I would love to not have to hear the word U-turn for the rest of 2026. There are things I'd like them to change or even reverse - but U-turn headlines make me feel like I'm reading The Sun. The article was full of more as well.

Aside from illegally making her stateless in the first place and ignoring trafficking, if we don't take her back and instead leave her as Syria's problem, why should any country accept back convicted criminals that we want to deport? (Personally find her "security threat' laughable.)

I'd like to see HMRC-agreed stats on what tax rate people actually pay in practice. What if you get a pay rise and can afford to put it into pension or other legal tax-avoiding investment etc? How many higher rate base salary people actually pay it? Or all of it? It would be useful to know

IIRC when the first girls from her school disappeared the school warned parents about the danger by sending home paper letters. Via the students. Who were already vulnerable and also being groomed.

Fyi your two links are broken, first (profile) goes nowhere, second gets a 404 error

youtu.be/A51hVHBiAok?...

Lol, the cartoon has been labelled as explicit adult sexual content by Bluesky. I'm glad they have functioning filtering so I can't complain, but the thought of this Guardian cartoon being considered sexual makes me queasy 😂

Eeeek! Where has the time gone....

"and implored Substack's leadership to stop giving bigotry a platform.[69] In response, Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie said the company would continue to allow the publication of extremist views because attempting to censor them would make the problem worse.[70][71]

Except that bloggers often blogged from their own independent website...
"Substack faced further criticism in November 2023 for allowing its platform to be used by white nationalists, Nazis, and antisemites.[67] In an open letter, more than 100 Substack creators threatened to leave

On a good note, I can't read the article as the JP website is overwhelmed with people trying to read it

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Missing all my teenage New Wave which I'll have to work on, but Fleetwood Mac, Ballad of John and Yoko, Pulp, Aretha and Eminem must be nudging her numbers

Ah ha ha ha ha my 21yo just got 44 🤣 My work is done 💪

I was mystified by my 35 (I'm 61) until I remembered that my 21yo uses my phone when we're in the car since she can't charge hers and plug into aux at the same time. Turns out I don't even revognise some of the names on "my" list.
(But Pulp is all mine!)

My 21yo daughter uses my phone to connect to the radio when we're in the car. Apparently I'm 35. My list is .. inconsistent.

It would be so helpful if you could RT my post above about last🌲orders for my casts of real flowers & tiny bird jewellery in my etsy shop. The algorithm isn't so kind to small businesses here & a RT will help me put my Etsy shop in front of more eyes. I'd appreciate it so much, thankyou 🌿

35 (actually 61). When I looked at the songs realised it's mainly my 21yo connecting my phone to the radio on car journeys so she can charge hers (bloody iPhones...) Apart from Pulp. They're all mine.

This is one of my favourite SciComm moments of BlueSky. A masterclass in making a message suit the medium.
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