Dan Steele

My wee cousin's gerbil is called Kevin.

Well, that's a paragraph that took a strange turn.

Are you sure he wasn't just speaking in French?

They probably think The Mill on the Floss employed thousands and drove the Industrial Revolution, making Britain Great.

Change your drills, these walls are thick.

I think it's the basic stuff that confuses that lot tbf.

New self-titled album by Gary Olson is wonderful. More a shove than a nudge to Prefab Sprout and shades of Ben Folds. Really good and if we ever get summer weather, should sound even better. I'm loving it!

Doesn't make up for a head full of mince. Number 1 in my list of People That Cause Seethe.

The sooner Neil Oliver gets his reward for services to Unionism, the sooner he can stop spouting his pathetic pish and give us all a rest.

And Barney Mcgrew.

Excellent. He looks comfy!

There's yer da's. And Uncle Fester.

Is he between a rock and a soft place?

This follow up to the Dr Who Weeping Angels episode is real behind the sofa stuff.

Doing the right thing. Can you stand behind the line. Furlough. Honest and open debate. Can you make the dinner tonight?

It's at times like this I turn to Paul Gilroy's brilliant book 'There ain't no Black in the Union Jack'.

Probably had the GPS Brexit Trade Agreement instructions uploaded.

There are recorded incidents of slaves being thrown overboard. Usually when drinking water was running low or infection was on board. Unbelievably some slave owners tried to claim on insurance as it was legal to throw animals overboard if it protected the safety of the ship. Fred d'Aguiar wrote a novel called Feeding the Ghosts about one notorious incident.

Must have been difficult for those human traffickers when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into law. All those philanthropic acts must have cost a bob or two. Then the upkeep of all those stately homes full of nice stuff to distance themselves from the slavery connections as they took themselves into polite society. Just as well the UK government agreed to pay £20 million (about 1.5 billion in today's money) compensation to slave owning families in the Caribbean, Africa and absentee slave owners in UK, then. Compensation ffs.

Still, the fushcias got watered so not all bad news.

His school was only for children of Anglican parents, those in his Almshouse were expected to attend chapel twice a day, and the family motto is "Go and do though likewise". I take it the money gained from human trafficking (although it's arguable if these people gave slaves the dignity of being called human. Read Beloved by Toni Morrison.) only benefitted him, his family and a thin strata of Bristol society?

Dominic doesn't agree with this.

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