Patrick Barlow

OTD: ZURICH PREMIERSHIP 2002 Saracens 18 Tigers 26 (Booth 1t, Murphy 1t 1d, Stimpson 2c 3p) Vicarage Road, 27 October Dean Richards: “It might have been totally different if Andy Goode kicked all his goals”. Fortunate then he was playing for Saracens on this day.

Rosebank = 254 million tonnes of planet-warming gases. ❌❌The Government must say No To Rosebank ❌❌

#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958...

Everything you need to set up a Labour Budget. Terms and conditions apply. Real action on the cost-of-living crisis sold separately.

With notes of Genocide and White Phosphorus...

Make a band edible Stiff Little Fish Fingers

Only 998 days until Wes Streeting's war. Are you getting excited yet? 🙃

Make a band edible The Chicken Supremes

The latest betting odds show the Israeli election is now a foregone conclusion. Bookmakers say there's a 100% that a supporter of genocide will be the next Israeli PM. You heard it here first.

This wonderful tree contained a door. I didn't dare open it so as not to disturb. Who would live there, a dwarf, an elf, fairies, a wizard.🌳

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 70. Bumblebees transport pollen in ‘baskets’ on their hind legs and nectar in their honeystomach. They can carry their body weight in nectar and up to 90% of their body weight in pollen. What they carry affects how they fly. #bees #bumblebees #nature

Make a band edible The Sweet Trolly (One for the kids)

Make a band edible The Rolling Scones

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

The UK is exporting its carbon footprint. We ship 8M tonnes of scrap steel to nations with weak environmental laws, only to buy the finished product back. #UKPol #UKSteel #NetZero #IndustrialPolicy @uksteel.org @green-alliance.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

27 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Henderika Leman, was born in Zwolle. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in November 1942 with her younger brother Meijer and her mother Annette. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Contemplating the environmental impact of shrinkflation. A can of tuna used to contain more tuna. The cost is the same and the weight of the can is the same. The difference has been made up with water. If we were honest, and cans were smaller, we would burn a lot less diesel moving them around.

(1979) #MusicSky youtu.be/0Vo4lNb0w48?...

Really good stuff from Tadhg www.youtube.com/live/sCLJjgq...

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Having become the youngest Tigers player to make an appearance in the league in 2015, Ben White became the youngest Leicester captain in 2018. On 27 October, at 20 years and 153 days, he skippered the club in a 21-29 Premiership Cup defeat at Saracens.

Labour’s contempt for young people is a boon for the Green Party. Many thanks to Andy Burnham for this inexplicable own goal

Six blue tits and two great tits were rushed to South Essex Wildlife Hospital after wooden dowels coated in glue had been left in trees and on the ground to trap birds. The birds were ripping out their feathers as they fought to escape. They are now recovering at the Wildlife Hospital.

Rise and shine youtu.be/OfW4YVT4HBE

Just listen to this. Then consider these polls: 76% of Jewish Israelis think there are no innocents in Gaza (Aug 2025) 82% support expelling Palestinians from Gaza (May 2025) 47% support killing all inhabitants of conquered enemy cities (May 2025)

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Zionism is racism. Israel is an apartheid state, founded by terrorists. Israel is committing genocide, and ethnic cleansing. @labourlewis.bsky.social leave zionist funded Labour, and join @greenparty.org.uk

32 years and not ONE cabinet minister has met the Chinook families. We need @andyburnham.bsky.social to be the first, and to agree to a fresh review independent of the MoD Ssign our @ukchange.bsky.social petition today #chinookjustice #mod #coverup #hillsboroughlaw www.change.org/p/justice-fo...

OTD: HEINEKEN CUP 2001 Perpignan 30 Tigers 31 (Booth 1t, Stimpson 1c 7p, Goode 1d) Stade Aimé Giral, 27 October One of the great gritty Tigers wins on French soil. They top the pool ahead of Llanelli, and end their campaign retaining the cup.

Those who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law, those who killed her were following it.

“Just follow the money.” ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) As true today as it’s always been. #RobertRedford #HalHolbrook #film #movie #cinema

Rage OTD 1914 Dylan Thomas was born, in Swansea youtu.be/w-sM-t1KI_Y

Mood today? Rage, rage

One of our finest purveyors of the spoken word - Michael Sheen - performing the poetry of fellow countryman DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today — in UNDER MILK WOOD (1954)

Nerd Reich youtu.be/Lwz1XwHwWhY

His 100th day in office. We need the PM’s support. Now we need your support again - to persuade him to meet us. Please add your signature. #chinookjustice www.change.org/p/justice-fo...

Lara Bird and Clive Lewis arrested, held at Allenby Bridge

Please do not use blue surgical masks which leak air round the sides. Please use FFP2/3 (or N95/99) which are close-fitting and give much better protection against AIRBORNE VIRUSES.

Message on a 20lb bomb. (#OTD in 1942, North Africa. #WW2 #HISTORY)

The Vanquished. (#OTD in 1944, Gilze-Rijen airfield area, Holland. #WW2 #HISTORY)

#OTD in 1944. Shipyard workers, worked day and night. Mrs. C. Ashurst (from Eccles), a war widow, is one of the women welders. #WW2 #HISTORY

JOHN PHILIP HORROCKS-TAYLOR England, Lions and Leicester fly-half Phil Horrocks-Taylor was born on 27 October 1934.

If the BBC treated the Green Party as they do Reform, and Reform as they do the Greens, Reform would be on 10% and the Greens 20%

USA helped but it took until 1942 before the USA got out of Nazi Germany & in the process gave passage to a load of SS Nazis — gave them top jobs in what became NASA & the CIA. 2026 it has another problem supporting a new form of Nazism. The US dropped 2 Nuclear Bombs knowing surrender was coming

Jon Kay to Jonathan Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"

Absolutely brilliant to see. Yet fossil fuel use and emissions are STILL increasing, because capitalist economies require endless growth. On a finite planet, that can only end one way. Without system change, much of our efforts are little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

The name of the POUM, the Marxist anti-Stalinist militia with which Orwell fought on the Aragón front, inscribed by some militia fighter in 1936-37 on the stone of this old farm hut, all of those years ago. Near Tierz, Huesca.