TheOldManOfTheEFC
@theoldmanoftheefc.bsky.social
Jottings, just jottings.
From Liverpool, now Hampshire.
Everton fan.
Dad of two vile children.
Sophisticated humourist.
Fart oo nice.
From Liverpool, now Hampshire.
Everton fan.
Dad of two vile children.
Sophisticated humourist.
Fart oo nice.
Pinned
Blues ça Change… - Grand Old Team
I will never buy one of ToffeeArt’s my first match celebrations. Not because I have anything against the product, of course. His cufflinks are my goto accessory for weddings, interviews and funerals a...
www.grandoldteam.com
Hey blues!
I put some words together and the people at GrandOldTeam have been kind enough to publish them.
Article is here if you have 5 or 10 to spare...
www.grandoldteam.com/2024/10/29/b...
I put some words together and the people at GrandOldTeam have been kind enough to publish them.
Article is here if you have 5 or 10 to spare...
www.grandoldteam.com/2024/10/29/b...
So - have John Finnemore and J D Vance ever been seen in the same room?
Was Patsy Straightwoman the ghostwriter for Hillbilly Elegy?
Vance Finnemore
Was Patsy Straightwoman the ghostwriter for Hillbilly Elegy?
Vance Finnemore
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
So - have John Finnemore and J D Vance ever been seen in the same room?
Was Patsy Straightwoman the ghostwriter for Hillbilly Elegy?
Vance Finnemore
Was Patsy Straightwoman the ghostwriter for Hillbilly Elegy?
Vance Finnemore
Fascinating article this.
Gives an insider's view for one.
But also goes a little way to answering a question I have often pondered. Do the main movers in our media and politics actually believe what they say?
Less a coup, perhaps, more a witch hunt by true believers Gibb and cronies.
Gives an insider's view for one.
But also goes a little way to answering a question I have often pondered. Do the main movers in our media and politics actually believe what they say?
Less a coup, perhaps, more a witch hunt by true believers Gibb and cronies.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Fascinating article this.
Gives an insider's view for one.
But also goes a little way to answering a question I have often pondered. Do the main movers in our media and politics actually believe what they say?
Less a coup, perhaps, more a witch hunt by true believers Gibb and cronies.
Gives an insider's view for one.
But also goes a little way to answering a question I have often pondered. Do the main movers in our media and politics actually believe what they say?
Less a coup, perhaps, more a witch hunt by true believers Gibb and cronies.
I think there are real problems with BBC News.
Not the ones being aired today.
But those arising from
* decades of govt / right wing attacks
* existing in a right wing media environment
* over-reliance on privately educated employees
But as someone who has spent a lot of time abroad
⬇️ THIS! ⬇️
Not the ones being aired today.
But those arising from
* decades of govt / right wing attacks
* existing in a right wing media environment
* over-reliance on privately educated employees
But as someone who has spent a lot of time abroad
⬇️ THIS! ⬇️
If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I think there are real problems with BBC News.
Not the ones being aired today.
But those arising from
* decades of govt / right wing attacks
* existing in a right wing media environment
* over-reliance on privately educated employees
But as someone who has spent a lot of time abroad
⬇️ THIS! ⬇️
Not the ones being aired today.
But those arising from
* decades of govt / right wing attacks
* existing in a right wing media environment
* over-reliance on privately educated employees
But as someone who has spent a lot of time abroad
⬇️ THIS! ⬇️
A little antidote to Monday morning for anyone who needs it.
I use Bluesky for news and opinion but I try to balance that out with positive content away from the news - and Robin’s shots of Liverpool never fail to lift my mood.
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
I use Bluesky for news and opinion but I try to balance that out with positive content away from the news - and Robin’s shots of Liverpool never fail to lift my mood.
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A little antidote to Monday morning for anyone who needs it.
I use Bluesky for news and opinion but I try to balance that out with positive content away from the news - and Robin’s shots of Liverpool never fail to lift my mood.
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
I use Bluesky for news and opinion but I try to balance that out with positive content away from the news - and Robin’s shots of Liverpool never fail to lift my mood.
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
bsky.app/profile/rjma...
Some sensible, hype free thoughts in this article about how work might change as AI develops and proliferates...
"anyone who’s talking about AI becoming a god or a monster is almost certainly an idiot"
"...[learn] the skills of discernment, the old fashioned way."
"anyone who’s talking about AI becoming a god or a monster is almost certainly an idiot"
"...[learn] the skills of discernment, the old fashioned way."
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Some sensible, hype free thoughts in this article about how work might change as AI develops and proliferates...
"anyone who’s talking about AI becoming a god or a monster is almost certainly an idiot"
"...[learn] the skills of discernment, the old fashioned way."
"anyone who’s talking about AI becoming a god or a monster is almost certainly an idiot"
"...[learn] the skills of discernment, the old fashioned way."
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October 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Fantastic thread of posters for films from a universe just a little over that way... 😀
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Fantastic thread of posters for films from a universe just a little over that way... 😀
October 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A simple first step: No more vox pops in deserted midday high streets when the only people likely to have the time or inclination to speak to a camera crew are wholly untypical. Pensioners, in other words.
Focus groups get a bad rep but I have never once run one during normal working hours.
Focus groups get a bad rep but I have never once run one during normal working hours.
Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A simple first step: No more vox pops in deserted midday high streets when the only people likely to have the time or inclination to speak to a camera crew are wholly untypical. Pensioners, in other words.
Focus groups get a bad rep but I have never once run one during normal working hours.
Focus groups get a bad rep but I have never once run one during normal working hours.
Reposted by TheOldManOfTheEFC
Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Reposted by TheOldManOfTheEFC
Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
Indeed, this sort of thing happens so often that I am beginning to suspect that the arc of the universe does not bend towards my residential joy.
It was very disappointing to wake up and discover that I did not have a nice luxury flat with Denise Gough as my landlady
October 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Indeed, this sort of thing happens so often that I am beginning to suspect that the arc of the universe does not bend towards my residential joy.
This is a cracking article about one of the few grounds to really deserve that overused label, 'iconic'.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a cracking article about one of the few grounds to really deserve that overused label, 'iconic'.
@northresidentart.bsky.social
Hey hey. Thought I'd flag this up to you in case you hadn't seen it.
Way off your patch of course, but thought you might be interested.
Hey hey. Thought I'd flag this up to you in case you hadn't seen it.
Way off your patch of course, but thought you might be interested.
THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE
CHECK IT OUT
outsidersartsclub.com
CHECK IT OUT
outsidersartsclub.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@northresidentart.bsky.social
Hey hey. Thought I'd flag this up to you in case you hadn't seen it.
Way off your patch of course, but thought you might be interested.
Hey hey. Thought I'd flag this up to you in case you hadn't seen it.
Way off your patch of course, but thought you might be interested.
Heseltine.
Dyed in the wool, old school Tory.
But he was granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool for good reason.
He can read a phrase like 'managed decline' or 'illegal immigrants' and see through them to the impact and human cost of how they are used - and misused.
Dyed in the wool, old school Tory.
But he was granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool for good reason.
He can read a phrase like 'managed decline' or 'illegal immigrants' and see through them to the impact and human cost of how they are used - and misused.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Heseltine.
Dyed in the wool, old school Tory.
But he was granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool for good reason.
He can read a phrase like 'managed decline' or 'illegal immigrants' and see through them to the impact and human cost of how they are used - and misused.
Dyed in the wool, old school Tory.
But he was granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool for good reason.
He can read a phrase like 'managed decline' or 'illegal immigrants' and see through them to the impact and human cost of how they are used - and misused.
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Have to agree with other replies.
This is so exquisitely crafted it tips over into art.... 😀
This is so exquisitely crafted it tips over into art.... 😀
Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Have to agree with other replies.
This is so exquisitely crafted it tips over into art.... 😀
This is so exquisitely crafted it tips over into art.... 😀
October 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Well this brought back memories.... 🙂
And works very nicely on my budget Android.
And works very nicely on my budget Android.
Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway.
If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn.
Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!
If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn.
Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Well this brought back memories.... 🙂
And works very nicely on my budget Android.
And works very nicely on my budget Android.
Some crossover between these two posts I saw today...
The young against the young - on.ft.com/4nOoLxl via @FT
and
bsky.app/profile/youg...
The young against the young - on.ft.com/4nOoLxl via @FT
and
bsky.app/profile/youg...
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Some crossover between these two posts I saw today...
The young against the young - on.ft.com/4nOoLxl via @FT
and
bsky.app/profile/youg...
The young against the young - on.ft.com/4nOoLxl via @FT
and
bsky.app/profile/youg...
Reposted by TheOldManOfTheEFC
Well said Jack! 👏👏👏👏👏
September 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Well said Jack! 👏👏👏👏👏
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The obituary you write if you are a real journalist, capable of truth, clarity and honesty.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
![Quite from article linked in this post.
"[Kirk] was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe and misogynist "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkmg7k2ldpul7fxpq2z7popo/bafkreic5mih55pfnh57ehuj3zvhr55onskccupixfzd5uxaggzmyjbopqm@jpeg)
September 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The obituary you write if you are a real journalist, capable of truth, clarity and honesty.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...