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I enjoy walking (including football!), cycling and scuba diving.
Now retired from a career in I.T. that included punched cards in its early days.
Wish we were still in the EU and that I had a bit more confidence in our recently elected government, although it is good to feel the country is at least being run by adults again.
Still watching Liverpool from the Kop, an experience that has now comfortably exceeded 40 years.

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. By the artist Frank Riot.

The poster says it better than most speeches:

When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

Who will they blame then?

What will they have gained?

A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay.

🚨🔥 Mo Salah statement.

“I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that”.

“Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it”.

“Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games”.

“Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on”.

“As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

Reform are now doxxing journalists it seems
So Prince Harry writes an article titled "My fears for a divided kingdom" with the subtitle "We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate."

But the BBC headline? "Harry warns of 'deeply troubling' rise in antisemitism in UK."

Notice what got cut? The Islamophobia. The subtitle. The line where Harry writes: "anti-Muslim hatred and all forms of racism draw from the same well of division. They must be confronted with the same resolve."

Harry's original piece explicitly rejects hierarchy among forms of hatred. He writes: "When anger is turned toward communities – whether Jewish, Muslim, or any other – it ceases to be a call for justice."

Yet the BBC framing created the very imbalance he warned against. His words got filtered through a lens that prioritised one form of bigotry over another, even when the source material demanded equal treatment.

Read the original article here: https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026/05/my-fears-for-a-divided-kingdom

Compare it to the BBC coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xw55q0elvo

This isn't about diminishing antisemitism. It's about exposing how the establishment's selective attention distorts even messages meant to promote unity. When the BBC chooses which suffering to amplify, they're not just reporting, they're shaping the hierarchy.

All bigotry deserves equal condemnation. Not just when it fits the narrative.

#Islamophobia #Antisemitism #MediaFraming #SelectiveOutrage #PrinceHarry
To every developer who makes progress bars that takes 2 minutes to get to 99% before it stalls out for another 15 minutes, I hate you.

I had a good dive yesterday, but nowhere near THIS good. Some of my friends had an incredible encounter with a basking shark on a shore dive in Rockport, Massachusetts!

Basking sharks are the second largest fish (after the whale shark) and open their huge mouths to swallow water full of tiny plankton, which gets filtered out as the water passes through their gills. These amazing creatures grow up to 30 feet long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXZTVq_MbE

#baskingshark #shark #gentlegiant #NewEngland #coldWater #epic #scuba #scubadiving #wildlife

Basking Shark!

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Exploring the ancient gravestones of the Old Minto Burial Ground, Scottish Borders

https://lostpod.space/w/bFyKnArBVd5RREugxj1mfC

Exploring the ancient gravestones of the Old Minto Burial Ground, Scottish Borders

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Sparrowhawk euthanised in Scottish Highlands after illegal trap caused ‘catastrophic’ leg injury – Raptor Persecution UK https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/05/11/sparrowhawk-euthanised-in-scottish-highlands-after-illegal-trap-caused-catastrophic-leg-injury/
Sparrowhawk euthanised in Scottish Highlands after illegal trap caused ‘catastrophic’ leg injury

A Sparrowhawk has been euthanised after it was found in an illegally-set trap with a “catastrophic” leg injury. The bird was found with its leg caught in a Fenn trap on Saturday 4 April…

Raptor Persecution UK