Mike Andrews
@mikea57.bsky.social
Retired housing and social care chief executive.Ramble and rant about nonsense, politics and Sheffield Wednesday but not necessarily in that order. Always got something to say, mostly rubbish but always kind.
Sheffield and Thornham
Sheffield and Thornham
Happy 80th Birthday to Neil Young. After The Goldrush was one of the first albums I bought and I still listen to it today. Not a bad track on it and up there with my favourite records of all time.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy 80th Birthday to Neil Young. After The Goldrush was one of the first albums I bought and I still listen to it today. Not a bad track on it and up there with my favourite records of all time.
Star reporting we have settled transfer debts and FIFA fine. If that means a couple of Embargo / Restrictions get lifted it might make us more attractive to would be buyers when they come to sharpen their pencils #swfc
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Star reporting we have settled transfer debts and FIFA fine. If that means a couple of Embargo / Restrictions get lifted it might make us more attractive to would be buyers when they come to sharpen their pencils #swfc
Perhaps the BBC news reporters could tell us who was the last popular Prime Minister. Sunak,Truss,Johnson May,Cameron,Brown, Blair,Major,Thatcher Callaghan,Wilson,Heath ?? Which one ?
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Perhaps the BBC news reporters could tell us who was the last popular Prime Minister. Sunak,Truss,Johnson May,Cameron,Brown, Blair,Major,Thatcher Callaghan,Wilson,Heath ?? Which one ?
Here’s a suggestion for Ministers and their advisors. Stop talking to the Press and the Westminster Lobby and get on with the day job.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here’s a suggestion for Ministers and their advisors. Stop talking to the Press and the Westminster Lobby and get on with the day job.
Name me a Prime Minister or Leader that hasn’t been under pressure when a Budget proves unpopular or local elections go poorly. Media puffing it all up again as usual. But then I guess they’ve got to fill pages and airtime. All pretty pathetic really.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Name me a Prime Minister or Leader that hasn’t been under pressure when a Budget proves unpopular or local elections go poorly. Media puffing it all up again as usual. But then I guess they’ve got to fill pages and airtime. All pretty pathetic really.
What is it about the political classes,politicians and MP’s that they would rather play power games creating work for the media than getting on and running and improving the country which what they tell us is their priority ?
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
What is it about the political classes,politicians and MP’s that they would rather play power games creating work for the media than getting on and running and improving the country which what they tell us is their priority ?
A bit of Richard Hawley is just the perfect background tune for Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A bit of Richard Hawley is just the perfect background tune for Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing.
What will introducing AI into the prisoner release scheme mean in reality ? I can just imagine a Governor going to Grok and asking if he can release Norman Stanley Fletcher tomorrow morning.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What will introducing AI into the prisoner release scheme mean in reality ? I can just imagine a Governor going to Grok and asking if he can release Norman Stanley Fletcher tomorrow morning.
Driving in Sheffield and Chesterfield today you can’t help noticing how sad,torn,bedraggled and dirty the flags strung from lampposts have become. Another couple of weeks and they will be collecting on verges and kerbsides along with the McDonalds cups and other detritus tossed from car windows
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Driving in Sheffield and Chesterfield today you can’t help noticing how sad,torn,bedraggled and dirty the flags strung from lampposts have become. Another couple of weeks and they will be collecting on verges and kerbsides along with the McDonalds cups and other detritus tossed from car windows
Reposted by Mike Andrews
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Reposted by Mike Andrews
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
At least us Members of the National Trust get to elect the Trustees and so far have been successful in keeping out the undesirables with an agenda. Perhaps that should be the model for the BBC then the undesirables with an agenda could not be appointed by politicians with the same agenda.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
At least us Members of the National Trust get to elect the Trustees and so far have been successful in keeping out the undesirables with an agenda. Perhaps that should be the model for the BBC then the undesirables with an agenda could not be appointed by politicians with the same agenda.
Seeing as Trump appears to have a total disregard for International Law then perhaps the BBC should follow his example and ignore the lawsuit.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Seeing as Trump appears to have a total disregard for International Law then perhaps the BBC should follow his example and ignore the lawsuit.
Seems like we do have no go areas in the UK. But of course they are not the areas our media or politicians want to talk about. So hard to feel much pride for my country at the moment
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Seems like we do have no go areas in the UK. But of course they are not the areas our media or politicians want to talk about. So hard to feel much pride for my country at the moment
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Winter has arrived ! Fell over this morning on the (very) early dog walk. At my age did I trip or …. did I have a fall ?
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Winter has arrived ! Fell over this morning on the (very) early dog walk. At my age did I trip or …. did I have a fall ?
Now it’s up to Nandy to make the right appointment with no cock-ups.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Now it’s up to Nandy to make the right appointment with no cock-ups.
Every now and then you watch a game where one player is actually unplayable and today is one of those days. Take a bow Jeremy Doku. It’s like watching Kinkladze in his prime.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Every now and then you watch a game where one player is actually unplayable and today is one of those days. Take a bow Jeremy Doku. It’s like watching Kinkladze in his prime.
And still people are setting off fireworks. Think I’ll take my dog for a walk and get her to bark incessantly outside their front door. 😡😡
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And still people are setting off fireworks. Think I’ll take my dog for a walk and get her to bark incessantly outside their front door. 😡😡
Reposted by Mike Andrews
"It’s tempting to read The Traitors as symbolic of the state of modern Britain: a place where everyone suspects that everyone else might be against them; which seems diverse but where those who seem in some way different are the first to face suspicion when the going gets rough..."
The happy psychopathy of The Traitors
Contestants on the BBC show are suspicious, paranoid and prone to herd mentality. But they're also surprisingly nice
www.newstatesman.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"It’s tempting to read The Traitors as symbolic of the state of modern Britain: a place where everyone suspects that everyone else might be against them; which seems diverse but where those who seem in some way different are the first to face suspicion when the going gets rough..."
The EFL have got to let us sign a couple on loan. This group of lads cannot keep this level of intensity up for much longer. Pederson has so few options without exposing young kids to harm #swfc
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The EFL have got to let us sign a couple on loan. This group of lads cannot keep this level of intensity up for much longer. Pederson has so few options without exposing young kids to harm #swfc
Fireworks night was Wednesday !! Why are people still intent on scaring my dog 3 days later 😡😡😡😡
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Fireworks night was Wednesday !! Why are people still intent on scaring my dog 3 days later 😡😡😡😡