Barry North
@barrynorth.bsky.social
Civil Servant (Ret), IC member, QPR, Middx CCC, Wasps RFC (RIP), FDA TU, Wargamer, History Book Reader, Ben Turkiye’yi. Always stops to look at rocks…
My point was generic; as someone who contributed to Government propaganda before retirement, I’m cynical about any press release.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My point was generic; as someone who contributed to Government propaganda before retirement, I’m cynical about any press release.
There’s no more wholeheartedly supporter of renationalising the railways but this article is a rather lazy redrafting of a Government press release 🙄
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
There’s no more wholeheartedly supporter of renationalising the railways but this article is a rather lazy redrafting of a Government press release 🙄
Kept me sane as a CS in Westminster for a decade
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Kept me sane as a CS in Westminster for a decade
I’d had ours 3 years before I twigged 🙄
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’d had ours 3 years before I twigged 🙄
In the U.K. we are introduced to transvestism through the Christmas Pantomimes; bewildering but fun 🤩
Check out on YouTube
Check out on YouTube
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In the U.K. we are introduced to transvestism through the Christmas Pantomimes; bewildering but fun 🤩
Check out on YouTube
Check out on YouTube
Well I’ve read all of these and never knew they were all written or published in the same year. DLS squeaks it for me although Huxley would have won if I hadn’t read Eyeless in Gaza, IMHO his peerless best, first.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Well I’ve read all of these and never knew they were all written or published in the same year. DLS squeaks it for me although Huxley would have won if I hadn’t read Eyeless in Gaza, IMHO his peerless best, first.
In fairness, Gary was a repeat offender (of the professionally easily offended)…
Having said that, it’s not a good look for a man who wears so much gold on his hands and wrists to be pontificating about the poor
Having said that, it’s not a good look for a man who wears so much gold on his hands and wrists to be pontificating about the poor
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In fairness, Gary was a repeat offender (of the professionally easily offended)…
Having said that, it’s not a good look for a man who wears so much gold on his hands and wrists to be pontificating about the poor
Having said that, it’s not a good look for a man who wears so much gold on his hands and wrists to be pontificating about the poor
Listen to…
I’ll get my coat…
I’ll get my coat…
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Listen to…
I’ll get my coat…
I’ll get my coat…
