Steve Hanson
@stevehanson.bsky.social
Writes things, Small Towns, Austere Times, Proceedings, Last Days of Pompeii, Shaken Bible and too much else to list.
The only Black Friday that counts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJo...
Black Friday
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The only Black Friday that counts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJo...
Very glad I didn't vote Labour. A labour party does not sell out the workers. Clue is in the name.
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Very glad I didn't vote Labour. A labour party does not sell out the workers. Clue is in the name.
One of the pleasures of moving somewhere is looking up the nearest post box. I don't know why.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
One of the pleasures of moving somewhere is looking up the nearest post box. I don't know why.
Was on a local Your Party WhatsApp group for a short time. They were arguing for a fortnight about whether or not there should be an agenda for the first meeting. 'IT'S NOT YOUR PARTY IT'S MINE.' The best satire isn't invented. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles
Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Was on a local Your Party WhatsApp group for a short time. They were arguing for a fortnight about whether or not there should be an agenda for the first meeting. 'IT'S NOT YOUR PARTY IT'S MINE.' The best satire isn't invented. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I logged back into Facebook after years and that ad for a tiny watercolour kit vomits out of the screen every two minutes. Why did I do that?
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I logged back into Facebook after years and that ad for a tiny watercolour kit vomits out of the screen every two minutes. Why did I do that?
Congress passes resolution calling socialism and Marxism a scourge and breaker of families - so does capital never do that? - but this will be the UK under Farage, the left under the first real cosh it has had. I put it to you that you are not prepared.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Congress passes resolution calling socialism and Marxism a scourge and breaker of families - so does capital never do that? - but this will be the UK under Farage, the left under the first real cosh it has had. I put it to you that you are not prepared.
Said it before and I'm saying it again.
The vibes of '25 in full: the end of war = a precedent-setting mendacious peace.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Said it before and I'm saying it again.
Only just found out that they remade The Clangers. And drained every drop of mystery out of it.
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Only just found out that they remade The Clangers. And drained every drop of mystery out of it.
I HAVE MOVED BACK TO THE CALDER VALLEY
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I HAVE MOVED BACK TO THE CALDER VALLEY
That place where the boundary between 'legitimate' capitalism and petty gangsterism starts to crumble...
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
That place where the boundary between 'legitimate' capitalism and petty gangsterism starts to crumble...
Exhaustion like never before, drilling back pain but no time for traction as every precious thing you own rolls precariously towards the horizon on four wheels with a bunch of strangers and the threat of £££ hangs over its release. A jelly quivers where the belly once was. S'called moving house.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Exhaustion like never before, drilling back pain but no time for traction as every precious thing you own rolls precariously towards the horizon on four wheels with a bunch of strangers and the threat of £££ hangs over its release. A jelly quivers where the belly once was. S'called moving house.
Hell is an eternal half-life sorting infinite coathangers in an infinite warehouse.
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hell is an eternal half-life sorting infinite coathangers in an infinite warehouse.
As things get grimmer it's worth remembering Deathlike Silence by Sodom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPci...
Deathlike Silence
YouTube video by Sodom - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As things get grimmer it's worth remembering Deathlike Silence by Sodom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPci...
Robbie Gibb and his brother worked for the rightwing National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. Amusing because Gibb is attempting a sort of entryism.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Robbie Gibb and his brother worked for the rightwing National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. Amusing because Gibb is attempting a sort of entryism.
Dear Father, on November the 2nd I bought you chocolate Brazil Nuts for Christmas. On the evening of the 9th I ate them all.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Dear Father, on November the 2nd I bought you chocolate Brazil Nuts for Christmas. On the evening of the 9th I ate them all.
Reposted by Steve Hanson
It’s extraordinary but not shocking that it isn’t seen as a massive story that one of the most senior politicians in Farage’s party was an active Russian agent for pay, asking questions in the European Parliament on the Kremlin’s behalf, organising pro-Russian events.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s extraordinary but not shocking that it isn’t seen as a massive story that one of the most senior politicians in Farage’s party was an active Russian agent for pay, asking questions in the European Parliament on the Kremlin’s behalf, organising pro-Russian events.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Steve Hanson
I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Gullible, credulous and therefore exploitable... and so possibly dangerous. htsf.substack.com/p/coventry-s...
Coventry South needs a by-election soon
Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine
htsf.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Gullible, credulous and therefore exploitable... and so possibly dangerous. htsf.substack.com/p/coventry-s...
As things get grimmer it's worth remembering the musical creativity of Leamington Spa beat group The Varukers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJ0...
The Varukers - Seek Shelter in Hell
YouTube video by Kenpachi Zaraki
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November 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As things get grimmer it's worth remembering the musical creativity of Leamington Spa beat group The Varukers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJ0...
Today's urgent message is: get some great tunes on, it might be the end of the world.
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today's urgent message is: get some great tunes on, it might be the end of the world.
I think somebody just blew up their own house.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I think somebody just blew up their own house.
Me man. Me make loud bang show me man.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Me man. Me make loud bang show me man.
The Curmudgeon curmudges. manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/u...
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Curmudgeon curmudges. manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/u...