Sir Alf Ramsey: How the Army Shaped Him Grant Bage considers the military service and formative experiences of World Cup-winning football manager, Sir Alf Ramsey.

Interesting talk by Grant Bage coming up at @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social entitled - "Sir Alf Ramsey: How the Army Shaped Him". It considers the military service and formative experiences of World Cup-winning football manager, Sir Alf Ramsey.
Sign up for a place @ www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/sir...

A fair while coming!

Hoping to be up for our game next month x

Football with friends

That’ll do 💙💙 #itfc

Refugees welcome on a Union Jack flag tied to fence outside a hotel that is being targeted by racists

World peace flag with doves and a rainbow and peace symbol tied to fence outside hotel being targeted by racists

National education Union flag on fence outside hotel being targeted by racists

Refugees welcome sticker on fence outside hotel being targeted by racists

No place for hate in Norwich 🕊️💕

#WeAreNorwich #CityofSanctuary

Yesterday was a good day at the football 💙 #itfc

At meeting of Norfolk County Council today - judging by the number of Tory twin-hatters who haven’t shown up there isn’t a lot of love from their own group for their version of devolution. Voting with their feet rather than support the Tory motion on #devolution #norfolk

Day two on the picket outside NEU offices — a 🧵

So many messages of solidarity have poured in from NEU and multiple union districts and branches across the UK. Thank you so much…

@uniteneu.bsky.social

Image of Eastern Region NEU staff on a picket line holding UNITE the Union flags & home made placards

Sad to have to strike today

My minimum expectation is that our trade union employer should follow its own rules and protocols and avoid the worst practices of the employers that the NEU fights on behalf of its members

That low bar has not been met

Solidarity with all my #NEU #UNITE siblings

NEU staff are on strike today and tomorrow.

We can’t beleive it’s come to this. Striking as a trade union worker requires an absurd amount of things to go wrong — because you spend everyday making the union you love the kind of organisation people want to join - you only ever want to see it win.

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Got all excited as thought they’d done a Liam Delap

( only six days to get him in his Ipswich finery)

Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities? All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.

🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'

🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis

🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA

labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...

Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

🤖 AI firms have strip mined creative work to train their models. We’re looking into mounting a legal challenge.

✍️ If big tech has stolen your writing, art, photos, music – we’d love to hear from you. Together we can stand up for human creativity.

Even in death there is no dignity for Virginia Giuffre

Too much of the media coverage is still the narrative of the rich & powerful predatory perpetrators

Is it not possible to speak her name without those of her abusers?

BURNLEY 🩷🩵
BURNLEY 🩷🩵
BURNLEY 🩷🩵

Freshly promoted. Freshly doodled. Extremely wonky.

🛒 noscoredraws.com/collections/...

My thoughts with Vaz Hladky who has been on the receiving end of this two years running

Stunning work, as ever

On the way from a misty Norwich to Newcastle to join our promotion party as we head back to the championship

(It feels like promotion as I love the second division VAR etc can fuck right off)

#itfc 💙💙

Single figures defeat… that’ll do #itfc 💙

Oh come on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

#Manel #bbc

I guess there just are no women with any comprehension of the economy, markets and global finance 🤦🏻‍♀️

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

Emma, Gavin, Stuart and Tracy's fundraiser for The Darby Rimmer MND Foundation Darby Rimmer MND Foundation Help Stuart Hellingsworth raise money to support The Darby Rimmer MND Foundation

We had stopped fundraising…. But now we are only £65 away from £2500

www.justgiving.com/page/em-gav-...

#marchoftheday #attackMND #darbyrimmerMND #itfc #marcusstewart 💙

£105 off our target

Then I’ll shut up

@darbyrimmermnd

#MarchOfTheDay

#MND

www.justgiving.com/page/em-gav-...

oh good lord

Some of our very quickest and worst work #NUFC

Newcastle fans, you can sully the memories for ever by buying a set here: noscoredraws.com/products/new...

Working away this week tutoring - a bit of reflective reading for myself too #tradeunionorganising

Mental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting says Wes Streeting says too many young people are

Increased prevalence is not the same as over diagnosis.

Given how difficult it is to access mental health services more likely under diagnosis

urgent need to tackle living, learning & working conditions that make people ill not limit help for those who already are

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely Liverpool weekend 💙