Johnnie

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oh my life, I'm old. Also, Firefox really is good. youtu.be/E2AoYIKwJqM

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

Tickets available for my Worcester show on November 26. Please do come. Or repost to help reach someone else who can worcestertheatres.co.uk/whats-on/joh...

This week's MBRS (Late Show With Mickey Bradley) is tonight at 10.04pm on BBC Radio Ulster and includes Micko & The Mellotronics, Hello, Mooches, The Selecter, Judy Clay & William Bell, Life Without Buildings and a lot more. Listen on BBC Sounds and join the chat at: @mickeyundertone.bsky.social

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This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

TOMORROW!

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

For those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage.

From the new Private Eye

Fun: www.my9albums.com/s/4wH3Vl9Ze9

In-depth look at the Man City verdict, the finances, the key executives, the concocted claim about Abu Dhabi government funding and re-emergence of Etihad’s past insistence to the US govt that wasn’t the case. 5-minute video here news.sky.com/video/how-mu...

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

This live bit of Public Enemy on Jonathan Ross's show in 1992 was unseen in the modern era until I found it on a VHS recently. But it's only had 156 hits even though @flavorflav.bsky.social reposted it. If you know any PE fans, pass it on to them. They'll thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAWb...

One of my favourite moments at the Christmas shows was Ronnie Golden and Barry Cryer singing PEACE AND QUIET - a rather epic ending to that song m.youtube.com/watch?v=UA6g...

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: foreshadowing is a literary device which...

Bit late, but... Artist: hYpe https://b3ta.com/board/11431600 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/productplacementbooks/popular/ #ProductPlacementBooks

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

LISTEN UP, MAGGOTS! Today's episode will be on one of the greatest war films ever made, Full Metal Jacket. We will be joined by @sarahditum.bsky.social for some feminist backchat but you will ignore it. Let me hear you say "YESSIR". I CAN'T HEAR YOU! champ.ly/JXaGMYzm

TOMORROW!

Carl Sagan summarizes the 2,000+ year history of books in 2 minutes: Video Credit: Cosmos Studios

Autumn poem just dropped.

For millions, Terry Pratchett opened the door to a lifelong love of reading. The passage below, from Reaper Man, has always struck us as one of his most moving – a humanist meditation on death and legacy that continues to be read at humanist funerals today. #GNUTerryPratchett

You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so.

This man will do anything to save his position, anything. He's now discovered this new concept, "consultation", probably in the bin where he chucked it ten years ago. A Man Without Dignity rather than A Man Without Qualities.

This episode just gave us our best-ever opening weekend. And if you play it at one-tenth normal speed, it sounds like whales humping. champ.ly/jxB1Ro-o

I can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Today’s poem is called ‘In the Departure Lounge’.

it really does feel crazy to type this but tickets are on sale now to see the final two episodes of Jet Lag: Japanorama in MOVIE THEATERS in the US and UK. i hate to be earnest but i really am so excited about this go.nebula.tv/japanorama

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.

Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

The Post Office told wrongly-accused postmasters that their compensation offers were secret, and couldn't be shown to anyone. That was false. The Solicitors Regulation Authority was about to prosecute the lawyers responsible. But now it's dropped the case, and won't say why.

Jeepers that was tense.

Is there a better feeling in cricket! 🤩 Just listen to that roar as Dan Worrall secures a thrilling win! 🫶 🤎 | #CountyChampionship

Hi @bbcnews.bsky.social Reform are a party of 8 MPs, less than the SNP. Therefore, they do not have a 'Shadow Home Secretary' The Shadow Home Secretary is Chris Philp. Maybe you need BBC verify to check your own reporting...

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Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.