Jon
@jonw67.bsky.social
Liverpool, politics, theatre, wine, cricket, travel, Eurovison, family, republican (in the UK sense not US) - and more. Wry observations. General disdainment.
Not very responsible budgeting to be £10bn out...
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Not very responsible budgeting to be £10bn out...
The faux outrage in the right-wing press about Labour's potential plan to freeze income tax thresholds forgets that the Tories froze them in their budgets in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The faux outrage in the right-wing press about Labour's potential plan to freeze income tax thresholds forgets that the Tories froze them in their budgets in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
I give it two weeks from the current "ooo, turkey, exciting" to "I'm so bored of turkey"...
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I give it two weeks from the current "ooo, turkey, exciting" to "I'm so bored of turkey"...
Worst renovation in London? The beautiful, classy Palm Court in the art deco Sheraton Grand Park Lane has been turned into something akin to a cheap airport lounge - with lighting so glaringly bright it's giving me a headache!
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Worst renovation in London? The beautiful, classy Palm Court in the art deco Sheraton Grand Park Lane has been turned into something akin to a cheap airport lounge - with lighting so glaringly bright it's giving me a headache!
The right in the USA really have completely lost the plot...
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The right in the USA really have completely lost the plot...
It was undrinkable. So I opened a different bottle: that was corked.
Ffs.
Ffs.
Other than eight minutes for a lunch break, I've not had a moment to pause for breath today. This will help.
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It was undrinkable. So I opened a different bottle: that was corked.
Ffs.
Ffs.
Other than eight minutes for a lunch break, I've not had a moment to pause for breath today. This will help.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Other than eight minutes for a lunch break, I've not had a moment to pause for breath today. This will help.
The royals getting away with murder...
Why does a non-entity minor member of the royal family need an entourage of outriders anyway? And how much does that cost us?
Why does a non-entity minor member of the royal family need an entourage of outriders anyway? And how much does that cost us?
Royal outrider acquitted over pensioner road death
Met Police officer PC Christopher Harrison was accused of causing death by careless driving.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The royals getting away with murder...
Why does a non-entity minor member of the royal family need an entourage of outriders anyway? And how much does that cost us?
Why does a non-entity minor member of the royal family need an entourage of outriders anyway? And how much does that cost us?
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
3 of the 4 most recent Irish heads of state have been women.
10 of the 12 most recent UK heads of state have been men, with 2 more in line.
Time to let the people choose. #AbolishTheMonarchy
10 of the 12 most recent UK heads of state have been men, with 2 more in line.
Time to let the people choose. #AbolishTheMonarchy
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
3 of the 4 most recent Irish heads of state have been women.
10 of the 12 most recent UK heads of state have been men, with 2 more in line.
Time to let the people choose. #AbolishTheMonarchy
10 of the 12 most recent UK heads of state have been men, with 2 more in line.
Time to let the people choose. #AbolishTheMonarchy
So poignant always, but especially on 11/11.
One of the greatest TV moments ever - if not the greatest.
One of the greatest TV moments ever - if not the greatest.
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
So poignant always, but especially on 11/11.
One of the greatest TV moments ever - if not the greatest.
One of the greatest TV moments ever - if not the greatest.
Beautiful Edinburgh sunrise from the balcony of my hotel room this morning.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Beautiful Edinburgh sunrise from the balcony of my hotel room this morning.
Nimbys objecting to 9,000 new houses in Kent because it they might spoil the view from a privately owned garden.
They're being build on the site of a derelict former US airbase, which I guess is hardly a joy to behold right now.
We so need to reform planning laws to generate growth.
They're being build on the site of a derelict former US airbase, which I guess is hardly a joy to behold right now.
We so need to reform planning laws to generate growth.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Nimbys objecting to 9,000 new houses in Kent because it they might spoil the view from a privately owned garden.
They're being build on the site of a derelict former US airbase, which I guess is hardly a joy to behold right now.
We so need to reform planning laws to generate growth.
They're being build on the site of a derelict former US airbase, which I guess is hardly a joy to behold right now.
We so need to reform planning laws to generate growth.
There are 24 million BBC licence payers. Trump is threatening to sue for $1bn. Anyone else feel like withholding 30 quid from our next payments if he wins?
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There are 24 million BBC licence payers. Trump is threatening to sue for $1bn. Anyone else feel like withholding 30 quid from our next payments if he wins?
I hadn't realised Ireland had four presidents in as many years in the early 70s. What a tribute to the most recent incumbents that the presidency is now seen as such a force for stability.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I hadn't realised Ireland had four presidents in as many years in the early 70s. What a tribute to the most recent incumbents that the presidency is now seen as such a force for stability.
I've never thought of "shitting on them" as presidential language, but a future president just used it, so I guess it is...
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've never thought of "shitting on them" as presidential language, but a future president just used it, so I guess it is...
Sad to think that this is Michael D.'s last night as President of Ireland. Hard to imagine a head of state ever fulfilling their role with more dignity while bringing more joy. May he have a long and very happy retirement. A truly great man.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sad to think that this is Michael D.'s last night as President of Ireland. Hard to imagine a head of state ever fulfilling their role with more dignity while bringing more joy. May he have a long and very happy retirement. A truly great man.
My wife was in NYC this weekend. A dear friend is there this week.
I NEED NYC! It's like a drug I've been deprived of for way too long!!
I NEED NYC! It's like a drug I've been deprived of for way too long!!
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My wife was in NYC this weekend. A dear friend is there this week.
I NEED NYC! It's like a drug I've been deprived of for way too long!!
I NEED NYC! It's like a drug I've been deprived of for way too long!!
I may only have lived in Durham for 7 of my 57 years, but as the train rolls through the countryside north of Darlington, I do always feel like I'm coming home.
And, of course, the excitement mounts ahead of the world's best view, from the railway viaduct across to the cathedral and city.
And, of course, the excitement mounts ahead of the world's best view, from the railway viaduct across to the cathedral and city.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I may only have lived in Durham for 7 of my 57 years, but as the train rolls through the countryside north of Darlington, I do always feel like I'm coming home.
And, of course, the excitement mounts ahead of the world's best view, from the railway viaduct across to the cathedral and city.
And, of course, the excitement mounts ahead of the world's best view, from the railway viaduct across to the cathedral and city.
Reposted by Jon
And I'll say it again:
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
And I'll say it again:
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.
He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
Disgusting.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Disgusting.
Christmas cake in the oven - early, so it's done before a lunchtime K-Pop party for the six-year-old.
Now for the annual dilemma - just throw the treacle out now, or keep it in the back of a cupboard and throw it out next year...
Now for the annual dilemma - just throw the treacle out now, or keep it in the back of a cupboard and throw it out next year...
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Christmas cake in the oven - early, so it's done before a lunchtime K-Pop party for the six-year-old.
Now for the annual dilemma - just throw the treacle out now, or keep it in the back of a cupboard and throw it out next year...
Now for the annual dilemma - just throw the treacle out now, or keep it in the back of a cupboard and throw it out next year...
Just watched the section of the Kenny Dalglish documentary about Hillsborough. Just devastatingly sad. 36 years on and it still feels like yesterday.
I'd never seen the goals from the Cup Final that year. Couldn't watch then, and why would you look back? Football was irrelevant.
#YNWA #LFC
I'd never seen the goals from the Cup Final that year. Couldn't watch then, and why would you look back? Football was irrelevant.
#YNWA #LFC
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Up in the gods for Mary Poppins in MK this afternoon. Fabulous special effects and choreography. But goodness it needed cutting by about half an hour, and felt like a very dated style of musical theatre.
Still, Mary flying over the audience at the end was a stunning, memorable moment.
Still, Mary flying over the audience at the end was a stunning, memorable moment.
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Up in the gods for Mary Poppins in MK this afternoon. Fabulous special effects and choreography. But goodness it needed cutting by about half an hour, and felt like a very dated style of musical theatre.
Still, Mary flying over the audience at the end was a stunning, memorable moment.
Still, Mary flying over the audience at the end was a stunning, memorable moment.