What makes us unique is what makes us special. A lesson to all of us from Wicked: For Good. 💚🩷 #LondonNYEFireworks #WickedForGood

My fav part of London's New Year's Eve 2026 celebration was the scene with The Lionesses 👏 Followed by: This Is England "Caribbean barbers with the sharpest trims Christian neighbours saying happy Hannukah mate And Muslim mums saying merry Christmas love" "England is about loving each other"

Wishing you all a happy and peaceful New Year, a 2026 full of joy and friendship, and a great global improvement on 2025 ☺️

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Bravo to this pub Free speech does not mean free of consequences 👏

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Olive decided to eat an unknown quantity of Christmas ribbon, without telling us until 2 days later 😢 Poor girl has been quite constipated for 2 days, but the good news is she has finally passed some of it. Hopefully the rest will follow, and no more vet trips needed 🤞

This stark warning from a senior British army General could hardly be more serious👇 MPs: please listen to him and then add your name to this Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing. Because the public deserves to know. www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar... #NEB2025

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Mali, Burkina Faso ban US citizens in response to Trump travel bans aje.io/6z9oit

It's a crisp and frosty New Year's Eve. Time to say goodbye to the old year and look forward with hope 💙 #RiverTawe #Swansea

How have I never seen The Cockfields until this Xmas special? I mean, I’m VERY picky about sitcoms, but Sue Johnston isn’t going to be in anything awful, is she?

🎥 #ClimateChange Myth Buster #video (part2) Watch▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw5s... PL RP🩷💚💙 @laurelblu.bsky.social @annegolden.bsky.social @justkris2.bsky.social @thomfromla.bsky.social @bonniekork.bsky.social @w-t-kale.bsky.social @palehorse.bsky.social @roddsdad.bsky.social #ClimateAction

Make 2026 the year we wake up and fight climate change!🌎

'You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government' 92 year old Betty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office IT scandal, told #BBCBreakfast she was 'very honoured, but angry' about being made an OBE in the New Year Honours

Chlorinated chicken? Well well well... Left: my book Slaying Brexit Unicorns, published in October 2019. Right: Telegraph headline, a few days ago. Don't say we didn't know. It was always going to be thus. (Link to my book below, just in case you're curious...) www.amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brex...

If surveys didn’t ask this question, and media didn’t report on it, would many ordinary people living ordinary lives even think about this, ever? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Been enjoying my boy’s birthday today, with food and cinema - which always works well just after Xmas. Lucky, and happy beyond words, to have him with us to celebrate. Now he can piss off to the pub with his mates 🍻

This “box slide” thing they just did at a junction on the M27 is really quite cool, I think Timelapse video: www.itv.com/news/meridia...

You woke, urbanites simply don't understand the ways of the countryside folk....y'know, quaint traditions like smashing a horse in the side of the face with a stick

Exactly this. We need politics that breaks with neoliberalism and, rather than repeating Pétainist slogans about work and family and dog-whistling about islands of strangers, actually challenges the populist Right. Labour is part of the problem now.

You're sure "surreal" is the word you were going for? I mean, "existentially terrifying" is right there.

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

This 👇🏼

Another sanction by the Trump administration that exceeds the Kremlin’s wildest dreams, and shows exactly how and why Putin’s agenda lines up with the tech bros www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Good morning, happy Christmas Eve. Hope your day is good and Santa brings you what you wish for 😊 Tea? 🫖

This is a rather lovely way of giving a gift, I think www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/xma...

My TV, every day “Error - network not connected” <runs network checker> “Which network?” “Oh, you mean *that* one? You’re already connected, let me just spend a few mins running the test again for you” 🤦‍♀️

🤔 RefUK chap in local paper says what?

Good morning 👋 Happy Christmas Eve Eve In case you didn’t see this on The Last Leg last week, Adam Hills with a blinder of a Christmas reading (sorry to share the IG thing) www.instagram.com/reel/DSii2Hu...

Very very good move!

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Do both. And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns. Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.

“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

The Government will today unveil its long-awaited Animal Welfare Strategy which sets out a raft of policies to improve the lives of pets and animals on farms and in the wild 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"Canary journalist Barold spoke to the incredible Greta Thunberg tonight, where she gave her thoughts on how the UK government is treating the hunger strikers" (via Canary UK) #UK #Palestine

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Yet again, HEPA air cleaners shown to reduce infection risk by about the effect size we'd expect. Their model more complex but roughly: risk goes inversely with clean air. Double the clean air rate, halve the risk. 1/

Good morning, happy Sunday Tea? Just promise you won’t mention #TheAshes 🏏

Manipulated units of a combined test for COVID-19 and influenza have reached the European market. The manufacturer has confirmed that batch FCO24090516 is fake.

We are the dumbest lifeforms on earth.

I have always liked Cher, and she has now gone up in my rankings.

Good morning, what a gorgeous day in the sunlit uplands of southern England 🌞 There appears to be an Anubis-like villain with its sidekick cat in the garden today Or maybe the cat’s in charge?

Celebrating today, as my family finally managed to find, and get, (private) flu vaccines 💉 It's been a slog! Stay safe out there, everyone

Lib Dems call for inquiry into hostile foreign state interference to include US Party says US government’s explicit support for far-right nationalist parties in Europe amounts to outside interference www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It would be a democratic outrage if county council elections were to be postponed for a second year running www.petersfieldpost.co.uk/news/liberal... @libdems.org.uk