For a change, l actually stand 100% behind an article in The Financial Times. If only there was more of this kind of honest reporting in the red top papers.
It's not exactly up there with Martin Luther King Jr's dream, but at least we don't have to try and guess how evil Home Secretary (for the time being) Suella Braverman is, as she just puts it all out there for everyone to see. To belive she would be allowed anywhere near her position in any previous law abiding government is insane (and I'm not including Boris').
The original dream speech is here. I think you'd agree there is a bit of a difference.
Out of curiosity, l was looking online for Rolling Stones or Beatles questions that had been on the BBC series Mastermind, to see how many l cold answer without studying. Not a lot of success, but l found a Mastermind quiz on their website, so did that instead. Had a couple of guesses (Harry Potter for one), but pleased with the score. Looks like the drink and drugs abuse hasn't taken it's toll yet!
Today's newspaper headlines, released the day after Liz Truss announced on TV that there was no going back on the 45p tax cut for the rich.
Of course Kwasi Kwarteng then went on TV this morning and announced a U Turn on it (although they are still cutting public services).
As for the think piece further down, it was in yesterdays Financial Times, which normally supports the Conservatives 100%. This demonstrates how far the Tories have fallen in their estimation.
They really are in trouble.
Never vote Tory.
Call me an old cynic, but l don't believe this guy spent all that money in one weekend, but whatever he did spend, that's one hell of a way to finish at your job. My employers had better be on their guard.
As found in many working class homes back in the day, including mine. A framed print of 'Tina', by JH Lynch. Now becoming collectable.
There's some more here.
Obviously l know that George Best played for many clubs after leaving Manchester United, but looking at this old profile, it still seems strange not seeing him in a Manchester United shirt, and still messes with my tiny brained head.
After helping to ruin my day today, Erling Haaland leaps to the top of the table for the Premierships fasted three hat-tricks. He's a great player, but at the wrong club in Manchester.
A parody article by Marina Hyde, compared to today's statement by Jake Berry, the chair of the Conservative Party.
Never vote Tory.
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After Dom Hauschild (who writes for The Times) stated that he had witnessed Michael Fabricant being assaulted on his way in to todays Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Fabricant put up this message to call it out as wrong. It's not often (never so far) l have much time for Fabricant, but well done to him for this, for which he has garnered some respect from me, and hopefully many more.
Seeing a Conservative MP doing the right thing. I'm amazed. The original tweet is below.
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As the Prime Minister (for now) Liz Truss continues her rounds of TV car crash interviews, British Gas feel the need to take out full page adverts to dispel the misinformation she has been sprouting about help with bills and price caps. What a time to be alive.
Never vote Tory
From The Telegraph. The only problem with the article is that the colour photograph of The Beatles (supposedly unearthed after six decades) has been in the public domain for years. Very shoddy reporting and fact checking from the Tory loving rag (who also repeated the untrue 'Ringo not the best drummer in The Beatles' slur).
If you really want to see newly discovered Beatles photographs, look further below, taken in July 1961 at The Cavern after they had just returned from Hamburg, and when they were looking pretty skinny (in their leather trousers). Probably due to their diet of speed and fags. Discovered by Mark Lewisholm.
A superb piece of art by Marco Melgrati concerning the protests in Iran, which works on many levels.
From The Times. They are just taking the piss, but at least showing their true colours before the next election.
Never vote Tory.
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On what would have been Marc Bolan's 75th Birthday, these little beauties arrived.
That's the rest of my day sorted.
An advert for The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street for Classic Album Sundays.
I like it!
It's always hard to imagine people from the wild west living in the modern age, but here's a picture of Wyatt Earp, made famous by the 'Gunfight at the OK Coral', at home, in 1923, when he was 75. That's five years after the end of the First World War, and the same year as the 'white horse' FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United (the first one to be played at Wembley).
Cutting the grass recently, l came across this crime scene at the bottom of the garden. I hope that it's the remains of a struggle and the intended victim managed to get away, but l fear not. One of the unpleasant aspects of living next to countryside, raw in tooth and claw.
The last decent meal l had - last Sunday. Healthy it was not, but as l've been on painkillers this week, l haven't been feeling hungry, and l knew it would be the last time l could eat a large amount for a while.
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This was me on Monday this week in my James Cook hospital gown and stockings, plus borrowed slippers, about to go in for an operation for a couple of hernias. It's now Thursday, I'm back at home (since Tuesday), and l've done bugger all apart from sit in front of the TV watching 'Justified' and the new Marilyn Monroe based film 'Blond'. Thought l was going to be off work for three weeks, but was told after the operation that it would be more like six to eight, so plenty of time to catch up with shows, films, books and music, as l can't do much else at the moment. I envisage pressure sores on my arse in the near future.
Stone me - what a life
After days of silence, apart from welcoming the new fascist leader of Italy and the obvious clutching at straws with Ukraine, our new and glorious leader Liz Truss went on a media round of national radio interviews this morning (five minutes each). All filled with insightful, well researched economic plans to get us out of our current self inflicted crisis.
Oh...Hold on a minute.....Maybe she may have just been trying to stick to a (misleading) script for the short amount of time she was interviewed. What a car crash, made even sweeter by the fact they probably thought short regional interviews would be an easier ride for them.
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What a surprise. Praising the fascists while she was unsure if President Macron of France was 'friend or foe'.
