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missarbre.bsky.social
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@missarbre.bsky.social
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Mardy but nice Prone to the occasionla typo 📍UK
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3h
Genuine quote said to me about 20 years ago by someone who visited central Leicester
“who do they think they are coming over here and driving Mercedes”

Person who said it was a lazy arsehole.
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3h
France, a country where collecting ethnicity data is against the law, is doing a better job at managing a multi-ethnic society?
I’d be really interested in their data on that claim
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 19h
Exactly
missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 22h
Move the car park not the cricketers
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h
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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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 20h
Sorry
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 20h
Absolutely ridiculous. Don’t read it if you’re already wound up enough about the MUGA story.
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Jez 🤍💛💙 @madmidweeker.bsky.social · 1d
Ah, I've found it on the BBC. Man was hit with a ball, on the leg, as he loaded his car so all proper cricket is banned. FFS.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Danbury cricketers stumped as council bans all play - BBC News
People in an Essex village are upset the sport has been banned after a passer-by was hit by a ball.
www.bbc.co.uk
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 23h
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 20h
2 stories in one day about ridiculous decisions to stop people playing sport. Cricket banned in an Essex village. A MUGA for teens scrapped here. It makes me so mad. Bet these people also moan kids are always indoors on their screens these days.
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 22h
Move the car park not the cricketers
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
At least you can all see a funny side. There was another one yesterday who was so confused that there‘s more than one politician in the world called Gavin. But rather than just say haha oops, they doubled down shouting at everyone.
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
Oh my at him calling the Irish “dumb fuck anglos”
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
What age of pupils is she referring to? As imo we have an issue in our mainly monolingual country that bilingual pre-schooler language/speech progress is mismeasured.
My niece is bilingual. She was not great at spoken English by 4. But fluent at 2 languages at 10. Will have no issues in her GCSEs
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
He’s covering up his hand again. Had some more transfusions?
missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a bit unrealistic for me tbh. The real ones don’t get the flags that high up the lampost
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a mankini for those winter days. You wouldn’t want cold arms.
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
It won’t?
brb
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1d
Having zoomed in, I can confirm the answer is lippy
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d
I’m only free until lunchtime today so can I have my stint first please
missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d
What does that ‘different category’ thing even mean?
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d
Very roughly the GDP of a medium sized country
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worffella.bsky.social
Worf fella @worffella.bsky.social · Aug 29
Timeline cleanse
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d
Lincolnshire too. More than doubling her office budget here
Lincolnshire Mayor plans £147k office budget increase to fund a 'small team'
Dame Andrea Jenkyns says she needs staff 'to make sure that we’ve got the capacity to help people'
www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 2d
OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 2d
It didn’t work last time they looked for a simple solution to solve all their problems but it will* work this time for sure

*it won’t
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missarbre.bsky.social
Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 3d
No because convention is use of surnames when writing about male politicians.

It’s enough of a convention, when coupled with hashtags that make no sense to US politics, that would make you just check surely?
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