We’re super excited to be part of Newcastle United FC and sela | صلة's #UnsilenceTheCrowd campaign, following the journey of two fans as they experience the atmosphere of a live match in pioneering haptic shirts. ⚽

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Three weeks today the North East of England elects its first mayor. Here’s my piece from last year on why I’m optimistic that this can make a difference to a place that’s had a difficult last 100 years … unherd.com/2023/01/the-no…

To understand Britain’s malaise, visit Shildon – the town that refused to die
My column
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I've transcribed the warrant here: penbal.uk/an-order-to-de… and shared the Northumbrian folk song Weary Cutters about the dreaded press gang... Gary Harris

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to

‘the ballpark is a paradise into which evil does occasionally come, whenever the Yankees are in town, and this occasionally lends the game a cosmic significance that it would not be improper to call “apocalyptic.”’

David Bentley Hart on baseball firstthings.com/article/2010/0…

God I love this video

Picked up a nice bit of Sunderland ‘lustreware’ - probably early Victorian
(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderlan…).
HMS Northumberland was the 74-gun warship that carried Napoleon to his final exile on St Helena in 1815.

Would you like to work in a 1950s toy shop at Beamish? We're recruiting 2 Retail Operational Leads (37 hours & 22.5 hours) and a Retail Engager (12 hours).

Find out more and apply here jobtrain.co.uk/beamishmuseum/… Closing date: 22nd April 2024.

Dreich in the valley ☔️

Working late tonight. ⁦Arsenal⁩ v ⁦FC Bayern München⁩ on ⁦CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️⁩ tomorrow. Fail to prepare… prepare to fail. ⁦CommentaryCharts⁩

Very interesting. My dad was an IBM engineer for years and if he was called out on weekends I’d tag along and watch him disappear into the bowels of huge mainframe computers with his ammeter and soldering iron etc

They’ve brought him on in case it goes to pens

‘Closing the Gates at Hougoumont’ by Robert Gibb (1903). The Coldstream Guards at Waterloo in 1815

Joe Kinnear - more than just a sweary ranter. theguardian.com/football/2024/…

The magnificent Keel Row Books has some extremely early football posters for sale *from 1828*
Alnwick has always been a very feudal place …
keelrowbooks.com/item/5783/two-…

From Kevin Keegan’s autobiography.