Ben Briggs

@BoneheadsPage @liamgallagher will be glad you’re on your way home!

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

I want there to be a day when I don’t have to share this speech anymore

People with learning disabilities die more than twenty years earlier than the rest of us, and around 40% of those deaths are judged potentially avoidable myemail.constantcontact.com/Invisible.html…

Had the best time with @lauradorothymcclure @stevebracknall @bob__the_bucket @ @djagonline Sheffield vibes ❤️

Their work was being downgraded and their department ‘thinned out’. It became too much. The result, an empty chair. A vacant space. A void, tears will never fill. myemail.constantcontact.com/Say-so.html?so…

Can I borrow your attention for two minutes ? Wrote this out 200 times and it still feels wrong but here goes. As a lot of you know my Dad passed on a while back. It massively derailed the recording and release of this forthcoming album (it’s now coming out in May) But it also really derailed me. My Dad was a complex fella. Full of good and bad traits (aren’t we all). Anyway I wanted to do something that sums up the grief process. How it feels when a particular person enters your head. It isn’t a linear thing is it? It comes and goes. The album isn’t remotely doomy and im not even sure the original concept was about my Dad, but because I recorded it during his final weeks, it shall, in my mind at least always be about him. I’ve been told that I should release a different song to this because it’s a bit depressing to be on @bbcradio2 and whilst I love being on the radio, some things are about being true to yourself aren’t they? When we toured recently loadsa people cried when we played this one and so that gave me the confidence to put it out. Also my dad would have loved the attention 🤣. He was the bands biggest fan. Always letting me know if we’d had a spin on the radio or where the albums had got to in the chart and giving me his feedback on my demos. I miss him terribly and if you too are struggling with grief there is a helpline you can ring on 08088081677 where the folks at Cruse can advise and assist you. Without trying to commercialise something tragic l, we do have a limited number of McClure family front covers of the new album which, my dad would be buzzing about. He predicted I’ll have a no1 day, which is sentimental bollocks but we can but try. 🤣 I appreciate you reading and hopefully you’ll watch the full thing on YouTube Big love Jon

Still processing the news about Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. It made me think about the video he did with his father Carl Reiner, right before he passed away.

An anecdote I cherish is Mandy Patinkin once asked Rob Reiner what The Princess Bride was about. Reiner said it’s about a grandfather telling his grandson that the most important thing in in the world is love. I think that’s beautiful.

@StephenKing Thank you both for teaching us this:

It’s like God gave you something, man. All those stories that you can make up. And he said, ‘This is what we’ve got for you, kid. Try not to lose it’ —“Stand by Me,” based on a ⁦@StephenKing⁩ novella, directed by Rob Reiner, a great storyteller.

@Reverend_Makers Alright Rev. Thanks for tonight. Needed it.

@gingerrtom Farage. Please.

@parthaskar @NHSEngland Thank you @parthaskar

Zero hesitation as ever to say what needs to be said. Had many colleagues across @NHSEngland today-distraught as to how things have unfolded regards their jobs, the media depiction of them and little to no regard to wellbeing Which would come as little surprise to many doctors. The ability of @NHSE_WTE to have empathy or look after their workforce? Has always been little more than chat. A truck load of senior clinical leaders need to do far better in supporting their staff. Far better.

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other. op: chronicallyjenni (via IG)

Drummer Sota Sakai performing a solo on “Strasbourg / St. Denis“ by Roy Hargrove.

HULL is the only place with tickets left Get involved

@Reverend_Makers See you in Hull Rev 👌🏻👌🏻

MAD RESPOSNE TO THESE SMALL SHOWS The whole presale went in minutes There’s a few left for Dunfermline and Cambridge only and then a handful we’ve had to hold back for general sale that will be released on Friday But Dunfermline and Cambridge are the ones . Grab a preorder , get a code , snap em up before they’re gone GO GO GO 🛸

Imagine if this many people cared about school shootings

Heartbreaking.