An easy read, but full of self pity and blame. This review is spot on IMHO
Sarah Vine's memoir promises an insider’s account of the Cameron years – but instead provides a study in thwarted ambition and overwhelming self-pity.
🖊️ Will Lloyd: What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?
🖊️ Will Lloyd: What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?
What’s wrong with Sarah Vine?
Her memoir promises an insider’s account of the Cameron years – but instead provides a study in thwarted ambition and overwhelming self-pity.
www.newstatesman.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
An easy read, but full of self pity and blame. This review is spot on IMHO
This poor woman. At a time when health care was so difficult to access, it seems unbearably cruel to have reported her in the 1st place & then to bring the case to court. Shame on all those decision makers. Her identity & privacy shattered. I hope she manages to recover.
‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion
‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion
Calls for law change after ‘cruel and unnecessary investigation’ into Nicola Packer that CPS brought to trial
When Nicola Packer took a pregnancy test in November 2020, as the country was in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, she did not even believe she was pregnant.
Aged 41 at the time, she thought it more likely that she was perimenopausal, but had been feeling under the weather and when her friend – with whom the pregnancy had been conceived – suggested she took a test, she only did so to “prove him wrong”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This poor woman. At a time when health care was so difficult to access, it seems unbearably cruel to have reported her in the 1st place & then to bring the case to court. Shame on all those decision makers. Her identity & privacy shattered. I hope she manages to recover.
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Terrifying.
Yet the snake oil sellers will tell you that trying to reach “net zero” is the real problem…
Yet the snake oil sellers will tell you that trying to reach “net zero” is the real problem…
May 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Terrifying.
Yet the snake oil sellers will tell you that trying to reach “net zero” is the real problem…
Yet the snake oil sellers will tell you that trying to reach “net zero” is the real problem…
Douglas Murray is ghastly. Modern day Oswald Mosley
April 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Douglas Murray is ghastly. Modern day Oswald Mosley
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Thinking of Janey Godley tonight.
March 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Thinking of Janey Godley tonight.
F’ing hell America, this is like the opening of a big top show (circus for want of another word) 1617hrs UK time. Before the major players (or using the circus metaphor) the clowns enter.
January 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
F’ing hell America, this is like the opening of a big top show (circus for want of another word) 1617hrs UK time. Before the major players (or using the circus metaphor) the clowns enter.
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Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
December 29, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
64yr. Stroke. Incontinent. Bedbound.
He pays for 4 carer visits a day, not eating much & has pressure ulcers.
Breakfast visit 10am.
Lunch visit 12md.
Afternoon visit 2.30pm.
Diner / bed visit 5.30pm.
Who eats 3 meals in 7.30hrs?
And who sits in their excrement for 16.5hrs?
#socialcare
He pays for 4 carer visits a day, not eating much & has pressure ulcers.
Breakfast visit 10am.
Lunch visit 12md.
Afternoon visit 2.30pm.
Diner / bed visit 5.30pm.
Who eats 3 meals in 7.30hrs?
And who sits in their excrement for 16.5hrs?
#socialcare
December 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM
64yr. Stroke. Incontinent. Bedbound.
He pays for 4 carer visits a day, not eating much & has pressure ulcers.
Breakfast visit 10am.
Lunch visit 12md.
Afternoon visit 2.30pm.
Diner / bed visit 5.30pm.
Who eats 3 meals in 7.30hrs?
And who sits in their excrement for 16.5hrs?
#socialcare
He pays for 4 carer visits a day, not eating much & has pressure ulcers.
Breakfast visit 10am.
Lunch visit 12md.
Afternoon visit 2.30pm.
Diner / bed visit 5.30pm.
Who eats 3 meals in 7.30hrs?
And who sits in their excrement for 16.5hrs?
#socialcare
Watched the Epstein doc on Netflix yesterday, then woke to the Greg W storm.
Has there ever been a sex related scandal (not the right word for Epstein IK) led by a woman? I can’t think of one.
Has there ever been a sex related scandal (not the right word for Epstein IK) led by a woman? I can’t think of one.
December 1, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Watched the Epstein doc on Netflix yesterday, then woke to the Greg W storm.
Has there ever been a sex related scandal (not the right word for Epstein IK) led by a woman? I can’t think of one.
Has there ever been a sex related scandal (not the right word for Epstein IK) led by a woman? I can’t think of one.
Nigella’s traditional Christmas cake. Replaced candied peel (the devils work) with nuts. Smells wonderful @nigella.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Nigella’s traditional Christmas cake. Replaced candied peel (the devils work) with nuts. Smells wonderful @nigella.bsky.social
Excellent news. Allows for further debate and discussion. I would welcome the opportunity to have choice at end of life, as with most things in the rest of my existence.
🚨 BREAKING: MPs vote for #AssistedDying to become law for terminally ill people. Ayes - 330 Noes 275
November 29, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Excellent news. Allows for further debate and discussion. I would welcome the opportunity to have choice at end of life, as with most things in the rest of my existence.
I’d buy an electric care tomorrow (or maybe on Saturday) but I don’t have a drive and park on the street. My town of 25k people has c15 public charging points.
November 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I’d buy an electric care tomorrow (or maybe on Saturday) but I don’t have a drive and park on the street. My town of 25k people has c15 public charging points.
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I am such a fan of being alive. It's the best. But I pray I get the right to die: www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...
I love life but I think I should be able to decide when I die
‘One of my greatest joys is walking away from a party I’m not enjoying any more. Everyone should be able to say when they want to leave’
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
I am such a fan of being alive. It's the best. But I pray I get the right to die: www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...