His dad who was Finance Director at the English Electric Cooker Company and Managing Director of Cannon Industries? His dad, whose startup company went on to turnover millions and who privately educated his son?

One of my favorite Tik Tokers is Stephen Spencer. He is a VERY talented musician & producer who writes songs with lyrics from his 3 year old daughter. It’s classic yacht rock vibes w/the funniest sweetest lyrics. Regular Rabbit is about a bunny named Pippa Tory Fripp. I adore his work.

Always always take these people down to specifics. That's where they consistently fall apart.

The fundamental question is simple to answer Yusuf - pick a characteristic say if it'll be scrapped and why. We can see your evasion Goodwin wants to penalise women who can't or don't want to have kids, the "Handmaid's tale" controversy, then you won't be protecting sex and or reproductive rights.

Man who says he wants to represent the interests of the average working person… paid by people who would profit more from less labour market regulation…the same legislation that protects the average working person from unfair employment practices. These are wolves poorly pretending to be sheep

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

Victoria Derbyshire allowing Zia Yusuf to tie himself in absolute knots by asking him simple questions about Reform policy. A masterclass in quality journalism.

I haven't done a Highland cow hat for a while, so it was lovely knitting one- Here is its progress so far 🐂 #coosday #Highlandcow #highlandcoo #knitinprogress #wip #knitted #knitter #coo #knitting #bsnm

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Beautiful mural in Glasgow, one of many, but this is my favourite 😍 #mural #city #streetphotography #Scotland #fyp

Goodnight from Colorado 💙 💤 (Photo taken this morning.) #sky #clouds #sunrise #photography

Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy? Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT? Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.

A quick reminder that this Friday, Saturday and Sunday is Rhubarb Festival time in Wakefield. Celebrate the area’s most distinctive food and drink tradition: the forced rhubarb grown in the historic Rhubarb Triangle. #Wakefield @wflibraries.bsky.social experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/rhubar...

Jasmine Crockett: “Other countries have CEOs that are stepping down & princes that are being indicted — in the United States, crickets. Nothing is happening — we have a president that says that the Epstein files are a hoax because his name is in there more times than I can count”

Decided to crochet one of my best friends a scarf! He’s a Spider-man fanatic so I chose these colors #crochet #fiberarts #scarf #Crochet #striped #Spiderman #crafts #diy #friends #projects #yarn #Craftiverse

Other side of the pier. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California #SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach

You've appointed Tories to your top team. Why should people believe your party is any different? Farage: "These were two people who were ministers, but frankly weren't ministers for very long". Suella Braverman was a minister for over 4 years. Robert Jenrick was a minister for almost 5 years.

This evening at the beach

Still can’t even get all democrats on board to impeach Secretary Noem. Congress needs to stop this. That’s their job.

If you have a Royal Family, you have deference. If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system. If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power." Why would anyone want that at all?

"96 cases in just a few weeks is huge when we know it can be zero or close to zero. There mustn’t be any shrugging of shoulders, or acceptance of these outbreaks. We know that they are avoidable because we did avoid them – for years, and not long ago." #Measles #Vaccination

The very normal sight of a Giant Sequoia slowly swaying in the wind in a British churchyard There are estimated to be half a million Giant Redwood in Britain, and nearly all are about 170 years old

Worst take ever in The Guardian: Gisèle Pelicot should not have done interviews because it'll give men ideas. They'll be 'in thrall'. The idea that they'll be getting ideas as if men who wish to do such things have not got ideas already is another quite bizarre moment of victim blaming.

On this day in 2020 - just before the world went crazy for a while - I experienced the wildest storm and incredible waves at Reynisfjara beach. This is one of my favourites from that day. Just booked a last-minute trip to go back to #Iceland next weekend, so I'm sure I'll get some stormy weather...

Spores Holly fern spores are taking the stage. #stunday #bnw #ferns #hollyfern #photography #nature #eastcoastkin #bnwmacro

Brief bright sunshine followed by prolonged torrential rain has been the pattern all day! Crazy weather!!

Outstanding quote from Casement.

Nearly 6pm and kind of light 😍

It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

The joy of breakfast out on the first day of half term.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.” No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder. Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.

Rather than forcing children into school for more time during the hottest months of the year, why aren't we talking about the "bizarre" inflexibility of most full-time (non-teaching) jobs, which make them incompatible with raising a family? share.google/2qPa4aOntFBV...

Obama: "The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous ... the sort of behavior that we've seen in authoritarian countries and we've seen in dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."

John Smith Thorpe & his three sons - William, Thomas and John, with their oak tree guardian from a few years ago All died between 1865 & 1874, the boys likely of typhoid Buried at Nottingham General Cemetery

It makes more sense when you accept that what they mean is it doesn't make you white.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

I love this Artist: Jolene Thompson 🧶 #knit #knitsky

Daily sketch 🪾🔵🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? Have a peaceful day 🩵 #art #artsky #ink #sketch

It's quite obvious that criminal damage and terrorist activity are entirely different things. It's yet another move of this increasingly authoritarian Labour Government to try and conflate the two.

Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag about who they are. Zia Yusuf lecturing that poverty and peoples everyday struggles with rising bills and rent is exaggerated. A party of the failed status quo, funded and representing big corporate interests.

Here's that Ofsted slide on toilet training. Look at how far removed it is from the complex emotional, physical, physiological and psychological process IRL. This is what happens when you try to atomise learning into 'knowledge items'. Ofsted clearly never experienced a child weeing on their lap. 😂🤷‍♀️

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Chickens. They’re such funny little creatures to paint. #watercolor #sketchbook #traditionalart

Not one single Sunday front page showcasing our PMs speech yesterday. Not one.