@neilb.uk
Minding my own business. Would rather be riding my bike. Founding member of the tofu-eating, Guardian-reading wokerati. "uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism" Connect with me on all the places @ neilb.uk
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
He's not even an opposition back-bencher. He's a back-bench MP for one of the minor, fringe parties.
Ha, me too 🎶
Incidentally, I think the first record I ever bought was Living in a Box.
Seeing that has just brought back a load of happy memories.
It's back now. Apocalypse postponed for now.
I don't mean to alarm anyone but my weather app is only showing weather up to about 9pm tomorrow. And then just nothing....
Wtf 😱
People say BlueSky is an echo chamber but we have road cyclists, gravel cyclists, mountain bikers, single speeders, fixie riders, cargo bike riders, e-bike riders, hybrid riders, recumbent riders, bikepackers, randonneurs, and I'm sure we even have a few unicyclists among us
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
That's the first time I've ever heard him. I'm assuming he hasn't quite hit puberty yet.
Oh, hello pollen 🤧
IF this is true, that's absolutely grim.
Zack on Laura K
The Green Party has been consistent on our position.
We support the Iranian people in their struggle against the brutal Regime.
And we oppose illegal bombing from the USA and Israel that has already killed countless civilians and risks an all out Regional war.
Geoffrey the Giraffe and TJ Jones staff outside a former branch of WH Smith.
Sad Geoffrey, close up.
Sad Geoffrey EXTREME CLOSE UP.
Is there nothing that private equity cannot destroy?
LOOK WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO GEOFFREY THE GIRAFFE
www.cityam.com/owner-of-for...
and again...
That's a little unfair on the current residents of the Outer Hebrides don't you think?
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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*inserts dodgy porn reference*
It's the only way!
Don't sleep on the Norwegians: they make some of the best comedy in the world.
That they do so much of it *in English* is just an amazing global public service to make their grade-A roasts available to people outside the Scandinvo-sphere.
Another don't-miss example in the first comment.
The Green bump makes absolute sense. For years, Green campaigners have been told on the doors that folk would love to vote from them, but they don't want to waste their vote on a party that would never win.
Gorton and Denton showed that that is no longer true.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Are you kidding me? Fuel Duty rates have bene held steady for 16 years while costs for public transport and general ethical choices have soared.
Raising fuel duty is one of a very short list of things that this government is getting right. Very poor from the Lib Dems.
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
I did it!
Turns out that totally misconstruing a soundbite about “wiping bums” (and being gently corrected by Zack when I objected!) prompted me to read up on what Green’s policies actually are and I signed up on Sunday morning.
I was a Labour member, before they turned their backs on “the many”.
sorry your holiday in the legal slavery zone run by the mad kings was ruined. maybe consider cleethorpes next year?
That's right up my street (the artwork in the calendar, not your office).
