James Ward
@coolmillennium.bsky.social
Teacher by profession amateur book reviewer on TikTok & YouTube MA & DPhil in Philosophy UK resident beer consumer The End.
This might do for white. Yes, it's not entirely white, but where it is white, it's PURE white.
January 24, 2026 at 10:56 AM
This might do for white. Yes, it's not entirely white, but where it is white, it's PURE white.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates - BBC News
Dear me. Even Edward Heath and Harold Wilson had a smidgeon of integrity.
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates - BBC News
Dear me. Even Edward Heath and Harold Wilson had a smidgeon of integrity.
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates
Nigel Farage introduces Jenrick at a news conference in London, hours after he was sacked as shadow justice secretary by Kemi Badenoch.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates - BBC News
Dear me. Even Edward Heath and Harold Wilson had a smidgeon of integrity.
Robert Jenrick joins Reform UK after being sacked by Conservatives - live updates - BBC News
Dear me. Even Edward Heath and Harold Wilson had a smidgeon of integrity.
Coming soon: red, black and white.
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Coming soon: red, black and white.
This is another unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of brown.
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
This is another unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of brown.
This is another unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of blue. It really IS unfiltered, by the way.
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This is another unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of blue. It really IS unfiltered, by the way.
This is an unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of green.
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is an unfiltered photo I took that, in retrospect, strikes me as the essence of green.
"If a culture ceases to be centred in the living and continually renewed relational event, then it hardens into the world of It, which the glowing deeds of solitary spirits only spasmodically break through."
Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923)
Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923)
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
"If a culture ceases to be centred in the living and continually renewed relational event, then it hardens into the world of It, which the glowing deeds of solitary spirits only spasmodically break through."
Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923)
Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923)
youtube.com/watch?v=7Tny... I do think The Grateful Dead were always best as a live band. Their only two great albums - American Beauty and Workingman's Dead - don't capture, much less explain, their real appeal.
Grateful Dead, free concert on Haight Street, SF, March 3 1968, live
YouTube video by Don Douglas
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January 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=7Tny... I do think The Grateful Dead were always best as a live band. Their only two great albums - American Beauty and Workingman's Dead - don't capture, much less explain, their real appeal.
BBC News - Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obviously, you expect that someone aged 78 might die, but still ... I feel saddened.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obviously, you expect that someone aged 78 might die, but still ... I feel saddened.
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
Weir was a fixture in the psychedelic rock group and its various spin-offs over 60 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
BBC News - Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obviously, you expect that someone aged 78 might die, but still ... I feel saddened.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Obviously, you expect that someone aged 78 might die, but still ... I feel saddened.
A snowy, atmospheric morning!
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM
A snowy, atmospheric morning!
What Charles Dickens might make of today's London.
Dining With Dead Celebrities – Reviewing restaurants with the assistance of dead historical figures. share.google/Ing66QI6uRYw...
Dining With Dead Celebrities – Reviewing restaurants with the assistance of dead historical figures. share.google/Ing66QI6uRYw...
Dining With Dead Celebrities
Reviewing restaurants with the assistance of dead historical figures.
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December 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What Charles Dickens might make of today's London.
Dining With Dead Celebrities – Reviewing restaurants with the assistance of dead historical figures. share.google/Ing66QI6uRYw...
Dining With Dead Celebrities – Reviewing restaurants with the assistance of dead historical figures. share.google/Ing66QI6uRYw...
Just watched the last episode Stranger Things & I couldn't help feeling the storyline would make a lot more sense if they'd hired Donald Trump as an adviser. Surely, the best way to resolve the Vecna problem is just to give him everything he wants? Why are they even fighting? So dumb!
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just watched the last episode Stranger Things & I couldn't help feeling the storyline would make a lot more sense if they'd hired Donald Trump as an adviser. Surely, the best way to resolve the Vecna problem is just to give him everything he wants? Why are they even fighting? So dumb!
This is from Private Eye #1646. It would be good to see the BBC depart from X.
April 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is from Private Eye #1646. It would be good to see the BBC depart from X.
It would have "saved so many lives" had America begged Japan for peace immediately after Pearl Harbour, or al-Qaeda for peace in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Luckily, Trump wasn't in power then.
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It would have "saved so many lives" had America begged Japan for peace immediately after Pearl Harbour, or al-Qaeda for peace in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Luckily, Trump wasn't in power then.
As if there wasn't enough bad news in the world already...
BBC News - World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Muhsin Hendricks: World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa
He was a pioneering figure who ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay Muslims.
www.bbc.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
As if there wasn't enough bad news in the world already...
BBC News - World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Excellent news from Simon & Schuster: the beginning of the end of blurbs. I suppose it's likely most agents and authors will still provide them, since the reading public is easily duped. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Simon & Schuster imprint will no longer ask authors to obtain blurbs for their books
Publisher says expecting authors, agents and editors to secure blurbs can create ‘an incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem that often rewards connections over talent’
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excellent news from Simon & Schuster: the beginning of the end of blurbs. I suppose it's likely most agents and authors will still provide them, since the reading public is easily duped. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Reposted by James Ward
Donald Trump. An Apology.
The new Private Eye is out now
The new Private Eye is out now
January 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Donald Trump. An Apology.
The new Private Eye is out now
The new Private Eye is out now
Private Eye #1641 24 Jan-6 Feb 2025
January 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Private Eye #1641 24 Jan-6 Feb 2025
Seems like a good way of preserving a nice photo.
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Seems like a good way of preserving a nice photo.
