Fay Heatley
@fayheatley.bsky.social
A life in the London suburbs. Very disappointed to announce that there really are no more heroes anymore. And finding out I'm an old fool feminist after all. It is time to go and do that reading.
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And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3
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It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely.
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely.
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
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Orcas at first daylight this morning...wish the sun had come out to play...
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Orcas at first daylight this morning...wish the sun had come out to play...
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Update: The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
USS Gerald Ford enters Caribbean Sea as threat of U.S. action against Venezuela rises
The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update: The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
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Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
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The women described a culture of fear where even seasoned correspondents did not dare veer from the Stonewall-mandated position on trans issues in case they were accused of “transphobia”. "… It felt like activism, not news.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Emails reveal BBC women complained over trans reporting
Messages dating back five years show female staff raised concerns with bosses but felt rebuffed or ignored
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The women described a culture of fear where even seasoned correspondents did not dare veer from the Stonewall-mandated position on trans issues in case they were accused of “transphobia”. "… It felt like activism, not news.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Noise to some
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Noise to some
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
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November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
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🚨This is so important:
"After years of denial the international consensus is now shifting,” according to physicist @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
COVID-19 is:
🛑creating a 12.9% increase in workplace absences compared to pre-pandemic
🛑causing a 2% increase in excess deaths vs. pre-pandemic
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"After years of denial the international consensus is now shifting,” according to physicist @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
COVID-19 is:
🛑creating a 12.9% increase in workplace absences compared to pre-pandemic
🛑causing a 2% increase in excess deaths vs. pre-pandemic
1/
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨This is so important:
"After years of denial the international consensus is now shifting,” according to physicist @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
COVID-19 is:
🛑creating a 12.9% increase in workplace absences compared to pre-pandemic
🛑causing a 2% increase in excess deaths vs. pre-pandemic
1/
"After years of denial the international consensus is now shifting,” according to physicist @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social
COVID-19 is:
🛑creating a 12.9% increase in workplace absences compared to pre-pandemic
🛑causing a 2% increase in excess deaths vs. pre-pandemic
1/
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great blue heron
my camera blinks
my camera blinks
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
great blue heron
my camera blinks
my camera blinks
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Newgrange: A 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years
https://tinyurl.com/5eajh5bc
#Newgrange #Neolithic
https://tinyurl.com/5eajh5bc
#Newgrange #Neolithic
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Newgrange: A 5,000-year-old Cosmic Monument That Predates the Pyramids by 500 years
https://tinyurl.com/5eajh5bc
#Newgrange #Neolithic
https://tinyurl.com/5eajh5bc
#Newgrange #Neolithic
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Brother and Sister outside a Glasgow tenement, 1955, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (Aberdeen Gallery). #WomensArt
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Brother and Sister outside a Glasgow tenement, 1955, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (Aberdeen Gallery). #WomensArt
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What a wonderful image. The travelling theatre group La Barraca on the road, sometime before the war. The man waving on the left is Federico García Lorca. It was recently discovered by filmmaker Manuel Menchón searching in archives. www.ideal.es/culturas/fed...
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What a wonderful image. The travelling theatre group La Barraca on the road, sometime before the war. The man waving on the left is Federico García Lorca. It was recently discovered by filmmaker Manuel Menchón searching in archives. www.ideal.es/culturas/fed...
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On patrol, over on the Common.
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On patrol, over on the Common.
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Pez dispensers. Holt Howard jelly jars. So many model trains. As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money — they’re inheriting their parents’ stuff.
Boomers Are Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff
As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money. They’re being buried under an avalanche of baseball cards, fine china and collections of all sorts.
bloom.bg
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pez dispensers. Holt Howard jelly jars. So many model trains. As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money — they’re inheriting their parents’ stuff.
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Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country’s fast action
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Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country's fast action
Ethiopia has confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in the southern region of the country that borders South Sudan.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country’s fast action
apnews.com/article/ethi...
apnews.com/article/ethi...
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The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Mothers, 1921 woodcut, by German artist and #printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, is an anti war artwork, from the perspective of mothers #ReframingWomenPrintmakers