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lynne2024.bsky.social
Lancashire-raised, Lincolnshire-domiciled; retired OU-er; mother & grandmother; fond of semicolons. bld2013 on Twitter - for now. 'No pets, just a computer'
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Also, asking homeowners for permission would kill the burglary industry.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Cheap, ignorant soundbite from Jenkyns - as several commenters have pointed out, even if Lincolnshire had those officers, it wouldn't be in the mayor's power to sack them.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Britain, a trading nation, now has a vital choice to make about its priority trading partners: - the EU, where agreements are made, kept, reciprocal, based on international norms, & enforced by a court - the USA, where agreements are made, broken, changed & broken again at a whim, with no recourse

submitted 42 days ago • 125 comments

Some interesting points here.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Misleading headline from the BBC, as it's only *personal* imports that have been banned. It does scupper our plans to bring back some interesting Dutch cheese from holiday next month, though! (Not sure how a cheese butty can spread foot & mouth?) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Important question, but thin answer. As ever, no consideration of how the proposed alternatives might work in the context of distance education. HE providers like the Open University can't, for example, turn lectures into seminars for assessment purposes. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/shoul...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

That's a really useful analogy.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Blocking MPs from voting on a US trade deal would be straight out of Trump's anti-democratic playbook. Labour MPs should make clear to the PM they won't let him sell out our NHS, undercut farmers or weaken protection for children online. He must give Parliament a vote.

submitted 45 days ago • 41 comments

As someone with pretentions of being an essayist, I hope the essay is not dead. A good essay is a test - assay - not of what you know, but of what you think. It should show how well you understand a topic or subject. And a good essay should not contain stale phrases like "well and truly".

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 51 days ago • 43 comments

Gruesome, hilarious, grateful, angry... I remember some of it - perhaps from the 10th anniversary? - but was glad to read it all again.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Worth signing if you support Scottish independence. petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Useful outline of why a blanket wealth tax might not work & suggestions for alternative ways to tax the wealthy. Taxing wealth is better than a wealth tax eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

submitted 58 days ago • 199 comments

The full verdict is now in and it is HUGE 🇫🇷 Le Pen and co-defendants all guilty 🇫🇷 All banned from holding public office 🇫🇷 Ban takes effect immediately - in other words she cannot remain in politics while she spins out the appeals process 🇫🇷 She can, however, appeal to the Conseil Constitutionnel

submitted 60 days ago • 58 comments

Britain's 177 billionaires sit on £965 bn - more EACH than the average Brit will earn in 1000 lifetimes. So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 65 days ago • 46 comments

This headline is misleading. Reeves has not been "forced" to find an additional £1.6 billion in cuts to benefits. She has CHOSEN to impose more cuts on benefits because she refuses to raise taxes on the wealthiest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 65 days ago • 22 comments

Anyways...

submitted 72 days ago • 197 comments

I'm sure no one is thinking of going to the US for a convention, a conference or research but just in case you were...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Canada and Greenland have their own MAGA movement now Make America Go Away

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

History repeats itself

submitted 77 days ago • 248 comments

This needs to be more widely recognized. From bed-blocking to medical conditions worsening through neglect, it seems so obvious that social care issues impact the NHS.

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submitted 81 days ago • 154 comments

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

submitted 80 days ago • 32 comments