Just watched Looking For Kes with ⁦Greg Davies. Lovely, moving documentary set in Barnsley and Sheffield. It prompted me to dig out the book again for the first time in over 40 years #BarryHines

I loved meeting Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones for the Detectorists festive special - and a whole new series of #DiggingForBritain - with the latest incredible discoveries across the UK - starts next Sunday, New Year’s Day!

Blind woman says: "If there are no staff at ticket offices and no guards on trains, how am I supposed to travel safely?" The story most of the media won't tell you is that RMT members are fighting to protect services as well as their own jobs. leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-new…

The government’s anti-strike bill is a draconian assault on workers’ basic & democratic rights. It must be defeated. Defend the right to strike here: thecorbynproject.com/right-to-strike

It sounds as good as it looks!!

MH PROFESSIONALS RE: BENEFITS A draft letter from us to the Telegraph re their appalling 'Benefits Calculator' this week. We know the dire effects this has on claimants and its important to stop this new wave of hate forms.gle/zpWeFAq3cJbenc… Please consider signing. Thanks- Jay

Yesterday was #NationalSewingMachineDay Who remembers the Singer sewing shop on Eldon Street? Eldon Street HAZ From our collections a toy sewing machine owned by Eileen Townend

#TeamSindy still love her as much as ever

Once a Sindy girl always a Sindy girl #TeamSindy

8pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR The Read s2, A Kestrel for a Knave Christopher Eccleston narrates #BarryHines’s heartbreaking coming-of-age tale in this fresh take on a classic British novel. BBC iPlayer 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #AKestrelForAKnave #Kes

Turner Classic Movies. Guillermo del Toro's favourite picks for October 2023. youtu.be/B7o7DFHfX64

One Year! Photographs from the Miners’ Strike 1984/85 is at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, 18 January to 31 March 2024. martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/on… #Photography

#Over50

Samantha Morton. That speech. That power suit amidst a sea of gowns. Advocating for children in care after horrors she experienced in the state system. Bravo. One of my favourites getting her dues. Unique & indefinable,her performances in Morvern Callar & In America are stunning.

Brian Clough and Jack Charlton were two working-class legends who stood up to the fascists in the 1970s and were in solidarity with mining communities under attack in the 1980s. A thread 🧵 #Defiance #MinersStrike

Shirley Baker. Children playing on a street corner, Manchester, 1961.

What do you think — would you rather be a child now or back in the ’70s?

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.