Mike Slade
@micklad.bsky.social
When you ask me what I am doing today,
and I say "nothing,"
it does not mean I am free.
It means I am doing nothing.
Woke. Lefty. European. Xtn.
Play/coach lawn bowls, weather obs, Jack Russells, cats, clouds, photography, people’s stories, campervans.
and I say "nothing,"
it does not mean I am free.
It means I am doing nothing.
Woke. Lefty. European. Xtn.
Play/coach lawn bowls, weather obs, Jack Russells, cats, clouds, photography, people’s stories, campervans.
Fourth yesterday in the Open Triples lawn bowls competition held at our own club yesterday. Huge prize money of £10 each. Really great day. Five matches of 6 ends each, 30 ends total. 3 wins, one draw, one defeat.
August 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fourth yesterday in the Open Triples lawn bowls competition held at our own club yesterday. Huge prize money of £10 each. Really great day. Five matches of 6 ends each, 30 ends total. 3 wins, one draw, one defeat.
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That's right Trumpkopp
Twinned with Epstein Island
Twinned with Epstein Island
July 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
That's right Trumpkopp
Twinned with Epstein Island
Twinned with Epstein Island
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Labour's water industry review is little more than fiddling with the broken status quo
The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted exercise in pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted exercise in pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Labour's water industry review is little more than fiddling with the broken status quo
The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense
www.thecanary.co
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Labour's water industry review is little more than fiddling with the broken status quo
The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted exercise in pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted exercise in pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
After yesterday's threatened thunder we actually had some today; the low, distant rumbling of English summer thunder.
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
After yesterday's threatened thunder we actually had some today; the low, distant rumbling of English summer thunder.
Won second place with two teammates in Brampton Bowling Club's Mixed Triples competition. Actually won some money! Founded in 1761 it is Britain's second oldest bowling club.
July 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Won second place with two teammates in Brampton Bowling Club's Mixed Triples competition. Actually won some money! Founded in 1761 it is Britain's second oldest bowling club.
Our blind Jack Russell called Molly enjoys the occasional ice cream on a stick.
June 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our blind Jack Russell called Molly enjoys the occasional ice cream on a stick.
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Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…
May 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…
Yesterday, down by the River North Tyne in Northumberland.
April 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Yesterday, down by the River North Tyne in Northumberland.
God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Happy Easter!
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Happy Easter!
April 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
God of glory,
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Happy Easter!
by the raising of your Son
you have broken the chains of death and hell:
fill your Church with faith and hope;
for a new day has dawned
and the way to life stands open
in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Happy Easter!
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It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.
April 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.
The First Felon Of The United States is a complete jabberwocky-speaking clot. And everyone else is responsible for crashing the world economy when the blame lies entirely with him.
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The First Felon Of The United States is a complete jabberwocky-speaking clot. And everyone else is responsible for crashing the world economy when the blame lies entirely with him.
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Privatisation Racket.
20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.
Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.
They get subsidies too.
More in the linked article.
20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.
Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.
They get subsidies too.
More in the linked article.
With bills having gone up, it’s time to take energy back into public ownership
The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken
leftfootforward.org
April 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Privatisation Racket.
20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.
Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.
They get subsidies too.
More in the linked article.
20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24.
Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%.
They get subsidies too.
More in the linked article.
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Liverpool 0-2 Newcastle United at the moment. Will it be their first cup win since 1955? Under ten minutes to go.
March 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Liverpool 0-2 Newcastle United at the moment. Will it be their first cup win since 1955? Under ten minutes to go.
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When Tony Slattery passed away in January, obituaries in The Telegraph and The Times recalled a cartoon that hung in the bathroom of his London home...
We've rummaged through the Eye archives and found it. From issue 838, January 1994.
RIP Tony Slattery.
We've rummaged through the Eye archives and found it. From issue 838, January 1994.
RIP Tony Slattery.
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When Tony Slattery passed away in January, obituaries in The Telegraph and The Times recalled a cartoon that hung in the bathroom of his London home...
We've rummaged through the Eye archives and found it. From issue 838, January 1994.
RIP Tony Slattery.
We've rummaged through the Eye archives and found it. From issue 838, January 1994.
RIP Tony Slattery.
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Are you tired of winning yet?
March 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Are you tired of winning yet?
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Boris Johnson’s million-pound Daily Mail gig continues to be farcical. A recent column, confidently praising Trump’s Ukraine stance, was swiftly pulled after Trump and JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Zelensky.
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Private Eye | Boris Johnson
: Boris spiked
THE Daily Mail's star signing Boris Johnson continues to earn every penny of his million-pound fee.
www.private-eye.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Boris Johnson’s million-pound Daily Mail gig continues to be farcical. A recent column, confidently praising Trump’s Ukraine stance, was swiftly pulled after Trump and JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Zelensky.
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news
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Fujitsu swore it wouldn’t bid for public contracts until the Horizon scandal inquiry wrapped up. And yet a new £300k MoD deal just landed in its lap. Their “no-bid” pledge is looking more like a PR stunt riddled with loopholes.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
March 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Fujitsu swore it wouldn’t bid for public contracts until the Horizon scandal inquiry wrapped up. And yet a new £300k MoD deal just landed in its lap. Their “no-bid” pledge is looking more like a PR stunt riddled with loopholes.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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11 weeks apart.
They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House.
Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House.
Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
March 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
11 weeks apart.
They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House.
Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House.
Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
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Cartoon by David Sipress.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cartoon by David Sipress.
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Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House.
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
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Please share. 🙏🏻
March 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Please share. 🙏🏻
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I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
March 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm struggling to get over what we saw today.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office.
That's traumatizing.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."