Mark Creasy

The TV GAME QUIZ What is the year - please repost so others can play. Tv teaser! What was the year ? #Sunday #retro #tv

@bagshaw2112 1983, great songs here

THE MUSIC CHART QUIZ ❤️❤️ What year ?? Please repost so others can play ! A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #SUNDAY

NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE SITUATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF ACTUALLY IS. 3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water. They were DENIED. 💀 Let that sink in. These aren't military ships. These are commercial vessels — carrying oil, grain, electronics — with civilian crews who are now stranded with NO supplies and NO way out. – 3,200 ships STUCK ⚠️ – Crews running out of WATER 💀 – Port authorities REFUSING to let them dock ⚠️ – Multiple ships reporting the SAME situation 💀 ⚠️ For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 blocked 400 ships. This is EIGHT TIMES worse. And nobody is talking about it. They're showing you missile interceptions and oil price charts. They're NOT showing you thousands of crew members slowly running out of drinking water in the middle of a war zone. If these ships start getting abandoned, the environmental disaster alone would be catastrophic. Thousands of tons of fuel, cargo, chemicals — just sitting there. This is not a shipping disruption. This is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS unfolding in real time. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 X is hiding this. Follow + RT before it disappears. 🔥

Bishop of Willesden on the Iftar : "The public iftar in Trafalgar Square was not an act of cultural imposition, nor a signal of division. It was, rather, a moment of hospitality: an invitation to share in the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, extended by one community to the wider public. It was open, generous and peaceful. It reflected something profoundly British; the instinct to gather, to mark significant moments together, and to make space in our common life for the traditions that shape our neighbours. "To suggest that such an event is somehow threatening risks misunderstanding both the nature of religious expression and the character of our national life. Religious freedom in this country has never meant the privatisation of belief. It has meant the opposite: the right of individuals and communities to live out their faith openly, visibly and without fear. That principle applies as much to Muslims observing Ramadan as it does to Christians celebrating Easter, Jews marking Passover, Hindus celebrating Diwali, or Sikhs observing Vaisakhi." churchofengland.org/media/news-and…

@otokyo__ Gay?

he is??

Tony Benn's "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.

@NileGardiner She could just as easily been talking about Conservative MPs

In the aftermath of the 9/11 Islamist terrorist attacks, my former boss Margaret Thatcher wrote: "We have harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and indulged those who weakened us." How right she was, and her words ring true today, especially in the UK.

@piersmorgan If only we'd had a president who was prepared to hold them to account & ensure their weapons were inspected, keeping the world safe...

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

@Councillorsuzie @bphillipsonMP So you're against free bus passes, prescriptions & eye tests for pensioners then?

No no @bphillipsonMP - they are not ‘free’ breakfasts, lunches,clothes etc. someone has to pay for this and it’s the hard pushed taxpayers. You are so happy to give out ‘free’ stuff without any idea how to grow the economy in order to pay for it. Financially illiterate the lot of you. #NeverLabour

🗣️ "We had a good team on paper, but unfortunately the game is played on grass." 🗣️ "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was definitely in the top one." 🗣️ “Rome wasn’t built in a day. But I wasn’t on that particular job.” 🗣️ “Players lose you games, not tactics. There’s so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.” 🗣️ “When my players disagree with me, we talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.” Remembering Brian Clough on what would have been his 91st birthday. RIP.🕊️

Making progress slowly!

@bagshaw2112 1994

THE CHARTS ARE BACK ❤️❤️ What year ?? Please repost so others can play ! A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #Saturday

Must watch #BBCQT Caroline Lucas, "I think this is an illegal reckless war with Iran that is being waged by Trump and Netanyahu" "They have massively underestimated their enemy" "Trump is a bully and a blackmailer" "He has no plan for an exit strategy, says he will exit when he feels it in his bones" "This is a President said who said he would bomb Kharg island just for fun" "He suggested he might attack Cuba as well" "The type of language Trump and Hegseth are using is just so disgusting" "I've got their words: watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, what a great honour to kill them" "This is not Grand Theft Auto, this is real people real lives" "And yet you get the sense from the White House that this is some big game" "And all of us are suffering from it"

Depressing week in UK politics but Viz Magazine's finest letter never fails to raise a smile

6 years ago today, Boris Johnson announced the first lockdown, heralding the start of one of the busiest office party seasons of his career.

Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Heading into Finals week like 😤🥴😅🫣… The race for the overall is tight 🤏, and that’s one of the reasons I love this sport so much! Since I have over 500 points, I’m able to ski in any discipline…I’ll be skiing in super-G, GS, and slalom. Emma is the the next generation of our sport, and she’s the only four event skier this year (and she’s been crushing it across disciplines)…excited for her, and excited for the battle the next week in Norway!🇳🇴