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Ex-PR person, hates Tories, loves Roman history, astronomy pics, cats, classic rock and punk, reads a lot, drinks real ale (CAMRA member) and whisky.
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The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

submitted 28 days ago • 165 comments

Why we need the BBC and other UK #publicservicebroadcasters. They tell us the stories of ourselves.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

In Our Time is everything the BBC should be about, and the archive of shows is amazing.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments

Stunning!

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

🔴‘Litany of Failures’ Exposed by Damning Report Revealing Huge Scale of Conservative Prisons Crisis Inherited by Keir Starmer Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered, reports @davidhencke.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/12/04/l...

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

submitted 99 days ago • 50 comments

Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam. Hilarious to watch him squirm.

submitted 99 days ago • 751 comments

A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss. She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’ Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 100 days ago • 353 comments

Jeremy Clarkson is turning up to the protest tomorrow. A reminder that he bought his 312-acre farm in 2012 for £4.25million in HIS OWN WORDS so that he: *would not be required pay death duties on the land*

submitted 100 days ago • 80 comments

Absolutely stunning.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

A Facebook post falsely claims Serco has been instructed to “secure all” empty rental properties across the UK to house “illegal immigrants”. Serco only manages asylum accommodation in certain areas of the UK and says it does not use empty homes.

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

Labour‘s proposed re-imposition of half the standard rate of inheritance tax on larger farms will affect as few as 100 farm sales per year, according to leading British tax expert @danneidle.bsky.social.

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Left: Laura Kuenssberg suggests that Dominic Raab left parliament of his own volition Right: Dominic Raab was forced to resign after being found guilty of bullying Why is an MP who resigned because he was found guilty of bullying, on a flagship Sunday morning news chat show?

submitted 101 days ago • 196 comments

Absolutely 💯

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

submitted 105 days ago • 539 comments

The fluoride conspiracy theory is one of the oldest in the book - 20th century wise that is. Anyone who buys into that stuff is a total crank.

submitted 106 days ago • 22 comments