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Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

1/21

Nor decency. Nor laws. Nor the Constitution.

"We're not gonna be harassed by the truth."

Oh, I think you'll find that Israel already claimed that spot 🙃

The dust, drama, despair, and delight of Strade Bianche 2026 – Photo gallery A selection of the best snaps from a pulsating day in the Tuscan hills

Can’t argue 📷

“Strade Bianche is a photographer’s dream”

www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

. @telegraph.bsky.social now owned by Der Germans 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

Surrender, Johnny Foreigner, greatest defeat since World War 2, something, something Brexit

🤣🤣🤣

Geordie Heat - Mister Sting's Missing Vest #10YearsOfMince

Great to ride the narrow, mud-strewn lanes in light drizzle today Like the Spring Classics

Some sights along the way...

Ieshia Evans and riot police during a protest against police brutality at the Baton Rouge police department in Louisiana on 9 July 2016. Photograph: Jonathan Bachman

Woman sits in front of riot police blocking the road to protect protesters during an anti-government march on 24 April 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun

Young girl faces down a riot policeman during a protest marking the country’s 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile on 11 September 2016. Photograph: Carlos Vera

Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham. Unsure of photo credit

#InternationalWomensDay

set list

It's hard to put into words just how brilliant @stonefoundation.bsky.social were at St Michael's in the Hamlet (cast iron) church last night

Awesome - at the top of their game 🙌 🎸 🎺 🎷

Gig #6 2026

This weekend our spring tour begins!
Liverpool, cambridge, leicester, Newcastle, Birmingham, london, Sutton, barnoldswick Lancashire!
Tickets and info at stonefoundation.co.uk

#tour #tickets #spring #march

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Trump: "A lot of our people were walking around without legs"

It's popular to decry 70s MOR music, but I'm so very sad to hear the passing of Neil Sedaka.

My dad liked him, so part of my musical childhood.

Jeez, the guy could write a melody.

#RIP

Loved reading about his comeback with 10cc at Strawberry Studios, Stockport.

Gig #4 2026

Classical - Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Schubert, Chopin

at the Liverpool Nordic Church

According to the Storefront Safety Council, more than 100 vehicles collide with buildings each day, with more than half of those occurring at retail shops, restaurants, or convenience stores. Each year, the council estimates as many as 16,000 people are injured and as many as 2,600 people are killed.

🤡

unluckiest rider, with glowing palmares 🥇🙄

The invisible man whose millions are transforming British... Nigel Farage aims to win big in May’s elections, helped by a record-breaking £9m donation from a secretive billionaire. Christopher Harborne lives in Thailand, made a fortune in cryptocurrency and ban...

“It might be harder to buy a British football club than a political party, if that is what you wanted to do”

Ceri Thomas on Chris Harboune, the secretive billionaire bankrolling Reform — and reshaping British politics
https://bit.ly/3N6gM25

Gig #3 of 2026 - Mogwai 🎸 at Machester Apollo - superb

Echo & The Bunnymen: “I’ve written a song called Get The Chicken In. I had a roast chicken. It was one of those where you cook the bag.” (2008) | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

In 2008, I travelled to the birthplace of John Conteh and came back looking like I'd done 15 rounds with him. The truth was somewhat more prosaic. I'd been given the runaround by Ian McCulloch...

Someone gave Mrs Splodge some A-team figurines from the 80's.

She sold them... for... 🥁

£160!!! 😯

The vast majority of harm done to kids is done by people known to them, not strangers. Research confirms this.

The rates of serious crime are not higher than 20/30/40 years ago, no matter how much you reminisce for the "good old days".

Cars are more prevalent, faster and heavier now.

former Prince Andrew

Still not sweating

Perfect ad. for deoderant

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.