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Nick Wells
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English teacher, Professional Development Lead, ECT Induction Tutor, former headteacher and, most importantly, husband and dad.
#FridayFive
1 There’s a Storm a Comin’ - Richard Hawley
2 Raining Revolution - Arrested Development
3 Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys
4 Red Earth and Pouring Rain - Bear’s Den
5 Cloud of Stink - Biffy Clyro
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Nick Wells
It is utter bullshit that the mistaken splicing of two bits of his January 6th 2021 speech on Panorama in October 2024 had any significant impact whatsoever on the reputation of Donald Trump in Britain, or globally, and the claim for $1 billion damages is bullshit and bullying by the US president
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#FridayFive
1 Since I Left You - The Avalanches
2 Red Right Hand - Nick Cave
3 All The Lovers - Kylie Minogue
4 Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
5 Left of the Middle - Natalie Imbruglia
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ba-boom sssssh.
a man is playing a pearl drum set
Alt: a man is playing a pearl drum set
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#FridayFive
1 Street Spirit - Radiohead
2 Pumpkin - Tricky
3 The Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
4 Black - Pearl Jam
5 Blue Eyed Devil - Soul Coughing
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is a massive shame that I’ve yet to see any news outlet challenge the way people are abusing this data to excuse the racist views being expressed by some people who should have actually looked at the data properly.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Two of the adverts were performed entirely by animated animals and two adverts (one repeated in the second ad break) only featured Michelle Keagan. I wonder what the racists will think about that representation.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Last night, in an unscientific study, I reviewed all of the adverts in two ad breaks on the “massively woke” E4.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
There is no way that fifty one percent of people in adverts are black, or even that eight percent of people in adverts are south Asian.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Many people will draw from this that 17% of people in adverts are south Asian and 11% are east Asian. This is not what the report is saying. It is a racist twisting of the statistics.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Daily Mail went on to claim, “People from a south Asian background make up eight per cent of the population but featured in 17 per cent of adverts. East Asians account for one per cent of the population and featured in 11 per cent of adverts.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It appears that the Daily Mail and many of those who have gone onto comment on this report have taken this to mean that 51% of people in adverts are black. Unsurprisingly, this is not the case.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
When you read the actual report and explore the graphs, you discover that, though the group the researchers have identified as black appear in 51% of the sample of adverts they watched, their average length of appearance was only 6 seconds. They took a lead role in only 23% of adverts.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In the Daily Mail’s article about the report, they claimed that “more than half of the commercials featured black people.”

The Daily Mail’s headline for this article was “TV adverts over-represent black people and ignore over-70s, study finds.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The annual “Mirror on the Nation” report can be pretty helpful to advertisers interested and invested in the ethical and/or commercial benefits of representation. It turns out that, like many things in the wrong hands or read incorrectly, it can lead to discriminatory conclusions.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thank you. Hope you’re doing ok now.
October 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#FridayFive
1 One Day Like This - Elbow
2 Wires - Athlete
3 White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin
4 The Luckiest - Ben Folds
5 Trusty and True - Damien Rice
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM