Dave Evans

Flaneur and quietly pessimistic homebrewer.

[Craig Norenbergs 🇦🇺🇳🇿 @CraigNorenbergs]

My son is refereeing local Auckland rugby, because he loves the game. The newbies wear a jersey that says "FIRST YEAR REFEREE". Last week he looked after an under 15s outer suburban high school game. Abused by ADULT coaches, including one who crossed the sideline (illegal) and walked over to the kicking tee to abuse him.
It was all he thought about all week.
Do they want kids to referee? And what example is being set to the players here? Grow up people.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal Warrington also fortunate to have the tubula rasa that was RAF Burtonwood within its boundary. You can see its ghost in the couple of hangers that still stand along the M62.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘The Farm’ (1958)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@OldRoberts953 Wes Streeting sporting shades and a merkin. What a way to welcome the weekend!🤩

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal Did drinking ether become a way of avoiding the strictures of signing the pledge?

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@AndyBurnhamGM Pretending that no one in Orrell or anywhere else in "Makerfield" will notice that we're going through this farrago because none of the 410 current Labour MPs has the nous or ability to replace the incumbent PM. Clown car of a party.

[Pete @post_liberal]

Reflections on what makes my hometown, and the constituency that Andy Burnham is standing in, slightly different

https://t.co/i9hoka5A3K

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@ajlees There are probably two types of people: those who work in hospitals and those who visit/get admitted. As one of the latter, I can't watch a hospital film unless Gerald Thomas or Richard Gordon were involved in its production.

[Pete @post_liberal]

New blog from me. A plea to understand Wigan on its own terms rather than viewing it merely as an extension of somewhere else.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@thesundaysport I thought the technical term for such vehicles is "sh@gging wagons". As Elaine said on Seinfeld, "If this van's rockin' don't come knockin'".

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal Excellent. Wigan has much in common with both St Helens and Widnes. I would have said Warrington too, but the former new town seems to have transformed it beyond recognition. All situated on the South Lancs coalfield.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@DefenceGeek @CountBinface Wigan Council empty the general waste bin every three weeks. The paper, glass and plastic, and garden waste on other cycles. (Spy stuff, courtesy of the wife).

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@DrChrisParry @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @reformparty_uk Probably right. But if you're a mug like me that happens to live in "Makerfield", where you put your cross?

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@FUDdaily @GoodwinMJ As a registered elector in the "Makerfield" constituency, I despair at the quality of candidate/party being touted. This by election is a metaphor for Britain's decline.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@OldRoberts953 Whats @OldRoberts953 got against Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@GroomB Wigan gave us George Formby AND Frank Randall. For these gifts we are truly grateful. (St Helens could only manage Bernie Clifton and Robert Dorning).

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal Yes, but St Helens had quite a few Tory clubs. Might be due partly to the fact that the town was dominated by the Pilkington family, and the predominant union was the General and Municipal, the most supine organised labour outfit at the time.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@TheSimonEvansX @metroadlib Sounds like the old JMB English Lit A Level exam.

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal The Tories couldn't have won from 1951 to 1964 without working class support

[Dave Evans @dave_basic]

@post_liberal The Canadian psephologist, wrote a book about working class Tories: "Angels in Marble".