Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Nicholas Parsons Project

@wazzock.bsky.social

680 followers 550 following 4.2K posts

Here because there's nowhere else to go now. And you know what? I'm rather enjoying it. See pinned post regarding what makes me tick and if you're going to follow me, POST SOMETHING! Je ne suis pas Charlie.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · Nov 4

In arbitrary order; beer, cats, philatelic history, broadcasting history, buses, architecture, the Peak District, the Yorkshire coast, cooking, jazz, classical, prog, football, cricket, Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, not doing small talk, fighting against the grim meathook future on multiple fronts.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Nov 4

okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.

4 1 29

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Charles @charleswheeler.co.uk · 10h

Interesting tactic

Screenshot of an email in a Gmail inbox, from Your Party, with the title “Launching: Your Party’s Regional Ass…”

5 7

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 9h

I just fundamentally don't get why anyone would want this. if I had good ideas for movies then I would be making movies already. I'm not going to have a good time requesting movies from the slop factory

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

2 2 12

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 9h

Surprised that the Clayton West branch survived Beeching and lasted as long as it did. There's a 15" gauge railway there now.

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks! It was the only intermediate station on the old Clayton West branch.

1 1 1

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 10h

Skelmanthorpe near Huddersfield, famous as the place where Jodie Whittaker comes from, is pronounced "Shat".

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 10h

Remember him well alongside Diana Dors in Queenie's Castle. RIP Tony.

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 11h

Sure.

Question 1: was the crushing of the Kronstadt rebellion justified?

Question 2: was the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 justified?

Question 3: was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 justified?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you are basically a tankie.

the drymifolia collective @drymifolia.bsky.social · 11h

Can you create a quick online quiz so we can all test our knowledge and get certified

4 4 32

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 15h

Smashing, that. I know some of these people that Victor photographed!

1 1

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Ralph Berry @rdrberry.bsky.social · 16h

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Amazing .
Real photography genius in Manningham...lived there a few years a precious record
@bradford2025.co.uk

‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures

Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities

www.theguardian.com

2 4 3

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Kamala’s Cackle @justkellye.bsky.social · 16h

Dear God,

We said DONALD. Not Diane. NOT D’ANGELO.

D-O-N-A-L-D .

52 120

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

D J E @davidjamesevans.bsky.social · 17h

Last week: Oi, Kids, stop studying arts subjects like English and get yourself down the Amazon warehouse you unproductive worms.

This week: Oi, Immigrants, A-Level English is the gold standard, a key milestone in proving your loyalty and usefulness to His Majesty. Pass it or fuck off.

1 5 8

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 18h

Some statement coming from the guy who starred in Hellcats Of The Navy!

1 1

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19h

If you agree that mandatory digital ID cards are a terrible idea, please ask your MP to sign my motion opposing them.

These plans risk turning us into checkpoint Britain. They must be scrapped.

Email your MP my motion: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

8 52 100

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 18h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a dinner at the five-star Corinthia hotel giving tech barons access to a government minister.

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

5 14 12

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 19h

Okay this sounds shit, but most companies are forcing people back to the office for equally spurious reasons and not getting a massive newspaper article about it

Wonder if the Herald staff have to do a few days a week in the office 😁

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553909...

'Humanely insensitive': Civil servants fume at Scottish Government office working

Internal documents reveal the anger among civil servants after the Scottish Government updated its equality impact assessment for office working.

www.heraldscotland.com

1 1 7

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19h

I've got a very good friend of mine. His vocabulary exceeds the entirety of the current sitting MPs in the House of Commons. He's been living over here north of fifteen years and he spoke and wrote in English long before he moved here.

And yet according to what we've been told THAT'S NOT SUFFICIENT

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19h

So, let's say you are not *only* have the temerity to be born in a foreign country to foreign parents, what if - and I know in 2025 when Wes Streeting would like nothing more than to send your lazy arse back to work - you are also NEURODIVERGENT TOO

1 3 17

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 19h

Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Please share with any musicians you know!

Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores

Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.

www.bl.uk

1 23 16

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 19h

Just sold a signed copy of "POTATO DISHES" (1960) by the woman in this strange clip
www.britishpathe.com/asset/98519/

WHAT'S COOKING with CHARLIE DRAKE and MARGARET ALDEN Reel Two

A+Heinz+home+cookery+service%2C+demonstrating+how+to+cook+with+Heinz+and+some+comedy+from+Charlie+Drake.

www.britishpathe.com

1 2

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 18h

It *is* a noodle, surely! Didn't Marco Polo introduce them to Italy from China in much the same manner that Walter Raleigh brought potatoes to England from the New World?

The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 19h

Knocking around in my collection I have a CD by Eddie Grundy off of The Archers, and it's much better than it ought to be. It features The Rumour (as in Graham Parker and the) as backing musicians and a duet with Sam Brown on Syd Barrett's Scarecrow.

1 4

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 19h

INCREDIBLE WIKIPEDIA
Peter Gabriel, after leaving Genesis in late 1975, produced a single "You Never Know" for Charlie Drake (UK Charisma), with Sandy Denny on backing vocals and Phil Collins on drums. It was not a chart success.

3 5 29

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

33 4.5K 12K

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

The British Army have had more number one singles in Ireland (one) than Aslan, The Corrs, Van Morrison, or The Cranberries (zero).

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 1d

Starting soon on Irish Number Ones: all our chart-topping singles and acts of 1972, including:
☘️ Nationalist protest songs
☘️ New Irish global superstars
☘️ Ireland's only no. 1 single in Irish
🇬🇧 A British Army unit stationed in Northern Ireland

Yes, it'll be weird: irishnumberones.com

Collage of photos superimposed with the text 1972

12 22

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 22h

Batchelor's Windsor Soup—A Meal in itself!
Your first taste of Batchelor's Windsor Soup will quickly convince you that here is something in a class apart, new in flavour, deliciousness, appetising value.

4 2 13

Reposted by The Nicholas Parsons Project

Jane Hogarth @janehogarth.bsky.social · 22h

2 5