Nick Barber

graphic designer in Alton (Hampshire not Towers)...

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Hey @AdobeUK @Adobe can I change the preferences in Illustrator so the default input window is 'keyboard increments' again, not the search function? Very tedious and slows my workflow down.

[go-go-potato @go_go_potato]

It's beginning to look a lot like Xmas… so get yerself a festive t-shirts while they're hot… https://t.co/P86djjNz3c #xmas_gift #tshirtstore #etsy #gift #bluetit #christmas #secretsanta #Present

[go-go-potato @go_go_potato]

Twiddly-diddly-dee… check out this rockin' robin festive tee shirt… ideal for Xmas parties, secret Santa, presents or just treat yourself - https://t.co/YCG8BO6ANu #tshirtdesign #tshirtstore #christmas #robin #secretsanta #xmasgift #etsy #smallbusiness

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Hey @PhilCorbett, now you're a published author Frabett… the Fra needs you!

[Ashmolean Museum @AshmoleanMuseum]

Can you help us save Fra Angelico’s ‘The Crucifixion’? There is just one week remaining to donate to our campaign to acquire this masterpiece for the public. 

Donate now via our website: https://t.co/EADQ7nV6Jf

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Trying to imagine scoring 262 and still not being top scorer…

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@PhilCorbett you know you want one…

[The Toy Chronicle @TheToyChronicle]

DoomCo Designs x Tezuka Productions Presents The Astro Boy Peek-A-Boo https://t.co/mja6ZcJ05E

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Cockwombles…

[The Progressive Alliance 🟥🟩🟧 @TheProgAlliance]

John Oliver's brilliant call to arms for the British people has been banned from our TV screens here in the UK...so best not share this anywhere okay?

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

The Sunak ‘plan’ is to fund tax cuts by penalising those on benefits. Here’s what I wrote about this dreadful tactic ten years ago. I can’t believe we’re back here again. https://t.co/C9CmklQKVD

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@PhilCorbett I give you Gareth Southgate and Harry Kane…

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@Visualiser1 Brilliant… don’t suppose the Minster for Education would get that.

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@RhonddaBryant The irony of our safe seat Mickey Mouse MP berating Mickey Mouse degrees is exactly why we need PR. There’s no democracy in a safe seat. @MakeVotesMatter

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

might be a bit salty… @mershallcoaster

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Just to say, July 5th is my birthday…

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Rwanda: A day of shame

We should hang our fucking heads for what is being done in our name.

https://t.co/p8I1deeQgY

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@thisnorthernboy Ha-pie birthday champ… may your crust be golden and the filling a solid 9.5. x

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@thisnorthernboy …and darn handsome too!

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

A Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit…

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

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 – 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 mostly 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.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

What a game! #pusb

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

@Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater @SouthernWater Finflation.

[Nick Barber @spudlington]

Our school celebrates #WorldBookDay a day late but it’s another win for @jamiesmart as #Boja from #Flember was the choice for this years outfit… sorry @PhilCorbett we will try again next year!!?!