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Ian McCulloch
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Green Party activist, volunteer archivist and retired librarian in Portsmouth/Southsea. Also occasional driver of a mobile library. Linux fan. #RefugeesWelcome
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It's bad enough having them come over here and build nuclear power stations...
The front page of the Portsmouth News, saying that Portsmouth Guildhall has been vandalised with graffiti for the far right EDF.
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Sounds like the title of a Viz strip.
The front of a packet of Chester's Meaty Pouches.
August 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Just been to Home Bargains for a play tent for my granddaughter. Choice of pink Disney Princesses or blue Avengers. Haven't we moved on from all that now?
Photo of blue Avengers play tents and pink Disney Princesses ones at Home Bargains.
August 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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"Pompey Against Migrant Gangs" (never heard of them before, but presumably the usual suspects) will be at Canoe Lake tomorrow, where a lot of our Sikh, Bangladeshi, Somali, Ugandan, etc residents like to meet up for BBQs. Let's make sure we outnumber them as usual.
Banner saying "Stop scapegoating refugees. Don't let the racists divide us. Saturday 5th July, 12:30pm. Meet at the corner of Alhambra Road and South Parade. Protest called by Stand up to Racism Portsmouth."
July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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This should get Tufton Street in a lather. #pride #pompeypride
June 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Lovely day to be out with the Library tuk-tuk. Simon Armitage (the actual Poet Laureate!) is here at Southsea Bandstand this morning, if anyone wants to pop along. #Portsmouth #Sunny #Poetry
April 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I can actually leave the door open without freezing to death today.
Picture shows Portsmouth's mobile library in the sunshine.
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Some of the bots are just phoning it in now.
Screenshot of a BlueSky bio which says " a fighter who has overcome great odds. Life threw unexpected challenges my way, such as [Describe Your Difficulties, like a serious illness or financial hardship]. However, instead of being defeated, I used these experiences as fuel for my journey"
March 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Are UKIP advocating a theocracy now?
March 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I saw it years ago when I lived around there, but this is from a blog at ianhelencanals.blogspot.com/2016/05/righ...
February 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

18/20 James Lovelock, Gaia.

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Cover of James Lovelock's "Gaia: a new look at life on earth".
February 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

17/20 Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle, Down With Skool.

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Cover of the Folio edition of The Compleet Molesworth.
February 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

16/20 Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates.

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Cover of Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates.
February 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

15/20 E.M. Forster, A Passage to India.

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Cover of the Folio edition of A Passage to India.
February 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5.

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Cover of Slaughterhouse 5.
February 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

13/20 Rudy Rucker, Mathenauts.

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Cover of "Mathenauts: tales of mathematical wonder" by Rudy Rucker.
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

12/20 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

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The cover of William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

11/20 Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

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Cover of the Glass Bead Game.
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

10/20 John Prebble, The Highland Trilogy

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The Folio edition of Glencoe, The Highland Clearances and Cullodden, by John Prebble.
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

9/20 Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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Cover of the Penguin edition of Brideshead Revisited.
February 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

8/20 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
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Battered cover of the Penguin edition of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
February 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

7/20 Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd

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Book cover, Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd.
February 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Here's a tweet from 2020. Is there anything left that he used to stand for? #WantGreenVoteGreen
Screenshot of a Tweet from Keir Starmer offering congratulations to the climate campaigners who stopped Heathrow expansion in the High Court, saying "There is no more important challenge than the climate emergency. That is why I voted against Heathrow expansion".
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

6/20 Labyrinths, Jorge Louis Borges

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Book cover, Folio edition of Labyrinths.
January 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced your life. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

5/20 The Once and Future King, T.H. White

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Cover of the Folio edition of T.H. White's Once and Future King
January 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM