New paintings now up for sale. ebay.co.uk/usr/malconius65 #painting #fineart #landscape #contemporaryart #acrylicpainting #britishpainting

I inherited a collection of frames from my uncle John. Happily one of them fits this old #acrylic of mine from 2009. ‘Winter sun on Bear Crag’ #Cumbria. 18x16” #painting

Good to hear the role of #simracing in the gestation of young F1 talent finally getting acknowledgment. #r4today

Skinningrove, north Yorkshire, 1970s, photo by Graham Smith.

Zack Polanski would doubtless have loved to win the Holborn by-election. He managed to triple the Greens' share of the vote, in a difficult seat for the party and in the midst of Labour's short Burnham honeymoon. Yet the media reaction is as one: shouldn't Polanski resign? The question isn't a question at all. It's a prompt your brain is supposed to interpret as proof he's failed, he's damaging the party, he needs to be replaced. It's intended to bypass the reality that Polanski has turned the party's fortunes around in terms of vote share and MPs, that the Greens are now a major insurgent force in UK politics, that he helped drive Starmer out of office and is driving Burnham further left than either Burnham or the Blairite Labour bureaucracy are inclined to go to win back the left. The sanctions against Israel's illegal settlements happened because of the Polanski-led Greens, not because Labour suddenly saw the light – after three years of conspiring in a genocide. The Green surge under Polanski is also driving the break-up of the cosy old two-party closed shop that has overseen the wrecking of Britain's industrial base and the economy's dependency on a financial sector whose only policy is ever-deepening austerity for you and me. Those are the reasons the political and media class want Polanski gone. And they will keep trying to short-circuit your brain into thinking that that would be good for the country rather than just for them.

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing

“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability. We might have thought that the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust were enough to inoculate us against the toxins there revealed and unleashed. But our resistance quickly fades. A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Old slogans and hatreds are dusted off. What was only recently muttered guiltily is now offered as political axiom and agenda. There are renewed appeals to ethnocentrism, xenophobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, and territoriality. And with a sigh of relief we are apt to surrender to the will of the alpha, or long for an alpha we can surrender to.” — Carl Sagan

"She showed that many of the intellectual elite of the time – including George Orwell, Hannah Arendt and Jackson Pollock – had, knowingly or otherwise, become tools of the American secret service" theguardian.com/books/2026/s…

Channel 4 doing what BBC should have done 11 years ago.

I won’t tell anyone when I make it, but there will be signs.

Breakin the law, breakin the law. Transgressive tweet from The Plough, Whitby. #SamSmith

If you want to know what X's shadow-banning looks like, here's a bar chart showing how the reach of my articles on the platform plummeted over six months. Nowadays, I wonder why I even bother publishing articles on X.

I’m old enough to remember when it was commonly agreed that ‘country’ music was unlistenable drivel. #r4today

Excellent segue from head scratching over Middlesbrough criminality to the triumph of Grand Theft Auto 🙄 #r4today

“Scrap woke climate action and enjoy the sunny Mediterranean lifestyle like they do in the South of France.” The South of France:

I can’t help thinking that the proposed closure of this cafe is symptomatic of a broader malaise. #ravenscar

My new watch tells me I have a resting pulse of around 65bpm which chatGPT tells me is 'excellent'. However whilst listening to Radio 3 Unwind it has risen by ten points.

A list of 45-year-old drivers that have scored points in F1 in the last 50 years: - Fernando Alonso End of list.