lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
Yes, and both Justin and Martyn have had miraculous conversions. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
Yes, and both Justin and Martyn have had miraculous conversions. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Surely not Mia? She didn’t have anything to do with cricket and she doesn’t live in Ambridge any more. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
He made it clear that he didn’t fancy Hannah. But I don’t think we have heard anything about her since. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Elizabeth doesn’t want him moving in. Or to live with him in the village. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Adam owns 3 shares.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t. He may have given away shares for tax purposes. But he’s kept a good chunk. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely. He was #KarateGuy before he acquired a name. And Henry hit Keira. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
And Miranda isn’t Jenny. She’s not interested in the farm. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Usha was mugged, wasn’t she? And Alan told her not to go out at night. And the next time he went with her. But that was long ago and not mentioned recently. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Do we include Economics?
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@darrenpjones.bsky.social
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Darren Jones Human Biosciences
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Lucy Powell, Chemistry @lucympowell.bsky.social
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
An invite for him too please.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Peter Kyle, Human Geography, International Development and Environmental Studies
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone send him an invite!
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Lord Vallance.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, of course, Sir Patrick Vallance is a minister now.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
#NHS #CovidAndFluVaccines For those eligible. The App is open now for appointments starting on the 1st October.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
It was 2 years ago in July that Chelsea and George both left College. Neither of them into full time jobs. Neither of them with prospects. I would say that Borchester College failed them both. Perhaps only focusing its efforts into those who were going to university? #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
He’d be much worse.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
@think-katrina.bsky.social I don’t love Amsterdam
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
I don’t love Amsterdam
No talk about the fact that immigration is a tiny issue that actually Asylum Seekers make up less than 0.1% of the population and the GDP. And that by going on endlessly about a tiny, tiny issue we are instead missing all the large ones. And this works great for Nigel Farage.
All that happens when you go on about immigration is you make it a bigger and bigger issue, and the truth is irrelevant here. Even if all the Asylum Seekers disappeared overnight they wouldn't stop screaming about it, because they don't care about reality.
Bessent on sanctions against Russia: "All options are on the table, and I think we’ll be examining them very closely this week." We keep hearing about “this week,” “two weeks,” or “50 days,” but as one deadline expires after another, nothing ever happens.
Far Right influencers are telling people not to pay their Council Tax. If you don't pay your Council Tax you get fined. If you still don't pay you get evicted. Then your house can be sold and the Council Tax/Fines taken from there. If you rent you will be blacklisted.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
😱😡😱😡😱
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social)
Which of their ministers has a science degree?
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Opinion: The insistence on absurd and public flattery for the leader is a hallmark of authoritarianism. on.ft.com/4mJy69K
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
#BoycottNestles
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He couldn’t persuade any of the others to do it.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
#BoycottNestle Horrible chocolate anyway.
and aggressive marketing practices of infant formula that discouraged breastfeeding in developing countries. These issues have led to lawsuits, boycotts, and widespread criticism from human rights organizations and the public
Nestlé has faced significant criticism and controversy regarding the exploitation of labor and environmental damage, particularly concerning child labor in the cocoa industry
#Nestle, the company that still operates in Russia, helping to fund the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, supports Genocide in Palestine, one of the most evil companies on the planet.
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🤣
Nigel Farage is sat in the pub with his mates, some new people walk in. His mates, "Get those immigrants out of here!" Nigel Farage, "Oi that's my ex wives, kids and girlfriend!"
It will just be, why didn't you deport all the immigrants, why didn't you shoot all the immigrants, and so on.
They don't realise that facts are irrelevant and that this will only make things worse, not better.
Correct link for the excellent and interesting campaign call on Monday 8 September is bit.ly/ccseptsw #covidactionuk
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Depends how desperate we were for workers. No Johnnie, no George, no Adam. And Clarrie isn’t coming back. Now we only need Anja to give in her notice. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Shouldn’t Borchester College have helped her to find a job? It’s quite likely that there is a salon at GG run by someone posher and more experienced. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
IRob was still alive, the Grundys plus Henry went to a show where Henry had arranged to meet Rob, and that was the very day when their results should have come out, and no one even mentioned them. Which was odd, when Em was there, talking with George about Rob etc #TheArchers #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
She left college some time ago. Same time as George. Their BTec results weren’t mentioned. Obviously didn’t manage to get a job in a salon. So still doing part time jobs at LL and the tea room, and only seems to be doing hair for local people she already knows. #TheArchers
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think she even knows when she’s lying. But Jenrick?
She is delusional like Trump/Truss/Farage. Where do these people come from?
Respectfully: no they don't. There are plenty of honest politicians. One of the distressing things about cases like these (and others, such as Johnson's many lies as prime minister) is that it creates a narrative of all politicians being liars.
Not the first Tory leader to employ a "terminological inexactitude" concerning their academic history.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Has the boy come forward?
It boggles my mind that her story of her arrival into the UK is essentially that she hated British society and the people she met. Normally, politicians would keep that animus as motivation secret. Deeply weird.
There was once a time when this would have been front page news. The worry for the Tory Party is that no-one actually cares any more about them or her.
No one cares about her A levels We shouldn’t care if she was offered a place at an American university We should all care that she is lying about this She wants to be PM and she is lying to big herself up She hacked into Harriet Harman’s computer Breaks laws and lies Not fit for anything
No one is offered med school admission in the US prior to completion of an undergraduate degree. A school doing so would threaten its own accreditation. Why I might know: On Friday finished teaching the 1st course taken by entering medical students at one of the best medical schools in the US.
This is the end of Kemi, not with a bang, but a whimper about a fake offer. Probably not now, but it will haunt her with repeated questions. And when she thinks it's gone, it won't be.
What a weird thing to choose to lie about … No one would care that it didn’t t happen if she hadn’t said anything.
This is a wonderfully detailed bit of reporting. On the other hand, Kemi Badenoch is adamant that Kemi Badenoch never commits gaffes…
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
Too little, too late
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Busy collecting $$$$ from his idiot supporters who think they can buy his way to heaven.
"Two weeks" - Trump speak for not gonna happen. Weve been waiting for his health and infrastructure plans for eight years. And two weeks.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Should. Yvette Cooper is being an idiot. And it won’t be any use for the government.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn’t like it. I wonder how many Katrinas there are? I remember Gail who was born during our Great Storm. I wondered if she liked her name. She’ll be 38 in October.
Stormy McStormFace
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Glad your local news is still reliable
While America focuses on destabilizing its own partners in pointless tariff wars, China uses the moment to present itself as a stable, reliable alternative, a new center of power that won’t judge even dictators or invaders.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
They are definitely making them stricter. Trying to appease Farage etc Silly cowardly idiots.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
But Vlad got the red carpet treatment.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
😡😡😡 But at least Farage is not supporting Yaxley Lennon. Or is he?
Nigel Farage has more TV time than any other politician with the exception of Keir Starmer, though some weeks he has more than him as well. You are being relentlessly forced every day by the Media to listen to a biased racist narrative that 80% of the UK do not agree with.
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Are they supposed to recruit more psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses? I wonder where from?
Rising fees, shabby spaces, extra charges and high staff turnover, with six in ten considering leaving the sector altogether. This is inefficient and unfit for the future. We CAN imagine better.
We spend less than a third of Sweden’s budget for affordable, widely available childcare. Investing 2% of GDP in care would create twice as many jobs as the same investment in construction. @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social And care jobs = green jobs!! 💚
Today’s increase in term-time childcare hours won’t succeed without more focus on overburdened, underpaid workers. Govt must fund it properly, not just pass the cost to suppliers. I have set out a real vision for universal free childcare with Mandu Reid: www.sianberry.org.uk/publications...
Imagine being so ‘patriotic’ you spend your Saturday vandalising roundabouts like Temu Banksy. NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.
A “British Bill of Rights” sounds patriotic. But as The Bear says, rights that can be rewritten by whichever grievance-peddler is in power aren’t rights at all – they’re privileges.
My main issue with the debate around ECHR is that no one advocating for it seems willing to accept that the past decade of politics has shown us that withdrawing from organisations/treaties/institutions always has more unintended consequences than intended, usually negative.
The madness of King Donald: part two Dishonest and selfish people often achieve power with popular support. Politicians of principle still exist, and often suffer persecution westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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The term of ‘illegal migrant’ has been nurtured and the media repeat it as fact. It’s designed to whip up hate & dehumanise - there needs to be a pushback Seeking asylum is legal & has been for 74 years, since the UK signed the UN Convention on Asylum Seekers in 1951 @northeastbylines.co.uk
UK politicians and media have stirred up so much hatred. Time to say: NO. Time to reclaim British values of fairness, tolerance and compassion
Has Ms Cooper anything to say about the vile racist attack and assault by two poisonous Geriatrics on an NHS Worker in a park in Halifax? Anything condemning that? Anything at all? Or are they now fully engaged in a 'Who can be the biggest Facists' comp with the fag ash fuhrer and the Tories? 🤨🤷♀️
Quite apart from the fact that Farage has never once given a shit whether something is valid/credible, the "controversies" you're talking about here are innocent vulnerable families who will be torn apart just for the sake of political theatre. It's ghoulish to see that and go "Hmm, yes, sensible".
How exactly? By giving him everything he wants? If you try and position yourself as an ersatz populist you will always lose out to the genuine article.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Starmer and Cooper are cowards. Letting Farage set the agenda. Not what we voted for!
Not half as much as she is. Perhaps we should ask her about Brexit? She was very strongly against, I think (like the rest of 'em), but now in favour? Maybe I dreamed that?
The Trussification of the Labour Party
I'm confused too, I was told that the reforms were meant to bring Britain more closely aligned to the rules across Europe. You can argue that we should strive to be better but I guess the thinking behind it is to make us less attractive to asylum seekers🤷♂️
It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.
In Kharkiv, children began the school year in underground classrooms. Windowless shelters built for survival. No child should ever have to attend such a school, but we have no choice.
🔥 The Conservative Party’s push for more North Sea oil drilling is a reckless gift to fossil fuel giants. Meanwhile, drought-striken British farmers face the worst harvest in 40 years and communities reel from Europe’s worst wildfire season on record. Our full reaction ⬇
They are all sailing to Gaza in more than 50 ships and Greta Thunberg is among them. Israel is the only terrorist. Break the Genocide.
A National Day of Moroning. No change there.
Then they can explain the party hats and streamers, we're dancing with grief?
88% of sex offenders in the UK are White, only 82% of the population is White. If you are blaming only non-White people for Sex Crimes then you are not only ignoring the majority of offenders but also the most likely group to commit them.
This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:
At a briefing held by Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the russian army, a map was behind him that showed the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions as part of russia. Russia does not want peace. They are planning to continue their conquest.
lila7.bsky.social (@lila7.bsky.social) reply parent
Are they dirt poor?