I would do this, but my answers would be things like 18. The past 3. Good 11. Lots 19. I probably haven’t read any 10. No
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h agoAh, go on, I’ll do it. One like, one answer.
Craig Winstanley
@cwinstan.bsky.social
Voluntarily severed ex-Professor of Bacteriology dabbling in creative things (music, images, writing [a silly children’s story & a sketchbook about old Lancashire towns]). From Chorley (originally). Might mention The Fall. craigwinstanley.online
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h agoGoing through my vinyl collection & I’ve reached V. That can mean only one thing. It’s Sunday Morning #NowPlaying
To be clear, this is government & opposition in the country with the highest per capita prison population in Western Europe arguing over who is spending the most money in creating places for more prisoners (& not a hint of the usually ubiquitous ‘where is the money going to come from?)
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 12h agoAndy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...
The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.
I’m not really keeping up with things, but judging from the Guardian app the antisemitic prospective Tory councillor is also a police chief..?
Absolutely no idea why this could be happening.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2d agoNHS staff experiencing 'unconscionable' levels of racist abuse, survey finds
The debate about the prison release issue never includes the normally ubiquitous ‘where’s the money going to come from?’ We have the highest per-capita prison population in Western Europe, but apparently it doesn’t cost anything. Or perhaps there’s always money there when they want it after all…
Thank goodness it doesn’t show… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year
The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides
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It would appear that leftist now means anybody with a passing interest in actual truth or facts, the merest hint of empathy for minorities or people struggling & some consideration for the future of humanity. But sure. It’s really important to add to the tsunami of shite from the other side…
#NowPlaying Zinc Alloy (and was playing Tanx). I stopped buying T.Rex albums after that. Certainly an odd album, this one. Bit of a mess at times but has its moments.
Wow, The Harris Museum in Preston is gorgeous! A huge neo-Classical marvel with a wonderful art, sculpture, fashion and book collection And check out these giant golden doors (next post), and Foucault Pendulum showing Earth’s rotation And a new Horrible Histories exhibition by Martin Brown!
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
Supposedly serious ‘newspapers’ repeatedly run with fact-free opinionated nonsense. There is never any comeback. Over & over again.
John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social · 3d ago"Europe has never been serious about stopping migration", says Camilla Long in an entirely research-free piece. She claims that Spain/the EU are lying about the fact that most people in Ceuta have returned to Morocco. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
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On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵
Who wouldn’t want to see lots of cheap shit flags, faded, tatty & fraying, hanging halfway up their lamposts? The ones in our town make me swell up with pride.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
To be fair. In amongst the apparent gobbledegook there are lyrics like this: ‘As a child I laughed a lot O yes I did O yes I did Now it seems I cry a lot O tell me true don't you’
Craig Winstanley@cwinstan.bsky.social · 4d ago‘I have never never kissed a car before It's like a door’ ‘I have never never nailed a nose before That's how the garden grows’ This is what I was listening to in my formative years. Explains a lot…
Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.
on the down side: I appear to have the flu on the up side: 55 yr old once-lost CAN vid just dropped
Can - Halleluhwah (1971)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
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‘I have never never kissed a car before It's like a door’ ‘I have never never nailed a nose before That's how the garden grows’ This is what I was listening to in my formative years. Explains a lot…
Craig Winstanley@cwinstan.bsky.social · 4d ago#NowPlaying Bought in 1972. I also had a T-shirt with that image in it, as an 11 year old. I was a bit obsessed with T.Rex. Peak Glam Rock. This & Ziggy Stardust released in the same year.
#NowPlaying Bought in 1972. I also had a T-shirt with that image in it, as an 11 year old. I was a bit obsessed with T.Rex. Peak Glam Rock. This & Ziggy Stardust released in the same year.
Tandem in the Commonwealth Games but why stop there..?
Oldham Council has officially declared it is breaking the law amid warnings of 'significant' costs that could be passed onto taxpayers | North West Bylines Reports
Oldham Council declares it is breaking the law
Oldham Council has officially declared it is breaking the law amid warnings of 'significant' costs that could be passed onto taxpayers
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