Andrea Robertson

Fabulous place!

I wondered if the museum shop sells repros...
I would love to drink my coffee from something so pretty!

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

I found 7 - but then I'm looking at a small screen...

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

Yes, it was lovely when the grey went!
(I live close by).

There has been talk about reopening Belford for decades, but it keeps getting shelved.
(It's one of the places where a slower train can move off the main line).

Nigel Farage said today, I’m not interested in public opinion. Just think about that for a while.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

After a couple of productive dance sessions yesterday, the news that a cake shop and deli opens in our village this morning is keeping my mood light.
This despite my car announcing that all 4 tyres have dropped pressure (I blame the change in barometric pressure - it happened before). I have a pump.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Always looks like it's about to fall over!

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Important to remember that the people most enthusiastic about bombing Iran are almost always the people most hateful towards refugees.

‘How incredibly stimulating!’ Retirees on discovering a new world through dance As Angela Rippon’s Let’s Dance campaign aims to get the nation moving this week, older dancers share how they overcame nerves to relish the benefits

I was a morris dancer from age 30 until 67.
When I was turning 60 I added Tribal Belly Dance (Fat Chance®️ style into the mix.
I'm now 74, still dancing (and performing from time to time).
My posture and flexibility have improved.
(Knees are still shot!)

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

A rather dishevelled and smudged looking female figure, holding a packet of carrot seeds, stands in front of a burning building. The caption at the top reads "The World", and at the bottom "Me Still Planning My Garden".

Pretty much...

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

We're channelling her for our next dance project!

Trump's property in Dubai has been blown up by Iran with a missile.

"So Mr Trump, what was it that first attracted you to the country with the third largest oil reserves in the world?"

I remember Farage moaning about 'family voting' when Labour won a by-election in Oldham (I think) back in 2015-16. He does it whenever brown people are voting for something.

If Nigel Farage is angry about voter fraud, wait until he hears about the millions of pounds Arron Banks paid Cambridge Analytica to influence the Leave EU campaign, fronted by *checks notes*

Nigel Farage…

It feels so good to not get a sinking feeling from an election result!
(I'm getting some reiki this morning).

Once I got the relationship between Piece Hall and the church I got my bearings.
It's many years since I was last there, but my dad's mum was born there around 1872.

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already.

It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win.

Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part.

Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.

My nephew and his father both attended St John's, and 10 years ago my nephew was married there.
Lovely memory.

Voters in Gorton and Denton can take a FREE personality test today. Simply go into a polling booth and if you find yourself voting for Matt Goodwin, you'll know you're a twat.