Thanks to a very kind xmas offer, Stuart at
@babelcolour.bsky.social took a newly discovered 1906 photo of my gt grandfather in Prestwich Asylum (newly committed) and re-imagined it as if taken by modern photography. Quite the result. Gt grandf was held there 35 years #manchesterhistory #prestwich

You can still tell where it happened...

So Boris Johnson is going to be in Edinburgh in September? Lying and charging £££ for it. Time for #Edinburgh to do its thing, as it did with Farage.

Nothing surprises me on social media but I'm still surprised by the gullibility of people saying she is innocent.
Remember, the families heard the full evidence... Letby's testimony... its context.
This whole Lucy Letby is innocent farrago is clickbait. She will never be free. Rightly. #LucyLetby

It's a curiously dated outlook. Especially since Joan Smith's descriptions of the route from domestic violence to jihadism and other political labels, ascribing aberrant behaviour purely to a claimed ideology seems a limited explanation.

Interestingly, Vincent Pereira himself commented on it (in response to a hostile review) on the IMDB:

Don't know how far you're thinking of going back in time, but always been fascinated by what used to stand on the site of the Church of the Holy Trinity on #Micklegate. 10 years ago someone at the university did a CGI mock up of what it was like in the 15th century: #York

Perhaps relevant: how Toby Young evaded rejection and managed to get into Oxford without the qualifications demanded. It explains a lot about Britain: this would never happen if he came from Brixton/Rochdale/Liverpool.

Horrendously topical in parts, cf '...Jew-baiting defended by pacifists'.

Forgive me, but for avoidance of doubt, this is not by any description a 9 year jail sentence. It's four years, followed by a period free on licence. Not the same thing at all. Read the detail in the article:

Getting close to 800,000 views for my YouTube channel. It began when I needed to find a way of showing former 1970s classmates footage from their schooldays. I went on to screen long-lost TV films. Try Wm Trevor's beautiful screenplay/film The Blue Dress (1983) here: youtu.be/S1GZ0lKc99M #films

Don't know how many William Trevor fans are among my new followers but just in case, a rare treat: a William Trevor film no-one's seen in 40 years (since 1983), adapted by him from his own short story: The Blue Dress. youtu.be/S1GZ0lKc99M

Melanie believes in across the board vileness.

Or as a previous leader/quitter said:

Apparently if you want cats, grow some catnip.