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This is beyond perfect. George Finch, Reform leader of Warwickshire is David Brent reborn (links to Instagram) www.instagram.com/reel/DXUNlbP...

All Clouds Bring Not Rain

Album of the year and it’s only April open.spotify.com/album/7mff4W...

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

If it has such unwavering public support, why did Labour not include it in their manifesto (which would have limited the scope of opposition in the Lords)? And public support for the principle should not mean legislators give bad legislation a green light? The lack of due process was the faultline.

Including those arseholes who attached themselves to the Down Syndrome Bill, one of who now leads UKIP, eh @mumof3amigos.bsky.social

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

A sentence like this still brings you up short doesn’t it ‘Orbán's defeat will come as a blow to his close allies Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’ #Hope www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Went to see The Magic Faraway Tree. Sort of enjoyable, with the occasional painfully icky bits (the family song 🤢), some deeply inexplicable plotlines, and lacking in any real suspense. Mark Heap steals the whole film. Felt like a waste of an amazing cast and how AI films might feel soon.

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest I went to see the new brilliant production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic last week. I’d always loved the movie, and had read the book as a teenager. This was somethi…

One flew east, one flew west.... blogpost linking One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Old Vic to direct payments, Dadaism and Angine De Poitrine. Resistance is *never* futile. makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/o...

Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

I have found a new love 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgH...

Live More – supporting people living with dementia to stay active, connected and well through Shared Lives Introduction by Sarah McClinton  I was so impressed when I heard about the Live More initiative in Greater Manchester and would like to thank Neil Crowther for this blog, which I am delighted to intro...

Great endorsement from Chief Social Worker for England & co-chair of the Modern Service Framework for Frailty & Dementia working group Sarah McClinton for 'Live More' - supporting people with dementia & families to stay active, connected and well socialworkwithadults.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/08/l...

Vivid shadows of trees on a white building with a bright blue sky

Spring shadows on a hot day in Deptford

Went to Little Beirut with my daughter. Ate a delicious mixed shawarma wrap and fattet humous then took a walk along the Regents Canal to Little Venice and had an ice cream in the lovely sunshine. Two pints of ale in the Warwick Tavern and the tube home. Final day well spent.

I’ll say it again, it’s not #dementia

Clanger-speak.

I’m intrigued at why things like robots, AI and disease modifying drugs are roundly celebrated irrespective of evidence of real life potential, while proven innovations in relational human support are ignored at best, or get lost in a narrative which counts ‘care’ only as a growing cost

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

Went to see ‘The Drama’. Amazing. Now that is one original plot twist and conceit….

The Old Vic theatre

Went to see One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic tonight. You should too. Was incredible.

Possibly the best tweet ever committed to the site.

Another young persons drinking establishment in London where all the bar staff refer to customers as ‘love’ as tho I’m Greenhalghes bakery in Bolton. What’s going on?

Look like Ant McPartlin’s receding father.

So earlier this year I felt really glum & decided to do a few new things to try to lift myself. One was to learn to play the Ukelele I bought in the Xmas 2020 lockdown. Tonight the group I’m with is performing at a bar in Shoreditch, including Bulletproof by La Roux. Not quite matched her quiff…

If I owned a grocer’s called Tuck Shop, I would have not have chosen this font

This recipe looks lovely and most of all its instruction to ‘de-beard’ the spring onions, which I have never heard before (tho wondering whether anyone eats them unshaven and hirsute?)

sign that says "BABY SHOES ON SALE 1 FOR $60 2 FOR $80 3 FOR $100"

hold my beer, hemingway

Mina canta "Se telefonando" a Studio Uno YouTube video by Rai

Have to share this at least once a year. Always struck she was maybe the Italian Cilla Black, albeit performing a song written for her by Ennio Morricone, that inspired Johnny Marr. Be patient - it’s absolutely breathtaking www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOS...

What Have You Done? with Chi + Lucas - Series 1: Episode 1: Kate Garraway Chi and Lucas welcome Kate Garraway aboard their pedalo to discuss Celebrity Traitors, pantomimes and clickbait.

I am so in love with these two. ‘Dual Carriageway’. Chris Morris meets Julia David meets Ali G meets Mrs Merton in a parallel universe www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Hubby.

The future of adult social care needs a shared story, not a brand Been reflecting recently on the work I’ve helped to lead for the past several years on a new narrative related to how our lives should be experienced when we have reason to draw on adult soci…

On why the future of adult social care needs a shared story, not a 'brand'. Blogged: makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...