Mike Harding
@churchcat.bsky.social
Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
As The Sky
What an incredible book, every story a masterpiece. Really, they're all fantastic. The Wrong Door is shocking. Waving at Trains in heart-breaking. The Quaker's Mouse, so atmospheric. I'm in that dilemma of wanting to devour it all but not wanting to finish it. Adrian Bleese - writer
What an incredible book, every story a masterpiece. Really, they're all fantastic. The Wrong Door is shocking. Waving at Trains in heart-breaking. The Quaker's Mouse, so atmospheric. I'm in that dilemma of wanting to devour it all but not wanting to finish it. Adrian Bleese - writer
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
As The Sky
What an incredible book, every story a masterpiece. Really, they're all fantastic. The Wrong Door is shocking. Waving at Trains in heart-breaking. The Quaker's Mouse, so atmospheric. I'm in that dilemma of wanting to devour it all but not wanting to finish it. Adrian Bleese - writer
What an incredible book, every story a masterpiece. Really, they're all fantastic. The Wrong Door is shocking. Waving at Trains in heart-breaking. The Quaker's Mouse, so atmospheric. I'm in that dilemma of wanting to devour it all but not wanting to finish it. Adrian Bleese - writer
Amen to both posts. The journalists are not much better.
The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Amen to both posts. The journalists are not much better.
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Rory, from the Outsiders project.
Nobody should be homeless in a country as wealthy as ours.
Nobody should be homeless in a country as wealthy as ours.
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Rory, from the Outsiders project.
Nobody should be homeless in a country as wealthy as ours.
Nobody should be homeless in a country as wealthy as ours.
Just signed the first 100. They’ll be available from the website from Midnight Thursday.
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just signed the first 100. They’ll be available from the website from Midnight Thursday.
First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
And why am I not surprised?
Presumably the Daily Telegraph and GB News will go big on this story?*
Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote.
*waits until end of time
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote.
*waits until end of time
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
And why am I not surprised?
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."
Just in from GB Nudes Trump never said “grab em by the pussy. He actually said “I would grab them by the neck if they were going to hurt pussy.” He was talking about boys who hurt animals. Yet again our glorious Fuhrer is besmirched by communistical editing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just in from GB Nudes Trump never said “grab em by the pussy. He actually said “I would grab them by the neck if they were going to hurt pussy.” He was talking about boys who hurt animals. Yet again our glorious Fuhrer is besmirched by communistical editing.
People will be seeing this in docs on fascism in another hundred years. Mussolini in a suit.
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
People will be seeing this in docs on fascism in another hundred years. Mussolini in a suit.
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
He said what he said - the clip tells the truth - yes the words were selected - but that is what he said -no mistake - he told them to get down there and fight like hell. Not a misquote at all.
www.theguardian.com/media/video/...
www.theguardian.com/media/video/...
Side-by-side comparison of BBC-edited Trump speech from day of Capitol attack with original – video
A selectively edited clip by Panorama has resulted in the BBC being accused of making it appear clearer that the US president encouraged the Capitol attack
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
He said what he said - the clip tells the truth - yes the words were selected - but that is what he said -no mistake - he told them to get down there and fight like hell. Not a misquote at all.
www.theguardian.com/media/video/...
www.theguardian.com/media/video/...
Fair comment.
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Fair comment.
“There are no empires now - there is just The Money Empire. China, US, Russia, EU squabble & muscle up but none can control the Money Empire, it is a shape-shifter - it runs the world. But it too will fall - and then perhaps this small world might grow up?” The Daily Llama. Dharamsalami. 2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“There are no empires now - there is just The Money Empire. China, US, Russia, EU squabble & muscle up but none can control the Money Empire, it is a shape-shifter - it runs the world. But it too will fall - and then perhaps this small world might grow up?” The Daily Llama. Dharamsalami. 2025
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‘If none but the rich died in war there would be no more wars.“ the Daily Llama. Dharamsalami 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
‘If none but the rich died in war there would be no more wars.“ the Daily Llama. Dharamsalami 2025.
Reposted by Mike Harding
And one of the blokes moaning on here actually voted Reform. They stated they were going to take the Doge shears to our public services and that is what they will do Making personal fortunes. Heartless grifter bastards who conned people into voting for them. Helped amongst others by the BBC.
Unbelievable. Yet, now, believable.
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
And one of the blokes moaning on here actually voted Reform. They stated they were going to take the Doge shears to our public services and that is what they will do Making personal fortunes. Heartless grifter bastards who conned people into voting for them. Helped amongst others by the BBC.
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Always if Johnson is involved follow the money. As night follows day, there is money to be followed
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Always if Johnson is involved follow the money. As night follows day, there is money to be followed
Amen. His influence was great as were his talents.
A great man who shaped our culture very much for the better. Travel well, Archie.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Folk musician and BBC presenter Archie Fisher dies aged 86
The singer, songwriter and guitarist had presented BBC Radio Scotland's Travelling Folk from 1983 to 2010.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Amen. His influence was great as were his talents.
Russia - enemy of the British Values? Blx.
Conservative Friends of Russia. Cummings 3 yrs in Moscow learning how oligarchy works. Johnson slips his guards to party at the agent’s Italian palace. Ennobles son of a KGB agent, Russian murders on British soil. Russia Report hidden. Follow the money.
Conservative Friends of Russia. Cummings 3 yrs in Moscow learning how oligarchy works. Johnson slips his guards to party at the agent’s Italian palace. Ennobles son of a KGB agent, Russian murders on British soil. Russia Report hidden. Follow the money.
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Russia - enemy of the British Values? Blx.
Conservative Friends of Russia. Cummings 3 yrs in Moscow learning how oligarchy works. Johnson slips his guards to party at the agent’s Italian palace. Ennobles son of a KGB agent, Russian murders on British soil. Russia Report hidden. Follow the money.
Conservative Friends of Russia. Cummings 3 yrs in Moscow learning how oligarchy works. Johnson slips his guards to party at the agent’s Italian palace. Ennobles son of a KGB agent, Russian murders on British soil. Russia Report hidden. Follow the money.
The Scot. Ind. ref was a trial run for Brexit which gave the Tech Masters the green light for Trump 1. Johnson and his open lying and open flaunting of rules and dignified behaviour showed the Orange Felon the way. Had Bojo succeeded in hanging on the UK would have GB ICE running the show here.
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The Scot. Ind. ref was a trial run for Brexit which gave the Tech Masters the green light for Trump 1. Johnson and his open lying and open flaunting of rules and dignified behaviour showed the Orange Felon the way. Had Bojo succeeded in hanging on the UK would have GB ICE running the show here.