BAFTA award winning TV Director/Producer. #StillGame #ManandWitchfilm. CEO of The Woven Thread production company
Glasgow, Scotland
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Michael Hines retweeted
Finally done it. An article that will offend *everyone*
theguardian.com/football/202…
Wonderful album
43 years ago today, THE THE released 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔.
Featuring ‘This Is The Day’, ‘Uncertain Smile’, ‘Perfect’ and ‘GIANT’, the album was released on 21st October 1983.
Which track from the album still means the most to you?
#thethe #mattjohnson #mattjohnsonthethe #soulmining
Michael Hines retweeted
We now have a WhatsApp channel!
So if you want to see lots of videos and pictures of fish and shells and daily updates hot from the fast moving world of British fishmongering, come get amongst it!
Follow the Jonathan Norris Limited channel on WhatsApp: whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb9…
Michael Hines retweeted
i hate to start the Festive Palaver so early but last year postal services got rather overwhelmed in the run up to the blasted thing SO with 8 weeks to go here's a Go On! tea cosie, handmade by moi, and available at shop.thegoonteacompany.com
Michael Hines retweeted
UK gardeners! My amazing wife Jenn Celine has worked really hard to get her plant passport (who knew such things existed) so that she can now sell plug plants to YOU. Yes. YOU. Buy these, plant them over winter, amazing flowers in the new year.
Go buy at wyldeflorence.com!
Michael Hines retweeted
This is my brother’s new venture. If you need any airport transfers, or any transfers for up to eight people, please consider giving him a shout ❤️
Michael Hines retweeted
Anyone STILL supporting Reform UK in 2026 is demonstrating a unique political choice—mainly because it requires looking at the last decade of British politics and deciding, "What this country really needs is more rage-tweeting, fewer details, and Nigel Farage on another media tour."
It takes a dynamic level of optimism to watch a party whose entire platform is essentially a Facebook comment section come to life, and think, Yes, these are the steady hands we need on the tiller.
Here is what sticking with Reform says about the average far-right voter:
The Nostalgia Paradox: You are desperately voting to "take our country back," seemingly to an imaginary 1950s that exists only in pub chats and old post office postcards—conveniently forgetting that the infrastructure you want back requires actual funding, not just flag-waving.
The Single-Issue Blindspot: You’ll ignore the complete lack of viable economic strategy, public service planning, or actual legislative experience, as long as someone on TV points at a boat and sighs dramatically.
The Farage Effect: You aren't supporting a political party so much as you're subscribing to Nigel Farage’s personal side-hustle. The moment a camera turns off or a parliamentary committee requires actual reading, the whole operation vanishes faster than a campaign promise.
The "Protest" Trap: You tell everyone you're "protesting the establishment," by voting for a former commodities trader who went to private school, spent decades as an MEP, and lives in front of a camera. It’s the political equivalent of buying a corporate brand T-shirt to show how anti-establishment you are.
At this point, voting Reform isn't a political philosophy—it's just performance art for people who think shouting at the telly counts as civic engagement.
Michael Hines retweeted
If you are a #whisky lover please share. We are told that some distilleries are struggling, well in this exclusive interview one tells me @C2GWhisky they need money quickly or else. It's a plea for help...
Michael Hines retweeted
Incredible how many Hanna-Barbera characters were voiced by Daws Butler. Here's just a small sample.
Michael Hines retweeted
In time allotted as Boss at a club, to put it simply....
Here is The Greatest, most successful British football manager of all time, Mr. Bob Paisley #LFC #YNWA #LiverpoolFC #manager ❤️
Michael Hines retweeted
When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.
It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed the UK is officially the world’s dampest desert. Three-quarters of the nation has been plunged into drought, despite the fact it constantly pisses down. You are therefore banned from gardening and bathing your children so that data centres don’t go without.
No one knows why countries that contain actual deserts don’t experience the same difficulties we do. For example, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have a hose pipe ban. Unfortunately, we live in a place where the weather breaks everything. Sunshine? Drought. Rain? Floods. An inch of snow? The whole country closes for some reason.
The only weather the UK can actually cope with is grey and miserable. Any deviation leads to immediate national collapse. If we didn’t have such a brilliant water system, we’d be in serious trouble. But thankfully, our system is built to protect corporate profits, no matter what. Everything is secondary to that, including your ability to drink.
Thankfully, Andy Burnham is showing leadership on the matter. He is taking the emergency step of doing absolutely nothing. When questioned about nationalisation, the Prime Minister calmly explained that his donors won’t allow it.
In a bizarre coincidence, the system that allows them to personally profit is the only one that could possibly work. Sure, we could end up with crop failures and food shortages, but I’m sure things would’ve been worse if Jeremy Corbyn had got his way.
Obviously, this is not a systemic problem, it’s a technological one. Virtually all our rainfall is lost because we can’t make pipes that don’t burst. Water companies have absolutely no incentive to stop leaks and every incentive not to, but I’m confident this has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter.
