Tag: Commonwealth Games
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London 1932 & England during World War 1 in colour
Not sure if it’s the music or the window into the London of nearly a century ago, but I find this really moving. There’s something I’ve said before about old footage like this of my city and a city I’ve known for a long time, but seeing it through the lens of the past that…
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Commonwealth? Well not for the LGBTQ
With the Commonwealth Games nearly over and seem to be a success, the assumption is the Commonwealth is some happy cuddly family. Well not quite. This graphic gave me cause to pause* – 42 out of the 53 Commonwealth countries still have anti-gay laws on the books, making being gay/queer a crime, and are enforcing…
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Cue the piper! Play you bastard!
As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)