Martin Ott

Obama’s speech at the Jessie Jackson Memorial event. Astonishing. Then Jennifer Hudson. “A change is a gonna come.” Thew.

Less June Nippers. More March Millennials.

Obama’s speech at the Jessie Jackson Memorial event. Astonishing. Then Jennifer Hudson. “A change is a gonna come.” Thew.

Interesting. A German Lufthansa flight has just left Abu Dhabi bound for Munich.

The Embankment, River Thames, Saturday, 22 February 2025 at 13:32.

Neil Sedaka - Solitaire YouTube video by Memo Music

Thanks for the memories Neil

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Presume Elvis was challenging to work with.

Walrus 1942 Eric Ravillious. This wood engraving was amongst the final works completed before E.C’s untimely demise. It was commissioned to enliven the Admiralty weekly Intelligence Report with further pieces shown here.

*30%* ffs. I wonder what that figure would be by now if our media weren’t still almost exclusively populated by intellectually indolent wankers too pompous to admit that they never had the first idea what they were encouraging everyone else to vote for. (With a side of plums who deployed ‘balance’.)

Condolences dear boy. Draw breath and look after yourself.

@nickabbot.bsky.social

Nick “Normal” Abbot has a certain ring. Handy when you restart your cage fighting career 😂

7.7% on a school day! Good man.

I find the newsfeed offered for free by Perplexity a surprisingly calm way of easing into the daily newsround. I hope it maintains this level. Telegraph has ceased to be worthy having slid further than Izal. Long-form Substacks & podcasts probably our only salvation plus Byline and New World.

Skippers Lane towards Newmarket is frankly treacherous for most of its length. I have seen better maintained roads in Laos.

Five years on and still no negative effects following first COVid jab.

So the proof may not be in the pudding yet it was the pudding that permitted it to get wet in the first instance. 😉

@matthew-wright.bsky.social I have considered your recent period of unwellment. I suspect you might have inadvertently drunk liquid from a damp glass. 🥴 Wish you a full & speedy recovery.

I’m not normally that person but….

It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago

Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

Masterclass in podology

Three that year, all quite different

From a time before electronic computing and American fast-food. The original Big Mac.

“Amazing how much a gender change can achieve.” Steady on old chap, or whatever pronoun you’d now prefer 🥴

To be fair, he can write risible prose too.

@bbcstever.bsky.social Excellent documentary. You are the very best of British journalism and my admiration of your measured style knows no bounds. Do take very good care of your colleagues and yourself. Some squirrel 😉 !

Jimmy LaFave ~ For Everyman ....w/Lyrics (Tributo to Jackson Browne) YouTube video by Jade Theresa

For enormously personal reasons this wonderful rendition of a Jackson Browne classic resonates down the years. Headphones on, volume up, darkened room and enjoy.

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I could be wrong but I’m suspecting that my Daughter’s family German Shepherd bitch just *might* be overly indulged.

Timeless Larson

Still, enough about me ...

Badge of Honour for Carney