Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
😂 My cataloguing system lacks discipline and this was within stretching distance … Think you’ve also midwifed the writing career of a few others … Thank you …
❌ Inexperienced observers often confuse these shy, timid creatures with ducks but the seasoned spotter will never make such an embarrassing error …
👀 📸 Exciting News from Leith in Scotland In a traditionally soft focus image a lucky naturalist captured this incredibly rare picture of a juvenile Loch Ness Monster at dusk in the Water of Leith … 1/2
🚨Holiday Planning Those clever people at Muji are the only company whose carry-on luggage is guaranteed to be accepted by both Ryanair and EasyJet …
Someone in Reform Comms has either done a very stupid thing indeed, or something deeply subversive …
👀 read this from @amandacomms.bsky.social (reminds me of the 1984 Steve Bell cartoon) open.substack.com/pub/underpre...
👀 Brilliant cogent explanation from @davidallengreen.bsky.social on how Police & the CPS botched a dodgy attempted prosecution against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh: Mo Chara of Kneecap A failure and deeply disingenuous attempt to misapply terrorist legislation ✊🏻🇵🇸🇮🇪 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Paul Holden’s 📕 *The Fraud* is now available from all good and at least one iffy outlet www.bookfinder.com/search/?auth...
We don’t do your modern upstart religious observances in this house … Imbolc greetings from what appears to be our St Brigid’s Day cactus
That bloke who claims he’s never been racist to anybody whatever everyone who remembers him from school says, will personally sign a black shirt for you … If you pay £249 for it … So don’t go making any insinuations …
So @KNEECAPCEOL in Liverpool was joyous A genuine high energy, high intensity, optimistic, proper political band The venue insisted face coverings must not be worn by punters @KNEECAPCEOL’s logo is literally based on a balaclava and they were on sale at the merch stall ✊🏻🇵🇸🇮🇪
Most days, you don’t need to read the @theguardian.com letters page … Today is not most days …
Q. Can AI kleptomaniac machines read books? A. Sort of? Q. Do Grok & other AI thieves understand what they’ve “read”? A. Nope
“Hurrah For The Blackshirts” fascist supporting “newspaper” hasn’t changed its tune in over 90 years …
Conservative Party Conference Ventriloquist Act Goes Down Well … “Gottle of Geer” “Gottle of Geer” “Who’s a racist boy then?”
So looking around churches wouldn’t be my preferred way to spend time but … This church in Falkland, Scotland with an umbrella stand at the end of each pew should qualify as a pragmatic design classic ☔️
Keir Starmer still finding time, despite being kept busy as UK Prime Minister, to volunteer for Age UK …
🫵🏻 Read This📕👇🏻 Dr Claire Mitchell KC & Dr Zoe Venditozzi wrote it for you It would be rude not to
🇵🇸 Israeli forces pull off clever and daring trick of seizing unarmed people and deporting them from international waters…
🚨Farage now bidding for the … checks notes … Jimmy Savile vote