Nobody

Absolutely nobody

Roadrunner:

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Absolute banger that one.

Anyway, on the long drive home from East Anglia yesterday I introduced my teenage son to Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’ and now he’s playing ‘Satellite of Love’ in the kitchen. No further parenting needed.

At the close of a long day Toast is completely transfixed by Billie Whitelaw’s performance in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Rockaby’.

White fluffy cat, sitting on a tree stump in a sea of bluebells.

Back in the woods yesterday, only to be confronted by a terrifying wild beast.

Leeds station have kindly put a seat aside for bald men with my body shape.

#OtD 13 Apr 1906 Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett, was born. During the Nazi occupation of France, Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier. After the war, he was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance for his efforts

The Gaffer is talking about Samuel Beckett on BBC Four guys.

This one is still fantastic though.

Playing Spacemen 3’s ‘Hypnotized’ and then I’m off to bed.

Now playing obscure but immense Bunnymen b-sides.

I should really go to bed but Glen Campbell and Edward Woodward are my best friends.

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

“Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State at that time.”

Excited for this release - and grateful it’s not paywalled, unlike its UK counterpart

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Bad Day at Black Rock - Spencer Tracy, 1955 YouTube video by pedal4ever

It’s Spencer Tracy’s birthday.
This is one of the greatest racist gets a spectacular asskicking scenes ever.
Not seen the movie?
But you must.
youtu.be/9gX2pK1mioU?...

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Happy Easter from RS Thomas everyone!

The centrist who sneers "populist" is inviting you to believe that there is no difference between "you are worse off because of the swarming hordes of islamic transgenders" and "you are worse off because the rich have used their wealth and power to amass more wealth and power."

If it was the case that most British MPs were highly attuned to the cost of living crisis then maybe they’d be moved to do more about it. Dismissing the urge to do more as ‘facile populism’ is posturing nonsense.

Either that or someone doing Josh Wink’s Higher State of Consciousness on a kazoo.

Considering it.

Round about my age o suspect- early 50s.

I am currently watching an Elvis impersonator entertain the elderly in an East Anglian care home and it is the single most moving musical experience of my life.

Guy Burgess.

We all do.

The trouble is OUR oil ended up in THEIR land. Square that circle.

Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.

New 1926 General Strike map online!

Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.

Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Despite living with this ‘lampshade’ for two years Toast has decided to attack the model birds on it tonight.

On point.

John Cale. At once the most normal and the most bizarre member of The Velvet Underground.