Tim Barraclough

‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen David Hemmings’ never-released concert film from Bowie’s 1978 world tour will be presented in a multimedia show that aims to ‘create the illusion’ that he is present on stage

Buttercups flowering in a nearby meadow in the last week of October. Very normal 🤷‍♂️

Morning moon in a pale blue sky.

'We create an intimate cartography of locations that have hidden subjective resonances connected to our pasts. ‘Wickerman’ is a desolate but magical distillation of this, and for all its melancholic nostalgia, it pointed a way forward.' #Pulp’s We Love Life at 25 buff.ly/Rd7iKCJ

Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

🔴 NEW Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Is Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Quite a common example of arrogant Zionist racism/expansionism/exceptionalism

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

First Serbia, and now an even more seismic election result for the geopolitics of now. Hard to overstate how important Brazil bucking the far right trend in Latin America is - also a huge blow to Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The planet doesn't need more data centres. It needs more forests, clean air and a future.

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www.patreon.com/NeedleMythol... Anyone with a soft spot for Nick probably needs this book.

Why is the word violence used when a protester in France smashes a window, but not used when French police assault protesters? Is it somehow no longer violence if the action is committed by an employee of the state?

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

Go watch this report on protest. youtu.be/sYOAeQEjWsc

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Costume designer Edith Head won 8 Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 & 1973 (nominated 35 times!). Most-awarded woman in the Academy's history. #Oscars Considered one of the greatest & most influential costume designers in #film history. She died #OTD in 1981. #MovieSky

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

The UN found Israel killed 35 Palestinian children during the 2018 Gaza protests. At the time Lisa Nandy asked the govt how it could continue justifying arms sales to Israel For over 2yrs Nandy has been part of a govt thats armed Israel while its killed tens of thousands of Palestinian kids

We need much stricter measures to prevent antisemitism because it’s not more prevalent than other forms of racism. Apparently, 95% of black kids have experienced racism at school, but they’re not top of the hierarchy so who cares? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/british-te...

Please help if you can: thank you. #SketchForSurvival #cartoon #originalart #wildlife #charity #auction Link: explorersagainstextinction.irostrum.com/auction/sket...

Israel’s Delek Group is majority-owner of Aberdeen-based Ithaca Energy, holding 20% of the Rosebank oil field. The company is linked to Israeli settlement activities, while its subsidiary, Delek Israel, has also been reported to supply fuel to the Israeli military and police.

Bauhaus students Martha Earps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Konsemüller. 1927 #WomensArt #BauhausWomem

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Roxana Halls, contemporary London-based painter who deploys spectacle, humour, lurid narrative and an uncanny glamour #WomensArt

via Campbell Finnie

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Happy 50th Birthday to "New Rose." Should be a public holiday.

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says UNEP report says window has closed on holding temperate rises to 1.5C, but swift cuts would enable overshoot to be limited Meanwhile, UK government approves a new gas field… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National Coal Board negligence was responsible for the deaths of 144 people including 116 children in Aberfan. An unbearable, avoidable disaster. A devastated & grieving community repeatedly betrayed. NCB were never prosecuted #Aberfan60 #NeverForgetNeverForgive #NoJusticeNoPeace

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

This is a mistake from the chancellor. Capital gains tax reform could raise £19bn to help fund cost of living support for struggling households and improvements in public services.

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

For you it’s ‘the money has run out’ and we need to make cuts to afford defence spending’ For the King it’s a 93% increase from the Government. Stop falling for their bullshit.

The UAE concealed its crimes through sportswashing. Andy Burnham let them get away with it. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uae-co...

UK govt mooted new nuclear 20yrs ago- has splurged £bns of public ££s on it. Yet to date, ZERO electricity has been generated. Sizewell C has devastated vast areas of Suffolk countryside, much in the National Landscape- 1000s of trees felled, miles of hedging ripped up & wildlife eradicated

#OtD 16 Oct 1968 African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in a Black power salute as they won medals. Peter Norman showed solidarity by wearing a badge protesting the white Australia policy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8831...

The core Sovereign Grant for King Charles from public purse will rise to £99.9m (from 2027/28). 93% increase from £51.8m in 2024/25. 65% higher in real terms than in 2016/17. Did your income rise at that rate? 25.3m people live below minimum income standard. We are in it all together, aren't we

Post mortems suggest five Hen Harrier chicks found dead in nest on grouse moor in northern England had injuries consistent with being stabbed. New blog (warning - contains distressing info) ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Down by the Trent mid October.

£5.62 returned for each £1 spent on cycling investments, finds @cyclinguk.bsky.social study www.cyclingelectric.com/news/5-62-re...