At last some good news. A nice picture of Alan Alda and Mike Farrell, the stars from the M.A.S.H TV series together to celebrate 50 years of the show. It hasn't been repeated on British TV recently, but what a magnificent show it was, and it certainly appealed to my dry, sarcastic, antiauthoritarian black humour.
Noting to see here at the Good ol' Party's Republican conference in Youngstown, Ohio. Apart from the obvious blind loyalty and fascist leanings that, as l've been harping on about for a while, is putting democracy and the future of the United States at great risk.
Rather sadly, it's not just in America that this is happening as the far right have been increasing their power across Europe (Sweden and France being two examples). The Trump methods have also been co-opted by the Conservative party, who have been trying to enshrine their power by chipping away at our rights, ignoring parliamentary laws, and just blatantly lying to the public while enriching their backers and friends. People who favour democracy in the UK should be mightily wary, and make sure they get out and vote at the next election to get rid of them, even if that means voting tactically. Get rid of The Conservatives first, and then vote for a party that supports the many, not the few.
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Despite me being a republican, this is an heartbreakingly poignant cartoon in todays The Times newspaper by Morten Morland which (to me a least) highlights why a lot of people will identify with The Queens funeral. Personally, l think she has done a superb job she was born into, but l would rather have a republican democracy from now on, or at least from when Charles passes on. Remember, if Andrew had been older than Charles, or Charles had died earlier, he would now be King Andrew (The Nonce), rather than in jail, or on trial to try and clear his name.
Photographs from the first Glastonbury Festival in September 1970, when it was hippie central, from Manchester Evening News. To say it's changed a bit would be stating the bleeding obvious. More photographs can be found here.
I was flicking through an old annual of The Dandy from 1972 this morning (as you do). The cover looks so innocent and and innocuous, but let's just say the content hasn't aged well and would certainly not be printed today.
Another part of my childhood ruined!!!
At the end of the day, a poem in International Times from Marc Bolan apologising for a cancelled gig in 1967.
I had the misfortune of seeing these, so now you have to suffer as well.
Because l'm a very old man, l can remember as far back as March 2022 when there was outrage and ridicule in the UK when Russian police arrested protesters for carrying blank signs. It's no good just agreeing with the right to protest when you agree with protesters viewpoints, it should be (and has been) a basic right to help prevent the rise of fascism. The laws have slowly been changed in the UK to prevent you being able to gather and protest, and expect more to be pushed through in the very near future. The start will be leaving the European Court of Human Rights. Bastards!!
Vote for whoever will get the Tories out.
The artist formally known as Prince. Also, a man is now Queen. How woke is that?
In other news, the person in the last post was put in charge of health, and Liz Truss, the would be fascist ERG figurehead and dictator had just been to see the Queen. I'm saying no more
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If there's one thing we don't need at the moment, it's a bleeding vampire stalking the earth, it's bad enough with Putin and our own glorious Tory party, so for fucks sake, leave it where it is. I can only manage one catastrophe a day, and todays is say anything to get elected Liz (many affairs and changes of politics and policies) Truss meeting the Queen (who she wanted to abolish) to become the new Prime Minister of our shit surrounded islands. God help us all.
I'm actually going to a funeral later, so shall mull over the slow death of this once great nation at the same time.
Like any sensible male, l've gone out in the past dressed as a lady for a laugh, but l'm not actually a cross dresser. However, after seeing this dress, l may have to have a rethink. It would certainly scare the locals.
I got this shoved through my letter box yesterday. Piss taking bastards, I'm just big boned.
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Will this be the tariffs and regulations put in place after the Brexit that he campaigned for?
This Thomas Page bronze statue of (supposedly) Bob Dylan looks more like a skinny version of me trying to play guitar after a swim in the UK waters.
