Ian Beckett
@ianbharlow.bsky.social
Respect commands respect.
Occasional commentator.
Occasional artist.
Occasional overthinker.
Lejlighedsvis Dansk Student.
#MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth
Occasional commentator.
Occasional artist.
Occasional overthinker.
Lejlighedsvis Dansk Student.
#MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealth
45 years on - imagine if we could not only imagine all the people living life in peace but unite together and make it happen
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
45 years on - imagine if we could not only imagine all the people living life in peace but unite together and make it happen
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Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And they told us “Don’t do drugs, kids!!”
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And they told us “Don’t do drugs, kids!!”
#ASongOrAMovieForAllThingsSticky
There’s something about Hairy
There’s something about Hairy
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#ASongOrAMovieForAllThingsSticky
There’s something about Hairy
There’s something about Hairy
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#ASongOrMovieForAllThingsSticky twiggy stardust and the spiders from mars
david bowie 's album cover for ziggy stardust shows a man playing a guitar
ALT: david bowie 's album cover for ziggy stardust shows a man playing a guitar
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
#ASongOrMovieForAllThingsSticky twiggy stardust and the spiders from mars
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Losing it and only have a few minutes to spare? Try a Three Minute Breathing Space
Free meditations from Mindfulness - Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Free meditations from the 2-million selling Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Oxford University's Prof. Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Losing it and only have a few minutes to spare? Try a Three Minute Breathing Space
Who was the marketing genius who said “let’s cover our balls with nuts and chocolate, wrap them in gold foil and sell them for dollar each? Sadly it wasn’t me! Merry Humbug!!
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Who was the marketing genius who said “let’s cover our balls with nuts and chocolate, wrap them in gold foil and sell them for dollar each? Sadly it wasn’t me! Merry Humbug!!
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It sucks when your selective memory ends up selecting the ones you never wanted.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It sucks when your selective memory ends up selecting the ones you never wanted.
"Quelle surprise"
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”.
Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the justice secretary, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Quelle surprise"
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Tell me..
CAN YOU SMELL THE OIL,Clarice ?
(Venezuela war crimes)
CAN YOU SMELL THE OIL,Clarice ?
(Venezuela war crimes)
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Tell me..
CAN YOU SMELL THE OIL,Clarice ?
(Venezuela war crimes)
CAN YOU SMELL THE OIL,Clarice ?
(Venezuela war crimes)
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Joined Tesco store manager Jordan and team at Goodramgate #York to support the Winter Food Collection for charities that help locally @trusselluk.bsky.social and @fareshare - If you can, please support others this winter.
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Joined Tesco store manager Jordan and team at Goodramgate #York to support the Winter Food Collection for charities that help locally @trusselluk.bsky.social and @fareshare - If you can, please support others this winter.
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Hello 👋
As we’ve had some new followers recently, we wanted to say a big welcome and share a little about us 💗
It’s so great to have you here with us and we look forward to taking you along as we continue to create radically tender dance theatre with social change and care always at its heart 🫶
As we’ve had some new followers recently, we wanted to say a big welcome and share a little about us 💗
It’s so great to have you here with us and we look forward to taking you along as we continue to create radically tender dance theatre with social change and care always at its heart 🫶
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hello 👋
As we’ve had some new followers recently, we wanted to say a big welcome and share a little about us 💗
It’s so great to have you here with us and we look forward to taking you along as we continue to create radically tender dance theatre with social change and care always at its heart 🫶
As we’ve had some new followers recently, we wanted to say a big welcome and share a little about us 💗
It’s so great to have you here with us and we look forward to taking you along as we continue to create radically tender dance theatre with social change and care always at its heart 🫶
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As part of the 2025 Togetherness #Poetry Challenge we’re exploring ‘shared identities’ themes, with online sessions with one of last year’s Challenge poets, Steve Lott based in Harlow, Essex
@arfursmith.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ovyuki.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
@arfursmith.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ovyuki.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Exploring The Meanings of Identity through Poetry - A Workshop Series
Join our four-part online workshop on identity with Steve Lott—teacher, director of studies, and 2024 Togetherness Poetry Challenge finalist
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
As part of the 2025 Togetherness #Poetry Challenge we’re exploring ‘shared identities’ themes, with online sessions with one of last year’s Challenge poets, Steve Lott based in Harlow, Essex
@arfursmith.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ovyuki.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
@arfursmith.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ovyuki.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
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Statues in Harlow Essex ,
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Statues in Harlow Essex ,
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
A reminder that parents have a responsibility to teach their sons to THINK.
And to help them understand WHERE thoughts are supposed to come from!
And to help them understand WHERE thoughts are supposed to come from!
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A reminder that parents have a responsibility to teach their sons to THINK.
And to help them understand WHERE thoughts are supposed to come from!
And to help them understand WHERE thoughts are supposed to come from!
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Happy launch day, issue 6 of the Madrid Review! Glad to have a little poem within! It's called 'The Jaws of the Sun.' Congratulations to the editor James Hartley and to everyone involved in this beautiful edition.🔆
#themadridreview
#newwriting
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GsU6H...
#themadridreview
#newwriting
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GsU6H...
THE JAWS OF THE SUN 🔆 by Carmella de Keyser
YouTube video by Poetry with Carmella
youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Happy launch day, issue 6 of the Madrid Review! Glad to have a little poem within! It's called 'The Jaws of the Sun.' Congratulations to the editor James Hartley and to everyone involved in this beautiful edition.🔆
#themadridreview
#newwriting
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GsU6H...
#themadridreview
#newwriting
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GsU6H...
My @harlowstanza.bsky.social November submission. Amazing contributions from other members of the group.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
My @harlowstanza.bsky.social November submission. Amazing contributions from other members of the group.
It was the night before Sunday,
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse….
Because IT WAS STILL NOVEMBER!!!
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse….
Because IT WAS STILL NOVEMBER!!!
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It was the night before Sunday,
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse….
Because IT WAS STILL NOVEMBER!!!
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse….
Because IT WAS STILL NOVEMBER!!!
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MY NAME IS❗A poem I wrote about otherization, has found a home in the beautiful new issue of DUST POETRY. It forms part of a collection of 30 poems entitled DEAR WORLD... 🌍
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-name-i…
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-name-i…
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
MY NAME IS❗A poem I wrote about otherization, has found a home in the beautiful new issue of DUST POETRY. It forms part of a collection of 30 poems entitled DEAR WORLD... 🌍
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-name-i…
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-name-i…
Don’t flush your education down the pan…
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Don’t flush your education down the pan…
Whilst in England our Mum’s would give a clip round the ear and say “How many times have I told you to leave your ruddy shoes by the door!!!”
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Whilst in England our Mum’s would give a clip round the ear and say “How many times have I told you to leave your ruddy shoes by the door!!!”