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  1. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Liam Gallagher and John Squire - "Mars to Liverpool" (2024) The former frontman of Oasis and the former guitarist of The Stone Roses - two great bands of the Manchester music scene - have teamed up to create new music and a new album, which is on its way
  2. Blackleaf

    Liz Truss launches right-wing "popcon" movement

    Liz Truss, Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister, whose tenure latest from 6th September to 25th October 2022 - a tenure which saw the death of Elizabeth II and the start of the reign of Charles III - has launched her new right wing, anti-woke "popcon" (popular conservatism) movement...
  3. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    After his father the King has been diagnosed with cancer, Prince William must feel that the responsibilities lying ahead of him as the next King are lying closer than ever... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68219415
  4. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    The numbers of British monarchs only go back to the reign of William I - or William the Conqueror as he is commonly known. He was the ruler of Normandy and he invaded England in 1066 after his cousin Edward the Confessor, King of England, died and passed the Throne to his brother-in-law, who...
  5. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    Correction: I meant to say prostate cancer, not pancreatic cancer.
  6. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    Biden "expresses concern" for King Charles III. Trump says "We all pray the King has a fast and full recovery." Prince Harry arrives at Clarence House in London to visit his father. The Sussexes may have to cancel their planned visit to Canada.
  7. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    Yeah. He'll be either King William V, King Arthur (which would be quite cool), King Philip or King Louis. If it's any of the latter three he won't have the "I" put after his regnal name until when, or if, there's a second king that uses any of those names.
  8. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    A doctor interviewed on Sky News says that when a man undergoes prostate surgery, like the King, pieces of the prostate are sent to a lab and studied and if the man has cancer they're able to detect it by looking at the samples of prostate. I'm not a doctor so I don't know if they detect...
  9. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    Well that would be King William V.
  10. Blackleaf

    King Charles III is diagnosed with cancer

    I'm thinking that it doesn't seem too serious. If it was serious we probably would have been told. If the doctors told him he had just months to live we probably would have been told. But then again who knows? Maybe we aren't yet being told the full story.
  11. Blackleaf

    Nine people injured after corrosive substance was thrown in London

    Dopey woke Tory fuckpig blames misogyny rather than her imports for an asylum seeker throwing acid into the face of a woman and her children in London
  12. Blackleaf

    Man armed with crossbow is shot dead by London police

    A man has been shot dead by police in London after reports he was armed with a crossbow and trying to force his way inside a home. The capital's Metropolitan Police said armed officers were called to the house in Surrey Quays, Southwark, just before 05:00 on 30th January. Fatal police...
  13. Blackleaf

    Nine people injured after corrosive substance was thrown in London

    This being London in 2024 I bet he's foreign and from some impoverished shithole in eastern Europe, like Romania or Albania.
  14. Blackleaf

    Nine people injured after corrosive substance was thrown in London

    Children and police officers are among nine people injured after a "corrosive substance" was thrown in Clapham in south London at 7:30pm on 31st January. London Fire Brigade said they were called to a "chemical incident" and gave emergency care to a woman and two children. London Assembly...
  15. Blackleaf

    The King announces return of Big Help Out

    A day after leaving hospital following successful prostate surgery the King has today announced that the Big Help Out will return later this year after the success of the inaugural one during the Coronation celebrations last year. The Big Help Out in the wake of the Coronation in May 2023...
  16. Blackleaf

    Females take part in Up Helly Aa for first time

    Can't beat a bit of Morris Dancing. It's a great English tradition which goes all the way back to... the Plague.
  17. Blackleaf

    Females take part in Up Helly Aa for first time

    Well it's burning stuff on dark winter nights. Wait until the spring when we have the cheese rolling festival down in Gloucestershire. It's a lot more fun and dangerous than it sounds.
  18. Blackleaf

    Females take part in Up Helly Aa for first time

    Despite its Viking connotations, Up Helly Aa started around 200 years ago when squads of young men would drag barrels of burning tar through the streets of Lerwick. Many of the young men involved had recently returned from fighting in the Napoleonic Wars and so it's thought the resultant boredom...