Fionna O’Leary
@fascinatorfun.bsky.social
Retired Lawyer, cook, Europhile, books, music, good conversations, gardens, walking. Bird site refugee 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
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Then the Telegraph managed to stumble on the mind bogglingly obvious reality…
There are several different TYPES of tree within their luxury range and so the tree DESCRIPTION was written on the box.
They are all displayed in a MERRY CHRISTMAS labelled box
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There are several different TYPES of tree within their luxury range and so the tree DESCRIPTION was written on the box.
They are all displayed in a MERRY CHRISTMAS labelled box
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Then the Telegraph managed to stumble on the mind bogglingly obvious reality…
There are several different TYPES of tree within their luxury range and so the tree DESCRIPTION was written on the box.
They are all displayed in a MERRY CHRISTMAS labelled box
7/
There are several different TYPES of tree within their luxury range and so the tree DESCRIPTION was written on the box.
They are all displayed in a MERRY CHRISTMAS labelled box
7/
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Then we got these gems from Susan Hall:
"It's all this stupid nonsense about offending other people and other religions. Well, blow that. This is supposed to be a Christian country. We have Christmas. Let's celebrate it."
(How is she not embarrassed?!😳)
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"It's all this stupid nonsense about offending other people and other religions. Well, blow that. This is supposed to be a Christian country. We have Christmas. Let's celebrate it."
(How is she not embarrassed?!😳)
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Then we got these gems from Susan Hall:
"It's all this stupid nonsense about offending other people and other religions. Well, blow that. This is supposed to be a Christian country. We have Christmas. Let's celebrate it."
(How is she not embarrassed?!😳)
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"It's all this stupid nonsense about offending other people and other religions. Well, blow that. This is supposed to be a Christian country. We have Christmas. Let's celebrate it."
(How is she not embarrassed?!😳)
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So, @telegraph.co.uk was off a strong start on the nonsense scale by having to admit the tree was being sold in their Christmas range while in the very next line saying it was being sold with “no reference to Christmas”!🙄
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So, @telegraph.co.uk was off a strong start on the nonsense scale by having to admit the tree was being sold in their Christmas range while in the very next line saying it was being sold with “no reference to Christmas”!🙄
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Susan Hall - Leader of the London Conservatives - shared it a few hours later with the words “No no no Tesco they are Christmas trees”
I mean she’s not wrong! They ARE Christmas trees and there’s not a person out there who doesn’t know that! 🤷🏼♀️
But we need the faux outrage, apparently!
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I mean she’s not wrong! They ARE Christmas trees and there’s not a person out there who doesn’t know that! 🤷🏼♀️
But we need the faux outrage, apparently!
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Susan Hall - Leader of the London Conservatives - shared it a few hours later with the words “No no no Tesco they are Christmas trees”
I mean she’s not wrong! They ARE Christmas trees and there’s not a person out there who doesn’t know that! 🤷🏼♀️
But we need the faux outrage, apparently!
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I mean she’s not wrong! They ARE Christmas trees and there’s not a person out there who doesn’t know that! 🤷🏼♀️
But we need the faux outrage, apparently!
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Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
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16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
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Thanks again Don for taking the time and nailing the key arguments here. Also the proposed tax is only on the excess over £10m, so someone with £11m wealth would “only” pay £20k.
@patmillsuk.bsky.social
@patmillsuk.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thanks again Don for taking the time and nailing the key arguments here. Also the proposed tax is only on the excess over £10m, so someone with £11m wealth would “only” pay £20k.
@patmillsuk.bsky.social
@patmillsuk.bsky.social
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I wrote about my chats with the @patmillsuk.bsky.social over on Substack.
My takeaway was one of human decency. Good people really trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.
@dalevince.com & @stephenstroud.bsky.social laid out the objectives so well.
open.substack.com/pub/donmcgow...
My takeaway was one of human decency. Good people really trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.
@dalevince.com & @stephenstroud.bsky.social laid out the objectives so well.
open.substack.com/pub/donmcgow...
Patriotic Millionaires UK
Tax Wealth not Work
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I wrote about my chats with the @patmillsuk.bsky.social over on Substack.
My takeaway was one of human decency. Good people really trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.
@dalevince.com & @stephenstroud.bsky.social laid out the objectives so well.
open.substack.com/pub/donmcgow...
My takeaway was one of human decency. Good people really trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.
@dalevince.com & @stephenstroud.bsky.social laid out the objectives so well.
open.substack.com/pub/donmcgow...
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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For different reasons - jobs, study, family!
Most went to more ethnically diverse countries (Australia, Canada, America + UAE) than the UK!
Because an increasingly ethnonationalist Goodwin has an ever narrow view of who is "British" he instinctively imagines all these British emigrants are white
Most went to more ethnically diverse countries (Australia, Canada, America + UAE) than the UK!
Because an increasingly ethnonationalist Goodwin has an ever narrow view of who is "British" he instinctively imagines all these British emigrants are white
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For different reasons - jobs, study, family!
Most went to more ethnically diverse countries (Australia, Canada, America + UAE) than the UK!
Because an increasingly ethnonationalist Goodwin has an ever narrow view of who is "British" he instinctively imagines all these British emigrants are white
Most went to more ethnically diverse countries (Australia, Canada, America + UAE) than the UK!
Because an increasingly ethnonationalist Goodwin has an ever narrow view of who is "British" he instinctively imagines all these British emigrants are white
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Labour face evisceration here in the UK. A centrist party cannot lurch so hard to the right without voters abandoning them. Their current course is electoral suicide, and it's possibly already too late.
The Danish Social Democrats suffering historic losses, including Copenhagen. Partly incumbency. Partly the strategic direction of deciding to signal tough approaches and not prioritise keeping liberal educated support in the capital from progressive challengers
cphpost.dk/2025-11-19/n...
cphpost.dk/2025-11-19/n...
Sune Steffen Hansen: "Voters are turning on the Social Democrats" - The Copenhagen Post
The Copenhagen Post’s political analyst Sune Steffen Hansen said Tuesday’s municipal and regional elections delivered a clearer message than many expected: voters are dissatisfied with the governing p...
cphpost.dk
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Labour face evisceration here in the UK. A centrist party cannot lurch so hard to the right without voters abandoning them. Their current course is electoral suicide, and it's possibly already too late.
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Very important for people to read this portion of the Epstein Files Transparency Act so you understand 1) why Mike Johnson was so upset today, and 2) what is NOT permitted to be redacted by the DOJ.
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Very important for people to read this portion of the Epstein Files Transparency Act so you understand 1) why Mike Johnson was so upset today, and 2) what is NOT permitted to be redacted by the DOJ.
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Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
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Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
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"Hey man, I know we just slammed a visa ban on you because you wouldn't take a couple of migrants back, but could you please cut us a special deal on rare earth trade and counter-terrorism intel-sharing"....
Have fun with that.
Have fun with that.
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"Hey man, I know we just slammed a visa ban on you because you wouldn't take a couple of migrants back, but could you please cut us a special deal on rare earth trade and counter-terrorism intel-sharing"....
Have fun with that.
Have fun with that.
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- Less council members = Centralized control of funding
- Super council = Consolidation of money from multiple places
- Farage would hold the purse strings
Don't be fooled, this was how Sunak did his thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegB...
- Super council = Consolidation of money from multiple places
- Farage would hold the purse strings
Don't be fooled, this was how Sunak did his thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegB...
Rishi Sunak: I took money from deprived urban areas
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
- Less council members = Centralized control of funding
- Super council = Consolidation of money from multiple places
- Farage would hold the purse strings
Don't be fooled, this was how Sunak did his thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegB...
- Super council = Consolidation of money from multiple places
- Farage would hold the purse strings
Don't be fooled, this was how Sunak did his thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegB...
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Next time you hear DOGE being mentioned, just realise that Reform UK up and down the country are hiring consultants on tax payer’s money.
Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC £325k for new 'super council' plans
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC £325k for new 'super council' plans
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Worcestershir pays PwC £325,000 for new 'super council' plans - BBC News
Consultants were asked to draw up proposals to merge the county's councils into one.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Next time you hear DOGE being mentioned, just realise that Reform UK up and down the country are hiring consultants on tax payer’s money.
Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC £325k for new 'super council' plans
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC £325k for new 'super council' plans
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
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Today Mike Johnson 1) railed against this bill 2) made up stuff about why this bill is bad 3) criticized the Dems and GOPers who forced a vote on this bill and 4) voted for this bill.
This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.
This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Today Mike Johnson 1) railed against this bill 2) made up stuff about why this bill is bad 3) criticized the Dems and GOPers who forced a vote on this bill and 4) voted for this bill.
This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.
This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.
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He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
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Steve is a well known investigate journalist for the Texas Observer, The Barbed Wire and other outlets. His signal info is on his bio to reach him for anyone who might want to reach out
A swatting incident that occurred last Thanksgiving, has been confirmed.
Read 👇🏼
A swatting incident that occurred last Thanksgiving, has been confirmed.
Read 👇🏼
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Steve is a well known investigate journalist for the Texas Observer, The Barbed Wire and other outlets. His signal info is on his bio to reach him for anyone who might want to reach out
A swatting incident that occurred last Thanksgiving, has been confirmed.
Read 👇🏼
A swatting incident that occurred last Thanksgiving, has been confirmed.
Read 👇🏼
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"Prague is safe now Dubs, we can send you back you know..."
- Mahmood, probably
- Mahmood, probably
“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Prague is safe now Dubs, we can send you back you know..."
- Mahmood, probably
- Mahmood, probably
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this is the correct framing
Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files
While the vote marks an important step in backers' crusade to get the files released, significant barriers remain.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
this is the correct framing
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Fact Check: President Trump DID Tell A Female Reporter 'Quiet, Piggy' When She Asked A Question About Epstein Files
Fact Check: President Trump DID Tell A Female Reporter 'Quiet, Piggy' When She Asked A Question About Epstein Files
Did President Trump say "Quiet, piggy" to a female reporter when she asked if there might be incriminating evidence about him in the Epstein files? Yes, that's true: Trump pointed at Bloomberg's White House correspondent Catherine Lucey and said "Quiet,...
leadstories.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Fact Check: President Trump DID Tell A Female Reporter 'Quiet, Piggy' When She Asked A Question About Epstein Files
I’ve been wondering whether there might be a bit of a bulge in interest only mortgage repossessions
The number has doubled, according to the 240 councils that provided comparable data - from 1,517 in 2022-23, to 2,370 in 2023-24
It was 3,406 in the most recent year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The number has doubled, according to the 240 councils that provided comparable data - from 1,517 in 2022-23, to 2,370 in 2023-24
It was 3,406 in the most recent year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seeking council help amid home repossession fears double
Homeowners facing repossession homelessness doubles in three years, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I’ve been wondering whether there might be a bit of a bulge in interest only mortgage repossessions
The number has doubled, according to the 240 councils that provided comparable data - from 1,517 in 2022-23, to 2,370 in 2023-24
It was 3,406 in the most recent year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The number has doubled, according to the 240 councils that provided comparable data - from 1,517 in 2022-23, to 2,370 in 2023-24
It was 3,406 in the most recent year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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