This is by far my greatest achievement of 2024

Managed to catch the opening of The Collectors, The Cameraman, The Poets and The Pitts, the new exhibition about the 1984 miners strike at the Working class movement library. Some great posters from their collection on display and also bought this collection of images from the strike.

Great ring-in on bbc r4 #youandyours about pensioners who seem to be buying their children vegetables this Christmas

'The women were considered prostitutes and could be forcibly taken to the university’s private prison and sentenced to weeks of confinement by the vice-chancellor. More than 5,000 were arrested in the 19th century alone.'

I watched this the other night, its very good at looking at how the police became a political force in 1984 and the impact of spurious charges youtube.com/watch?v=7gJU...

The 1st mince pie of the year. Lunko back on form

Starmer cannot survive this

So I've received my copies of this. Some people have said its a nice cover and we all know that's the best way to judge a book

Before during (no laughing at the "game face") and after photos from todays Conwy Half. Note to self running up the Great Orme is hard, stop doing this to yourself every year

I recently picked up El abismo del olvidio (the abyss of oblivion) an excellent graphic history about the memory wars in Spain

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

The latest episode of Misha Gleny's Continental Divides, this episode explores the memory wars that rage today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

There's some amazing colours in Princes Park today

So on 'the other platform' we had the tweet, what are our posts called on bluesky? Also will radio 4 still be doing tweet of the day?

So this is the new dawn