Liz Elliott
@mizz22.bsky.social
Secret eccentric, retired teacher educator, supporter of education that engages children, Early Years specialist, passionate about human rights, believer in equality, supporter of neurodiversity and cat lady
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'Effectively all we are doing is turning criminals and perverts into X's paying customers'
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok
January 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
'Effectively all we are doing is turning criminals and perverts into X's paying customers'
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Media Select Committee, speaks to #BBCBreakfast after X limited the use of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok
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Fighting the Brexit reset means scrapping Erasmus again and telling businesses that red tape, queues and cost are the price they should all pay for Farage’s petulant prejudice.
What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants.
www.ft.com/content/3f97...
What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants.
www.ft.com/content/3f97...
Farage vows to fight Starmer’s reset of EU ties and uphold Brexit
Reform UK leader launches party’s campaign for London local elections by targeting control of six councils
www.ft.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Fighting the Brexit reset means scrapping Erasmus again and telling businesses that red tape, queues and cost are the price they should all pay for Farage’s petulant prejudice.
What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants.
www.ft.com/content/3f97...
What a very tiresome bore of a man shouting at us in his soiled Brexit pants.
www.ft.com/content/3f97...
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He does know that the Pilgrims arrived 405 years ago
doesn't he...
doesn't he...
Trump: "I'm a fan of Denmark too. They've been very nice to me. But the fact that they had a boat land there [Greenland] 500 years ago doesn't mean they own the land. I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also."
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
He does know that the Pilgrims arrived 405 years ago
doesn't he...
doesn't he...
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Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.
January 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.
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Otherwise - presumably - Reform MPs are happy to cash in on a website that allows users to make abusive images of children.
Liberal Democrats have urged Reform UK MPs who receive payment from X for their posts to donate the money to charities working to combat sexual exploitation, after the site was flooded with AI-generated sexualised images of women and children.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems call on Reform MPs to donate income from X to charity amid Grok row
Exclusive: Party says Nigel Farage and colleagues receiving ‘tainted money’ for their posts on Elon Musk’s platform
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Otherwise - presumably - Reform MPs are happy to cash in on a website that allows users to make abusive images of children.
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
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Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter
Grok is just one of many reasons why Westminster should finally get off the website.
www.politicshome.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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Reform is full of Incompetent fools and crooks.
Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business ‘compliance’ has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law.
Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business ‘compliance’ has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law.
Reform Chairman Who Boasts of Expertise in Business 'Compliance' Had Ten Firms Struck off for Breaking Company Law
Exclusive: Paul Donaghy established at least 10 firms struck off by Companies House, according to official records
bylinetimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Reform is full of Incompetent fools and crooks.
Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business ‘compliance’ has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law.
Reform UK politician who boasts of skills in business ‘compliance’ has had at least ten companies struck-off for breaking company law.
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Farage is lying! 🤥
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More than 30 people have spoken [..] as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them”!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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More than 30 people have spoken [..] as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them”!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage dismisses racist and antisemitic school bullying claims as ‘made-up fantasies’
Reform UK leader says accusations about his behaviour at Dulwich college were politically motivated
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Farage is lying! 🤥
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More than 30 people have spoken [..] as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them”!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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More than 30 people have spoken [..] as part of an investigation based on multiple accounts of racism, including Peter Ettedgui, 61, an Emmy- and Bafta-winning director, who recalled Farage growling repeatedly “Hitler was right” or “Gas them”!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
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It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind
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Farage apparently wants to sort out London's 'terrible' crime rate.
Also:
The crime rate in Farage's Clacton is 25% higher than in London.
🤔
Also:
The crime rate in Farage's Clacton is 25% higher than in London.
🤔
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Farage apparently wants to sort out London's 'terrible' crime rate.
Also:
The crime rate in Farage's Clacton is 25% higher than in London.
🤔
Also:
The crime rate in Farage's Clacton is 25% higher than in London.
🤔
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Zelensky says the war could end in 2026, noting that for the first time, Russia's army has stopped growing despite monthly mobilizations of 43,000. “If it continues, Putin will have to mobilize the population, and he doesn’t want that due to growing problems in Russian society,” Zelensky said.
December 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Zelensky says the war could end in 2026, noting that for the first time, Russia's army has stopped growing despite monthly mobilizations of 43,000. “If it continues, Putin will have to mobilize the population, and he doesn’t want that due to growing problems in Russian society,” Zelensky said.
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This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
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US food the orange fascist wants to send here. See Stephen Fry VG on this below. #Brexit disaster.
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
youtu.be/gAMpJ9Yr56Y?...
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
youtu.be/gAMpJ9Yr56Y?...
December 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
US food the orange fascist wants to send here. See Stephen Fry VG on this below. #Brexit disaster.
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
youtu.be/gAMpJ9Yr56Y?...
💥Recombinant bovine growth hormone
💥Ractopamine-Tainted Meat
💥Brominated Vegetable Oil
💥Chlorinated Chicken to cover up the bugs
💥GMA Crops
💥No Country of Origin Labelling
youtu.be/gAMpJ9Yr56Y?...
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⚡️Russian state media quotes FM Lavrov saying Moscow will reconsider its negotiating position in light of alleged attack by Ukrainian forces on Putin's residence in Novgorod.
Zelenskyy responds in voice note to reporters, saying it's "lies," Russia laying groundwork to attack govt buildings in Kyiv.
Zelenskyy responds in voice note to reporters, saying it's "lies," Russia laying groundwork to attack govt buildings in Kyiv.
December 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
⚡️Russian state media quotes FM Lavrov saying Moscow will reconsider its negotiating position in light of alleged attack by Ukrainian forces on Putin's residence in Novgorod.
Zelenskyy responds in voice note to reporters, saying it's "lies," Russia laying groundwork to attack govt buildings in Kyiv.
Zelenskyy responds in voice note to reporters, saying it's "lies," Russia laying groundwork to attack govt buildings in Kyiv.
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The government is delivering a radical rebalancing of funding towards more deprived councils
The Local Government Funding Settlement shows the government is making a major change to how funding is allocated to local authorities
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/deli...
The Local Government Funding Settlement shows the government is making a major change to how funding is allocated to local authorities
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/deli...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The government is delivering a radical rebalancing of funding towards more deprived councils
The Local Government Funding Settlement shows the government is making a major change to how funding is allocated to local authorities
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/deli...
The Local Government Funding Settlement shows the government is making a major change to how funding is allocated to local authorities
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/deli...
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WATCH — @jenpsaki.bsky.social : “Let’s go back to those 10 co-conspirators…”
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Some of them were at parties where you had 13 & 14 year-olds paraded naked… They did disgusting things. The Epstein class needs to be held accountable. Release the files.”
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Some of them were at parties where you had 13 & 14 year-olds paraded naked… They did disgusting things. The Epstein class needs to be held accountable. Release the files.”
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WATCH — @jenpsaki.bsky.social : “Let’s go back to those 10 co-conspirators…”
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Some of them were at parties where you had 13 & 14 year-olds paraded naked… They did disgusting things. The Epstein class needs to be held accountable. Release the files.”
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Some of them were at parties where you had 13 & 14 year-olds paraded naked… They did disgusting things. The Epstein class needs to be held accountable. Release the files.”
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A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
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Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)