Mike Pennell
@hollyhock140.bsky.social
Gay gray grandad no longer surprised at anything politicians do.
Staffordshire in the UK.
Co-Founder of The Food Chain HIV charity.
https://www.foodchain.org.uk/
Expect cynicism, sarcasm and leg pulling.
Staffordshire in the UK.
Co-Founder of The Food Chain HIV charity.
https://www.foodchain.org.uk/
Expect cynicism, sarcasm and leg pulling.
Reposted by Mike Pennell
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December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hello my friend, I'm Rozan. I'm from Gaza. Please donate to my brother Mohammed and my family. We are dying and freezing from the extreme cold, and we have no shelter. We need a tent to protect us from the cold, and we need $500. 😭 💔We have no one but you.
Please help me. 💔😭😭
gofund.me/71bf22cb7
Please help me. 💔😭😭
gofund.me/71bf22cb7
When Sir Jake wasn't Sir Jake, he was allocating cash from the Towns Fund to help poor towns across England. He worked for SoS Honest Bob Jenrick. He quite rightly didn't give cash to his own constituency; he gave it to Jenrick's, who gave cash to Berry's. Neither constituency was poor.
#bbcaq
#bbcaq
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When Sir Jake wasn't Sir Jake, he was allocating cash from the Towns Fund to help poor towns across England. He worked for SoS Honest Bob Jenrick. He quite rightly didn't give cash to his own constituency; he gave it to Jenrick's, who gave cash to Berry's. Neither constituency was poor.
#bbcaq
#bbcaq
Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Oh my. It’s mid-December and I haven’t got the sprouts on yet.
December 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
How many royal correspondents does the BBC have on the go at any one time?
Perhaps they are distributed across the nation, able to stand outside any building remotely connected to The Firm, at a moments notice.
#Ruritania
#r4today
Perhaps they are distributed across the nation, able to stand outside any building remotely connected to The Firm, at a moments notice.
#Ruritania
#r4today
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
How many royal correspondents does the BBC have on the go at any one time?
Perhaps they are distributed across the nation, able to stand outside any building remotely connected to The Firm, at a moments notice.
#Ruritania
#r4today
Perhaps they are distributed across the nation, able to stand outside any building remotely connected to The Firm, at a moments notice.
#Ruritania
#r4today
The main nudge mechanism that Amol Rajan's #r4today programme employs is to read out bits of right wing newspapers, some of which the presenters also write for.
#NudgeNudge
#r4today
#NudgeNudge
#r4today
December 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The main nudge mechanism that Amol Rajan's #r4today programme employs is to read out bits of right wing newspapers, some of which the presenters also write for.
#NudgeNudge
#r4today
#NudgeNudge
#r4today
The term Junior Doctors was retired because it didn't correctly describe the role and duties undertaken. What is the point of reminding the public that Resident Doctors were previously called something else unless it is to confuse deliberately?
#r4today
#r4today
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The term Junior Doctors was retired because it didn't correctly describe the role and duties undertaken. What is the point of reminding the public that Resident Doctors were previously called something else unless it is to confuse deliberately?
#r4today
#r4today
Asking Sir Alan Moses to mark his own card? What's the point of that? He even suggested that #r4today is a fair programme. Reader's Digest crossed with TitBits.
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Asking Sir Alan Moses to mark his own card? What's the point of that? He even suggested that #r4today is a fair programme. Reader's Digest crossed with TitBits.
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
That's homelessness dealt with for another year with added reference to small boats and asylum seekers taking private rentals, and more support to landlords, and are the Labour government capable. Next item. Well done Justin Webb. Bish Bosh.
#r4today
#r4today
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
That's homelessness dealt with for another year with added reference to small boats and asylum seekers taking private rentals, and more support to landlords, and are the Labour government capable. Next item. Well done Justin Webb. Bish Bosh.
#r4today
#r4today
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Three quarters of a million quid. That's what we are paying Nick Robinson and Justin Webb to laugh their way through trivia, deflection and personal bête noire.
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Three quarters of a million quid. That's what we are paying Nick Robinson and Justin Webb to laugh their way through trivia, deflection and personal bête noire.
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Three quarters of a million quid. That's what we are paying Nick Robinson and Justin Webb to laugh their way through trivia, deflection and personal bête noire.
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
The whole programme is a tin-eared editorial embarrassment.
#r4today
I honestly don’t know what’s more concerning. That the president of the United States keeps falling asleep in public or that everyone around him is too scared to wake him up.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It is not just early career researchers who are abandoning the NHS. Making the country "hostile" has obvious downsides.
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It is not just early career researchers who are abandoning the NHS. Making the country "hostile" has obvious downsides.
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
For anyone watching the continuing collapse of justice in the US, a little bit of sanity rears its head.
#r4today
#r4today
JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
For anyone watching the continuing collapse of justice in the US, a little bit of sanity rears its head.
#r4today
#r4today
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It's patients, not the NHS, who bear the burden of waiting lists. The NHS treats people per its capacity, and the waiting list is external to it. But the patients are the ones who bear the wait. #wato
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's patients, not the NHS, who bear the burden of waiting lists. The NHS treats people per its capacity, and the waiting list is external to it. But the patients are the ones who bear the wait. #wato
This is a good thing which would not have needed to happen in the US, if it hadn't been hijacked by ridiculous people. Part 3
#Wato #R4today
#Wato #R4today
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM