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Reading, sleeping, or playing with cats. Occasional forays to the cinema or concerts. Unpaid carer to OH for 30 years this year. 📚 😴 🐈 🎥 🎶
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Farage has dropped out of BBC film following BBC row.
Good.
Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good.
Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK pulls out of BBC film amid Trump speech edit row
Internal party memo says ‘trust has been lost’ as US president reiterates threat of legal action against corporation
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Farage has dropped out of BBC film following BBC row.
Good.
Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good.
Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Asylum seeker - who dislikes asylum seekers - seeks asylum in a country cracking down on asylum seekers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/09/germany-far-right-seibt-asylum/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/09/germany-far-right-seibt-asylum/
German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S. as Trump ties deepen
Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Asylum seeker - who dislikes asylum seekers - seeks asylum in a country cracking down on asylum seekers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/09/germany-far-right-seibt-asylum/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/09/germany-far-right-seibt-asylum/
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have."
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have."
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.
Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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"We cannot forget them"
Our Chair, Jennifer Buchan, led this year's University of Strathclyde Remembrance Service. Today, Armistice Day (11 Nov), is the anniversary of the official end of the First World War.
Our Chair, Jennifer Buchan, led this year's University of Strathclyde Remembrance Service. Today, Armistice Day (11 Nov), is the anniversary of the official end of the First World War.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"We cannot forget them"
Our Chair, Jennifer Buchan, led this year's University of Strathclyde Remembrance Service. Today, Armistice Day (11 Nov), is the anniversary of the official end of the First World War.
Our Chair, Jennifer Buchan, led this year's University of Strathclyde Remembrance Service. Today, Armistice Day (11 Nov), is the anniversary of the official end of the First World War.
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13 Nov - World Kindness Day
For each day of this week I'm going to help a fellow folksy seller that I admire. Today it's: The Crimson Rabbit, needlecraft, gifts and handmade pet things!
folksy.com/shops/thecri...
#ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGifts
For each day of this week I'm going to help a fellow folksy seller that I admire. Today it's: The Crimson Rabbit, needlecraft, gifts and handmade pet things!
folksy.com/shops/thecri...
#ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGifts
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
13 Nov - World Kindness Day
For each day of this week I'm going to help a fellow folksy seller that I admire. Today it's: The Crimson Rabbit, needlecraft, gifts and handmade pet things!
folksy.com/shops/thecri...
#ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGifts
For each day of this week I'm going to help a fellow folksy seller that I admire. Today it's: The Crimson Rabbit, needlecraft, gifts and handmade pet things!
folksy.com/shops/thecri...
#ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGifts
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In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
In 2024, Bet 365's CEO got a salary - not total package, just salary - of £94.7m.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
A lot of people have to lose their bets to pay that.
We should be MASSIVELY curtailing betting, not promoting it further. It's a cancer in society.
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There’s someone over there who’s getting what I’m not getting.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
There’s someone over there who’s getting what I’m not getting.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
If people cannot get over this, then we’ll get Farage as PM.
Don’t let the right’s divide-and-conquer propaganda trick you.
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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For anyone who's not aware GB News isn't a news channel, it's a right-wing propaganda channel that employs ex Tories, UKip and ReformUK members who spew out utter sh** on a daily basis. Should have been switched off in it's first year!
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
For anyone who's not aware GB News isn't a news channel, it's a right-wing propaganda channel that employs ex Tories, UKip and ReformUK members who spew out utter sh** on a daily basis. Should have been switched off in it's first year!
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That absolute b*$tard Johnson - his dreadful handling of Covid (for which he has no shame) and so much else, his dreadful Telegraph columns - and now this. Seems the only thing he put any work into was bringing down the BBC.
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
That absolute b*$tard Johnson - his dreadful handling of Covid (for which he has no shame) and so much else, his dreadful Telegraph columns - and now this. Seems the only thing he put any work into was bringing down the BBC.
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Important umbrella review showed NO link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. Notably this review also graded how reliable the studies were and highlighted a low level of confidence in the studies RFK used as confounding factors were not considered🧪
Tylenol use in pregnancy not tied to autism, ADHD, review shows
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Important umbrella review showed NO link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. Notably this review also graded how reliable the studies were and highlighted a low level of confidence in the studies RFK used as confounding factors were not considered🧪
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Couldn't have printed it better meself!
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Couldn't have printed it better meself!
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And this
Imagine the EU suing the BBC for all the lies Brexiters like Farage and Rees Mogg have said... €1 billion per lie…
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
And this
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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British media are very quiet on this?
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
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November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
British media are very quiet on this?
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
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this is brilliant satire:
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…
thecritic.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this is brilliant satire:
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
“Given what I took to be the anti-Trump nature of the Sketch, I of course assumed there would be a similar, balancing Sketch discussing the possibility that the Capitol building had attacked the rioters....."
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Long Covid is one of the world’s biggest challenges. We have no time to lose. #cleantheair
Long Covid is one of the world’s biggest challenges.
A new Science perspective by @zalaly and @EricTopol adds to the calls for governments to take action to meet the challenges posed by Long Covid. Read more: johnsnowproject.org/primers/long...
A new Science perspective by @zalaly and @EricTopol adds to the calls for governments to take action to meet the challenges posed by Long Covid. Read more: johnsnowproject.org/primers/long...
Long Covid is one of the world’s biggest challenges
A new Science perspective by Ziyad Al-Aly and Eric Topol adds to the calls for governments to take action to meet the challenges posed by Long Covid.
johnsnowproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Long Covid is one of the world’s biggest challenges. We have no time to lose. #cleantheair