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Husband, Dad and Grandad. Love France, vegan food and sunshine.
#Education #Books #Kidlit #Community #CreActiv
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Together For Palestine dreamt big and tried to get this beautiful and vital song to be our Xmas no1. Missed by not much, let’s give it a push to get it to No1 for the New Year. Free Palestine. 

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December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Ten Million Turkeys are killed every year - to celebrate Christmas. It’s a Turkey Holocaust. And that’s before you consider the conditions they live in. And just how Turkeys are bred at this scale….that’s a horror story of its own - expose coming soon.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Beyond a joke - this hideous failure of privatisation, this company that has pumped £billions out of our economy to foreign owners while pumping billions of litres of sewage into our rivers.

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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reform Lincolnshire have quietly pushed back over £14m of spending on SEND places and school capacity, buried in finance papers instead of being announced openly. Families deserve transparency.
Read the full breakdown here: buff.ly/iKfVuKg
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December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Back at #TheNewLawn for a festive match.
#WeAreFGR
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Harrods sells itself as a high-end top-quality retailer where a big Turkey can cost £130. The truth is Harrods turkey’s come from factory farms where animals are treated with routine cruelty and disregard.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest

By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m not sure if this is a 2nd breakfast or an early brunch, maybe an e-brunch?
But hats off to Couch in Sheffield it’s a great way to fuel up before I go to give a platelet donation 🌱

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December 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Big news on SEND in today's Budget!

Government pumping in more money to keep the system float.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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At the Conduit in London to support the Lift the Ban campaign. We ban asylum seekers from working, forcing them on benefits, which we then complain about. Bit silly, let them work. Take away this right wing talking point.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For the first time in 57 years I was age checked tonight in Sainsbury’s, I thought the shop assistant was joking but no, I have to find my driving licence, I’m blaming my boyish good looks but maybe it was the bobble hat 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Tax breaks have worked well for O’Leary and Ryanair - you can see why he would recommend them for the whole economy - but someone has to pay for them. The lack of VAT and fuel duty gifts nearly £20B a year from other tax payers to Britain’s airline industry.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Who knew such a think existed, French whisky?
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Making the most of half term holidays.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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New study shows the meat and dairy industry rivals the fossil fuel industry for planet killing methane emissions - our diet is driving the climate crisis but when it comes to action - it’s the Cow in the Room.

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October 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well we should be tucked up in our beds in France tonight but due to our departure being put back 12 hours because of the storms we have only made it to Amsterdam, hopefully tomorrow mornings flight will be on time.
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Expect the right wing media to make a fuss, but why should a small profession earning on average £300k a year, pay less tax National Insurance than the rest of us? There’s no good reason - it’s just another example of how our tax code was written by people with money for people with money.
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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More sensibly Octopus back Breaking the Link for the first time, or at least a new version of it from Greenpeace - not sure this version is as good as the original - but defo better than Zonal.
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please sign this petition as it’s something close to my heart.
This is lifelong torture for those creatures, sentient creatures with instincts to do far more than they can do in that little basement dungeon.

We demand that Sea Life let them go. Only 400 more signatures needed:
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Sign Petition: Demand that Sea Life Release their Gentoo Penguins
Sea Life London Aquarium currently has a colony of 15 gentoo penguins who are housed in a basement. (15611 signatures on petition)
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October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Hallelujah….been saying this for some time, Treasury have finally arrived at the same place. Looking forward to the budget now...:)

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October 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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When the worlds of @philearle and #fredfordham collide wonderful things should happen and the #graphicnovel adaptation of When the Sky Falls does not disappoint. The strength of the story is delivered brilliantly through Fordham’s (check out A Wizard of Earthsea) stunning artwork. #whentheskyfalls
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Maybe Clarkson will join Reform….he’d be a good fit - full of hot air and out of touch with reality.

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October 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The Giga Poll shows what Britain really thinks about climate change. 🇬🇧 Find out more at gigapoll.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM