This week's Great Estates is on Revesby, Lincolnshire where I learnt how to herd deer, went stoat spotting and almost fell into the reservoir! www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2d2198f...

‘We’ve always treated our 6,000-acre estate like an elderly relative that needs looking after’

Great Estates: village charm and bustling business keep Revesby relevant in the 21st century

telegraph.co.uk

Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 7d ago

European nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off

Morning

Once again, why haven’t we banned disposable barbecues?

Sue Wilkes@suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

One careless person has led to all this dangerous work for fire crews: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-events/...

My favorite part of Point Break is when Gary Busey gets shot to death. It's almost as good as my favorite scene in The Firm when Gary Busey gets shot to death. But nothing beats that scene in Lethal Weapon when Gary Busey gets shot to death.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. It will always be Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

I wish someone loved me like medieval buildings love 80s revival acts.

'1996’s Stag remains one of the weirdest rock albums ever to appear on a major label. It was Melvins’ eighth album in total, and the final of three to be released by Atlantic Records.' Many Happy Returns to #Melvins’ Stag, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/r4vg8MQ

Presumably it was some kind of Die Hard 2 reference? I mean you never know when =SPOILER ALERT = some kind of wannabe Colonel Stuart is going to take over your air traffic control system and reset ground level.

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 4w ago

The UK has some of the cheapest food and most expensive electricity of any developed country. You do not hear this in debates over land use, obviously.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · last mo.

yes because they are only spending about 30p a day on fresh vegetables this framing is designed to turn people against green levies, obviously and forget the horrific heatwave we’ve been living through

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

So the statistic the author uses to argue that the oughts fibre overbuild was never useful is... 19 years old? thecritic.co.uk/what-if-the-...

Last word on Andy Burnham: never trust a man who looks like all of the Smiths at once.

3 month transition? This isn't America? Absolutely not. Stick to tradition - 09:00 Downing St hunky lectern guy 09:30 Resignation speech 09:45 Palace (ex-PM) 10:30 Palace (new PM) 11:00 Downing St acceptance speech 11:15 Hunky lectern guy 11:20 Briefing against new PM It's in Bagehot, look it up.

'I went to Eton and Oxford, so to say that I’m not part of the establishment is ridiculous!' For this week's Great Estates I went to Wales to interview Sir Charlie Gladstone at Hawarden – and see the Grand Old Man's desk – and it was very good fun! 10/10 day out www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/163c5a5...

‘People in my position who swan about doing nothing are neglecting their duty to society’

Great Estates: Sir Charles Gladstone turned a debt-ridden inheritance into a desirable place to live

telegraph.co.uk

It wasn't an official Bandcamp Friday yesterday, but I bought some downloads yesterday, and I endeavour to keep this going on a monthly basis. So better late than never here we go. /1

A second mention and DOOM

@gergrobots.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Dorset Decibel Dervishes" Excellent @secondmentions.com of Electric Wizard here www.loudersound.com/music/albums...

This is perhaps not real, but as a former "experimental janitor" in a Tesco (Bishops Stortford, 1998, since you didn't ask), I do very much want my experimental comrades to be free.

Ed Jennings@edjennings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

One of the last of the pantheon of true giants has left us. A great originator. You do not learn jazz without learning Sonny Rollins. We’re lucky that we had him for so long, but the loss feels tremendous.

Fabulous clarification in today's Observer. Stonehenge!

The Butlerian Jihad, only you can have the first 20 years of the internet.

The Quietus just had a whole article on the enduring appeal of the none-more-doomy Dies Irae that did not once mention The Melvins' none-more-doomy version, but is still quite good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVF...

Melvins- Dies Iraea

YouTube video by Josh Crawford

youtube.com

Hello hello, it is Bandcamp Friday. An official one and all that. So it really does waive all of its fees (though taxes and other nefarious credit card fees are still levied). /1 isitbandcampfriday.com

Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?

isitbandcampfriday.com

I've written about Mogwai's third and not-final album, Rock Action, for @thequietus.com Thanks to @jahduran.bsky.social for a) commissioning, b) editing, and c) providing crucial intel on 'Take Me Somewhere Nice'. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Secret Punt: Mogwai’s Rock Action Revisited 25 Years on | The Quietus

J.R. Moores hails the third outing by Mogwai, providing little by way of rock and barely any action but future proofing them in the process.

thequietus.com

Reposting this great article not so much for its (deserved) criticism of the Greens, but because it includes useful rebuttals to the most common bad faith arguments against solar (I live in Lincolnshire and have heard them A LOT) in one place

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 3mo ago

NEW: The Green Party is STILL bad at being green (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

Regardless of the motives of the challengers to the Green GEN Cymru project, infrastructure developers relying on development consent orders do =sometimes= abuse section 174 powers. /1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pylons firm challenged by 500 farmers in landmark legal case

More than 500 farmers take action against a firm planning new electricity pylon routes across Wales.

bbc.co.uk

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · 4mo ago

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

Seems like a good time for the confession that I once, while living in NYC, pronounced the name of the Wu Tang production godfather as "Are-Zed-Ay". To compensate I now pronounce the name of the legendary Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border town as Noo-uk-on-Trent.

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 4mo ago

The way to square this is of course to suggest that all of Hawkwind APART FROM Lemmy hated the Beatles, and that Lemmy was not solely ejected from Hawkwind because of That Drug Bust. Which means that Glen Matlock would not be the first bassist to depart a Significant Band for liking the Beatles?

Joe Banks@joebankswriter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There's a bizarre exchange where one of the doc makers says, "Didn't they write a song that was anti the Beatles?", and the other immediately agrees, "They were anti the Beatles." What is this absolute bollocks?? McCartney was Lemmy's bass-playing hero FFS. It's really shoddy... 2/2

Tree of the Day this beauty in one of Orban’s many mansions that most Hungarians don’t know about because of his grip on the media. Great drone work Caolan! Tomorrow a chance for Hungary to say no to corruption, no to Russian and US interference, and goodbye to Orban, the populists’ populist