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#Procycling fan. Love #cats, reading, rock music, travel & the natural world. Public sector retiree. Ex 🐦. LGBTQ+ safe space 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Proud to be woke. No time for bigots & racists. Pro EU 🇪🇺. I did not vote for Brexit. Atheist. #CovidIsNotOver. No DMs.
This has made my day.
Breaking news.
Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings has left hospital.
Samir Zitouni, the whole country has been willing you through.
What fantastic news, a true hero.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings has left hospital.
Samir Zitouni, the whole country has been willing you through.
What fantastic news, a true hero.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital
Samir Zitouni's family say they are "really happy" but that he faces a significant recovery.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This has made my day.
"Made to hand over jewellery" - what next, yellow stars? What the hell has happened to Labour?
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Made to hand over jewellery" - what next, yellow stars? What the hell has happened to Labour?
Same with SERCO, Capita, G4S etc. Constantly make errors but frequently have new Government contracts at vast expense.
Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year.
PO to pay £41m to Fujitsu.
Fujitsu was instrumental in persecution of innocent postmasters. £1.2bn compensation paid from public purse. More to follow. Fujitsu haven't paid a penny, no one has been charged.
Why is Fujitsu being rewarded?
PO to pay £41m to Fujitsu.
Fujitsu was instrumental in persecution of innocent postmasters. £1.2bn compensation paid from public purse. More to follow. Fujitsu haven't paid a penny, no one has been charged.
Why is Fujitsu being rewarded?
Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year
It is paying £41m to the Japanese-owned company Fujitsu to use the Horizon system until March 2027.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Same with SERCO, Capita, G4S etc. Constantly make errors but frequently have new Government contracts at vast expense.
Eat Pray Love is one of a handful of books I didn't finish.
Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I’d downgrade | Peter Bradshaw
Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I’d downgrade | Peter Bradshaw
A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new normal for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Eat Pray Love is one of a handful of books I didn't finish.
What a surprise.....
“PPE Medpro, linked to Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman, has entered administration with debts exceeding £188 million, including £39 million owed to HMRC & £148 million in damages for supplying non-sterile gowns”
Public money siphoned off facilitated by the Tories.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Public money siphoned off facilitated by the Tories.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
What a surprise.....
Watch parties sound like my idea of hell.
Always amazed by people who have watch parties for their favourite TV shows. If I was ever forced to attend one, it would be remembered for me shouting ‘CAN EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP PLEASE?’
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Watch parties sound like my idea of hell.
I urge everyone to watch this, it's superb. "If men went through the menopause they'd be getting HRT in Tesco's". How. Bloody. True. #riotwomen
I saved it up until I came back home, but finished Riot Women last night and MY GOD, if you haven't seen it, do. So brilliant. Angry, funny, exquisitely acted, THE SINGING!, relevant (shouldn't have to be but still is). Not saying anything everyone else hasn't said. Best thing I've watched in ages.
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I urge everyone to watch this, it's superb. "If men went through the menopause they'd be getting HRT in Tesco's". How. Bloody. True. #riotwomen
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84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry.
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry.
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
Why no mention of Long Covid in this article? #CovidIsNotOver
7m Britons can't work or do limited amount of work due to sickness
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.
Need good income & public services
Why millions of Britons are off work long-term sick
Almost seven million people have a health condition that has forced them out of work or limited the amount they can do. As workers and businesses await government plans to grapple with the spiralling ...
news.sky.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Why no mention of Long Covid in this article? #CovidIsNotOver
Is this in case the orange felon forgets where he is?
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Is this in case the orange felon forgets where he is?
OMG this is so true. The reason why I have noise-cancelling earbuds when I travel on public transport and my phone is set to silent for messages/notifications. Yes I have misaphonia!
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you are having an extended text message conversation with someone while you are sitting on a crowded train, you DO NOT NEED YOUR PHONE TO GO PING EVERY TIME THEY REPLY.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
OMG this is so true. The reason why I have noise-cancelling earbuds when I travel on public transport and my phone is set to silent for messages/notifications. Yes I have misaphonia!
How many others have to put up with this shit because of Farage/GB News radicalised members of their family?
One of those calls you don’t forget in a hurry…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Kz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Kz...
LBC caller describes her husband’s ‘grin’ after train stabbing
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
How many others have to put up with this shit because of Farage/GB News radicalised members of their family?
The word hero is bandied about too much these days but Samir Zitouni deserves this accolade wholeheartedly.
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The word hero is bandied about too much these days but Samir Zitouni deserves this accolade wholeheartedly.
But how do they define "affordable"?
Two businessmen want to build a new city on agricultural land east of Cambridge, between Newmarket and Haverhill in Suffolk.
The new city would provide 1million affordable homes.
Via BBC
The new city would provide 1million affordable homes.
Via BBC
New city on Suffolk and Cambridgeshire border proposed
The men behind the idea say it will be entirely filled with affordable homes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
But how do they define "affordable"?
Hard to believe that Vine is the father of two daughters.
Jeremy Vine, "Andrew Windsor has been buried alive.. They want him humiliated"
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
No he hasn't. He was accused of raping a child three times and for that:
➡️ Victim received £12 million
➡️ Andrew is moving from one big house to another
➡️ Andrew getting 6 figure £ from the King
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hard to believe that Vine is the father of two daughters.
This 100%
Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'Heroic' train worker 'critical but stable' after knife attack, says transport secretary
After seeing CCTV, the police say the worker's actions
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This 100%
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watch to the end!!!
Technology is radically restructuring so many elements of social life, from development and education to dating and politics.
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
Watch what happens to dating around 2007...
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
watch to the end!!!
I'm convinced that people have forgotten how to behave in public. I attend a lot of concerts & theatre productions, sadly people talking/filming with their phone/getting up several times during the performance/being drunk seems to be the norm.
My late father once turned round in the Odeon in Harlow and said to a couple who were talking very loudly behind him:
"Oh, I do hope that the film isn't ruining your conversation!"
My abject horror was slightly mitigated by everyone else laughing, and they immediately up.
"Oh, I do hope that the film isn't ruining your conversation!"
My abject horror was slightly mitigated by everyone else laughing, and they immediately up.
Talking during the ads is fine, but not during the film.
If you do talk during a feature length, then the other people in the cinema should (as often has happened in films I've been watching) have the right to yell at you to "shut the fuck up" until you either do, or leave, whichever comes first.
If you do talk during a feature length, then the other people in the cinema should (as often has happened in films I've been watching) have the right to yell at you to "shut the fuck up" until you either do, or leave, whichever comes first.
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm convinced that people have forgotten how to behave in public. I attend a lot of concerts & theatre productions, sadly people talking/filming with their phone/getting up several times during the performance/being drunk seems to be the norm.
Anderson & Calgie are evil, worthless pieces of shit.
This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Anderson & Calgie are evil, worthless pieces of shit.
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A helpful pie chart for anyone wanting to understand why this is even a thing these days.
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A helpful pie chart for anyone wanting to understand why this is even a thing these days.
Why say it then if you know it's unacceptable?
Reform MP apologises for ‘completely unacceptable’ comments
Reform MP apologises for ‘completely unacceptable’ comments
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October 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Why say it then if you know it's unacceptable?
This.
💯%
Who’s with me?
October 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This.
‘Crash for cash’: moped riders target your insurance details www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
‘Crash for cash’: moped riders target your insurance details
Fraudulent insurance policies are being taken out by scammers using details you do not need to hand over
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
‘Crash for cash’: moped riders target your insurance details www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Yet his party leader Starmer quotes Enoch Powell and that's acceptable apparently....
Wes Streeting on visiting a secondary school and talking to 11-18 year olds in Ilford on their expericences of racism. "We have seen a return of 1970s-style and 1980s-style racism ... We need to call it out and confront it for what it is & for the decent majority so stand against it" (BBC)
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yet his party leader Starmer quotes Enoch Powell and that's acceptable apparently....
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