Retired solicitor. Various NED and Trustee roles. Chair at Your Housing Group, TLC:Talk, Listen, Change and The St Helens Book Stophttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lxn7vj27a22cVisited Anne Frank’s house today and left wondering how far along this timeline we currently stand:30 Aug 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxn7vj27a22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lucxezam2225@iangregg.bsky.social @kenperry447.bsky.social @housingkev.bsky.social Hope everyone is well ? Should we try to do a pre-season (or early season) get together ? Given that transfers have started to move the next few weeks might be suitable, holidays permitting. I am away 13th to 31st August.19 Jul 2025 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lucxezam2225https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lpo3pbk6cc24@iangregg.bsky.social flight out delayed - by 90 mins so far…21 May 2025 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpo3pbk6cc24https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3llt3hg6j3s2yBeen thinking hard about the current cultural debates in the UK (and this is possibly relevant to “The West” more generally) and have concluded that the extremes, on both sides, are not the norm or anything like the majority view. Neither of those extremes should be able to impose … 1/202 Apr 2025 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3llt3hg6j3s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3llnz6xzxls26Must be a slow UK sports news day as @TelegraphSport uses 3 and two thirds of its pages writing about @ManUtd ‘s data revolution and Rashford humiliating the club. Ducker & Co must really hate the club. digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2020/read… https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2020/read…31 Mar 2025 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3llnz6xzxls26https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3llgux7chek2yhttps://x.com/lancscricket/status/1905557081500811452?s=46&t=UakjSWbv65jvM109Fy1BIw28 Mar 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgux7chek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ll5v4gv4622i“The surprising link between Woodrow Wilson and Donald Trump” “We wrongly suppose that because they talk our language, they are an Anglo-Saxon country. As a matter of fact they are a foreign nation..” 1914 A really interesting article from @Telegraph http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2012/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/2012/pub/2012/page/66/article/NaN24 Mar 2025 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5v4gv4622ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ljcupu6ay22fTrump’s outburst means Europe must act01 Mar 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljcupu6ay22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3li7z4uldvc2xhttp://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1976/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1976/pub/1976/page/46/article/NaN Trump’s call to Putin threatens disaster for Western security” Clear analysis by @CharlesHMoore of where Trumpery leaves us. “What an irony that it is the weakness of Trump, not his vaunted strength, which has now put the West at such risk.”15 Feb 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3li7z4uldvc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lhvm7lye6k2lExcellent article from @jimwhite here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/02/10/rashford-sancho-freedom-jibe-man-utd-fractured-squad/11 Feb 2025 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvm7lye6k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lg6trwmllc25Does anyone else find car handbooks really infuriating nowadays having a couple pages of health & safety warnings before the description of every single routine maintenance task which you might wish to perform (e.g charging the battery and inflating the tyres ?) Are they the same in all countries ?20 Jan 2025 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6trwmllc25https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lg2bgg3b5s2jRead this and weep I😪 (NB you need to be over 18 and be used to reading awful criminal case / sentencing reports) https://x.com/maggieoliveruk/status/1880536676478357846?s=46&t=UakjSWbv65jvM109Fy1BIw18 Jan 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg2bgg3b5s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lex6j7uhv222 Brilliant from today’s @telegraphnews.bsky.social04 Jan 2025 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lex6j7uhv222https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lewsxjy55k2kThis is at the same time hilarious, shaming and scandalous… https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDr8khmN2vC/?igsh=d3psb3djejRyM3Nw04 Jan 2025 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewsxjy55k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3lejiktsu3k2yhttp://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1929/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1929/pub/1929/page/64/article/NaN This is a sobering piece on the current possibilities for a Nuclear War in Europe. Not a happy thought for 2025 but HMG must take action to protect us along with other NATO countries.30 Dec 2024 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lejiktsu3k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ldyfwijqxc26Did your school used to have a collection in aid of the “waifs and strays” ? #1960s23 Dec 2024 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldyfwijqxc26https://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ldjzj4ujb22e@rhsharlowcarr today17 Dec 2024 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjzj4ujb22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ldiovnqvik2ehttp://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1920/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1920/pub/1920/page/62/article/NaN Read this and weep for ever sorting out our railway infrastructure: “reopening the humble but largely intact Northumberland Line – a victim of Beeching’s cuts in the 1960s – lays bare the catastrophic state of infrastructure construction in the UK.”17 Dec 2024 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldiovnqvik2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mikegaskell.bsky.social/post/3ldimtpdn222e“Superman’ Stokes must be saved from himself England have duty of care to wholehearted captain whose latest unnecessary injury is a blow for the Ashes campaign.” I always pay close attention to what @scyldberry writes in @telegraphnews.bsky.social17 Dec 2024 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:2ca5cjwwqqtjl76edhfmbdiv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldimtpdn222e