Mark White

The sun sets at five minutes to five today..

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?

Pre-movie scran and a pint (unusually for me, lager!) with the youngest, at Maggie Fu's, New Brighton. Decent enough green Thai curry.

So obviously an Elvis Costello pastiche

Celebratory solo pint in The Sportsman's after Tranmere's 1-0 win versus Shrewsbury in the EFL Trophy. Notable, as it's the first time I've been able to book a 'Senior' ticket - £7. Not a great game, but a win is a win, and we resume the league games this Saturday at home to Walsall.

Always good to remind everyone that the cuddly Libdems enabled the Tories and their vicious austerity measures, which has lead directly to the rise of right wing parties in this country.

In order to deny him the 'oxygen of publicity', Donald Trump's words will be voiced by Gerry Adams.

Our Rebellion! exhibition opens at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead on 23 October and will run until 20 February. Here is something about the project.

'And, coming up later we have a session from 'King Charles and his Giddy Tones'...

Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock on state pension They inflict low wages, consign millions to poverty. Govt spending on state pension as % of GDP in G7 countries. Italy 12.8 France 12 Germany 9.8 Japan 8.9 USA 6.6 Canada 4.7 UK 4.7 UK has one of the least generous pensions in the G7.

For anyone interested, on BBC Alba at 5:00pm - Napoli v Bologna

Twilight Zone - 'He's Alive' Rod Serling's timeless tale of the perils of fascism and the blaming of 'others' for all that is wrong in society. It stars a young Dennis Hopper, who is coached by the ghost of what may be a certain Austrian Corporal..

JP Morgan billionaire CEO with $43m pay meets Burnham and Healey to oppose UK bank tax rise. Banks making record profits from high charges, measly payment to savers, speculation, wars. What chance of the poor meeting PM/Chancellor to make their case?

Suella Braverman referred to the RNLI as a "taxi service" on GB News today. Dangerous, inflammatory nonsense that could lead to actual harm. Vile.

I got all of the 'Clockwork Orange' questions right on University Challenge!

Different continent, same shit.

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Alex is at the Hibs v Hearts derby tonight.

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

Alex is at Easter Road for the Hibs v Gent game tonight.

Just a reminder that the excellent 'Bookish' created by and starring Mark Gattis, is now streaming it's second series on U&alibi.

Rare Tuesday evening pint at The Sportsman with my two lads. Alex is off back to Edinburgh tomorrow, and it's his 29th on Saturday.

Ultimately she ended up asset-stripping an entire country and squandering the money to buy votes. Thatcher’s policies of privatisation have created the problems we now have over housing and homelessness, energy, water etc. She was a neoliberal fundamentalist.

China launches global tax hunt going back decades. UK needs to do the same. Last year HMRC failed to collect £59bn of taxes, that is £500bn since 2010. Poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of their income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%. archive.ph/6hIvy

Millions waiting for social housing. Millions in temporary accommodation. The money is not the problem. The government is a currency issuer. It can fund public housing without "finding" anything. The real question is whether we build it. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics

Out with Adam at Wirral Pride, New Brighton. Enjoying a much needed pint of Red Fin cider at Homebrew Tap.

Why did Britain spend the decades after the financial crisis repeatedly stabbing itself for no good reason, with both hands? Because all the right sort of chaps decided that was better and more in their interest than e.g. admitting the Thatcherite consensus was fucked and needed to be replaced.

Alex was at Easter Road tonight for Hibs 2-1 win versus Shkendjik of Macedonia. Two players who started out at Tranmere featured, one providing an assist. Callum Wright and Adam Mayor.

The best part is, I recall hearing a senior Tory grandee - I forget which - telling Times Radio that Cameron and Osborne picked austerity as their great project not because it was smart or necessary, but because they needed a great project and that felt like a Tory thing to do.

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

Solo pint before the game at Prenton Park today.

Summer in a song- Lotus Eaters

'Wirral Loan' by Rita Coolidge, according to No Lemons.

Eldest is at the Hibs v Malisheva UEFA Conference League game tonight.

Solo pint in Ship & Mitre, Liverpool - quality assured.

Prog Rock on the BBC - BBC4 now.

Leith, Edinburgh.

Post gig pints in the Brass Monkey, Leith.

Pints with my lads in Robbie's Bar, Leith Walk, Edinburgh. We're up here to see David Byrne tonight at the Playhouse. And, speaking of Mr. Byrne, we just met him close to the venue!

On in the car today

Edinburgh tomorrow to experience this artist at work.

Good start - I just got the first question right on the new University Challenge series!

Solo pint this, almost bearable, summer's day in the newly announced candidate for 'Town of Culture', - Birkenhead!

'England forming their own Wonder-wall'....

Just a thought, but do you think defenders may stop/block more shots on goal if they didn't thrust their hands behind their backs and turn away from the attacker?... #didnthappeninmyday