Gary Churchman

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 Sculptor, carver & letter carver. Figurative, architectural and monumental. Absolutely European.

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@dylan04gla Oh Dylan you can’t be serious ?

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

@SuellaBraverman @Marie32123495 Top tip: when you do a kindness, nobody should hear of it from your lips, as that only demonstrates the kindness was only done for benefit of the doer, not the recipient. Had my fill of this tragedy tourism. You’re like a shower of mourn magnets.

[Anthony Dent @_toosb]

Can’t imagine what motive Gove would have to go on their and face Hislop. It was always going to be messy for him.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

The River Wye has just made UK history.

For the first time, an entire river catchment has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with rights - including the right to flow, thrive, regenerate, and be free from pollution.

It's a major victory for nature.

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@richardosefton He protesteth too much !

[Paul paul9115.bsky.social @PaulMay9115]

@RobertJenrick Based on your deeds (voting against the workers right bill) I'm going to have to call bullshit on that Rob

[Mr Green @TinkersYork]

@RobertJenrick @russellquirk Populist bollocks, straight out of the Trump playbook.

But then you’ve always enjoyed helping people avoid paying tax, haven’t you ‘Honest Bob’?

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@RobertJenrick What tosh, your aim is to remove our human rights then you will try to screw us all over.

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

Luton carnival today
Always fabulous

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@finbarquin @EuropeanPowell Very true

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@_RimaSarkar @IndiaArtHistory @Gramergolpo @WestBengalDiary A feast for lovers of sculpture, a couple of my favourites.
So much to see in this museum, highly recommend.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Laura Kuenssberg, "Rejoining the EU.. Which Streeting and Burnham have mentioned"

Wil Self, "I think the public would be much happier if Streeting stood up and said we have a problem with governmental legitimacy, because of the way the vote on Europe is still perceived"

"We need a need to have a national debate on the mismatch on our electoral systems between Proportional Representation and FPTP"

"We need to educate the British public again on our own constitution"

"The real issue is we have a war with Russia"

"I have blood cancer, the blood testing service last year was attacked by Russian hackers"

"We have a low intensity conflict, its all over the place now"

"NATO is falling apart"

"The issue about the EU is about existential defence in Europe"

"Don't people understand that?"

"Talk about fiddling while Rome burns"

Well said @wself 👏

[Gary Churchman @GaryChurchman]

@EuanDuncan4 Doubt it

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

So Farage is complaining that his secret £5m donation was only disclosed due to hacking - implying he never intended to disclose it all - it took illegality to expose his own wrong doing. Not sure that’s much to crow about. Farage needs to explain why he never had or intended to disclose this.

That’s my view - we only know about his rule breaking, he says - because of the rule breaking of others.

[ken hughes #FBPE #Rejoin🇪🇺 # Rejoiner🦒 @KenKenph59]

Now that the BBC is reporting Polanskis houseboat council tax and Angela Rayners tax errors , can we please have some balance and investigate Farages house purchase and £5 million "gift" for "security" #BBCBias

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

Two Reform councillors elected last Thursday have been found to be deceased... One for over a year