Richard Servian
@serwianski.bsky.social
Sometime Social Worker, voyager, County Cricket fan, Labourist, 60/70s Rock Gods concert goer, Black Country dweller…. Read lots of fiction…
A reminder of the time that TUs protested at the deportation of its members- this was Nalgo (now @unison.org.uk ) protesting at the deportation of @barnardos Branch member Mohammed Idrish in early 1980s. We were successful!
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A reminder of the time that TUs protested at the deportation of its members- this was Nalgo (now @unison.org.uk ) protesting at the deportation of @barnardos Branch member Mohammed Idrish in early 1980s. We were successful!
Really worrying likely data breach in Dudley
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Really worrying likely data breach in Dudley
Smethwick , Peter Griffiths and Edward Heath in the 60s (area already notorious as Oswald Moseley's Constituency in the 30s) from Peter Oborne in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Smethwick , Peter Griffiths and Edward Heath in the 60s (area already notorious as Oswald Moseley's Constituency in the 30s) from Peter Oborne in @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Local paper @expressandstar.com , now its owned by whoever owns the @scotsman.com no longer seems to want to back Wolverhampton... Perhaps on the last leg for the daily print...
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Local paper @expressandstar.com , now its owned by whoever owns the @scotsman.com no longer seems to want to back Wolverhampton... Perhaps on the last leg for the daily print...
Manchester Apollo apparently …
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Manchester Apollo apparently …
Autumn on the Wyrley and Essington Cut
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Autumn on the Wyrley and Essington Cut
Case against Care Home Manager cintinues. (From @expressandstar.com 10/10)
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Case against Care Home Manager cintinues. (From @expressandstar.com 10/10)
On Jenrick in @the-independent.com
I Agree with Shazia … But then Black Country people used to label things that didn’t work as ‘Brummagems’ …
Bostin’ it ain’t….
I Agree with Shazia … But then Black Country people used to label things that didn’t work as ‘Brummagems’ …
Bostin’ it ain’t….
October 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
On Jenrick in @the-independent.com
I Agree with Shazia … But then Black Country people used to label things that didn’t work as ‘Brummagems’ …
Bostin’ it ain’t….
I Agree with Shazia … But then Black Country people used to label things that didn’t work as ‘Brummagems’ …
Bostin’ it ain’t….
Remembering Social Workers Sigal Levi and Rinat Sigal Even murdered on October 7th 2023
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Remembering Social Workers Sigal Levi and Rinat Sigal Even murdered on October 7th 2023
Not hearing much about Local Government reorganisation so interesting to hear about the possible new East and West Staffordshire Councils. The strange shape of South Staffs a reminder of Redcliffe-Maud 60s/70s past reorganisation....
October 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Not hearing much about Local Government reorganisation so interesting to hear about the possible new East and West Staffordshire Councils. The strange shape of South Staffs a reminder of Redcliffe-Maud 60s/70s past reorganisation....
Will there be more than one train an hour in each direction? ( the originally planned Wolverhampton-Walsall shuttle doesn’t look likely…
October 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Will there be more than one train an hour in each direction? ( the originally planned Wolverhampton-Walsall shuttle doesn’t look likely…
Good to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social continuing to cover issues for children in care (and for my copy to have arrived on time!)
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Good to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social continuing to cover issues for children in care (and for my copy to have arrived on time!)
Wolverhampton Chronicle mid 1980s. I haven’t changed my view on this .
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Wolverhampton Chronicle mid 1980s. I haven’t changed my view on this .
Good to see articles by @stephenunwin.bsky.social and Sarah Ryan and @billybragg.bsky.social in the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good to see articles by @stephenunwin.bsky.social and Sarah Ryan and @billybragg.bsky.social in the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social
I was sorry to read about the death of Angi Naylor, one time Black Country Social Worker who was active in the Social Workers Against Austerity- here participating in the Austerity poetry session at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival in 2019
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I was sorry to read about the death of Angi Naylor, one time Black Country Social Worker who was active in the Social Workers Against Austerity- here participating in the Austerity poetry session at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival in 2019
Celebrating having completed 20 rounds of Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer by playing Kraftwerk's Radioactivity...
September 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Celebrating having completed 20 rounds of Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer by playing Kraftwerk's Radioactivity...
Good see @dailymirrornews.bsky.social focusing on Social Care.
September 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Good see @dailymirrornews.bsky.social focusing on Social Care.
Print version showing its superiority with cartoons such as this- from @theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Print version showing its superiority with cartoons such as this- from @theguardian.com
And the British Daily Mail in 1934 goes 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' ...
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
And the British Daily Mail in 1934 goes 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' ...
Just received! Third part of @lavietidhar.bsky.social trilogy , Golgotha. Enjoyed Maror and Adama , sceptical/ gangster takes on Israel so looking forward to this #booksky
September 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Just received! Third part of @lavietidhar.bsky.social trilogy , Golgotha. Enjoyed Maror and Adama , sceptical/ gangster takes on Israel so looking forward to this #booksky
Important ‘tho from the other side… The massive cuts in local Community Health in England needs to be known more widely.
August 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Important ‘tho from the other side… The massive cuts in local Community Health in England needs to be known more widely.
Elon Musk … really supporting the UK far right……
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Elon Musk … really supporting the UK far right……
Daily Mail - no change since 1934
August 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Daily Mail - no change since 1934
Great research included on Smell & Memory, featuring Dudley's Teddy Gray's mints..
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Great research included on Smell & Memory, featuring Dudley's Teddy Gray's mints..
