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Gwen
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Curious follower of shiny things, prone to getting distracted by random stuff and looking for meaning in a baffling world. Learning Spanish & Swedish. Living in Portsmouth, born in Argyll & married to a Welshman; making rugby internationals interesting! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 2d
From a counsellor in the UK, thanks for everything you’ve done. I’ll really miss the show. Be well.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 2d
Prince William moved to tears by mother who lost husband to suicide - The Times and The Sunday Times

In an ideal world we wouldn’t have a royal family, but if we must have one then I think William is going to be a good king. Even if I’m saying that through gritted teeth.
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Prince William moved to tears by mother who lost husband to suicide — The Times and The Sunday Times
A woman whose husband killed himself five days after the death of their baby has told the Prince of Wales it is heart-breaking that he will not see their two older children grow up. In a moving interv...
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
How to appeal to disenchanted left of centre voters. Not.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to install a cat flap and then persuade said cat to use it. Guess which bit remains unresolved?
A cat flap installed in a white PVC door.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
For the love of humanity and all other life forms on this planet (the only one we’ve got), can Starmer PLEASE grow a spine, stand up to his idiotic advisers and Reform and go to COP30 like a proper grown up national leader of government? Jeez.
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 3d
The Reform party seems to have already won the battle on climate by scaring the UK government away from even talking about it.
Starmer is reportedly suppressing his intel agencies' report on climate threats.
Meanwhile some advisers are telling him to skip COP30.
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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
I really must read things more carefully. I thought it said “outshit” Farage! On reflection though…
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
Well said, Lord Heseltine. (Not something I ever expected myself to be saying).
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 3d
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Another depressingly on point piece, Ian. How do you keep going when the political news is so damned depressing &/or infuriating? I had high hopes of Labour but on the economy & immigration they run scared of Reform at every turn. It makes me despair.
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Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win – but Farage has scared him off — The i Paper
We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 6d
So how do they think that would work with the post-Brexit agreement for EU citizens? Oh. Of course. ‘Think’…
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 7d
“Recent” behaviour, Guardian?? He’s been deranged for years!

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‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd
The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences
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Wren 💙 @wrenkh.bsky.social · 8d
Nobody choses to be disabled.

The threats of these welfare cuts are really affecting peoples lives.
You try to push it to the back of your mind, but it's always there.

The assessments themselves are de-humanising. You're made to feel like a criminal for something you have no control over.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 8d
America, this has to stop.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8d
Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 9d
Oh my God. One of the victims yesterday was killed by a police bullet. This is so awful. Awful. The whole thing.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 9d
Badenoch couldn’t be arsed to go to security briefings despite invitations from the govt so it doesn’t surprise me she can’t be bothered to find out some facts about NI before an interview.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
I’ve literally just finished listening to it. Likewise not his greatest fan but that interview was fantastic.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
The conflation of ‘FoM’ with ‘immigration’ has been a disaster. Well, just one of the Brexit related disasters.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
Yes, quite. They could be making the case for a customs union based on the challenges from ‘global headwinds’ or whatever excuse gives them cover to do it.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
What do you think Labour are saying behind closed doors and amongst themselves? I’m at a loss to understand any of this.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
I think a lot of people were just desperate to GTTO and just hoped for the best about Labour. Unfortunately that hasn’t worked out so well.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
I don’t think she believes what she’s saying. It’s a completely nonsensical answer to a very valid question. Morally and practically, it’s a ludicrous idea.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
Madness. How to encourage the mass disillusionment with mainstream politics in one easy lesson.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
Instead of, oh I don’t know, having policies that might actually appeal to left and progressives! Sickening is exactly the word.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
I don’t understand why the govt is ignoring all the evidence that they’re losing more support to the LibDems and the Greens than they are to Reform. What tf is going on?
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
Surely any attempt to apply this retrospectively would be challenged in court? There was a 2008 court case that threw out a similar attempt to apply migration law retrospectively.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12d
I was perplexed by this article. Is she saying that Mahmood’s new conditions on ILR are a necessary evil in order to regain control of the political narrative?
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