Mark Meadowcroft
@mellotrono.bsky.social
Slipped, tripped, fell in love
Music, Books, Movies, the World around me. A little sport and a lot of Berting.
I will interact with you in good faith at all times. If you don’t, then it’s sayonara.
Music, Books, Movies, the World around me. A little sport and a lot of Berting.
I will interact with you in good faith at all times. If you don’t, then it’s sayonara.
Agreed. What we saw yesterday was an attempt to kill as many Jews as possible in as short a time as possible. Nothing else.
The thing is. Was this an act "designed to cause hatred, division in our communities, violence"? Or was it actually an act of violence "designed" to kill Jews. There's a limit to what this sort of pablum can cover and Burnham has very much found it.
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Agreed. What we saw yesterday was an attempt to kill as many Jews as possible in as short a time as possible. Nothing else.
My parents. Test Match Special. Bateman’s Beers. Vaughan Williams. Harrogate. Charles Twyhritt shirts
Royal Opera House, champagne not prosecco, back streets off the Kings Road, boats, tailoring, Wodehouse.
What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
My parents. Test Match Special. Bateman’s Beers. Vaughan Williams. Harrogate. Charles Twyhritt shirts
Slightly diminish a band
The Jimi Hendrix Inexperience
The Jimi Hendrix Inexperience
Slightly diminish a band
9cc
9cc
Slightly diminish a band
Everything but the grill.
Everything but the grill.
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Slightly diminish a band
The Jimi Hendrix Inexperience
The Jimi Hendrix Inexperience
This is horrible. Just disgusting and Letterman while less guilty should be ashamed too. And I am judging it by the standards of 1990s too. It was totally unacceptable even then
Trump on Mike Tyson raping a 18 year old girl: "Mike should serve some time and everything else, but...here's a woman that was dancing at his door at one o'clock in the morning."
August 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is horrible. Just disgusting and Letterman while less guilty should be ashamed too. And I am judging it by the standards of 1990s too. It was totally unacceptable even then
The markets like Rachel from Accounts, which is something her opponents should reflect upon
if the pound has dropped 1.2% against the dollar and 0.8% against the euro that suggests that markets *really* don't want Rachel Reeves to leave the Treasury
www.ft.com/content/b323...
www.ft.com/content/b323...
UK bonds slump on doubts over Reeves’ future after tearful PMQs
Chancellor visibly upset as prime minister declines to say she will remain in her post
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The markets like Rachel from Accounts, which is something her opponents should reflect upon
While Kneecap are serving up rubbish to the credulous at Glastonbury, there is a Pride celebration of real significance today. I salute everyone joining in on the streets of Budapest today. You are genuinely brave and please stay safe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Budapest Pride expected to be a rallying cry against Orbán’s rollback of rights
Record numbers expected at march despite Hungary’s leader saying those attending will face ‘legal consequences’
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
While Kneecap are serving up rubbish to the credulous at Glastonbury, there is a Pride celebration of real significance today. I salute everyone joining in on the streets of Budapest today. You are genuinely brave and please stay safe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Soon they’ll have enough for a poker game.
June 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Soon they’ll have enough for a poker game.
This must have sounded like the future coming to visit. Gutted that Sly has passed. Safely in the Pantheon. Frankly amazed he made it to 82 @chartmusictotp.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This must have sounded like the future coming to visit. Gutted that Sly has passed. Safely in the Pantheon. Frankly amazed he made it to 82 @chartmusictotp.bsky.social
I would add two things.
1. I doubt she knows the difference between a niqab and a burqa.
2. Burqas are very rarely seen in Britain. I have seen Niqabs but not often and I frequent massively more diverse places than Saffron Walden
1. I doubt she knows the difference between a niqab and a burqa.
2. Burqas are very rarely seen in Britain. I have seen Niqabs but not often and I frequent massively more diverse places than Saffron Walden
This is an easy one for Kemi as
1) There are no women in burqas in her constituency.
2) She hasn't held a surgery for over 4 years.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
1) There are no women in burqas in her constituency.
2) She hasn't held a surgery for over 4 years.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Kemi Badenoch says she will not speak to women in burqas at constituency surgery
Tory leader says women can wear what they like and employers should be able to ban staff from wearing face coverings
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I would add two things.
1. I doubt she knows the difference between a niqab and a burqa.
2. Burqas are very rarely seen in Britain. I have seen Niqabs but not often and I frequent massively more diverse places than Saffron Walden
1. I doubt she knows the difference between a niqab and a burqa.
2. Burqas are very rarely seen in Britain. I have seen Niqabs but not often and I frequent massively more diverse places than Saffron Walden
I think this is a relevant and in the circs hopeful point
part of what made hitler so dangerous was that at least during his rise to power he really was not scared of physical violence and neither were any of his closest comrades. they'd seen worse. all our fascists know is bitching at each other online and melting down over petty drama. thank christ.
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I think this is a relevant and in the circs hopeful point
In the last 24 hours Zia has clocked something the rest of us realised years ago. Amazing that a clearly capable man hasn’t worked it out until now but people are strange
June 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In the last 24 hours Zia has clocked something the rest of us realised years ago. Amazing that a clearly capable man hasn’t worked it out until now but people are strange
News coming out of Liverpool shows the essential triviality of football. I love it so deeply but it really doesn’t matter
May 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
News coming out of Liverpool shows the essential triviality of football. I love it so deeply but it really doesn’t matter
Not a zealot either way on VAT on school fees….but I do note that it hasn’t stopped my old place from emailing me telling me that they are demolishing and rebuilding a structure I remember very well front time there @samfr.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social ….
May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Not a zealot either way on VAT on school fees….but I do note that it hasn’t stopped my old place from emailing me telling me that they are demolishing and rebuilding a structure I remember very well front time there @samfr.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social ….
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The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision
I definitely know what side I would have been on at Marston Moor
Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped
May 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I definitely know what side I would have been on at Marston Moor
Correct. For all her countless faults, Thatcher would have been utterly contemptuous of Trump personally and considered his policy positions somewhere between insane, offensive and treasonous
Like other figures who've passed from history into myth, Thatcher has become an empty symbol for the Right, detached from her actual politics & beliefs.
For a "Thatcher Centre" to cheer on a president who opposes free trade, hates NATO & admires Russian expansionism is almost comically ahistorical.
For a "Thatcher Centre" to cheer on a president who opposes free trade, hates NATO & admires Russian expansionism is almost comically ahistorical.
May 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Correct. For all her countless faults, Thatcher would have been utterly contemptuous of Trump personally and considered his policy positions somewhere between insane, offensive and treasonous
These goobers have never heard of contracts of employment, HR, employment lawyers or public sector Trade Unions. Gonna be some astonishing tribunals
May 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
These goobers have never heard of contracts of employment, HR, employment lawyers or public sector Trade Unions. Gonna be some astonishing tribunals
There’s a @jonathancoe.bsky.social novel
In this council election. All five candidates in some way connected to The Rotters Club
In this council election. All five candidates in some way connected to The Rotters Club
Hatfield North (Hertfordshire) council election result:
LAB: 32.5% (-7.9)
REF: 30.6% (+30.6)
CON: 20.0% (-23.9)
LDEM: 10.9% (+2.2)
GRN: 6.0% (+6.0)
Labour GAIN from Conservative.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
LAB: 32.5% (-7.9)
REF: 30.6% (+30.6)
CON: 20.0% (-23.9)
LDEM: 10.9% (+2.2)
GRN: 6.0% (+6.0)
Labour GAIN from Conservative.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Live Results: 2025 English local elections
Full coverage of the first major contests since Labour’s victory.
www.newstatesman.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
There’s a @jonathancoe.bsky.social novel
In this council election. All five candidates in some way connected to The Rotters Club
In this council election. All five candidates in some way connected to The Rotters Club
Werbenuik in a Coalmine
Thorburn it Down
Ebdoneezer Goode
Solid Nigel Bond in your heart
Wattana Presence?!
Anything by the John Spencer Blues Explosion
#snookerpop
Thorburn it Down
Ebdoneezer Goode
Solid Nigel Bond in your heart
Wattana Presence?!
Anything by the John Spencer Blues Explosion
#snookerpop
Where's Captain Kirk Stevens - Spizzenergi #SnookerPop
April 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Werbenuik in a Coalmine
Thorburn it Down
Ebdoneezer Goode
Solid Nigel Bond in your heart
Wattana Presence?!
Anything by the John Spencer Blues Explosion
#snookerpop
Thorburn it Down
Ebdoneezer Goode
Solid Nigel Bond in your heart
Wattana Presence?!
Anything by the John Spencer Blues Explosion
#snookerpop
At last I have got it. The person Milei reminds me of but I could not place is Max Boyce
Milei looks like a 70’s Welshman who passed out drunk on his nephew’s stag do in Brynamman RFC & mysteriously woke up in the Vatican
April 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
At last I have got it. The person Milei reminds me of but I could not place is Max Boyce
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I did not think this was real
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I did not think this was real
Good man. Stay safe
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Good man. Stay safe
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Thank you all. Clem loved what he was doing. He lived his dream
April 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thank you all. Clem loved what he was doing. He lived his dream