Paul Challinor

Top of the Pops (28th July 1983). The Lotus Eaters are in at number 25 with The First Picture of You.

It’s time for @countbinface.bsky.social to take out the trash.

I'm not really into football, but is this Doctor Congo...

Way down deep in the Congo, they drank Um Bongo to make you Wongo! 1986

Scooby Doo always fascinated me. When the criminals were unmasked and said "I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids", no one ever mentioned the 6 foot tall talking dog. Was Shaggy the only person who could hear Scooby talking?

They are all very deliberately ignoring the express wishes of Henry Nowak's family; the judge's sentencing report & the obvious, albeit brief, consequences of a crime being reported exclusively by a lying associate of the perpetrator. It may feel futile but this has to be repeated again & again.

Give Us A Clue (22nd September 1980). Peter Blake is given Yanks for two whole minutes.

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Here’s an idea - politicians have to apply for a licence to practice politics, renewed every 5 years. If you are found to have been a key architect of a disastrous decision which has made the country measurably poorer, that’s one of the criteria through which the licence can be revoked.

It's that time of year again.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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The latest Tory to defect to Reform is Chris Mason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This week Nigel Farage went to America to badmouth Britain, even comparing our country to North Korea. He’d rather cosy up to his MAGA buddy mates than fix problems here at home.

Ray French, former BBC rugby league commentator, dies aged 85

#PutBagsInASongOrMovie The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Handbag Or anything by the French singer Satchel Distel.....

Hands up if you’re dead.

Nice to see a blue plaque and plinth on Wistaston Road in Crewe to commemorate the women’s rights campaigner, Ada Nield Chew. In the 1890's she wrote letters to the Crewe Chronicle exposing the conditions the women worked in. The needle and bobbin represent the clothing factory she worked in.

Miriam Margolyes has called for Robbie Gibb the effective head of the BBC to be fired. Robbie Gibb was behind the firing of Gary Lineker. It is time for him to get a taste of the boot.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Just found a really great carrier bag in the Christmas stuff.

Big Ron and Daniel Peacock head off to Do It All this Bank Holiday in 1986

The Piggies were at NatWest in 1984

A finger of Fudge was just enough in 1982

The red car and a blue car had a race for a Milky Way in 1989

Latest "poor me" article where woman claims her husband is in the top 1% of earners, but they're still hard up and leaving the UK. Best is their issue with the school who didn't like them taking the kids out for a 9 month round the world trip. 9 months!!! www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic...

A cautionary PIF about fire doors with Peter Cleall and Patsy Rowlands.

As predicted, the front pages of BBC & CNN are full of Israel-Iran. Nothing on Gaza or West Bank. Remember that all comms are cut in Gaza as they starve. Exactly what Netanyahu wanted. They can do anything they like now as the vapid MSM chase the new squirrel released for their distraction.

Mary, Mungo and Midge go to the seaside.

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

Lots of different community groups took part in the Peoples Parade in Stoke yesterday - just a shame the weather wasn;t better!!!

Nice to see the Peoples Parade in Hanley yesterday to celebrate 100 years since Stoke was given City status. And thankfully the rain did stop for a short time at least

Healthy but tired cynicism being expressed in this letter (to the i Paper). We’re all so bloody sick of the failure… of being lied to like this… of politics for simpletons who think the stuff they don’t like can be swept away with a magic wand and who have no clue how a country works.. or doesn’t.

'Tell me this isn't a surrender to the forces of hate.' After the Liverpool incident, James O'Brien asks: 'Why else do they need to get the colour and nationality of the suspect into public discourse so early, if not to somehow prevent the kind of scenes we saw after Southport?'

The author of Nigel Farage's economic plans celebrates another job well done

Finally got round to doing the Hale Village circular walk, near Widnes. Only 2.5 miles long and you go out to the lighthouse with views across the Mersey to Ellesmere Port, Frodsham, Helsby and the Clwydian hills in N Wales. And the planes to Liverpool Airport fly right over!!!

The men who claim they focus on Pakistani rapists because they “care” about women are the same men who revere Trump, defend Russell Brand and praise the Tates. The issue is men. Not one singular culture, religion or race weaponised for political clout. Men.

Can’t put it better.

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Please sign to bring Opal to a sanctuary 🙏🏻 www.change.org/p/free-opal-...

‘The Free Speech Debate Has a Lot to Do With Race – But the Media Won’t Tell You That’ The 'sheer hypocrisy' of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s 'free speech ultimatum'

Had a lovely walk this morning from Leigh town centre, along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to Pennington Flash Nature Reserve

Posting this again, just because I like making people watch and listen to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rzB...

This is a UK petition to write to your MP to stop Trumps state visit. stoptrump.org.uk/mp-state-vis...

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.