Sue P
@drsuep01.bsky.social
Wandering around looking for a home. Could this be it? Politics, footie, snooker & greyhounds. Mainly just one greyhound; Gemma
Snooker final. Gripping stuff. 8-9 and still impossible to call
#UKChampionship
#UKChampionship
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Snooker final. Gripping stuff. 8-9 and still impossible to call
#UKChampionship
#UKChampionship
A word to the wise re snooker commentary: Less is more. Truly. Shut it with your ‘best ever shot/player/cue’ nonsense.
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A word to the wise re snooker commentary: Less is more. Truly. Shut it with your ‘best ever shot/player/cue’ nonsense.
To all cafes, pubs, restaurants that claim to be dog friendly, those that offer a water bowl and a few treats with maybe a fuss and cuddle for your dog-you are getting it right. We feel welcome and valued. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🐾🐾
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
To all cafes, pubs, restaurants that claim to be dog friendly, those that offer a water bowl and a few treats with maybe a fuss and cuddle for your dog-you are getting it right. We feel welcome and valued. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🐾🐾
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Barry Bloomin' Hawkins!
You don't see snooker like this every day.
You don't see snooker like this every day.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Barry Bloomin' Hawkins!
You don't see snooker like this every day.
You don't see snooker like this every day.
Stephen Hendry is world class in the grumpy, but brutally honest commentary stakes. We are all for it here! #UKChampionshipsnooker
C’mon Higgins
C’mon Higgins
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Stephen Hendry is world class in the grumpy, but brutally honest commentary stakes. We are all for it here! #UKChampionshipsnooker
C’mon Higgins
C’mon Higgins
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Impossible to exaggerate what a brilliant writer Henry is. Pisses me right off tbh.
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Impossible to exaggerate what a brilliant writer Henry is. Pisses me right off tbh.
Enjoying being totally immersed in the #UKChampionshipsnooker
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Enjoying being totally immersed in the #UKChampionshipsnooker
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One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
"Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in Erasmus from 2027 onwards, according to two UK and EU officials."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
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This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
As the news continues to squeeze the last drops of tedium from the budget, tune it out. The #snooker is on and offers calming balm to soothe us all on a Sunday.
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As the news continues to squeeze the last drops of tedium from the budget, tune it out. The #snooker is on and offers calming balm to soothe us all on a Sunday.
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.
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Sunlit Uplands latest... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Louvre hikes ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%
The price increase is expected to raise millions to fund the museum's renovation plans.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sunlit Uplands latest... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Saw #Nuremberg in a cinema with 5 others. It’s not Wicked 2, of course but anyway
Russell Crowe is terrifying and terrific at the same time. Leo Woodall is mesmerising and so moving. Powerful film.
Russell Crowe is terrifying and terrific at the same time. Leo Woodall is mesmerising and so moving. Powerful film.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Saw #Nuremberg in a cinema with 5 others. It’s not Wicked 2, of course but anyway
Russell Crowe is terrifying and terrific at the same time. Leo Woodall is mesmerising and so moving. Powerful film.
Russell Crowe is terrifying and terrific at the same time. Leo Woodall is mesmerising and so moving. Powerful film.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
Quite proud of this. It’s definitely pie weather so this creation is steak, Guiness and pickled walnuts. Yep, as delicious as it looks! Dog is v excited and will be disappointed!
#domesticgoddess
#domesticgoddess
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Quite proud of this. It’s definitely pie weather so this creation is steak, Guiness and pickled walnuts. Yep, as delicious as it looks! Dog is v excited and will be disappointed!
#domesticgoddess
#domesticgoddess
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The worst possible Government at the worst possible time. All those lives lost, all those lives changed forever. Boris Johnson was not fit to be PM and the Conservatives should never be let anywhere near Government ever again.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The worst possible Government at the worst possible time. All those lives lost, all those lives changed forever. Boris Johnson was not fit to be PM and the Conservatives should never be let anywhere near Government ever again.
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The “toxic and chaotic culture” inside Boris Johnson’s Downing St was behind the UK’s “too little, too late” response to Covid-19, with Johnson singled out for particular blame. Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said poor decisions by him, his ministers and officials cost tens of thousands of lives.
Covid response of ‘toxic and chaotic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
Report criticises culture in Downing Street during Boris Johnson’s tenure
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The “toxic and chaotic culture” inside Boris Johnson’s Downing St was behind the UK’s “too little, too late” response to Covid-19, with Johnson singled out for particular blame. Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said poor decisions by him, his ministers and officials cost tens of thousands of lives.
Dinner in the village pub with Gemma. Loved seeing her do the rounds with all the old chaps. Special bond between older Yorkshire men and greyhounds. Like being in a Norman Cornish painting. 🐾🐾
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dinner in the village pub with Gemma. Loved seeing her do the rounds with all the old chaps. Special bond between older Yorkshire men and greyhounds. Like being in a Norman Cornish painting. 🐾🐾
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Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
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