Andor the Relentless
@outstack.bsky.social
Former journalist, then charity PR, now a one-man waste of NHS resources. Undercover Lancastrian in Hertfordshire.
And here we are!
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And here we are!
In our patch we have more secondary places than there are currently year five pupils. So in a couple of years we get the sequel to this story.
(And we aren't building enough new homes to make up the difference by then. Yes, people do move, but not that much.)
(And we aren't building enough new homes to make up the difference by then. Yes, people do move, but not that much.)
"Number of unfilled primary school places in England hits record high". Link: on.ft.com/47GtJWJ
We should get used to seeing this story once a year!
We should get used to seeing this story once a year!
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In our patch we have more secondary places than there are currently year five pupils. So in a couple of years we get the sequel to this story.
(And we aren't building enough new homes to make up the difference by then. Yes, people do move, but not that much.)
(And we aren't building enough new homes to make up the difference by then. Yes, people do move, but not that much.)
This is a great story about a remarkable club. It's touched on here, but worth saying how keen the club are on supporting the local community. We did a community health event there recently and the club went out of their way to help us. Great people and a good day out if you want to see some footie!
Stevenage are currently the most overachieving club in the Football League.
With the help of the owner, sporting director and manager, I found out how a club builds to be its best.
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
With the help of the owner, sporting director and manager, I found out how a club builds to be its best.
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Behind the scenes at ‘little old Stevenage’ - the EFL’s smartest club
I spent the day with Stevenage’s owner, sporting director and manager – and discovered the five pillars of their recent success
inews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is a great story about a remarkable club. It's touched on here, but worth saying how keen the club are on supporting the local community. We did a community health event there recently and the club went out of their way to help us. Great people and a good day out if you want to see some footie!
What a great idea. Other sports bodies should get into this too: the Lawn Tennis Association should award a literature prize; World Rugby can do economics and the FIA should have an annual physics trophy. The UCI, sadly, has the experience to award chemistry prizes.
A new peace prize will be awarded at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5 that recognizes "exceptional actions for peace and unity," soccer's international governing body FIFA announced today.
Trump teased as possible first FIFA Peace Prize winner
"On the 5th of December, you will see" who wins at the World Cup draw in D.C., Trump ally and FIFA president Gianni Infantino said.
www.axios.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What a great idea. Other sports bodies should get into this too: the Lawn Tennis Association should award a literature prize; World Rugby can do economics and the FIA should have an annual physics trophy. The UCI, sadly, has the experience to award chemistry prizes.
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New on BRFCS: 150 Words On 150 Years
Happy birthday old friend
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/150-words-on-150-years
Happy birthday old friend
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/150-words-on-150-years
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
New on BRFCS: 150 Words On 150 Years
Happy birthday old friend
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/150-words-on-150-years
Happy birthday old friend
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/150-words-on-150-years
I can only really understand what this would have done to the bits of London I know well because I've lived or worked there, but.. bloody hell. It would have ruined everything.
London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I can only really understand what this would have done to the bits of London I know well because I've lived or worked there, but.. bloody hell. It would have ruined everything.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
This is like finding out that two of your teachers know each other outside of school.
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This is like finding out that two of your teachers know each other outside of school.
Crown Court is the sort of thing we miss now, not just for the show itself, but the opportunities it provided. Cheap to produce (one set!), but it's a great training ground for actors, writers, directors etc. We're missing this sort of pipeline. Plus it was genuinely dramatic and unpredictable!
You are off school and Peter Wyngarde and Bill Nighy are facing each other down in Crown Court.
They used to put this stuff on at lunchtime!
They used to put this stuff on at lunchtime!
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Crown Court is the sort of thing we miss now, not just for the show itself, but the opportunities it provided. Cheap to produce (one set!), but it's a great training ground for actors, writers, directors etc. We're missing this sort of pipeline. Plus it was genuinely dramatic and unpredictable!
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urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République a précisé avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté.
www.liberation.fr
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
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The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
This is brilliant news. Kevin is a fantastic teacher of internal comms and PR, based on long experience and a very open mind.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin Ruck has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the CIPR following the latest review of nominations for his significant contribution to fields of internal communication and PR more broadly.
Find out more about our new Honorary Fellow: https://bit.ly/3Wuvtgk
Find out more about our new Honorary Fellow: https://bit.ly/3Wuvtgk
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is brilliant news. Kevin is a fantastic teacher of internal comms and PR, based on long experience and a very open mind.
Make all the jokes you want about strings and how the mouths move, but this is an all-time opening sequence. We lost something when we stopped making credits sequences designed to make viewers jump up and down on the sofa. And that music...
Today marks 60 years since the FAB opener Trapped in the Sky, written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, was first broadcast. So let's celebrate with this commemorative countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... #Thunderbirds Are Go on their 60th Anniversary! 🎊
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Make all the jokes you want about strings and how the mouths move, but this is an all-time opening sequence. We lost something when we stopped making credits sequences designed to make viewers jump up and down on the sofa. And that music...
This is a delightful diversion - it turns out that one of my regular walks used to be an enclave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countie...
Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is a delightful diversion - it turns out that one of my regular walks used to be an enclave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countie...
A simple error. I turned to another task while doing laundry, and he has occupied my t-shirt drawer. #proofofcat
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
A simple error. I turned to another task while doing laundry, and he has occupied my t-shirt drawer. #proofofcat
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If it's got a clever lyric and rhyme, it's Stephen Sondheim.
September 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If it's got a clever lyric and rhyme, it's Stephen Sondheim.
I've just realised that because I do my TV criticism* for a newspaper that has no online version at all, none of my work there has been scraped by AI bots. I used to be annoyed that I couldn't share my articles, but now I'm seeing the upside.
*Part time, and badly paid, but still...
*Part time, and badly paid, but still...
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I've just realised that because I do my TV criticism* for a newspaper that has no online version at all, none of my work there has been scraped by AI bots. I used to be annoyed that I couldn't share my articles, but now I'm seeing the upside.
*Part time, and badly paid, but still...
*Part time, and badly paid, but still...
Probably My Life As A Dog: it taught me a lot about life, death, childhood, parenting and tremors.
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
August 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Probably My Life As A Dog: it taught me a lot about life, death, childhood, parenting and tremors.
An absolute classic - the culmination of the high-energy, full-on power pop phase of their first three albums. Perfect.
The New Pornographers' power-pop motherlode 'Twin Cinema' turns 20 tomorrow. A look back:
The New Pornographers' 'Twin Cinema' Turns 20
Carl Newman was on an unstoppable tear — an all-time NBA Jam “HE’S ON FIRE” power-pop onslaught. His band the New Pornographers had exploded out of Vancouver with their high-powered, ultra-catchy 2000...
www.stereogum.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
An absolute classic - the culmination of the high-energy, full-on power pop phase of their first three albums. Perfect.
Peter Weir is 81.
What a track record:
The Cars That Ate Paris
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave
Gallipoli
The Year of Living Dangerously
Witness
The Mosquito Coast
Dead Poets Society
Green Card
Fearless (watch this!)
The Truman Show
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Way Back
What a track record:
The Cars That Ate Paris
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave
Gallipoli
The Year of Living Dangerously
Witness
The Mosquito Coast
Dead Poets Society
Green Card
Fearless (watch this!)
The Truman Show
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Way Back
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Not even close.
I beg to differ
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Not even close.
Starlings own the turnaround at the Big One, Blackpool.
August 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Starlings own the turnaround at the Big One, Blackpool.
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"The fact that the director stayed after everything was done and vacuumed the set all seemed natural to me."
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
Whit Stillman's 'Metropolitan': An Oral History of the Preppiest, WASPiest, Wittiest Comedy of Heirs Ever
The cast, crew, and founding members of the Sally Fowler Rat Pack recall the the making of the most charming cult classic of all time.
www.townandcountrymag.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"The fact that the director stayed after everything was done and vacuumed the set all seemed natural to me."
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...
Perfect
Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.
August 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Perfect
This is actually welcome news and long overdue.
World famous scientist to get his own street in home township
World famous scientist to get his own street in home township
An internationally famous East Lancashire scientist who helped unlock the secrets of the atom is to have a street named after him in his hometown.
dlvr.it
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is actually welcome news and long overdue.