La Reine des Metaphores
@metaphorqu.bsky.social
Singing , writing, pilates, gardening, wife, mother, grandmother . Centre left 🌹🌹🌹🌹Labour voting tree hugger who has earned the right to swagger a bit.
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social start the week......
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social start the week......
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
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I wrote about the profoundly depressing response to a decision to take hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
The reaction to lifting kids out of poverty tells us a lot
Political Editor Liam Thorp reflects on the reaction to Labour's decision to remove the two-child benefit cap and improve the life chances of hundreds of thousands of children
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wrote about the profoundly depressing response to a decision to take hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
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🇬🇧 Keir Starmer et sa ministre des Finances ont rassuré leur propre camp et grappillé quelques mois de répit en présentant mercredi 26 novembre un budget marqué à gauche, après un virage à droite contesté qui a fait fuir une partie de son électorat.
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Royaume-Uni : avec son nouveau budget, le Labour retrouve sa gauche
Keir Starmer et sa ministre des Finances ont rassuré leur propre camp et grappillé quelques mois de répit en présentant un budget marqué à gauche, après un virage à droite contesté qui a fait fuir une partie de son électorat.
www.liberation.fr
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🇬🇧 Keir Starmer et sa ministre des Finances ont rassuré leur propre camp et grappillé quelques mois de répit en présentant mercredi 26 novembre un budget marqué à gauche, après un virage à droite contesté qui a fait fuir une partie de son électorat.
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves obliterated Badenoch with icy-polite smile that hurts far worse than shouting. A courteous yet unmistakably decisive rebuke. #ukpolitics
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Chancellor Rachel Reeves obliterated Badenoch with icy-polite smile that hurts far worse than shouting. A courteous yet unmistakably decisive rebuke. #ukpolitics
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Anyway. Just a little more than 10 years after Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, the grand experiment of taking the British far left remotely seriously can finally be concluded. What a waste of time it all was.
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Anyway. Just a little more than 10 years after Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, the grand experiment of taking the British far left remotely seriously can finally be concluded. What a waste of time it all was.
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Witch-hunt in progress. The bigger story we don’t hear from the media is that the Tories took government debt from £900 billion to £2.7 trillion over 14 years, leaving Reeves having to find £198 billion just to pay the interest. That’s 10% of all tax going into that hole.
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Witch-hunt in progress. The bigger story we don’t hear from the media is that the Tories took government debt from £900 billion to £2.7 trillion over 14 years, leaving Reeves having to find £198 billion just to pay the interest. That’s 10% of all tax going into that hole.
Home made tarte tatin anyone? Apples from the garden.....🍏🍏
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Home made tarte tatin anyone? Apples from the garden.....🍏🍏
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Male violence against women and girls is not inevitable.
It is the predictable outcome of a society that treats women's safety as optional rather than fundamental.
We must create a culture of consent and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
It is the predictable outcome of a society that treats women's safety as optional rather than fundamental.
We must create a culture of consent and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Male violence against women and girls is not inevitable.
It is the predictable outcome of a society that treats women's safety as optional rather than fundamental.
We must create a culture of consent and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
It is the predictable outcome of a society that treats women's safety as optional rather than fundamental.
We must create a culture of consent and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
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At least two immigration judges have been advised to move out of their homes following threats by far-right activists. The Observer notes that their ordeal came after Tory shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick began naming “activist judges” on social media.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Immigration judges targeted by far right after Tory MP’s campaign | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
At least two immigration judges have been advised to move out of their homes following threats by far-right activists. The Observer notes that their ordeal came after Tory shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick began naming “activist judges” on social media.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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You could conclude the far right establishment press dont like working class girls done good or a cabinet with none who went to posh boy or posh girl schools. The fact that Labour are doing a bloody good job on the economy after the mess the tories left appears irrelevant to client journalists.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
You could conclude the far right establishment press dont like working class girls done good or a cabinet with none who went to posh boy or posh girl schools. The fact that Labour are doing a bloody good job on the economy after the mess the tories left appears irrelevant to client journalists.
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Excellent thread by @torstenbell.bsky.social - it's weird to find on BlueSky the most coherent explanation of Labour's economic approach but there you go. Whether this filters through to the wider public is debatable but we'll find out tomorrow when we talk to folk at the Bank of England museum.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Excellent thread by @torstenbell.bsky.social - it's weird to find on BlueSky the most coherent explanation of Labour's economic approach but there you go. Whether this filters through to the wider public is debatable but we'll find out tomorrow when we talk to folk at the Bank of England museum.
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The MSM indulged in an orgy of speculation prior to the budget, the tenor of which depended on the political agenda of each.
Now that the speculation has been proven wildly at odds with reality they are whinging like the spoilt brats that they are.
Learneth the lesson: don't speculate.
Now that the speculation has been proven wildly at odds with reality they are whinging like the spoilt brats that they are.
Learneth the lesson: don't speculate.
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The MSM indulged in an orgy of speculation prior to the budget, the tenor of which depended on the political agenda of each.
Now that the speculation has been proven wildly at odds with reality they are whinging like the spoilt brats that they are.
Learneth the lesson: don't speculate.
Now that the speculation has been proven wildly at odds with reality they are whinging like the spoilt brats that they are.
Learneth the lesson: don't speculate.
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Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press
www.newstatesman.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
@torstenbell.bsky.social re change takes time.
🧵🧵🧵 #Change #FuckItsDifficult
Once upon a time.. I supported organisations through fundamental change. More recently I worked as a coach doing the same for individuals, often in a change context. Since the 🌹🌹🌹 government came in on a promise of #Change
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Once upon a time.. I supported organisations through fundamental change. More recently I worked as a coach doing the same for individuals, often in a change context. Since the 🌹🌹🌹 government came in on a promise of #Change
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November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@torstenbell.bsky.social re change takes time.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.
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Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
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Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nigel Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman
Women’s bodies are the new battleground as Nigel Farage aligns with the US hard-right. His link to the group that toppled Roe v. Wade puts UK reproductive freedom at serious risk, writes column...
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
@viviane49.bsky.social have you seen this? And enjoy your lunch!
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
@viviane49.bsky.social have you seen this? And enjoy your lunch!
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Solid interview by our Chancellor Rachel Reeves on the BBC this morning.
Put Laura Keunssberg in her place a few times and did well to keep talking to finish her points despite LKs attempts at interruption her.
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Put Laura Keunssberg in her place a few times and did well to keep talking to finish her points despite LKs attempts at interruption her.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Solid interview by our Chancellor Rachel Reeves on the BBC this morning.
Put Laura Keunssberg in her place a few times and did well to keep talking to finish her points despite LKs attempts at interruption her.
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Put Laura Keunssberg in her place a few times and did well to keep talking to finish her points despite LKs attempts at interruption her.
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The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry.
In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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Co-op to cut prices of 1,000 products after Autumn Budget announced
The grocer has announced major plans for the chain
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry.
In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".
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The rise and fall of the superadviser, and the future of Morgan McSweeney | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Stagecoach are introducing extra buses and extending services from today to take advantage of Oxford's temporary congestion charge. They claim faster journey times on routes from Barton, Blackbird Leys, and Kidlington, and are extending two routes to the Park & Ride at Oxford Parkway.
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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