@johnpilkingtonpt
Personal trainer specialising in coaching general population and older adults with specific training requirements. Japanologist, former TV producer (news and entertainment) and university lecturer (EFL/ESL and media studies).
Fact of the day:
When Trump met Melania at a party in 1998 he was with his then girlfriend Celina Midelfart - and honestly, if you're British, it feels like the whole thing was scripted by Mike Myers...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
The Dimmest and Worst.
Customers entering an Iceland supermarket. Iceland is a UK chain specialising in frozen goods.
Hands off!! 🤬
For decades, much of the world accepted America as the head of the global order, despite the country’s flaws and errors, "because it did not act solely out of narrow self-interest—much less in the narrow, selfish interest of a single ruler. That era is over," Robert Kagan argues.
1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
🔎 FROM FEB LAST YEAR:
Trump Isn't Joking About Lebensraum
Trump's plans for #Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico aren't just idle talk. A senior US insider tells us what to expect
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
My favourite movie line. Thank you Rob Reiner.
What’s the app called, please?
“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...
Picture of Nathan Gill arriving at court. Headline: Reform UK and Russian Bribes. A Nathan Gill Timeline.
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox presenting the 1989 BRIT Awards. Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
This had a lot to do with it too…
Exciting that political discourse has now shifted so far to the right, Max Hastings is a leftist agitator.
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@raskin.house.gov has certainly got Farage’s number. A truly incisive and well-informed deconstruction of his malevolent chicanery.
youtu.be/reQaq3ArAak?...
This series (4x47 minute episodes) really should be required viewing for those with strong opinions on the small boats issue.
Seen 'Go Back to Where You Came From'? Watch it here on Channel 4:
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Nigel’s whole future is as good as sealed…
youtu.be/n-X3Wy-svIY?...
‘And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.’ - Bertrand Russell (1959)
youtu.be/ihaB8AFOhZo?...
‘I told you one and one makes three.’
@livingcolour.com
youtu.be/bzAI4F_ks5s?...
New from my mentor, Patrick Dale.
open.substack.com/pub/realfitn...
‘Do you ever feel like a plastic bag…?’ 🎶
I’m not the author, I’m afraid, but will be reading these. Thank you for letting me know about them!
As the alliance of genuinely responsible citizens gathers for the Emergency Summit in Paris, the grifters, usurpers and appeaseniks assemble in London.
uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/arc-for...
'Ukraine has bought Europe time by standing as its first line of defence. Enough of that time has already been squandered through refusal to recognise the danger. History may never forgive the current generation of European leaders if their procrastination continues'
www.ft.com/content/f268...
Pls promote. UK citizens stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 👇
