John Griffiths
@luajohng.bsky.social
Designer for websites and print. Illustration, folklore, politics and toast.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Progressive outlet The Lead have launched a petition to ban Elon Musk from the UK following his incitement at the Tommy Robinson demo.
Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
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Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Petition: Ban Elon Musk from the UK
We call on the Home Secretary to act following Musk's vile words and hatred stirring at the 'Unite The Kingdom' rally. Sign our petition now and get Elon Musk banned.
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September 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Progressive outlet The Lead have launched a petition to ban Elon Musk from the UK following his incitement at the Tommy Robinson demo.
Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X...
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...
Three reasons to feel hope
Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe.
iandunt.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...
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My piece on racism for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
August 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My piece on racism for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Also today, it’s the 124th anniversary of a jaunt around the gardens of Versailles by two Respectable English Ladies, who either experienced a joint hallucination, or travelled through time and saw Marie Antoinette
Odd this day
August 10 — 122nd anniversary of a jaunt around the gardens of Versailles by two Respectable English Ladies, who either experienced a…
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August 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Also today, it’s the 124th anniversary of a jaunt around the gardens of Versailles by two Respectable English Ladies, who either experienced a joint hallucination, or travelled through time and saw Marie Antoinette
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The BBC "has questions to answer" re Bob Vylan set, says OFCOM.
Well OFCOM can just about fill out the paperwork to lightly slap GB News on the wrist when they air pro-Tory events in a general election, spread Covid disinfo *AND* let Tory MPs "interview" other Tory MPs so OFCOM can fuck off.
Well OFCOM can just about fill out the paperwork to lightly slap GB News on the wrist when they air pro-Tory events in a general election, spread Covid disinfo *AND* let Tory MPs "interview" other Tory MPs so OFCOM can fuck off.
June 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The BBC "has questions to answer" re Bob Vylan set, says OFCOM.
Well OFCOM can just about fill out the paperwork to lightly slap GB News on the wrist when they air pro-Tory events in a general election, spread Covid disinfo *AND* let Tory MPs "interview" other Tory MPs so OFCOM can fuck off.
Well OFCOM can just about fill out the paperwork to lightly slap GB News on the wrist when they air pro-Tory events in a general election, spread Covid disinfo *AND* let Tory MPs "interview" other Tory MPs so OFCOM can fuck off.
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Happy Stan Cullis Day to all those who celebrate, incl 3nd most famous Ellesmere Port person @sundersays.bsky.social
The best way to mark Stan Cullis Day, and thereby to honour the great Stan Cullis, is to tell a fascist or fascist sympathizer to fuck right off, in an understated way.
The best way to mark Stan Cullis Day, and thereby to honour the great Stan Cullis, is to tell a fascist or fascist sympathizer to fuck right off, in an understated way.
#OtD 14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin. They had been ordered to do so by the govt which had made a pact with Hitler when much… https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8604/England-football-team-Nazi-salute?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
May 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy Stan Cullis Day to all those who celebrate, incl 3nd most famous Ellesmere Port person @sundersays.bsky.social
The best way to mark Stan Cullis Day, and thereby to honour the great Stan Cullis, is to tell a fascist or fascist sympathizer to fuck right off, in an understated way.
The best way to mark Stan Cullis Day, and thereby to honour the great Stan Cullis, is to tell a fascist or fascist sympathizer to fuck right off, in an understated way.
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My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy
Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information
christinapagel.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Book Cover of the Day:
April 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
March 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
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‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.’ ~ Elizabeth I for #BookWormSat 👑
🖼️ QE, c.1559.
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.’ ~ Elizabeth I for #BookWormSat 👑
🖼️ QE, c.1559.
March 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.’ ~ Elizabeth I for #BookWormSat 👑
🖼️ QE, c.1559.
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.’ ~ Elizabeth I for #BookWormSat 👑
🖼️ QE, c.1559.
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Clarence Leroy Andrews, “The Father of the Glaciers”, 1902.
One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
December 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Clarence Leroy Andrews, “The Father of the Glaciers”, 1902.
One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
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‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
After catastrophic floods engulfed Valencia last month, killing…
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
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Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! Celebrating by recording in the studio ❤️🎼 You can watch Caroline Catz film on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
Portrait of Delia Derbyshire, the electronic sound pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! Celebrating by recording in the studio ❤️🎼 You can watch Caroline Catz film on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Who is the black spectre seen hanging from the bridge?
It could be Molly, but then again, that may have just been one of ´Mad Jack’ Bennett’s tall tales!
Read all about Black Molly of Pyt House here:
weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/03/17/b...
It could be Molly, but then again, that may have just been one of ´Mad Jack’ Bennett’s tall tales!
Read all about Black Molly of Pyt House here:
weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/03/17/b...
Black Molly and the Haunting of Pyt House - Weird Wiltshire
This one's for the sceptics! Explore the legend of Black Molly and the haunting of Pyt House with DM and I as we uncover the truth.
weird-wiltshire.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Who is the black spectre seen hanging from the bridge?
It could be Molly, but then again, that may have just been one of ´Mad Jack’ Bennett’s tall tales!
Read all about Black Molly of Pyt House here:
weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/03/17/b...
It could be Molly, but then again, that may have just been one of ´Mad Jack’ Bennett’s tall tales!
Read all about Black Molly of Pyt House here:
weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/03/17/b...
A Dartmoor Piskie!
November 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
A Dartmoor Piskie!
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"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
November 16, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
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Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead women and children - UN
A UN agency verified victims from a six-month period and said it found international law violations.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...