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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing what a decent government with decent Ministers can do.

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 3h

County Lines

Since Labour came to power and invested in the County Lines Programme, record outcomes have been reported:

1,120 senior gang members charged

Over 2300 'deal lines' closed down

stabbings down 20% in county line areas

3,200 children & vulnerable people supported

More of this please!

Record number of gang leaders charged for county lines offences

A record 2,300 ‘deal lines’ closed in first year of this government.

www.gov.uk

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 2h

Happy birthday, Eleanor! I have the Anzac biscuit and pineapple juice ready for toasting your birthday in the morning (still Wed night here!) Enjoy your birthday!! xxx

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 2h

I’d assume that is simply because dogs are larger creatures and thus need more water and food than cats, thus become desperate sooner, and fend for themselves.

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 4h

Still trying to decide…

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4h

Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

A scene in a park in autumn is viewed through a frame of broad-leaf autumn leaves

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aecides.bsky.social @aecides.bsky.social · 4h

Right wing: Everyone should have to learn English if they want to live here!
Also Right wing: But not too much English! Just the right level of English!

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 5h

That looks rather good- I am hoping to make my husband a small one this year, as he used to like them when little but hasn’t had one in decades. I don’t like them so it’ll just be a small batch, maybe two very small pudding-basins!

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 8h

Elevenses, not elevensies, surely!

We have meds needing taken with complex timing and now have ‘afternoonses’ which includes a snack and fruit juice as well as assorted tablets- and a spoonful of homemade elderberry syrup to boot :)

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

"Complaint considered resolved with no further sanction due to apology and discussion broadcast on GB News."

Ofcom doesn't even merit the phrase "paper tiger". It's a paper kitten.
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 11h

What a charming pair… oh god, I really hope the gold is found, I really do… it’s a horrible sickening feeling, isn’t it?

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 11h

My aunt bought us a Compassion in the late 1970s when we moved ed to Edinburgh- it is still thriving, and my parents often have a rose on the table on Christmas Day from it! We marvel at its resilience- it’s had periods of considerable neglect, too…

Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

I’m glad to find out at last just where Kemi is getting her policy from…!

Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 12h

TBF I don't think she wants anything other than for it to stop and allow her to earn a few bucks on the after-dinner-speeches-for-swivel-eyes circuit and retire. All she's doing is reading from the Terry Dicks Book of Tory Brickbats That Excite Sun Readers (pub. 1983) in lieu of policy. #Kemikazi

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

Glorious memories of gymnastics at both my English state primary of the 1970s, and my Scottish secondary of the 1980s… asymmetric bars my pinnacle, not bad on the beam or floor, never got far beyond basics on vaulting.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 14h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

And beams that were lowered from the ceiling once you had swung the uprights into position, and then big iron pins that held the non-wall end of the beam.
And yes, that was a state primary in 1970s.

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

I still remember the freedom and sheer joy of that backwards somersault dismount. I was never going to be Olga Korbut, but for one and a half seconds as I held and then leant back, I could believe… <3

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

Arrived Edinburgh in 1979 to larger Apparatus inc asymmetric bars, off which I could do a hands-free backwards somersault: heels on lower, bum on upper, arms out to side, body ramrod straight, lean back and go :)
All state schools at that.

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

I used this a lot- started primary school in SE England in 1973, used The Apparatus frequently from tiny-age on; also full-size The Beam on which I could turn cartwheels, do handstands, go back into crab, etc. but never managed full backwards-walkover, to eternal sorrow…

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

It really is- and we should celebrate it far more!

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 12h

:)

Cora the Whippet @corathewhippet.bsky.social · 13h

Joined by a… kangaroo on today’s walk?!? 🦘 🤔

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 15h

I’d like a resurgent moderate Tory party actually- it would split the right-vote…

Without the Tories, it means ReformUK Ltd get more votes…

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure all manuscript scholars want to second that vote of thanks. MLGB3 goes beyond what the hardcopy Medieval Libraries of GB could provide. It was a sad day when it had to be taken down; it is great to see it back and functioning well. And it is going to get better! Congratulations to the team.

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 17h

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 15h

A very good point- when the “ReformUK Ltd will win!!” gets too much, remember this… and iirc similar predictions of the SDLP victory which also failed to materialise!

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Ipsos. Opinion poll Sept 1981

Con 28

Lab 42

Lib 11

Other 17

How did Michael Foot do in the subsequent GE ?

Big events can happen, and almost certainly will before 2029.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, I do like this one! The bit where you stand on the pavement of the busy street and sketch us back through the centuries- that’s a particular joy, imo.

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