Ethel Crimble
@ethelcrimble.bsky.social
East Angle, via Manchester, of Cumbrian birth. Few redeeming features. Ex dementia carer. Ex career coach. Speaks a couple of forrin languages. Likes hard boiled eggs and slivovits. Champion of ultra low speed dieting.
Ed Sheeran's PR and management may have a lot to answer for. Someone might reasonably have predicted this debacle before now. Did their advice not exist, or was it ignored?
Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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A must see for me. I remember the 2017 Dulwich exhibition. I went for my birthday. I remember it mostly because my late partner turned up 2 hrs late. After I'd been round it.😂 But what I found really interesting were her WW2 satirical cartoons. So talented. And I've got a Moomin jigsaw that I love.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h agoPreviously unseen Tove Jansson drawings to go on show in London
Canada are going to end up in Eurovision, aren't they?
Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱@dailyherald.bsky.social · 24h agoAnother nation seems to be deciding its best interests lie with the EU
Time for Leveson to show his mettle again. And Norris needs to step up too. Jury trials aren't some trivial issue. They are a fundamental part of the English (and Welsh) justice system.
Joshua Rozenberg@joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 21h agoGovernment plans to reduce the availability of jury trial in England and Wales are likely to be amended, the justice secretary hinted yesterday. Alex Norris said “legislation very rarely looks the same at the beginning of the process as it does at the end”. rozenberg.substack.com/p/juries-wha...
A little green hue'd fly flew round my bedroom last night and kept landing on my arm. Then it disappeared, while I went for the flyspray.Then I tried to put my head on the pillow several times. Each time the pillow started buzzing in my ear. Eventually I realised the fly was stuck in the pillow.😳
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
Gone to bed but getting back up. Need the fly spray. Some wee beastie is dive bombing me. Never known so many flies as this year.
I can barely understand neutral positioning by bands and I'd prefer to see bands either speaking out, or if they decide they can't, not going to Orangeshitgibbonland in the first place. Once you have taken so much money from people, you should give back bigly. Sheeran now looks like a vacant space.
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d agoEd Sheeran will always be remembered from now on as the guy who doesn’t stand for anything. But let’s not forget that Pink also went down the same road by condemning Macklemore’s statements on Palestine. She doesn’t get a pass either.
Not a thread based on kindness but it speaks pitifully to the state of US government.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2d agoMans is blank as new printer paper
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Radical stuff in the kitchen this morning. A year on statins and my blood sugar had leapt up, though still normal. So it's back to the unloved green tea with lemon juice, rolled oat porridge, and unsweetened stewed plums. Quite enjoyed it.
Says a man who left his wife and 3 kids , and shacked up with a married woman 12 years younger than him
There can be a calm on losing a parent who has lived with dementia. But you've still lost them twice, the earlier loss being like an extended process that feels like teeth pulling on occasions. If he's made some personal space to deal with the initial impact, good. An example for employers to note.
Very worrying. Further hammering of nails in the coffin of Turkish democracy. And it will do nothing to support the international recognition of Northern Cyprus, a small nation ultimately controlled by Ankara.
FRANCE 24 English@en.france24.com · 3d agoDozens arrested in major anti-LGBTQ raids in Turkey
Astonishing. And yet a door opening for the UK.... if we weren't still facing in the other direction, examining our navel, and hanging on the every utterance of a mustard-trousered bullshitter?
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d agoWSJ: PM Mark Carney is exploring whether Canada could become an “associate member” of the European Union The EU is open to the idea. This would create a new membership status, per EU & Canadian officials.
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.