David Evans-Powell
@davidep82.bsky.social
Arts Partnerships Manager. Theatre, horror, Dr Who, Eurovision, history, old British TV. Loves the kitsch and the weird. Mini schnauzer dad 🏳️🌈 Trans rights are human rights.
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Unfortunate juxtaposition of signs here.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Unfortunate juxtaposition of signs here.
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19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
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Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
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Ever wanted a Christmas jumper with vulvas and a big ol' clitoris pun on it? Your time has come! We've been beavering away on a special Vagina Museum jumper just for you. Perfectly suitable for office parties, midnight carol services and Christmas lunches. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/mer...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ever wanted a Christmas jumper with vulvas and a big ol' clitoris pun on it? Your time has come! We've been beavering away on a special Vagina Museum jumper just for you. Perfectly suitable for office parties, midnight carol services and Christmas lunches. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/mer...
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
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Three years ago @parthenoid.bsky.social, @hermetic-arts.bsky.social and I visited the locations from Nigel Kneale’s Murrain.
Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.
Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Three years ago @parthenoid.bsky.social, @hermetic-arts.bsky.social and I visited the locations from Nigel Kneale’s Murrain.
Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.
Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.
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"Instead of unbroken golden sand, the shoreline is littered with millions of tiny plastic pellets – bio-beads – spilled into the sea by Southern Water and now washing up in waves. They are a chilling reminder of how fragile our environment is, and how carelessly some treat it." Worth a read ⤵️
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again | Mick Channon
The Camber Sands bio-beads disaster
A scar on a beloved place and a stark warning: if we let this pass quietly, it will happen again
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Instead of unbroken golden sand, the shoreline is littered with millions of tiny plastic pellets – bio-beads – spilled into the sea by Southern Water and now washing up in waves. They are a chilling reminder of how fragile our environment is, and how carelessly some treat it." Worth a read ⤵️
Watching The Towering Inferno. One of my favourites, I've seen it a hundred times. And every time I watch it I get more annoyed that Faye Dunaway's is expected to give up her career dream and choose between a family and her job, and Paul Newman doesn't lol!
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Watching The Towering Inferno. One of my favourites, I've seen it a hundred times. And every time I watch it I get more annoyed that Faye Dunaway's is expected to give up her career dream and choose between a family and her job, and Paul Newman doesn't lol!
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To Nigel Farage: 2021 BBC Value for Audiences report: "Taken together, a bundle of subscriptions providing advertising-free high-quality services comparable with those offered by the BBC across video, audio+news would cost over £400 per year" Subscription=end of universal #BBC public service.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
To Nigel Farage: 2021 BBC Value for Audiences report: "Taken together, a bundle of subscriptions providing advertising-free high-quality services comparable with those offered by the BBC across video, audio+news would cost over £400 per year" Subscription=end of universal #BBC public service.
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
I've no problem with MPs and Lords knowingly and deliberately working in a death trap.
I do have problems with them choosing to put the employees who work there in danger, and with them cheerfully wasting our money as they put off making a decision.
I do have problems with them choosing to put the employees who work there in danger, and with them cheerfully wasting our money as they put off making a decision.
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I've no problem with MPs and Lords knowingly and deliberately working in a death trap.
I do have problems with them choosing to put the employees who work there in danger, and with them cheerfully wasting our money as they put off making a decision.
I do have problems with them choosing to put the employees who work there in danger, and with them cheerfully wasting our money as they put off making a decision.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Her portrayal of asylum seekers doesn't just respond to the racist narratives of the Far Right: by othering asylum seekers as unworthy winners of riches, in implicit contrast to struggling families, Shabana Mahmood actively promotes and feeds those Far Right lies.
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Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
Awesome film. And (please excuse the little plug) I wrote a book about it 🙂
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Awesome film. And (please excuse the little plug) I wrote a book about it 🙂
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
Feeling snotty and under the weather today so my comfort viewing is old 70s disaster films. Just finished Airport 77, one of my all time favourites, and about to start Gray Lady Down which, shamefully, I've never seen before.
I wish they still made films like this.
I wish they still made films like this.
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Feeling snotty and under the weather today so my comfort viewing is old 70s disaster films. Just finished Airport 77, one of my all time favourites, and about to start Gray Lady Down which, shamefully, I've never seen before.
I wish they still made films like this.
I wish they still made films like this.
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Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
Absolutely this 👇
Also a reiteration that, just because you have, or come from, wealth, doesn't mean you know the first thing about economics.
Also a reiteration that, just because you have, or come from, wealth, doesn't mean you know the first thing about economics.
As I rapidly approach my 60th Birthday I am increasingly enraged by being called a 'kid' by folks that are younger than me because I support policies which threaten their unquestioned lives of privilege. Thomson is only 2 years younger than me, but she has had a much narrower life.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Absolutely this 👇
Also a reiteration that, just because you have, or come from, wealth, doesn't mean you know the first thing about economics.
Also a reiteration that, just because you have, or come from, wealth, doesn't mean you know the first thing about economics.
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Apparently, these days, every single thing you can imagine is a way of transferring money from government coffers to private shareholders.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Apparently, these days, every single thing you can imagine is a way of transferring money from government coffers to private shareholders.
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Who else would like to see a puppet show without the puppets?
Let's see a show of hands.
Let's see a show of hands.
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Who else would like to see a puppet show without the puppets?
Let's see a show of hands.
Let's see a show of hands.
Except we won't be able to see it through all this pissing rain.
BBC News - Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
BBC News - Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm
Activity on the surface of the Sun means the chance of the Northern Lights shining over the UK is high this week as Elizabeth Rizzini explains.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Except we won't be able to see it through all this pissing rain.
BBC News - Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
BBC News - Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm - BBC Weather
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...