Yes, housing was significantly cheaper relative to average incomes. That was something very good about the 1970s. But let's stop all this nostalgia for times that were by pretty much every metric shittier than today.

‘Let me have men about me that are fat; 
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: 
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.’
#ShakespeareSunday

Best evil cat pic ever by @andrewmale.bsky.social

So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Figure Humaine is an outstanding piece of work, a moving celebration of the French liberation of WW2.

Amongst the fine issues of @quietriotpod.bsky.social this was particularly good from @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social I’ve been interested for a while in this attempt to whip up a British (English?) religious right by a moneyed elite - and US funding for it.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

I just came across this poem and I thought it summed up your Christmas segment on today's show beautifully 🤗

We are delighted to present an evening of #carols and festive cheer with the BYMT Junior Singers!

Join us at St Mark’s Church, Westmoreland Road, #Bromley on 6pm on Saturday 14th December.

Tickets: allegrisingers.org.uk

The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath

Oddly enough, “stop running down the public services in which they work and stop hateful misinformation campaigns against them just for doing their jobs” does not feature as a proposed solution.

Let’s also not forget leaving the ECHR could result in UK’s trade deal with the EU being terminated because the convention is written into the 2020 Trade & Co-operation Agreement & would also breach the Good Friday Agreement which requires the Convention be directly enforceable in Northern Ireland

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... Arthur’s podcasts are always worth a listen but this episode was a particularly insightful and informative tour d’horizon of the current global situation @snellarthur.bsky.social

A really astonishing amount of the current political discourse in this country is just a workfare programme for the commentariat. The machine is running and it must produce something…

I’m still quite new to Bluesky (only a couple of weeks) but my follow list and also people who follow me are both still disproportionately male. Please circulate among the women on here - and encourage more women to sign up. And let me know who I might still be missing so I can add them!

What idiot called it "the plot holes in the script of Disney's The Lion King" and not "Lacuna matata"?