Alice Allan
@aliceallan.bsky.social
South Londoner, exiled to South Manchester (and it's actually not that bad). Special needs mum and Millwall fan. Looking for a credible left wing alternative (and my glasses).
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Manchester Museum named European museum of the year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Manchester Museum named European museum of the year
‘Gobsmacked’ director says 138-year-old museum aims to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Manchester Museum named European museum of the year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I'd be embarrassed if my team finished the season one place above the relegation zone but decided to have a victory parade.
May 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'd be embarrassed if my team finished the season one place above the relegation zone but decided to have a victory parade.
Good luck to all the marathon runners in Manchester and London today. It's going to be 18 and 20 degrees respectively so stay hydrated!
April 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Good luck to all the marathon runners in Manchester and London today. It's going to be 18 and 20 degrees respectively so stay hydrated!
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On the day the government announced plans to jail cyclists for life if they kill pedestrians, yet another “oh sorry, I was distracted” driver who killed a cyclist walks from court with no jail time (2 years suspended).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Driver caused 75-year-old cyclist's death while she was 'distracted'
Lucinda Collins was on a hands-free call to her mum when the collision occurred, a court heard.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
On the day the government announced plans to jail cyclists for life if they kill pedestrians, yet another “oh sorry, I was distracted” driver who killed a cyclist walks from court with no jail time (2 years suspended).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flying home to London after a 3 week trip around California. It's an amazing state and the wilderness is unrivalled but I'll be glad to be home.
April 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Flying home to London after a 3 week trip around California. It's an amazing state and the wilderness is unrivalled but I'll be glad to be home.
Just to weigh in on the US food debate, as I'm currently in California. Their Thai food is way better, the pizza is rubbish and they use too much salt. The tacos are amazing but the bacon is dreadful. There's too much ice in the drinks and the cheese sucks. Great fruit in the supermarkets.
April 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just to weigh in on the US food debate, as I'm currently in California. Their Thai food is way better, the pizza is rubbish and they use too much salt. The tacos are amazing but the bacon is dreadful. There's too much ice in the drinks and the cheese sucks. Great fruit in the supermarkets.
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You’ll hear “the disability benefits bill is soaring” a lot today but remember. Public spending on pensioner entitlements has risen from 5.3% of GDP to 6% over the last 20 years, whilst the working-age benefits bill has remained static. Consider why one of these is controversial.
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
You’ll hear “the disability benefits bill is soaring” a lot today but remember. Public spending on pensioner entitlements has risen from 5.3% of GDP to 6% over the last 20 years, whilst the working-age benefits bill has remained static. Consider why one of these is controversial.
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We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Genuinely confused why everyone (i.e. some people in Westminster bubble) is aghast at the idea of a freeze to PIP rates but fairly chill at the idea of preventing c600,000 people being entitled to PIP in the first place, which will save far more money (i.e. be a larger cut to household incomes).
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
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The PIP assessment is already rigorous - they're not waving people through, as some people believe. It involves many, many hoops of fire.
March 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The PIP assessment is already rigorous - they're not waving people through, as some people believe. It involves many, many hoops of fire.
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maybe - just maybe! - possible that if we actually had, eg, workplaces that catered to all sorts of brains and ways of working, and weren't needlessly rigid, then people wouldn't feel the desperate need to try and fix themselves so they can function in a society that's so unfriendly to them!
March 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
maybe - just maybe! - possible that if we actually had, eg, workplaces that catered to all sorts of brains and ways of working, and weren't needlessly rigid, then people wouldn't feel the desperate need to try and fix themselves so they can function in a society that's so unfriendly to them!
Huge relief - upcoming USA holiday will now include Alcatraz and National Parks - but confused why the Democrats would support any Republican proposals right now.
So by one vote the US government passes a continuing resolution and won't shutdown (for now). Funds govt until September during which time the GOP will try to find a budget they can all agree on.
March 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Huge relief - upcoming USA holiday will now include Alcatraz and National Parks - but confused why the Democrats would support any Republican proposals right now.
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Seriously: Every single person is a taxpayer because everyone pays VAT on goods. And even if they didn’t, they’d still deserve the same services and rights as the rest of the population because that’s what living in a civilised society - and not y’know the Hunger Games - means.
March 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Seriously: Every single person is a taxpayer because everyone pays VAT on goods. And even if they didn’t, they’d still deserve the same services and rights as the rest of the population because that’s what living in a civilised society - and not y’know the Hunger Games - means.
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I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
FFS. 2 trips to San Francisco, 12 years apart, and I still won't get to visit Alcatraz.
Possible US government shutdown imminent...
CNN confirming earlier reporting on Schumer: he says the Senate GOP does NOT have the votes for cloture on the House CR.
March 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
FFS. 2 trips to San Francisco, 12 years apart, and I still won't get to visit Alcatraz.
Please please please pass. I want to actually visit Alcatraz and the California National Parks on this trip to the US. I only need an approved budget until May.
A six month continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown this week has passed the House. Now needs to get through the senate with 60 votes.
Big Q is will enough Democrats back it even though it includes nothing to stop Musk's meddling.
Big Q is will enough Democrats back it even though it includes nothing to stop Musk's meddling.
Ugh. It passed, 217-213.
March 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Please please please pass. I want to actually visit Alcatraz and the California National Parks on this trip to the US. I only need an approved budget until May.
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Mothering Sunday can be hard when your mother's dead. As usual I'll be reading out a list of our #RememberedMums on Sunday March 30th in Lancaster Priory church. If you'd like me to light a candle and say your Mum/Mam/Mom's name in sacred air, send it over just as you'd like it to be read. ❤️
March 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Mothering Sunday can be hard when your mother's dead. As usual I'll be reading out a list of our #RememberedMums on Sunday March 30th in Lancaster Priory church. If you'd like me to light a candle and say your Mum/Mam/Mom's name in sacred air, send it over just as you'd like it to be read. ❤️
I've no doubt people with disabilities want to work but where are all these disabled people going to be employed? Who's going to give them jobs?
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- raising basic UC rate for those looking for - or in - work, while cutting it for those judged as unfit for work (as incentive for even disabled people to seek work)
- bringing back regular reassessments in person, rather than over phone, which officials view as too lax
- raising basic UC rate for those looking for - or in - work, while cutting it for those judged as unfit for work (as incentive for even disabled people to seek work)
- bringing back regular reassessments in person, rather than over phone, which officials view as too lax
March 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I've no doubt people with disabilities want to work but where are all these disabled people going to be employed? Who's going to give them jobs?
Same wolf, different clothes. Punishing the vulnerable for headlines.
Keir Starmer addressing Labour MPs shortly: plans to cut more than £5bn from rising welfare bill likely to come up. Measures on table incl:
- making it tougher to qualify for PIP (key disability benefit not linked to work) & freezing some PIP payments next year.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- making it tougher to qualify for PIP (key disability benefit not linked to work) & freezing some PIP payments next year.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Don’t punish the vulnerable’: Labour MPs uneasy over planned welfare cuts
Ministers say ‘unsustainable’ rise in spending must be tackled but many backbenchers fear changes will not work
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Same wolf, different clothes. Punishing the vulnerable for headlines.
Russian collaborators in the UK Parliament.
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage suggests Zelenskyy was ‘rude’ and ‘very unwise’ in White House meeting
“Do you know what? If I turned up in the White House, I’d make sure I was wearing a suit and my shoes were cleaned”, he told LBC
Full story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/03...
“Do you know what? If I turned up in the White House, I’d make sure I was wearing a suit and my shoes were cleaned”, he told LBC
Full story ⤵️
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/03...
‘Very unwise’: Nigel Farage suggests Zelenskyy was ‘rude’ in White House meeting - Politics.co.uk
Nigel Farage has suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy was “rude” and “very unwise” in his approach to his now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. The meeting between Trump and his Ukrainia...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Russian collaborators in the UK Parliament.
It's unfortunate that the new Gladiator looks like a muscular Russell Brand.
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's unfortunate that the new Gladiator looks like a muscular Russell Brand.
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While sitting in the Oval Office next to a bust of Churchill, Trump accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with world war three.’
This is an excerpt from Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress on 26 December 1941, weeks after the entry of the US into the war
This is an excerpt from Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress on 26 December 1941, weeks after the entry of the US into the war
February 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
While sitting in the Oval Office next to a bust of Churchill, Trump accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with world war three.’
This is an excerpt from Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress on 26 December 1941, weeks after the entry of the US into the war
This is an excerpt from Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress on 26 December 1941, weeks after the entry of the US into the war
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My main takeaway from the election is that if German lads want to get laid they better start recycling.
February 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My main takeaway from the election is that if German lads want to get laid they better start recycling.
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former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
February 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
