Mishy

Tbh your complacent stupidity dressed up as insight is the real idiocy mate. Starmer has power to inflict real damage, Galloway doesn’t.

Hmmm. Rather than fixate on minor no-hoper Galloway, I would have thought Starmer (with power but clueless/hopeless), Badenoch (leader of party that got us in this mess) and Farage (will lead us to hell) are the very worst people in politics?

Mandelson - where Epstein and the student loans scandal meet…

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

Fare thee well Bob. One more river to cross.

At school in Stevenage in early 70s, each class could host a morning assembly. For ours, we choose to act out Freecloud. Never forget it.

Waiting for a train…

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer”

Henry Kissinger

Brighton

Winter solstice, Brighton.

The sun is rising…

Simca 1000 - First car, became mine when my father died.
Old beige Volvo - given to us by my partner’s father.
Saab convertible - a company car (my choice).
Original Nissan X-Trail - best car I ever had. Loved it.
Peugeot 3008 (now) if comprise designed a car…

Father and son selfie

Where shall we meet? I asked my son.

How about the bagel shop in Phnom Penh, he said.

And so the adventure begins…

Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

Clearly Lupin did it.

But how…?🤷🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Palestine and Catalonia to face off in football friendly at Olympic Stadium on November 18 Barcelona will host the international launch of the ACTxPALESTINE campaign, led by the world's main Palestinian organizations

www.catalannews.com/society-scie...

@wildtwin.bsky.social thanks for the follow Jeff. I love your writing and really enjoy sharing it with others.

Guernica Remakings 21st century re-makings of Guernica which reveal an important and on-going dialogue between art and activism, through community based collaborations.

Remember going to great exhibition at Uni of Brighton looking at different ways that it has been remade www.brighton.ac.uk/cdh/what-we-....

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Damn, missed it…

🤷🏻

I guess it’s not our room they’re reading?

The view from the hammock…

Tech policy is full of imaginaries. Pick a word or phrase ("AI", "digital ID" are two), add the phrase "efficiency" or "investment", and people who are digitally adept but lacking technology development experience will be queuing round the block to write it into a speech or a policy paper.

My one abiding IRL memory of Peter Mandelson is Mo Molem laughing with glee as she smashed into him on a dodgem car ride at Charlie Parson’s birthday party*

*not a fever dream

I used to enjoy it more when they were rivals, not customers…

“Not what we all hoped for” strikes me as the mother of all understatements 😏

The stunning Walter Benjamin memorial at Port Bou, Spain. A tribute to the many refugees who, like Benjamin, passed this way trying to escape tyranny.

I like crop circles lol

Crop circle museum, Honeystreet

Gallagher brothers in cat form