Darren Adam
@darrenadam.bsky.social
British-Icelandic / Chris' partner / RÚV English & RÚV English Radio: English language radio from Iceland’s national broadcaster / former @LBC.co.uk / I like cars/vinyl/brutalism/cold (happily)
https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/spila/ruv-english-radio/34448
https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/spila/ruv-english-radio/34448
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Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
An underrated record. The production is actually magnificent.
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An underrated record. The production is actually magnificent.
As long as any day should ever be.
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
As long as any day should ever be.
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For me it was more ZX Spectrums and Ralph Macchio, but you do you.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
For me it was more ZX Spectrums and Ralph Macchio, but you do you.
Obviously this is all only true outside of Iceland: but with that caveat in place, it is very much true indeed.
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Obviously this is all only true outside of Iceland: but with that caveat in place, it is very much true indeed.
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NHS heroes: you deserve better than this.
You keep us safe, you save lives, and you belong here.
You will *always* be loved, respected and appreciated in London.
You keep us safe, you save lives, and you belong here.
You will *always* be loved, respected and appreciated in London.
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
NHS heroes: you deserve better than this.
You keep us safe, you save lives, and you belong here.
You will *always* be loved, respected and appreciated in London.
You keep us safe, you save lives, and you belong here.
You will *always* be loved, respected and appreciated in London.
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Winter can be especially dangerous for anyone sleeping rough outdoors.
If you spot someone who needs support on London's streets, you can notify StreetLink via this link to connect them with vital local services.
thestreetlink.org.uk
If you spot someone who needs support on London's streets, you can notify StreetLink via this link to connect them with vital local services.
thestreetlink.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Winter can be especially dangerous for anyone sleeping rough outdoors.
If you spot someone who needs support on London's streets, you can notify StreetLink via this link to connect them with vital local services.
thestreetlink.org.uk
If you spot someone who needs support on London's streets, you can notify StreetLink via this link to connect them with vital local services.
thestreetlink.org.uk
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Women in public life are still too often targeted over trivialities instead of being judged on their ideas and actions. It discourages talented women from entering politics. My thoughts in this weeks column: @scotsman.com www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Nasty attacks on Rachel Reeves' chess claims show why UK should learn from Iceland
The difference in cross-party respect and tone in the Icelandic parliament was startling, with no petty name calling or mansplaining, writes Christine Jardine after a recent trip there
www.scotsman.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Women in public life are still too often targeted over trivialities instead of being judged on their ideas and actions. It discourages talented women from entering politics. My thoughts in this weeks column: @scotsman.com www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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Does anyone else ever go Christmas shopping for other people, see something, and think to themselves “You know who would love this? Me!” before promptly placing it in their cart?
Or am I just a selfish bastard?
Or am I just a selfish bastard?
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Does anyone else ever go Christmas shopping for other people, see something, and think to themselves “You know who would love this? Me!” before promptly placing it in their cart?
Or am I just a selfish bastard?
Or am I just a selfish bastard?
But I have so many of those.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
But I have so many of those.
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Farage claims he has never racially abused anyone with intent. I have never racially abused anyone.
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Farage claims he has never racially abused anyone with intent. I have never racially abused anyone.
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The sunrise over Mt Esja this morning. As the day grows shorter the sunrise become more and more beautyfull...
#Iceland #EastCoastKin
#Iceland #EastCoastKin
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The sunrise over Mt Esja this morning. As the day grows shorter the sunrise become more and more beautyfull...
#Iceland #EastCoastKin
#Iceland #EastCoastKin
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With #Advent starting Mon, the #Christmas House near Akureyri is a good choice for #SaturdayStairs! This destination of year round festivity is also home to the largest Advent Calendar in the world, an illustrated tower with 24 little doors, each has a clue, you find the corresponding pic! #Iceland
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
With #Advent starting Mon, the #Christmas House near Akureyri is a good choice for #SaturdayStairs! This destination of year round festivity is also home to the largest Advent Calendar in the world, an illustrated tower with 24 little doors, each has a clue, you find the corresponding pic! #Iceland
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There is no Korean restaurant in Iceland. Just putting it out there in case someone with Korean roots is looking to make a move to a cold, dark place and also make my life a little better.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is no Korean restaurant in Iceland. Just putting it out there in case someone with Korean roots is looking to make a move to a cold, dark place and also make my life a little better.
Who posts demonstrable horsehit like this all over Facebook? Why? What is their end game? Why is it so hard to block all of this crap? How should they be executed?
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Who posts demonstrable horsehit like this all over Facebook? Why? What is their end game? Why is it so hard to block all of this crap? How should they be executed?
Walk away. Defriend. Zero tolerance for racism - and anyone who starts a sentence like that, will always and unambiguously finish it with racism.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Walk away. Defriend. Zero tolerance for racism - and anyone who starts a sentence like that, will always and unambiguously finish it with racism.
You mean when tabloid journalists stopped writing headlines like EASTBENDERS when two men kissed in a soap opera, Piers?
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You mean when tabloid journalists stopped writing headlines like EASTBENDERS when two men kissed in a soap opera, Piers?
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Intriguing, challenging and informing. For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Defending our national treasure: the voice of the nation
Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Intriguing, challenging and informing. For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Here, books and cables, certainly; plants and pottery, not so much - but the point is well made.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Here, books and cables, certainly; plants and pottery, not so much - but the point is well made.
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Late Night With The Devil is superb. Ghostwatch meets Knowing Me Knowing You, in 1977. Although I don’t imagine that was the pitch.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Late Night With The Devil is superb. Ghostwatch meets Knowing Me Knowing You, in 1977. Although I don’t imagine that was the pitch.
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
We left more-or-less during the Truss month, surely the most tragically hilarious point - but only up to that point - of the country’s descent into a pit of weaponised ignorance and racist demagoguery.
"Brexit and the changing social climate also played a role. Even those who had emigrated decades ago felt vindicated, noting a sharp decline in public attitudes, rising racism, and a volatile political landscape."
https://bit.ly/3X7z0Sm
https://bit.ly/3X7z0Sm
‘I never looked back’: Readers on why Britons are choosing life abroad after Brexit
Our community has shared their own stories of leaving the UK, citing high taxes, poor services, and a hostile society, with most planning to settle abroad permanently
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We left more-or-less during the Truss month, surely the most tragically hilarious point - but only up to that point - of the country’s descent into a pit of weaponised ignorance and racist demagoguery.
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Is it too early to put up christmas lights? Asking for your friend, me, who doesn't care and already did.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Is it too early to put up christmas lights? Asking for your friend, me, who doesn't care and already did.