Mick
@killiemesoftly.bsky.social
I’m a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of edam.
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
Love Telly, Film, Comics and Music (not necessarily in that order)
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OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
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Jon Stone was very wise here
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Jon Stone was very wise here
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For the avoidance of doubt this means there are more voters to be won by not being racist than being racist.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For the avoidance of doubt this means there are more voters to be won by not being racist than being racist.
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I think broadcast, especially in areas like economics, always has to operate with the Stan Lee Marvel comics rule and remember every issue might be somebody’s first.
That doesn’t mean you dumb down, it means you explain and don’t assume knowledge.
That doesn’t mean you dumb down, it means you explain and don’t assume knowledge.
To add to this - it's not like the public is being well served by broadcast news moving at the pace of 24 hour scrolling and the politically obsessed - it just means every election large numbers of people end up googling 'what is austerity?' 'What is brownfield?' etc. etc.
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think broadcast, especially in areas like economics, always has to operate with the Stan Lee Marvel comics rule and remember every issue might be somebody’s first.
That doesn’t mean you dumb down, it means you explain and don’t assume knowledge.
That doesn’t mean you dumb down, it means you explain and don’t assume knowledge.
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Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
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The brutality of the Trump-Putin alliance that has been unleashed on Ukraine in recent days is staggering. It comes as no surprise, but it is still shocking.
Whether it likes it or not, Europe has become the last stronghold of the rule of law.
Whether it likes it or not, Europe has become the last stronghold of the rule of law.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The brutality of the Trump-Putin alliance that has been unleashed on Ukraine in recent days is staggering. It comes as no surprise, but it is still shocking.
Whether it likes it or not, Europe has become the last stronghold of the rule of law.
Whether it likes it or not, Europe has become the last stronghold of the rule of law.
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NEW: All available reporting continues to indicate that the stipulations of the reported 28-point Russia-US peace plan amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation to Russia’s original war demands. 🧵(1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Nov. 20, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar112025
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Nov. 20, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar112025
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
NEW: All available reporting continues to indicate that the stipulations of the reported 28-point Russia-US peace plan amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation to Russia’s original war demands. 🧵(1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Nov. 20, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar112025
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Nov. 20, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar112025
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I apologise for this, but I need everyone to join me in a rousing internal chorus of Where's the money from? to the tune of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think
Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think
Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I apologise for this, but I need everyone to join me in a rousing internal chorus of Where's the money from? to the tune of chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think
Because I shouldn't suffer alone and the Mail's last bid for the telegraph was funded by Qatar and Abu Dhabi I think
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What is Reform-curious voters' biggest hesitation?
The party's lack of governing experience
That's according to new @thinksinsight.bsky.social research shared exclusively with PolHome this weekend
Reform as a "risk" to the country, and a single-issue party (immigration), are also concerns
The party's lack of governing experience
That's according to new @thinksinsight.bsky.social research shared exclusively with PolHome this weekend
Reform as a "risk" to the country, and a single-issue party (immigration), are also concerns
Reform Curious Voters Worry That The Party Lacks Experience
Voters who are thinking about backing Reform UK at the next general election are concerned that the party lacks experience of government.
www.politicshome.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What is Reform-curious voters' biggest hesitation?
The party's lack of governing experience
That's according to new @thinksinsight.bsky.social research shared exclusively with PolHome this weekend
Reform as a "risk" to the country, and a single-issue party (immigration), are also concerns
The party's lack of governing experience
That's according to new @thinksinsight.bsky.social research shared exclusively with PolHome this weekend
Reform as a "risk" to the country, and a single-issue party (immigration), are also concerns
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Gaucho was released 45 years ago today
#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Gaucho was released 45 years ago today
#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
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Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
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Robert Plant and Saving Grace stopped by @npr.org to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of four songs from their new album, 'Saving Grace': "Gospel Plough," "Higher Rock," "Everybody's Song," and "It's a Beautiful Day Today"—followed by "Gallows Pole." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHL5...
Robert Plant: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Robert Plant and Saving Grace stopped by @npr.org to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of four songs from their new album, 'Saving Grace': "Gospel Plough," "Higher Rock," "Everybody's Song," and "It's a Beautiful Day Today"—followed by "Gallows Pole." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHL5...
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Albums released just in the eight weeks before Christmas 1968:
Astral Weeks
HEAD
'The White Album'
Electric Ladyland
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Oliver! OST
Wee Tam And The Big Huge
The Marble Index
This Is My Country
Beggars Banquet
Wichita Lineman
The New Possibility
Astral Weeks
HEAD
'The White Album'
Electric Ladyland
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Oliver! OST
Wee Tam And The Big Huge
The Marble Index
This Is My Country
Beggars Banquet
Wichita Lineman
The New Possibility
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Albums released just in the eight weeks before Christmas 1968:
Astral Weeks
HEAD
'The White Album'
Electric Ladyland
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Oliver! OST
Wee Tam And The Big Huge
The Marble Index
This Is My Country
Beggars Banquet
Wichita Lineman
The New Possibility
Astral Weeks
HEAD
'The White Album'
Electric Ladyland
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Oliver! OST
Wee Tam And The Big Huge
The Marble Index
This Is My Country
Beggars Banquet
Wichita Lineman
The New Possibility
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This is one of my favourite bits on here: the Uk actually taxes its top decile a lot and under taxes the middle, giving us Europes most progressive taxation system. European taxes for the top decile and then they get frozen out of the benefits system because the middle do not pay their share.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is one of my favourite bits on here: the Uk actually taxes its top decile a lot and under taxes the middle, giving us Europes most progressive taxation system. European taxes for the top decile and then they get frozen out of the benefits system because the middle do not pay their share.
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Discombobulating data for those who believe our fiscal problems can be solved by squeezing high earners further. (Scotland, of course, is an even bigger outlier.)
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Discombobulating data for those who believe our fiscal problems can be solved by squeezing high earners further. (Scotland, of course, is an even bigger outlier.)
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I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
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btw you know what was really important last night. The game was on the BBC and we could all watch it. Imagine if folk missed that - *that* - because it was behind a paywall. Devastating. A crime.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
btw you know what was really important last night. The game was on the BBC and we could all watch it. Imagine if folk missed that - *that* - because it was behind a paywall. Devastating. A crime.
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Lovely short thread (with a v good piece at the end). I think Ruth's point at the end is entirely right. Also I think shows that 'being an effective minister' is a skillset in itself. Castle was not a transport wonk or labour market wonk or a welfare wonk, yet she was v effective in all three roles.
This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!
This was done despite fierce opposition.
📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Lovely short thread (with a v good piece at the end). I think Ruth's point at the end is entirely right. Also I think shows that 'being an effective minister' is a skillset in itself. Castle was not a transport wonk or labour market wonk or a welfare wonk, yet she was v effective in all three roles.
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Truly we have reached peak ‘give us your reckon’.
Call in with your reckon as to whether maintenance works on the railway network are necessary.
Call in with your reckon as to whether maintenance works on the railway network are necessary.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Truly we have reached peak ‘give us your reckon’.
Call in with your reckon as to whether maintenance works on the railway network are necessary.
Call in with your reckon as to whether maintenance works on the railway network are necessary.
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Leather jacket figures. A colleague used to see him having a sausage roll with brown sauce in a cafe in Liphook after his problems. Always with a leather jacket.
Local school kids would poke their heads round the door and shout "where's Dusty Bin?"
I got the impression he was one of them.
Local school kids would poke their heads round the door and shout "where's Dusty Bin?"
I got the impression he was one of them.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Central Post, a very brief letters page of the Midlands regional air, hauls Ted Rogers, clad in leather jacket and tie, in to explain the 3-2-1 clues.
TED ROGERS - 321 - GAME SHOW - CENTRAL - 18 NOVEMBER 1985 - INTERVIEW
TED ROGERS - WHO PRESENTED THE POPULAR GAME SHOW FROM YORKSHIRE TV - APPEARED ON CENTRAL NEWS TO EXPLAIN THE CLUES THAT ARE A FEATURE OF THE SHOW.
CENTRAL NEWS - THE REGIONAL NEWS PROGRAMME HAD OCCASIONALLY A CENTRAL POST SEGMENT - WHICH WAS A SORT OF POINTS OF VIEW SLOT.
TED ROGERS TRIES TO EXPL
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November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Leather jacket figures. A colleague used to see him having a sausage roll with brown sauce in a cafe in Liphook after his problems. Always with a leather jacket.
Local school kids would poke their heads round the door and shout "where's Dusty Bin?"
I got the impression he was one of them.
Local school kids would poke their heads round the door and shout "where's Dusty Bin?"
I got the impression he was one of them.