Stephen Perrin

@steperrin.bsky.social

Forged in the Black Country. Heavy metal. West Bromwich Albion. Below average bass hack. Interested in active transport and road harm prevention. [Moseley, Birmingham]

Afternoon. Albion Women again take the points with a late winner, Naomi Smart beating the keeper from 25 yards to score the only goal of the game deep in stoppage time. A tightly contested match that Rugby Borough might feel aggrieved not to have won but for poor finishing. #WBA #FAWNL

Ella Haughey takes on her opposite full back for West Bromwich Albion in the FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division game against Rugby Borough at Alexander Stadium, Perry Barr.Lucy Day narrowly fails to get on a free header in the box for West Bromwich Albion.

Properly annoyed. Clashes with the men v Dingles. Albion like everyone else would have known when the fixtures were published. If they tried to delay KO and been knocked back then fair enough. But the heads-down, pretend it isn't happening approach suggests they haven't thought or bothered at all.

West Bromwich Albion v Rugby Borough Women

Alexander Stadium
Sunday, September 20 (KO 2PM)

Kai Hansen's a brilliant musician and I grew up on his music (as much as you can grow up on music you found in your 20s). I still enjoy his past work but I've just got no enthusiasm for that new solo album. He hides it but has let slip some AfD adjacent opinions and he seems a bit of a dickhead now.

Some normally very sensible and intelligent people on here are chatting some proper unhinged bollocks about cycling, particularly e-bikes, the last couple of days. All road users offend but I walk to work most days and it ain't the fucking bikes endangering me.

Overheard in the doctor's waiting room earlier: Him: Doctor says my diastolic is 210. Her: No he didn't. Him: Yes he did. Her: If your diastolic was 210 your head would have exploded like in a horror movie. Him: That's not a nice thing to say. Her: This coat is new and I don't want brains on it.

This is Labour's approach to solving the shortage occupancy list. Remember when Bantz wanted to force people to train as welders because "importing foreigners"? Instead they'll just tell kids to know your place, don't complain and get on the fucking shop floor like a good little working class lad.

Satya Gunput@hisnameissatya.bsky.social · last wk.

Very confused about the government's education policy. Even weirder as loads of Starmer's and now Burnham's cabinet choose to narrate their lives in a recognisably Labour way: education leading to social mobility. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

But Powell, without appearing or sounding like a firebrand, says she wants to go “further and deeper” and claims there will be a revolution in England’s schools, and that children from the age of 14 will take vocational qualifications tailored to the local economy.

OK, so maybe now the government will come back with a superduper palliative and social care bill that takes all suffering and pain away from the dying forever and is so good that people will wonder why anyone could ever want assistance to free themselves in dignity.