John Pike
@johnpik60774011.bsky.social
punk cider fat bikes mates books socialism - in any order! 🙂
Contenders announced for my 'album of the year' award.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Contenders announced for my 'album of the year' award.
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#TomorrowsPapersToday - Morning Star
'Too little, too late': Covid report slams 'toxic and chaotic' Johnson response. By Benny Torre.
morningstaronline.co.uk
For more papers visit our new website at www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...
'Too little, too late': Covid report slams 'toxic and chaotic' Johnson response. By Benny Torre.
morningstaronline.co.uk
For more papers visit our new website at www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
#TomorrowsPapersToday - Morning Star
'Too little, too late': Covid report slams 'toxic and chaotic' Johnson response. By Benny Torre.
morningstaronline.co.uk
For more papers visit our new website at www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...
'Too little, too late': Covid report slams 'toxic and chaotic' Johnson response. By Benny Torre.
morningstaronline.co.uk
For more papers visit our new website at www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...
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My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
A rare outing for my mate's lesser spotted e fat cargo bike. A nippy Sofat ride to Brockenhurst.
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A rare outing for my mate's lesser spotted e fat cargo bike. A nippy Sofat ride to Brockenhurst.
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Painting by David Hockney
‘Bigger Trees nearer Warter, Winter 2008‘
Oil on nine seperate screens each measuring 91.5 x 122cm.
‘Bigger Trees nearer Warter, Winter 2008‘
Oil on nine seperate screens each measuring 91.5 x 122cm.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Painting by David Hockney
‘Bigger Trees nearer Warter, Winter 2008‘
Oil on nine seperate screens each measuring 91.5 x 122cm.
‘Bigger Trees nearer Warter, Winter 2008‘
Oil on nine seperate screens each measuring 91.5 x 122cm.
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Today is Michael Rosen Day! If you want to celebrate @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, then listen to our sister-podcast Working Class Literature's double-episode with him about socialist fairy and folk tales!
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today is Michael Rosen Day! If you want to celebrate @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, then listen to our sister-podcast Working Class Literature's double-episode with him about socialist fairy and folk tales!
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...
Off to see this lot in Bournemouth tonight. Might have a Guiness/ cider day...
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Off to see this lot in Bournemouth tonight. Might have a Guiness/ cider day...
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Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, untitled 1976.
Photographer John Bulmer, untitled 1976.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Morning all.
Photographer John Bulmer, untitled 1976.
Photographer John Bulmer, untitled 1976.
Punk cover versions?
Generally I love them and now I have a new favourite*; Ex-'s "Go Your Own Way".
*replacing "Leader of the Gang" by Peter and the Test Tube Babies.
🎵loving you, is not the right thing to do...🎵
Generally I love them and now I have a new favourite*; Ex-'s "Go Your Own Way".
*replacing "Leader of the Gang" by Peter and the Test Tube Babies.
🎵loving you, is not the right thing to do...🎵
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Punk cover versions?
Generally I love them and now I have a new favourite*; Ex-'s "Go Your Own Way".
*replacing "Leader of the Gang" by Peter and the Test Tube Babies.
🎵loving you, is not the right thing to do...🎵
Generally I love them and now I have a new favourite*; Ex-'s "Go Your Own Way".
*replacing "Leader of the Gang" by Peter and the Test Tube Babies.
🎵loving you, is not the right thing to do...🎵
Squishy fat bike ride to some tranquility on the Test Way, watching the local kingfisher.
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Squishy fat bike ride to some tranquility on the Test Way, watching the local kingfisher.
On my cd-er, it's a bit good. Ex-, Scottish punk.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On my cd-er, it's a bit good. Ex-, Scottish punk.
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I'll be on Politics Live from 1115 today, on BBC 2. Do tune in if you can. Usual mayhem expected.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'll be on Politics Live from 1115 today, on BBC 2. Do tune in if you can. Usual mayhem expected.
Proper journalism and facts (remember them?) about the far-right infiltration of the BBC.
Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".
Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Proper journalism and facts (remember them?) about the far-right infiltration of the BBC.
Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".
Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".
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🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Winchester has gone a bit OTT with their Xmas tree lights.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Winchester has gone a bit OTT with their Xmas tree lights.
The BBC's new DG should be a cyclist, preferably an mtber and ultimately a fat biker.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The BBC's new DG should be a cyclist, preferably an mtber and ultimately a fat biker.
🙂
🙂
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Morning all.
Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Morning all.
Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
Photograph by David Hurn. Sheep shelter from the rain, on an artillery range Mynydd Epynt, Wales 1973.
15°c in November so just spent my winter fuel allowance on Macc Lads, Millie Manders & the SU and Discharge/Conflict gigs.
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🙂
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
15°c in November so just spent my winter fuel allowance on Macc Lads, Millie Manders & the SU and Discharge/Conflict gigs.
🙂
🙂
BBC News and their political programmes will be an even bigger far-right cesspit today.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
BBC News and their political programmes will be an even bigger far-right cesspit today.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Sofat Saturday shakedown ride (the titanium 27+ bike).
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sofat Saturday shakedown ride (the titanium 27+ bike).
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Morning Star: RMT rallies with migrant worker under visa threat #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Morning Star: RMT rallies with migrant worker under visa threat #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?