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This is the ending this story deserves.
Magnificent, no notes. All that trouble to organise a referendum when you could just make a planning objection instead. Always a little newt can be found when you need to block something.
Magnificent, no notes. All that trouble to organise a referendum when you could just make a planning objection instead. Always a little newt can be found when you need to block something.
September 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is the ending this story deserves.
Magnificent, no notes. All that trouble to organise a referendum when you could just make a planning objection instead. Always a little newt can be found when you need to block something.
Magnificent, no notes. All that trouble to organise a referendum when you could just make a planning objection instead. Always a little newt can be found when you need to block something.
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In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:37 AM
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Help! Is this a petunia or a weed? It appeared from nowhere under one of my trees. #ukgardening #ukgarden #ukgardeningchat
July 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Help! Is this a petunia or a weed? It appeared from nowhere under one of my trees. #ukgardening #ukgarden #ukgardeningchat
July 29, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Not keen on this. My parents were not overly enthusiastic initially about me going to university. If this had been in place, I would have been STRONGLY discouraged from going to university. And university was the making of me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some parents on benefits to get up to £4,500 if children take on apprenticeships
Some parents on benefits lose income if their children take on apprenticeships.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 28, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Not keen on this. My parents were not overly enthusiastic initially about me going to university. If this had been in place, I would have been STRONGLY discouraged from going to university. And university was the making of me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
July 29, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
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The winning design. 🇪🇺💶
July 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The winning design. 🇪🇺💶
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Devils advocate: It’s possible to flip that rhetoric and charicature now as:
- endless retrieval
- centralised (crap) lesson planning
- high non-attendance
- turnover at fastest rates
Whereas in 00s teachers had autonomy to meet every child’s needs via a range of methods based on judgement.
- endless retrieval
- centralised (crap) lesson planning
- high non-attendance
- turnover at fastest rates
Whereas in 00s teachers had autonomy to meet every child’s needs via a range of methods based on judgement.
July 9, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Devils advocate: It’s possible to flip that rhetoric and charicature now as:
- endless retrieval
- centralised (crap) lesson planning
- high non-attendance
- turnover at fastest rates
Whereas in 00s teachers had autonomy to meet every child’s needs via a range of methods based on judgement.
- endless retrieval
- centralised (crap) lesson planning
- high non-attendance
- turnover at fastest rates
Whereas in 00s teachers had autonomy to meet every child’s needs via a range of methods based on judgement.
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[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs
July 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs
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Maybe, instead of bull-headedly framing it as a children’s issue, governments should hold tech & social media companies for the content they host, and make social media less toxic for *all of us*.
May 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Maybe, instead of bull-headedly framing it as a children’s issue, governments should hold tech & social media companies for the content they host, and make social media less toxic for *all of us*.
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#RecipeOfTheDay is a no-bake Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart which is coolly manageable even in this crazily hot weather! www.nigella.com/recipes/doub...
Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart
While I believe most emphatically that one should never cook to impress, but rather to delight, the fact remains that this is undeniably a high-impact dessert and, at the same gratifying time, an enco...
www.nigella.com
May 25, 2026 at 9:05 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is a no-bake Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart which is coolly manageable even in this crazily hot weather! www.nigella.com/recipes/doub...
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I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party
May 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party
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Jeez. Is there a separate list for women, or is this really it?
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Political Peerages May 2026
The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:
www.gov.uk
May 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Jeez. Is there a separate list for women, or is this really it?
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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oh is Starmer banging on about steel again
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
oh is Starmer banging on about steel again
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There was once an idea that it was a good thing for people, regardless of social background, to study the arts and humanities because those fields address what it is to be human.
That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.
That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.
May 7, 2026 at 6:04 AM
There was once an idea that it was a good thing for people, regardless of social background, to study the arts and humanities because those fields address what it is to be human.
That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.
That idea was always under pressure, but to see its near destruction in recent years has been depressing.
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A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
March 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM
A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
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it is vitally important that european space agencies come together as one and put a windmill on it first
March 25, 2026 at 9:09 PM
it is vitally important that european space agencies come together as one and put a windmill on it first
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🧵The more I think about this the more angry I get. The government should step in. They say they are serious about tackling violence against women and girls and a book about this exact topic and the ideology behind it means a librarian is harassed out of her job. Boys have a right to be educated…
Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again.
The fate of the books remains to be seen.
@indexoncensorship.org
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
The fate of the books remains to be seen.
@indexoncensorship.org
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
www.indexoncensorship.org
March 22, 2026 at 7:40 AM
🧵The more I think about this the more angry I get. The government should step in. They say they are serious about tackling violence against women and girls and a book about this exact topic and the ideology behind it means a librarian is harassed out of her job. Boys have a right to be educated…
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I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.
March 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.
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europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
March 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
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I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this -
when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing
when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing
February 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this -
when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing
when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing
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Like many animals that hibernate, bumblebees must reach a certain weight to survive the winter 💪
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Like many animals that hibernate, bumblebees must reach a certain weight to survive the winter 💪
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷
Buff-tailed bumblebee queens, the largest in the UK, must weigh at least 0.6g – roughly the same as a grain of rice – but they can reach as much as 0.85g – less than a paperclip 🧷