Michelle Lester
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Michelle Lester
@michellelester.bsky.social
Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati Remainer who left for Portugal.
English IB /AL teacher/tutor. Writes a bit.
Books, animals, walking in nature. Evenings in the kitchen dancing to a post-punk playlist. 📚💙
https://open.substack.com/pub/michellelester
Ditto
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I used to work in Plymouth too. Again, when I tried to share what the SEZ could mean there (with mineral-rich Dartmoor and a nuclear submarine base) I was met with the same looks I got when I countered that, yes, Brexit really would be ‘that bad’. Won’t stop trying to share EP’s work though.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I know. I keep trying to tell my family (some of whom live in Cornwall where there are already housing developments being put up with the local council ‘unable’ to answer who’s behind them) but there’s such a sense of ‘we’re all doomed, anyway, and nothing we can do will stop it’.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happening in Portugal too
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It was the one bit that kept me hanging on in there!
October 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Agree! Feels like Disney trying to do ‘Peaky Blinders’. Only bit I liked was the scene where the family walk down the staircase to Fontaines DC but then it just looked like an old school music video.
No. Accents are off. Horrible stereotypes. Disappointing.
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Looks amazing - added to my wishlist
July 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Michelle Lester
You can help by using @trusselluk.bsky.social’s handy tool to email your MP and asking them to call on the Work and Pensions Secretary to rethink the government’s cruel & irresponsible planned cuts to social security

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Cruel cuts to disability support: the Work and Pensions Secretary needs to hear from your MP
Our social security system should be there for us all, especially when we need it most. But the UK government has proposed huge cuts to disabled people’s support when they’re already three times more ...
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March 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Live in Porto and did all three today!
April 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Power (and phones) finally back on in Gaia (Porto) after 9 hours but supply is inconsistent across the city
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM