Trevor McCarthy
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Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
That bloke who claims he’s never been racist to anybody whatever everyone who remembers him from school says, will personally sign a black shirt for you …

If you pay £249 for it …

So don’t go making any insinuations …
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So @KNEECAPCEOL in Liverpool was joyous

A genuine high energy, high intensity, optimistic, proper political band

The venue insisted face coverings must not be worn by punters

@KNEECAPCEOL’s logo is literally based on a balaclava and they were on sale at the merch stall

✊🏻🇵🇸🇮🇪
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Most days, you don’t need to read the @theguardian.com letters page …

Today is not most days …
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Q. Can AI kleptomaniac machines read books?

A. Sort of?

Q. Do Grok & other AI thieves understand what they’ve “read”?

A. Nope
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“Hurrah For The Blackshirts” fascist supporting “newspaper” hasn’t changed its tune in over 90 years …
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Conservative Party Conference Ventriloquist Act Goes Down Well …

“Gottle of Geer”

“Gottle of Geer”

“Who’s a racist boy then?”
October 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hello Darkness My Old Friend …
July 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
So looking around churches wouldn’t be my preferred way to spend time but …

This church in Falkland, Scotland with an umbrella stand at the end of each pew should qualify as a pragmatic design classic ☔️
July 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Keir Starmer still finding time, despite being kept busy as UK Prime Minister, to volunteer for Age UK …
June 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🫵🏻 Read This📕👇🏻

Dr Claire Mitchell KC & Dr Zoe Venditozzi wrote it for you

It would be rude not to
June 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🇵🇸 Israeli forces pull off clever and daring trick of seizing unarmed people and deporting them from international waters…
June 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚨Farage now bidding for the
… checks notes … Jimmy Savile vote
April 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
April 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
2003 The Guardian

Dave Simpson writing about the mighty Alabama 3

“… they're the best live band in the country…”

2025 O2 Academy Birmingham

Still true …
March 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
✊🏻

Alternatively, as the mighty *Serious Drinking* would have it …

The Revolution Starts At Closing Time
March 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Nothing to see here …

Just The mighty Mary Wallopers in Birmingham last night

Infectious, personal, political, profound 🇮🇪 entertainment

You’re never too old for a brilliant live band
March 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
👀 Leicester Comedy Festival @LeicsComedyFest off to a good start …
February 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Guard fox on duty in Leicester
January 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So the top step is officially the warmest and most sheltered part of our garden 🦊
January 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There are choices …
January 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
If you need to borrow a hat …
January 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Lunchtime yesterday (walking back from a meetI’d gone to a whole week early) …
January 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
January 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Can anyone remember what the penalty is for people called Charles when they have been convicted of

‘levying war against the … Parliament and People’?
January 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM