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Tyneside based, retired IT person, dog lover, local history, NUFC, North Shields FC, Durham Cricket etc.
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Backbench MPs criticise the optics of potentially slashing the tax bill paid by global tech firms like Google, Meta, and Amazon, at the same as cutting the welfare bill by billions of pounds. One says the move would look "absolutely horrific" news.sky.com/story/labour...

submitted 16 days ago • 98 comments

#shitbirdphotos @wulfhelm.bsky.social Pheasant at Seaton Delaval

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I am very pleased to announce that I have been appointed as a Trustee of Beamish Museum. As the North East’s most visited attraction, and one of the UK’s top paid-for museums, it plays a crucial role in the region’s cultural and economic landscape. www.beamish.org.uk/news/new-boa...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

@lukeed.bsky.social Young trainee journalists used to be told to "avoid first-person pieces," writing about themselves. Latterly, they are told: "You are not the story". But this morning, Luke Edwards deserves huge credit for writing a brilliant first-person piece. #NUFC archive.ph/HPrJQ

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A happy man #nufc

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".

submitted 38 days ago • 254 comments

A fact overlooked by many. This isn't entirely American aid out of goodwill. We made an agreement to defend Ukraine in exchange for them giving away their nuclear deterrent. And we're not keeping our word.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Proper FACTS from LEGITIMATE SOURCES. Please watch & share.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Aaaand… here’s what you COULD have won!

submitted 52 days ago • 58 comments

Tuberculosis is spreading in Kansas. #Measles outbreak in the unvaccinated in Texas. Bird #flu increasingly in animals and people. Worst respiratory flu outbreaks nationwide since 2008. And #RFKJr is somehow seriously being considered to run the nation's #health systems??? Republican insanity.

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

www.theguardian.com/football/202... Total Bruno: the boundless skill and the base-metal skulduggery. #NUFC

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Total Bruno sucks Arsenal into turf war and leaves them beaten and bruised Total Bruno: the boundless skill and the base-metal skulduggery. #NUFC

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

submitted 88 days ago • 74 comments

To anyone who follows me, happy new year, hope it’s a good one. Despite all the possible evidence to the contrary.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

submitted 114 days ago • 101 comments