal coat of arms.

That was a real person. His name was John Blanke, and he was the earliest English musician of African descent that we have a historical record of.

Ignorance is how we got here. Sigh.

'Jockey Jack': a talented C18th horse-rider & groom who fell on hard times & ended life as a pauper in Nottinghamshire. He was found, after his death, to have been born a woman

Love little snippets like these...
#18c

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 5 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

The media, their framing, IS the problem

This is like the insurrectionists seizing our capital.

Something approaching martial law in Washington.

He wants to turn D.C. into an armed fortress because he wants Democratic politicians to feel like they're in his house, he wants to subjugate Black citizens, and he's preparing for martial law.

The Labour Party, either freezing or arresting your grandparents

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

No doubt, a gun rights advocate.

They raped children
I believe the victims

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

The number of arrests was the highest recorded in relation to a single operation in at least the past decade, according to Met police

Amnesty International called the mass arrests “deeply concerning”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I think Trump’s expansionist ambitions into Canada and Greenland are tied to this: his handlers want to secure real estate in the arctic circle for after the climate catastrophe.

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

If you are arresting nearly 500 people at a peaceful protest, then you are getting policing wrong. It really is as simple as that.

When I watch a girl get arrested for wearing a T-shirt with nothing violent or hateful on it apart from 2 words the British gov has decided scares them. I really feel the world is lacking any common sense at all.

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.

@adriennelaf.bsky.social, as wise as ever

(from March @theatlantic.com — evermore relevant)

Vaccination against measles stops kids getting sick and slowly but surely can eradicate the disease worldwide…

Focusing on “treating” measles allows it to run rampant and create multibillion dollar businesses that make money keeping your sick kids dependent on them.

Alan Dersowitz was denied another pierogi.

Screenshot from ‘Sicario’ (2015) Emily Blunt leads an FBI investigation.

Screen shot from ‘Hell or High Water,’ (2016) Chris Pine and Ben Foster are modern-day bank robbers out for revenge.

A screenshot from ‘Wind River’ (2017) Jeremy Renner and Gil Birmingham are fathers grieving for their murdered daughters.

Screen shot from ‘Yellowstone’ (2020-24) Kevin Costner is Don Corleone in cattle country, pictured here with his grandson, portrayed by Brecken Merrill.

Taylor Sheridan - I love his take on modern westerns (even Yellowstone,) but I suspect I would dislike the man’s politics.

A Nokia 3310 mobile phone from 2000. Calls, text & Snake- what else did we need?

A photograph of Suleiman al-Obeid, former captain of the Pakestinian national football team, killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food.

I admire Mo Salah's restraint.

"Farewell". Really?

Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Just a reminder that Putin still has an open arrest warrant for his responsibility in numerous war crimes during his invasion and occupation of parts of Ukraine-
apnews.com/article/icc-...

I’ve just learned he was the eldest son of the poet, Adrian Mitchell, whose verse appears on that stone. A life well lived, I think.