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Farage says his partner bought the house with family money. The BBC can’t find that family money: “Her parents, Bertrand and Chantal, live in a flat worth around 350,000 euros (£302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb. They, and their two daughters, co-own the flat.”
15.30 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social +linguist Dr Catherine Laing discuss onomatopoeia. Not just words for sounds like 'crash' and 'bang', but others words which perhaps hold something of their meaning within their form. Is there something rough about the word 'rough'? Does 'smooth' feel smooth?
Ironwork and fire escapes Backstreet #BD1 scene.. #Bradford #MillLife #Northern
🔴The Big Tobacco, Climate Denial Lobbyist and Crypto Firms Sponsoring the Reform UK Conference Big corporations and lobby groups are putting their cash behind the rise of Nigel Farage’s party bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...
Couldn’t have said it better myself…
He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Enjoyed this sign at the parish church in Whitby today…
BUT DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT
@jonnelledge.bsky.social said to dip in & out - I haven’t been able put the bugger down but I have got a proper tan. Excellent poolside read!
#nowreading The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything - If you love a good Bill Bryson this is your next book. I now know 100s of things I didn’t know I needed nor wanted to know. Every page has a ‘No? Really?’ Moment @
They say AI is going to take over the world. They say GROK "is actually quite good." And then you get sent this.
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Did you know the Turner Prize 2025 artwork can be seen in Yorkshire? As part of #Bradford2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, #BradfordMuseums will be hosting from 27 Sept 25 to 22 Feb 26 FREE a ticket is required #turnerprize2025 #daysoutyorkshire #artprize bradford2025.co.uk/event/turner...
So glad to have been a Bradford postcode born and bred Yorkshireman today. Really enjoyed Yorkshire Calling at Bradford Live for #Bradford2025 on #YorkshireDay
The last band announcement in our stellar line up of 16 streetbands from across the world are the OZ HONKeroos, joining us all the way from Wollongong, NSW Australia! Catch them at HONK! Bradford 26th-28th September 🥁🎷🪇 #HONKBradford #Bradford2025 #StreetMusic #StreetBand
I wish i had more time to explore the Bradford City of Culture 2025. The events in Keighley have been outstanding. Was born in Keighley 40 years ago and have never seen the diverse communities having fun together in my lifetime. Also the music has been fabulous. So many cool local artists from […]
I am a long time police detective. When media is present at scenes and I'm just conferring with colleagues, I'll take a moment to hold my notebook, look at my colleagues and point at something random. The media just love that shot and it makes them both happy and go away sooner.
On the day, the stadium came alive. There was face-painting, inflatables, live music, arts and crafts, kids’ games, and plenty of free food and drink. It was joyful, welcoming and proudly Bradford.
📍 Last Thursday, over *10,000* people joined us at Odsal Stadium in Bradford for our biggest ever community fun day. 💛
Ofwat examines £1.3m paid to Yorkshire Water boss via offshore parent company
right so I keep having people - not unreasonably! - ask me why I've mostly stopped writing about politics so I've liberated the newsletter I wrote five months ago from the paywall, should tell you everything you need to know: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/westminste...
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
Arrived onsite at Bradford Industrial Museum this week and did a double take at this. A Good Yarn art installation, 3m tall & wide ball of yarn created by residents of BD10 and rolled through their streets for @bradford2025.co.uk 🧶. bradford2025.co.uk/event/a-good...
Happy Yorkshire day
Eyup, it’s Yorkshire day!
Happy #YorkshireDay to all who celebrate! Fill in the blank: my favourite place to visit in Yorkshire is _______.
I met a Yorkshire vegan who was training for a marathon and had just bought an air fryer - he said it all so quickly he lost his false teeth in the rush!
Happy Yorkshire Day 😎
Happy Yorkshire Day to all those who celebrate.
Happy Yorkshire day, Bluebs… Also pinch punch… it’s August!
It's Yorkshire Day and it's a tough day for Yorkshire vegans. An incredible dilemma as to what one they tell you first
Here’s to the landscapes, the history, the legends, and of course the tea, that make Yorkshire the region it is. Have a great Yorkshire Day. With best wishes from all the team here at History and Heritage Yorkshire.
Happy Yorkshire Day
Happy —-#Yorkshire Day to all. See all; hear all - say nowt!
No problem - we loved it! I hope it makes a few people book.
At our #SummerScience Exhibition 2024, Michele Dougherty explained her journey to becoming a space scienist:
Love this so much
The Railway Children steam to life in the Worth Valley A steam-powered stage, moving platforms, and heartfelt performances bring The Railway Children roaring to life as part of Bradford 2025 By John Atkinson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
It was hours ago! Can we all stop talking about it now, please? If the men’s ream had won a major trophy, would we really still be going on about it all this time Later?
Henry I died from a ‘surfeit of lampreys.’
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¡Buen provecho!
It was hours ago! Can we all stop talking about it now, please? If the men’s ream had won a major trophy, would we really still be going on about it all this time Later?
Actually the World’s Most Wuthering Heights Day Why 500 people will dance today in celebration and in protest in Haworth, home to Wuthering Heights By Clare Shaw @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
From Melbourne to Berlin, Paris to Oslo, thousands of people meet on or around 30 July to celebrate the shared birthday of Emily Brontë and Kate Bush in a 'mass wuther'...
It’s exactly the same for anyone of The West Riding when we land at Leeds-Bradford
Nigel Farage's barmy Army plan for portakabin prisons 'would risk national security' Defence sources said Vladimir Putin would be "delighted" by the plan - which would mean serving soldiers building prisons instead of serving on the NATO frontline www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Me, too
It's Wuthering Heights Day here in Yorkshire!
Something magical is heading our way this #YorkshireDay… We’ve heard rumblings from Rombald the Giant, & now his rocks are on the move! From 1 Aug, discover Rombald’s Rocks at Ilkley Manor House, created by Keighley Creative & artist Leonie Briggs with artists & communities across Keighley.
wouldn't necessarily say that "giving the racist rioters exactly what they wanted, and showing them that rioting works" can be seen as "having dealt with the issue"? I mean I guess it is in a way, but www.ft.com/content/7fa5...
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Turns out a lot of those who riotied last summer are violent morons who beat up their partners. Who could have guessed?
#Bradford #Bradfotd2025
🚂 The Railway Children steam to life in the Worth Valley A steam-powered stage, moving platforms, and heartfelt performances bring The Railway Children roaring to life as part of Bradford 2025 By John Atkinson @bd-angry.bsky.social
Do any deliver with fava beans?
I just completed Bluesky’s age verification by correctly using: a colon; a semicolon; an apostrophe.
Great fun in Bradford today rolling giant yarnball around city for @bradford2025.co.uk We came across a wedding on our way ! Music from Bd1 Brass! www.lukejerram.com/a-good-yarn/ A Good Yarn .
80 years ago today Clement Attlee became PM, he founded the NHS and built record numbers of homes. He was one of the best British PM's, strange that no-one talks about admiring his legacy. But then there is no profit in Council Houses and Public Healthcare.
The world is quieter, less colourful & a sadder place today. RIP #RayFrench #rugbyleague youtu.be/IJOYoYG5YLE?...
This Saturday, 26th July, A Good Yarn will be rolled through Bradford city centre as part of BD: Festival. See you there? Full details of this joyous project are available here: bradford2025.co.uk/event/a-good...
Haworth in Brontë Country earlier today. #classicmono #westyorkshire #bradford2025
So this should be in the headline of every major newspaper tomorrow. It will however only be mentioned in very few papers at all.
⬇️ Reform UK’s anti-environmental policies would cumulatively deprive the economy of £67-£92bn in GVA. In today‘s figures, that is almost 3% of the UK‘s entire GDP. Clearly Farage isn't content with the 4% hit he inflicted on the country through Brexit...
Have you been to see The Railway Children? The critics love it - and we want to hear what you think too!
Reform want to turn us into America. Legalising guns and charging for the NHS. No thanks.
The more than half full approach arrives .... Naysayers note....#Bradford Darley Street Market: Bar ran out of beer and pizza sold out | Bradford Telegraph and Argus share.google/RnA1oG2O8qLY...
Imagine telling tribal Tories in 2007 that they'd be in power for 14 years but 12 months after losing an election they'd be egging-on coked up racists attacking the police. They've come a long way from hugging huskies
Outstanding! Wonderful! Magical!
Oooh, look at me! I’ve got a kindle!”
In Bradford last night and watched a dress rehearsal for a @bradford2025.co.uk event. Curious Bradfordians gathered to watch proceedings, perhaps with some bewilderment, but there was no sense of a community reaching "boiling point". I can confirm, dear reader, that Britain is not "about to blow".
£4.8 billion, the increased annual trade with India £140 billion, the lost annual trade outside the EU Why is the UK poorer? Because the Conservatives took us outside the EU Single Market with Brexit, and Labour are keeping us outside the EU Single Market with their 'make Brexit work'
NEWS! Please stop calling them the ‘Farage Riots’, demands man behind the Farage Riots
So Taco and MAGAmerica are now profiteering from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. And the longer it goes on, the more they earn. So why would they ever want to bring it to an end? 🤔
I lived in #Idle #Bradford in Thorpe House opposite my school in the 80s (it looked like this) but I cant find any photos of it online? Our flannel used to freeze to the sink & we had to chip it off in the morning! My father was driving around in a softtop Jaguar with a personalised number plate
You’re so Venn
When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him. Be more Private Eye.
Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?" Shame on Labour this isn't the change any of us wanted after 14 years of Conservative chaos
The BBC announces it will air the latest series of MasterChef: re-editing doesn't get tougher than this
Rightists will still say with a straight face that the Left is the biggest threat to our liberty.
We are delighted to announce that Bradford Cathedral has been recognised in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards 2025! This award recognises us as one of the top 10% of things to do worldwide. Thank you to all the visitors that took the time to leave us a review, and to our fantastic welcomers!
Liberal democracy latest www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Did someone just do a sport thing? @deadbloke.bsky.social
The 2025 Festival is steaming towards us, and it’s almost time to grab your tickets! 🚂 Tickets go on sale in just 10 days – don’t leave it too late! Some days have completely sold out in previous years! 📬 Want to be first in line? Join the mailing list now: kwvr.co.uk/newsletter #kwvr
The Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Shipley. #canal #shipley #bradford2025 #leica #westyorkshire #classicmono
Man who shat himself asks if anyone else can smell shit.
A ubiquitous issue across the #Bradford district, and elsewhere I imagine, including my place of work - a college. Areas around educational establishments should have the highest levels of pedestrian provision, traffic management, and above all, enforcement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🚂 While exploring the Worth Valley, don’t miss a visit to Oakworth Station — the home of The Railway Children. Step back in time, walk the platform, and it’s perfectly fine to whisper “Daddy, my Daddy!” and grab a picture, as you follow in the film’s famous footsteps. #kwvr // kwvr.co.uk
The Conservatives; Cutting Taxes in Theory since 2024.
Really had me laughing on the way to work. “The Pope holy ghosted her” was just
If there is one image that sums up the area around Dewsbury, Batley and Ossett's industrial heritage it must be this. The shoddy and mungo industries were early forms of textile recycling, prevalent in the area during the 19th and part of the 20th centuries. Shoddy and mungo were fibres made
Excellent to see Hewenden viaduct on this list - a wonderful view on some great local #Bradford walks.
🎶After our 1932 'Messiah' conducted by legendary Dr. Malcolm Sargent, the press called the chorus “brilliant… almost organ-like” but a typo stole the show: a “fruitless trumpet obbligato” (don't worry it was faultless!) Read the full story: www.bradfordfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk/handel-messi...
Fancy #ShopLocal at Darley St Market to see favourites old & new: Solly’s, Roswitha’s & Priestley’s - great bread & brownies from bakery & Sri Lankan for lunch was immense! #Bradford
