After 31 years at Bromford I’ve decided to extend indefinitely my gap year in Bordeaux so I live here now. It’s wonderful.
Bordeaux, France
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Refreshing to hear a sensible balanced view from a serious businessman about the budget on @BBCr4today. @johnrobertsAO says Dyson is talking nonsense. Already a fan of @ao. Now see why.
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Excellent thread. I was a JP for over fifteen years, the contrast between the early 2000s, with a resourced and respected Probation service, and the impact of austerity, an obsession with punishment and, well, Chris Grayling, was both stark and grim.
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Congratulations to @JamesTCobbler on appointment as Prisons Minister. An inspired choice that will deliver real change to our broken prisons system. Bravo!
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Save The Electric, The Crown and Station Street from demolition. Tell @BhamCityCouncil @andy4wm our cultural history is not for erasure.
Designate Birmingham's Old Station Street a Historic, Cultural and Civic Asset - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6YXBmmY4My via @UKChange
This little animated video should be being very widely shared.
"things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" (W.B. Yeats, 1919)
Here is @MargaretAtwood explaining the perils we face from dictatorships & chaos
#Resist
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EN DIRECT | Conférence de presse du Président @EmmanuelMacron à l'issue du Conseil européen. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1ynJOyeEB…
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For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.
I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).
Enough is enough. No Prime Minister should be able to appoint anyone they like to the major offices of state, simply by making them a Lord. Sign @electoralreform's call now to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. ers.tools/house-of-lords&utm…
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.@GreenJennyJones calling govt liars and "systemically corrupt" in Lords just now.
"It's relevant that housing developers have put £60 million into Tory party coffers over the last 10 years.
This policy is the payback by the prime minister for that investment.
Because these donations which account for around a fifth of Tory party funding had dried up earlier this year....they refused to give more until the government gave a big boost to their share price and dividend payments."
Go Jenny 💪🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The government objected to @GreenJennyJones calling them liars for ripping up environmental protections they promised to keep, but had no problem with her calling them "systematically corrupt". Jenny outlines how Tory Party donations = policy change = pollution = share rise.
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"If Rishi Sunak is serious about restoring faith in politics, he should start here "
@campbellclaret @jamesrbuk front page about Michelle Mone @TheNewEuropean
Your thoughts?
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Hello friends- we're XYZ Projects, a trans+ film collective based in Birmingham, UK. We're making a GP training film on access to gender affirming healthcare in the UK, to be circulated throughout NHS Trusts in 2024.
Please share, and support if you can!
igg.me/p/2844363/twtr/346192…
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Balsall Heath! Surrealism! Stewart Lee! And @ruth_millington! No idea why people keep recommending this programme to us 🧐 Airs at 11:30 this morning on #Radio4, and on BBC Sounds thereafter bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p6r…
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Obscene. What he brands Russophobia is in fact solidarity with a democratic state fighting imperialism. It's a national humiliation that this man was allowed into the Lords and to own a British newspaper.
The hilariously miscalculated closure of @Nigel_Farage’s account tells a wider story: one of corporate virtue signalling which, since last February, has weaponised Russophobia for the sake of moral posturing.
This men’s loo in my hotel in Lisbon somehow just made me think of @BorisJWorrall 🤣
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not a country governed by the rule of law. Could the PM and the Home Sec care to comment on this or are they too busy pretending to give a damn where Farage banks? 2/2
Things to love or hate about French bureaucracy: the law specifies the dates when shops can hold end of season sales. 🤷🏻♀️
#Soldes | 👜 La fin des soldes est repoussée d'une semaine, du 25 juillet au 1er août pour les départements métropolitains.
🗓️Des dates spécifiques s’appliquent dans certains départements.
Retrouvez le calendrier des soldes d’été
👉swll.to/zFmG3
ALT SOLDES ÉTÉ 2023 Retrouvez le calendrier des soldes d'été, selon votre lieu d'habitation.
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BREAKING
Public Accounts Comm report today on MICHELE MONE & PPE Medpro.
- National Crime Agency & House Of Lords investigations ongoing
- DHSC suing Medpro for £120m+ for unusable PPE through VIP Lane
-High Court ruled VIP lane was unlawful
-Gov PPE contracts £9 billion written off, inc £4 billion that can't be used.
NOTE: all of this is added to Tory claims they're spending more on NHS
Don't forget c£37bn in addition on Test & Trace 😡😡😡
My daughter’s film project. Please share esp with health professionals to help publicise the film as well as raise funds. Thank you. Fundraiser by XYZ Project : UK Trans Healthcare Training Film gofund.me/f13c0ad7
