Carlile Vernon
@markgray.bsky.social
Liberal centrist. 18th/19thc art. DMs=block.
#America, how long are you going to go on believing this conman? BBC News - Trump suggests new talks with Iran to begin on Monday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says new talks with Iran to begin on Monday
Tehran has not responded to the suggestion that new talks are imminent. Trump has previously said a negotiated end to the war is close, only for strikes to resume.
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It must be so hard being #MAGA. One day blame 'reds under the bed', the next blame contractors - but the certainty, the vehemence, the hate is the same. They are truly stupid people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged, but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.
bbc.co.uk
I'm sure taxpayers in rural communities will be overjoyed... BBC News - Andy Burnham to give regional mayors share of income tax www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Andy Burnham to give regional mayors share of income tax
The prime minister says the move will give power to "every postcode" but critics say the plans lack detail.
bbc.co.uk
This is the most emotionally charged, brilliant 'Inspector Calls' ever. Applause, loud raucous applause, for everyone involved. Priestley would have wept with joy. It is perfect. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
An Inspector Calls
Drama. The mysterious 'Inspector Goole' interrupts a wealthy family's party to tell them a young woman died of suicide that night. But what does that have to do with them?
bbc.co.uk
On the other hand: Unemployment today 4.9% Unemployment 1984 11.9% Inflation today 2.8% Inflation 1980 18.0% We weren't blessed; we were as frustrated as you guys. BBC News - The evidence that shows today's 20-somethings really do have it worse - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The evidence that shows today's 20-somethings really do have it worse
People in their 20s are facing a tougher start to adulthood than any generation in almost half a century, according to analysis for the BBC.
bbc.co.uk
It's OK, #London and South East people! You can slacken off! We're going to let t'North do all the work.
Since finding out by chance today that one of my 16th century ancestors was known by the sobriquet 'Lusty Packington' I've felt in need of a bit more energy to keep up the family reputation. [Image: By R. Clamp - www.npg.org.uk/collections/..., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
I can see why Corbynites are so against #Starmer - their little poppet lost out - but the insane level of dislike makes no sense. Less likeable than that waistrel Johnson? Less paletable than Truss? For delivering policies Britain voted for? Bonkers.
When #SeppBlatter - that's *Sepp Blatter* - thinks you're dodgy, I think there is probably a problem. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Blatter urges football to kick out Infantino after World Cup ‘lost its credibility’
Ex-Fifa president Blatter has heavily criticised his successor Infantino over controversies at the World Cup
independent.co.uk
Listening to #BBCRadio3, and the words 'he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris' always make me turn off.
Mahler Hammer Fail: Orchestra Percussionist
ALT: Mahler Hammer Fail: Orchestra Percussionist
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I've just been charged eight pounds and twenty pence for a beer. In #SouthKensington. And even for #Kensington, for a country yokel like me that is diabolical. I don't just mean 'bad', I mean something created in the Infernal Regions, aka Devilish 🤬.
#Spain, I hope you know just about everyone else in the world is so pleased you won that Final! Apart from extraordinary skill, great team spirit and inventive play...you're NOT Argentina! Yours was CLEARLY the better side.
Spanish Flag Waving
ALT: Spanish Flag Waving
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¡Gracias, #España, por ganar: por la decencia y por el fútbol!
Pudgy Penguin in Spain Soccer Jersey
ALT: Pudgy Penguin in Spain Soccer Jersey
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At last, some more football instead of minor musical talents selling themselves! #ARGESP
#FRAENG is an absurd spectacle. Nobody wants it. Both sides playing some of the loveliest one touch football in the competition. It is a very, very strange match.
A #Faberge flower on #FakeOrFortune, assessed by #Bonhams as suspect and - after a whole raft of evidence hugely persuasive of the case for it being right - they DON'T EVEN WANT TO LOOK? #Bonhams, that is pathetic.
'This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'
Jude Bellingham's Passionate Vamos
ALT: Jude Bellingham's Passionate Vamos
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First question: how many England players will still be allowed to remain on the park at 90 minutes? #ARGENG
In a pub, wanting food. Food is ordered at table via QR code. Scan QR code. Follow link. To order food download our app. Dowoad app. To order food from app you need to register. Two pages of registration to follow... I gave up, left the pub and went to a café with humans.
I don't understand the positive joy some on this platform are taking in the murder of #AnneWiddecombe. Yes, her views were abysmal, Victorian and based on a personal hypocrisy - but none of that, NONE OF IT, excuses murder. Or else civilisation dies to spare *your* feelings. And next, it's you.
Watching #EdithSitwell in the 1959 John Freeman 'Face to Face' interview and finding her strangely absorbing - a Victorian-modern with an other worldliness about her. I'd imagine - if you could get past the likely condescension - an hour with her would have been a delight. Eccentric, but not batty.
