Trish
@boboo52.bsky.social
Homesick Scot. Live in England. Left-leaning. Catholic by surprise. LGBT+ ally. Love languages. Still European at heart.(I/Ise)
Kent CC’s Reform leader favours unitary Kent & Medway. Her talent seems to be for getting up folks’ noses.
What happened to the council tax cuts promised in Reform's local election leaflets?
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/anot...
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/anot...
Another Reform council leader says a council tax hike cannot be ruled out
Reform’s leaflets promised cuts to council tax, but the leader of Lancashire County Council says no such pledge was made
leftfootforward.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Kent CC’s Reform leader favours unitary Kent & Medway. Her talent seems to be for getting up folks’ noses.
Imagine a world without vaccines but with the mobility of today!
A total of 64 cases were recorded. 53 confirmed and 11 probable. 45 people died.
Importantly 47000 people were vaccinated! A remarkable feat and a key piece that likely helped to stop the outbreak in it's tracks. Ebola is still deadly but we now have a vaccine to fight it.
Importantly 47000 people were vaccinated! A remarkable feat and a key piece that likely helped to stop the outbreak in it's tracks. Ebola is still deadly but we now have a vaccine to fight it.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Imagine a world without vaccines but with the mobility of today!
I couldn’t stand it either but some good folk still use it in preference to Bluesky.
‘The cruelty, brutality and ugliness was having a profound emotional effect on me. It was making me unhappy, making me see humanity as something disgusting’
Here’s the story of why I left Twitter, and why the world is a happier and more beautiful place without it
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Here’s the story of why I left Twitter, and why the world is a happier and more beautiful place without it
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'I quit Twitter because the hate made my stomach heave'
Writer at Large Neil Mackay says that the hate and violence on Elon Musk’s X site was having a profoundly negative effect on him. Now he’s quit,…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I couldn’t stand it either but some good folk still use it in preference to Bluesky.
So we’re healthier (some might think living longer is a problem for everyone except themselves. )
Scotland's population is undergoing unprecedented change as it reaches a new high, according to new analysis from the National Records of Scotland
🗣️ 'Scotland’s population has never been so big or had as many people aged 75 and over'
🗣️ 'Scotland’s population has never been so big or had as many people aged 75 and over'
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So we’re healthier (some might think living longer is a problem for everyone except themselves. )
If 🏴 & 🏴 fall for his patter I will despair.
It looks like Reform might have peaked...
Support for Reform UK nosedives across several polls as scandals take toll
Farage's headaches continue...
leftfootforward.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If 🏴 & 🏴 fall for his patter I will despair.
Isn’t it that anything he gets involved with…?
Elon Musk, "You know, I've generally found that when I get involved in politics it ends up badly"
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Isn’t it that anything he gets involved with…?
3 days w/o water supply. We’ve got so soft since I grew up (b 1952). Bath & clothes wash once/wk. Boiling up water for washing hair & dishes. We must’ve smelled dreadful but so did everyone else & almost all adults smoked.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
3 days w/o water supply. We’ve got so soft since I grew up (b 1952). Bath & clothes wash once/wk. Boiling up water for washing hair & dishes. We must’ve smelled dreadful but so did everyone else & almost all adults smoked.
A vague question was asked to calm right wing Tories. Nobody knew what was involved. Only 🏴 in favour by tiny majority. (Wales changed its mind too late!)
A public inquiry on the management of Brexit would set the record straight, and maybe the BBC could run an impartial series for the 10th anniversary of the vote, making it easier for the government to show the courage and leadership to take us back into the EU.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A public inquiry on Brexit might make it easier for us to rejoin the EU | Letters
Letters: Let’s set the record straight on the cause of our economic woes and inability to control immigration, writes Robert Gildea. Plus a letter from Rachel Foggitt
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A vague question was asked to calm right wing Tories. Nobody knew what was involved. Only 🏴 in favour by tiny majority. (Wales changed its mind too late!)
Our local NHS is planning to start using it. My health records shared with dodgy private IT provider??
The government handed an NHS data contract to Palantir – a spy-tech firm with links to war crimes and deportations.
We’re demanding that the NHS stops using Palantir’s toxic tech.
Find out if your local NHS Trust is using the software and say no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
We’re demanding that the NHS stops using Palantir’s toxic tech.
Find out if your local NHS Trust is using the software and say no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our local NHS is planning to start using it. My health records shared with dodgy private IT provider??
Do decent folk in USA experience “learned helplessness”? (Can be applied elsewhere too)
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do decent folk in USA experience “learned helplessness”? (Can be applied elsewhere too)
First world problem. No water supply for 48 hours. Maybe there’s silver lining to post-Covid anosmia. I don’t like smelling my un-showered body.
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
First world problem. No water supply for 48 hours. Maybe there’s silver lining to post-Covid anosmia. I don’t like smelling my un-showered body.
When I started learning my mother was horrified. Though it was her own mother’s first language.
I feel exactly the same. Pains me greatly that i'm not bilingual when i should be. My father was a native speaker and it was his first language growing up. Sadly it was never passed on because people like him were brainwashed into thinking their own culture was 'backward'.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
When I started learning my mother was horrified. Though it was her own mother’s first language.
@saulstaniforth.bsky.social A Gaelic proverb “Is treasa tuath na tighearna” The people are mightier than a lord.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
@saulstaniforth.bsky.social A Gaelic proverb “Is treasa tuath na tighearna” The people are mightier than a lord.
You remain the only person who does the job they’re supposed to in Downing Street.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
You remain the only person who does the job they’re supposed to in Downing Street.
This not-Labour govt gets something right! Testing for syphilis was routine for admissions to psychiatric care when I was young dr. (We didn’t ask consent in those far off days! Nobody talks about syphilis these days..)
Really positive step to reduce transmission of HIV in UK with targeted action for those who may be less likely to seek support
Testing at A&Es part of plan to end new HIV cases in England by 2030
Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This not-Labour govt gets something right! Testing for syphilis was routine for admissions to psychiatric care when I was young dr. (We didn’t ask consent in those far off days! Nobody talks about syphilis these days..)
@philippesands.bsky.social Any chance Trump gets his comeuppance for crimes against humanity? No, I thought not. Not even you..
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
@philippesands.bsky.social Any chance Trump gets his comeuppance for crimes against humanity? No, I thought not. Not even you..
You met Leonard Cohen!! He should’ve had Nobel Prize. Saw him on French TV speaking fluently though he was anglophone Québécois. « Un Canadien Errant » essential imperialism!
The human rights lawyer and The Poet!
@philippesands.bsky.social on his musical claim to fame.
Hear the whole amazing episode here…
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L...
@globalplayer.com
#LeonardCohen
@philippesands.bsky.social on his musical claim to fame.
Hear the whole amazing episode here…
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L...
@globalplayer.com
#LeonardCohen
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
You met Leonard Cohen!! He should’ve had Nobel Prize. Saw him on French TV speaking fluently though he was anglophone Québécois. « Un Canadien Errant » essential imperialism!
Is it April Fool’s Day or divine judgement on Anglocentrism?
A fire has broken out at BBC Scotland’s HQ, with morning bulletins and shows forced off air
BBC Scotland’s HQ evacuated with morning shows taken off air after fire breaks out
www.thenational.scot
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Is it April Fool’s Day or divine judgement on Anglocentrism?
I’m learning Gàidhlig as I feel it’s something that was stolen from me. Charlemagne may’ve said “To have 2nd language is to have 2nd soul” & it’ll annoy Farage et al.
‘Huge demand’ for Irish language classes as adult learners return to school decades on
Conradh na Gaeilge scheduling extra classes as expressions of interest rise more than five-fold between summer and January terms
www.irishtimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I’m learning Gàidhlig as I feel it’s something that was stolen from me. Charlemagne may’ve said “To have 2nd language is to have 2nd soul” & it’ll annoy Farage et al.
I’m astonished that the terraced house (2 up, 2 down & 2 in the middle) for £50k 40y ago could sell for £500k. We’re retired doctor and retired teacher. Not Middle England obviously (I’m a Scot in Kent)
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I’m astonished that the terraced house (2 up, 2 down & 2 in the middle) for £50k 40y ago could sell for £500k. We’re retired doctor and retired teacher. Not Middle England obviously (I’m a Scot in Kent)
Do I gather that some Brexitards (word I’ve derived from similar French words) are thinking “Whoops Apocalypse”?
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Do I gather that some Brexitards (word I’ve derived from similar French words) are thinking “Whoops Apocalypse”?
In USA’s “theocracy” the only Almighty is orange.
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
In USA’s “theocracy” the only Almighty is orange.
Short sighted. A happy prosperous GREAT nation needs a healthy population.
96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Short sighted. A happy prosperous GREAT nation needs a healthy population.
It is World AIDS Day. Lest we forget!
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It is World AIDS Day. Lest we forget!
Reposted by Trish
Nigel Farage, who has made more than £200,000 from second jobs, thinks we should cut the minimum wage for younger workers? You can't make this up.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nigel-farage-rakes-in-another-200000-from-second-jobs/
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nigel-farage-rakes-in-another-200000-from-second-jobs/
Nigel Farage rakes in another £200,000 from second jobs
The Reform leader has made over £1.3 million from second jobs since he was elected as an MP in July 2024
leftfootforward.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nigel Farage, who has made more than £200,000 from second jobs, thinks we should cut the minimum wage for younger workers? You can't make this up.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nigel-farage-rakes-in-another-200000-from-second-jobs/
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/nigel-farage-rakes-in-another-200000-from-second-jobs/