Mark Hendy

So different from the “twerking” we see nowadays. 🙄

@oelma__ 5&1/4 baby, not those new fangled 3” things…

But are you floppy disk old..

Chicachicachah…

46 years later, and the world still stops for this solo. Is it normal to shed a tear every single time?

It's called St Cuthbert's Day. We celebrated it every year at school. The flag bears his cross. He was so revered by King Æthelstan, the founder of our Kingdom, that the king made a pilgrimage to Durham to honour him. Renaming it "Durham Day" erases our history.

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.

In 1951, a 66 year old Swedish farmer named Gustaf Håkansson decided he wanted to compete in Sweden’s toughest cycling race, the Sverigeloppet, a grueling 1,764 kilometer event that stretched across the country. Race organizers refused to let him join. They believed he was simply too old to handle the physical demands of such an exhausting competition. But Håkansson had no intention of turning back. Instead of giving up, he lined up anyway and rode the entire route unofficially. While the official racers stopped to rest and sleep along the way, Håkansson kept pedaling. He rode through the night with a small headlamp on his bicycle, often cycling for days with barely any sleep. His determination quickly turned him into a sensation among spectators, who began calling him “Stålfarfar,” meaning “Steel Grandpa.” By the time the race ended, something remarkable had happened. The man who had been rejected for being too old had reached the finish line ahead of every single official competitor. Though his ride did not count in the official standings, his achievement captured national attention and turned him into a folk hero in Sweden. What began as a refusal ended as one of the most memorable endurance stories in cycling history. #drthehistories

I hope everyone is ready for what comes next. I would put all large spending on hold and pay down and debts you have.

The Hormuz crisis is rapidly becoming a humanitarian disaster at sea. 20,000+ seafarers are now trapped—with some ships running out of drinking water. Ports are closed. Crew changes frozen. Attacks ongoing. gcaptain.com/seafarers-trap…

NEW: Sweden has experienced a data breach of the National ID system BankID. It’s used across over 7000 services, government included.

The cost of borrowing is soaring and how do senior Labour MPs respond? They openly lobby the Chancellor to borrow *even more* money. These people are not just clueless - they’re dangerous. We urgently need to slash the spiralling benefits bill and scrap net zero waste. Until we get spending back under control, more and more taxpayer money will be spent on paying off our debt and not on the stuff that matters. This is a flashing red light the Chancellor would be reckless to ignore.

FFS

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Pakistan to repay a USD 6.3 billion loan after Pakistan failed to honor the bilateral defense pact, under which an attack on one is considered an attack on both. Saudi officials are reportedly unable to reach Pakistan’s PM & army chief.

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

The Bank of England Just Admitted There is a Liquidity Crisis - The Bank of England is now requiring banks to simulate rapid outflows over the course of a single week. That is not a normal recession scenario. That is a bank run. zurl.co/x8PoY

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. 🔥

NCP has gone into administration. They’ve been running car parks since 1931, and somehow ended up £305m in debt. Surely the maintenance for a car park is simple: ticket machines, barriers, lights, and occasional cleaning. How can a business model literally based on people paying to park go bankrupt?

The more I read this, the more I realize how it is utterly illiterate. How exactly do you decolonize someone’s birthplace? He lived there. No one came in and conquered his house. It’s just a house of a man that exists. These people are exhausting 🙄

I firmly believe that living in the #UK is becoming unsustainable for many. It’s a bankrupt country. There are too-few people to haul the heavy locomotive and quite frankly I’m fed up of being one of those people. Something has got to change. #CouncilTax #Tax

Concerning news on the Companies House data breach - They just exposed the data of every Company Director and the were threatening you with a fine or disqualification if you didn’t use their Digital ID. There should be a legal class action against the Gov. youtu.be/3Xi7Yi7EP7M