Nick Stone
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They’re not rural, they’re monied. The people who have pink tarmac in their villages and get their hedges cut by Norfolk CC. While an urban area in Norwich, Yarmouth of Lynn which would benefit from a youth club and bit of love gets nothing. They won’t vote Labour or Green anyway. Fuck ‘em.
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
They’re not rural, they’re monied. The people who have pink tarmac in their villages and get their hedges cut by Norfolk CC. While an urban area in Norwich, Yarmouth of Lynn which would benefit from a youth club and bit of love gets nothing. They won’t vote Labour or Green anyway. Fuck ‘em.
This is incredible. And also for me really strange as I grew up in the Payne's House next door to their grandson Robert who was the local stonemason, he ran it from the house next door.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...?
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is incredible. And also for me really strange as I grew up in the Payne's House next door to their grandson Robert who was the local stonemason, he ran it from the house next door.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...?
Epoisses.
Borderline rotten, heady with ammonia, makes your mouth hurt. Work of the devil, fantastic.
Borderline rotten, heady with ammonia, makes your mouth hurt. Work of the devil, fantastic.
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Epoisses.
Borderline rotten, heady with ammonia, makes your mouth hurt. Work of the devil, fantastic.
Borderline rotten, heady with ammonia, makes your mouth hurt. Work of the devil, fantastic.
Inject it into me.
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Inject it into me.
A charity shop find Christmas present to myself. A Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic Special. Really popular during the Great War; ‘The Soldier’s Kodak’ – they’re quite small, 127 film, easy to conceal. This one works but has no stylus. With case too which is nice. Produced from 1915 to 1926.
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A charity shop find Christmas present to myself. A Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic Special. Really popular during the Great War; ‘The Soldier’s Kodak’ – they’re quite small, 127 film, easy to conceal. This one works but has no stylus. With case too which is nice. Produced from 1915 to 1926.
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Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
Browser tabs possess a deep melancholy. All those things I’ve alighted on and thought ‘oh that’s really cool’ suddenly disassembled into the digital winds with 177 of their beautiful siblings because I was momentarily fed up with having so many open.
December 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Browser tabs possess a deep melancholy. All those things I’ve alighted on and thought ‘oh that’s really cool’ suddenly disassembled into the digital winds with 177 of their beautiful siblings because I was momentarily fed up with having so many open.
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
She shoots, she scores.
December 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
She shoots, she scores.
I really want Karen to win.
December 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I really want Karen to win.
That grinding noise you can hear is Thomas Skinner’s teeth.
December 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That grinding noise you can hear is Thomas Skinner’s teeth.
I see the descendants of the robber barons are still ‘at it’.
UK's Prince William and son George volunteer at homelessness charity reut.rs/3YJC7jT
UK's Prince William and son George volunteer at homelessness charity
Britain's Prince William took his oldest son, Prince George, to a homelessness charity in London where the pair helped make Christmas lunch for people in need, Kensington Palace said on Saturday.
reut.rs
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I see the descendants of the robber barons are still ‘at it’.
Referring to this. It makes them look like a bunch of mediocre middle-management in a cheap conference hotel.
December 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Referring to this. It makes them look like a bunch of mediocre middle-management in a cheap conference hotel.
That Vanity Fair photoshoot is just the most brutal and brilliant piece of photo journalism I’ve seen in years, skylining what an arrogant bunch of incompetent nobodies they actually are. Fantastic stuff.
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
That Vanity Fair photoshoot is just the most brutal and brilliant piece of photo journalism I’ve seen in years, skylining what an arrogant bunch of incompetent nobodies they actually are. Fantastic stuff.
Some confusion here as they’re calling Walliams an author. Bit like calling yourself a car mechanic because you drove your car to a garage to get it fixed.
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some confusion here as they’re calling Walliams an author. Bit like calling yourself a car mechanic because you drove your car to a garage to get it fixed.
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Just been reminded of this which is right up there in my chart of brilliant adverts. Harp Lager, The Lionel Blair cut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7Z...
Harp Lager - Hair Salon - Lionel Blair
YouTube video by Adstudies - Beers
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Just been reminded of this which is right up there in my chart of brilliant adverts. Harp Lager, The Lionel Blair cut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7Z...
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Dennis Wheatley, who wrote the book on which the film's based, also wrote a dystopian novel set in Ipswich, 'Black August', 1934. It's set in a future 1960s as civilisation breaks down after a fascist coup. Lots of action in it along the Suffolk coast.
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Dennis Wheatley, who wrote the book on which the film's based, also wrote a dystopian novel set in Ipswich, 'Black August', 1934. It's set in a future 1960s as civilisation breaks down after a fascist coup. Lots of action in it along the Suffolk coast.
Christmas film are defined by the person, and when they first saw them. This is one of mine. It freaked me out so badly I’ve not watched it since. Even at Christmas as it traditional for me, once, when I was about six.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Christmas film are defined by the person, and when they first saw them. This is one of mine. It freaked me out so badly I’ve not watched it since. Even at Christmas as it traditional for me, once, when I was about six.
Mile Cross festive cheer.
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Mile Cross festive cheer.
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Remember the choose-your-own-adventure books of your youth? There’s a new one Written by a friend of mine who is a tiny bit social media adverse. It’s here. www.hammerforgechronicles.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Remember the choose-your-own-adventure books of your youth? There’s a new one Written by a friend of mine who is a tiny bit social media adverse. It’s here. www.hammerforgechronicles.com
Remember the choose-your-own-adventure books of your youth? There’s a new one Written by a friend of mine who is a tiny bit social media adverse. It’s here. www.hammerforgechronicles.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Remember the choose-your-own-adventure books of your youth? There’s a new one Written by a friend of mine who is a tiny bit social media adverse. It’s here. www.hammerforgechronicles.com
Ah, it’s ‘can you just fit this in’ week.
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Ah, it’s ‘can you just fit this in’ week.