I've always had a memory from childhood of watching an episode of The Sooty Show set around a pool and finding Sweep's legs hilarious. Finally found a clip of it!
Spare us the civilisational lectures, you charlatan.
Atatiana Jefferson, 2019. Shot dead through her bedroom window during a welfare check. Playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. The officer never identified himself.
Botham Jean, 2018. Shot dead eating ice cream in his own apartment by an off-duty officer who "thought it was her apartment".
John Albers, 2018. Seventeen years old. His friends called police because he was suicidal. Officers killed him during the welfare check.
Parkland, 2018. Seventeen children and staff massacred in their school. The armed officer paid to protect them? Hid outside.
Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School, Minab, February 2026. At least 175 dead, most of them girls aged 7 to 12. NYT analysis and US military investigators believe American forces struck the school. Trump blamed Iran without evidence. US Senators are still waiting for answers.
In 2025, American police killed 1,201 people. 98 unarmed. 233 school shootings at K-12 schools. American children do active shooter drills in primary school. American families are afraid to call for welfare checks because officers shoot the people they're sent to help.
Henry Nowak's father said: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension". You used it anyway, to lecture a country 3,000 miles away while your administration bombs schoolgirls and your officers shoot people through bedroom windows.
The UK's government has plenty to answer for. But we don't take civilisational lectures from those who run a country that can't keep its children alive in their own classrooms and in their own homes and bomb children in far away lands, you pathetic charlatan.
Remembering the brilliant Marjane Satrapi, the extraordinary artist and filmmaker behind Persepolis.
Through this deeply personal and powerful film, she gave audiences a story of identity, freedom, exile and resistance that continues to resonate across the world.
Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest duets of all time, this 1987 archival footage from Ibiza captures the iconic song "Barcelona." It stands as a vivid testament to the perfect fusion of Montserrat Caballé’s sublime operatic vocals and Freddie Mercury’s captivating stage presence—a masterpiece that left an indelible mark on music history and went on to become the official and defining anthem of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band.
The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September).
Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.
1 bit the dust already:
Reform UK paper candidate who was elected in Bradford, Daniel Devaney, has resigned already saying he doesn't want to be a councillor and has gone away on holiday.
"Bella ciao" me la cantava mio papà da bambina. Che emozione cantarla ieri insieme a migliaia di genovesi tra le strade e le piazze della nostra città.
Viva la Resistenza, viva il 25 aprile!
#OtD 25 Apr 1945 Milan and Genoa were liberated from fascism following workers' uprisings and a general strike. The date has since been celebrated as Italy's annual 'Day of Liberation'. Learn more in our podcast series on the Italian resistance: https://t.co/Bdj9CoICq8
Avevo quattro mesi quando mio padre e e i suoi fratelli furono fucilati dai fascisti.
Oggi giro l’Italia per portare alto il nome loro e della libertà
Adelmo Cervi
"Nessuna conquista è per sempre
Per cui resistere è un dovere e una necessità"
#25aprile_è_antifascista
Lots of accounts on this site are financially rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides in England and Wales are their lowest level in five decades and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level