Bill Heywood
@billheywood.bsky.social
I like Stork margarine because I’ve only got one leg 😀
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Magical December cover photo update
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Magical December cover photo update
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The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
3 yellow from my starter was a bit of a bonus
Have a good Monday 😃
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December 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
3 yellow from my starter was a bit of a bonus
Have a good Monday 😃
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November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I should have gone with my gut, I would have got a 3...
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Imran Sherwani gone far too soon 🙁🏑
Barry Davies commentary as Sherwani scored his second goal to seal GB's gold medal in 1988 is legendary. "Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares!"
youtu.be/lfO6hUCRMgI?...
Barry Davies commentary as Sherwani scored his second goal to seal GB's gold medal in 1988 is legendary. "Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares!"
youtu.be/lfO6hUCRMgI?...
Where were the Germans.......
YouTube video by Richard Bruce
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Imran Sherwani gone far too soon 🙁🏑
Barry Davies commentary as Sherwani scored his second goal to seal GB's gold medal in 1988 is legendary. "Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares!"
youtu.be/lfO6hUCRMgI?...
Barry Davies commentary as Sherwani scored his second goal to seal GB's gold medal in 1988 is legendary. "Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares!"
youtu.be/lfO6hUCRMgI?...
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I admit the announcement that Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead didn't really hit me that hard, but the news that Tom Stoppard has passed is sad indeed. Rest In Peace.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I admit the announcement that Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead didn't really hit me that hard, but the news that Tom Stoppard has passed is sad indeed. Rest In Peace.
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
Thank you YP for sticking to the script
If they don't close the conference by announcing a formal split, I'll be gutted 😂
If they don't close the conference by announcing a formal split, I'll be gutted 😂
Glorious. 10/10. No notes.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thank you YP for sticking to the script
If they don't close the conference by announcing a formal split, I'll be gutted 😂
If they don't close the conference by announcing a formal split, I'll be gutted 😂
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I thought this from @prospectunion.bsky.social outlined the case very well. labourlist.org/2025/11/stra...
'To deliver day-one rights, unions like mine chose strategy over stalemate' - LabourList
Unions secured stronger rights by returning to the negotiating table—delivering real protections for workers now says Mike Clancy of Prospect
labourlist.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I thought this from @prospectunion.bsky.social outlined the case very well. labourlist.org/2025/11/stra...
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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2nd starter word cut the options from 315 to 2
Picked the wrong one 😂
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November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
2nd starter word cut the options from 315 to 2
Picked the wrong one 😂
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Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
63 is far too young, a great player and a great loss 🏑😢
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
63 is far too young, a great player and a great loss 🏑😢
63 is far too young, a great player and a great loss 🏑😢
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
63 is far too young, a great player and a great loss 🏑😢
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How did it take just a couple of hours for a small fire to engulf multiple apartment buildings in Hong Kong?
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/a...
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A visual timeline of the few hours it took a small fire to grow into Hong Kong’s worst blaze in decades | CNN
In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong Ko...
edition.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
How did it take just a couple of hours for a small fire to engulf multiple apartment buildings in Hong Kong?
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/a...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/a...
I loved having Duran at Villa, but we made the right decision to take the money
UEFA will decide whether Jhon Duran will serve more than a one-match ban after headbutting a Ferencvaros player last night.
If Duran receives an extended suspension, he will miss Fenerbahce's match against #AVFC in January.
If Duran receives an extended suspension, he will miss Fenerbahce's match against #AVFC in January.
Jhon Duran's Aston Villa reunion in doubt as UEFA set to investigate
UEFA are set to confirm their decision on Jhon Duran's suspension after the striker headbutted an opponent on Thursday night
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I loved having Duran at Villa, but we made the right decision to take the money
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Since the start of 2023-24, Aston Villa have won more home major European matches than any other club (13 in 15 games).
#AVFC
#AVFC
Now is time for Villa as PSG, Real Madrid and Arsenal comparison speaks volumes
Villa Park has been a fortress for Aston Villa in the Premier League and in Europe too in the last two-and-a-half years
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Since the start of 2023-24, Aston Villa have won more home major European matches than any other club (13 in 15 games).
#AVFC
#AVFC
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Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
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It's time to be nice about the Budget.
The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy.
This is why:
The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy.
This is why:
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's time to be nice about the Budget.
The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy.
This is why:
The council tax surcharge is a good policy. Very compromised/imperfect, but still good policy.
This is why:
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Yep, she has. 👏👏👏
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Yep, she has. 👏👏👏
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
“I own a 5 bed house in one the most expensive places to live in the UK and I might have to pay a bit more tax”
“We own a £2m house (and a rental property) in Richmond. We may have to reduce the asking price for sale”
Cry me a river 😭
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“We own a £2m house (and a rental property) in Richmond. We may have to reduce the asking price for sale”
Cry me a river 😭
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
“I own a 5 bed house in one the most expensive places to live in the UK and I might have to pay a bit more tax”
“We own a £2m house (and a rental property) in Richmond. We may have to reduce the asking price for sale”
Cry me a river 😭
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“We own a £2m house (and a rental property) in Richmond. We may have to reduce the asking price for sale”
Cry me a river 😭
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wow, I made hard work of that, I was just chasing yellows around
I trust you got them to behave better 😃
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November 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wow, I made hard work of that, I was just chasing yellows around
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Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
This is so awful
My thoughts are with the affected in Hong Kong 💔
My thoughts are with the affected in Hong Kong 💔
The images are apocalyptic
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 36, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is so awful
My thoughts are with the affected in Hong Kong 💔
My thoughts are with the affected in Hong Kong 💔