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As a result of the constant, indecisive flip-flop politics we have been subjected to, people have lost faith in the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer. But they may just give Labour another chance ... if they pick the right person. So, who? 👇
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So, sitting in the senior ranks of this Labour Government is a man who truly understands service and sacrifice. Someone scarred by love, life and loss whose mettle has seen him grow stronger for that ...
Having - on more than one occasion - sat with my younger brother in complete darkness, as he poured out the trauma churning around inside of himself, I feel I am as close to understanding the abominat...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/labours-last-chance-hokey-cokey-politics-is-suspending-the-nation-in-an-hallucinogenic-purgatory-of-faux-progress-but-one-man-could-save-this-government-5601036
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Potholes are the least of motorists' worries: Britain's roads are in crisis. They are now a dangerous, national disgrace. The Yorkshire Post says 👇
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Killed by neglect: pothole-ravaged roads have already claimed too many lives
Once upon a time, grumbles about potholes were the parochial preserve of grouchy pedants who love nothing more than being a thorn in the side of their local authority – busybodies, they might have bee...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/potholes-it-is-worse-than-that-britains-roads-are-a-dangerous-national-embarrassment-5599041
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Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer and my own incredulity … 👇🏻
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Underpants Pete and his pesky porky pies
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Pubs | Staring Down the Barrel: The glass isn't just half empty, it's cracked down the middle Editor's Newsletter 👇
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Pubs | Staring Down The Barrel
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about 1 month ago
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Story of the day: what happened when something alien made its way into our waterways 😯
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'Catching a shark in Barbados inspired my Yorkshire-set science fiction book'
It was more than 25 years ago now but the memory of catching a shark on a fishing trip in Barbados has stayed vividly with Peter Wedderburn. So much so that the incident inspired his recently-released...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/catching-a-shark-in-barbados-inspired-my-yorkshire-set-science-fiction-book-5436604
about 1 month ago
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Back on BlueSky by popular demand (one person in particular ... you know who you are 😆)
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2 months ago
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Adrian Littlejohn
3 months ago
I realise that some of you lovely folk won't have a clue what I'm going on about here... But congratulations to my fellow Yorkshireman Joe Root! Real talent doesn't need to scream and shout. Sometimes speaking quietly but firmly is more than enough! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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The Ashes: England's Joe Root scores first Test hundred in Australia as Mitchell Starc takes six wickets in pink-ball game
England close day one of pink-ball Ashes Test on 325-9 as Joe Root scores 135 not out from 202 balls; Mitchell Starc picks up six wickets to take his tally in day-night Tests to 87; Root shares centur...
https://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12040/13479251/the-ashes-englands-joe-root-scores-first-test-hundred-in-australia-as-mitchell-starc-takes-six-wickets-in-pink-ball-game
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A cautionary tale regarding power in a pretty village, and what happens when it goes too far Editor's Newsletter, here >
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Yorkshire villagers angry over plans to remove beloved geese due to 'health and safety'
Yorkshire villagers angry over plans to remove beloved geese due to 'health and safety'
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6 months ago
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Adrian Littlejohn
10 months ago
An important newspaper editorial, with a link to an equally important article. Human creativity and effort are being hijacked by the big tech billionaires. Somehow, this has to be stopped, or we will all be much the poorer...
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"Plays will no longer be written; music no longer composed; stories no longer imagined; research no longer done. Thoughtful expression is being held at gunpoint."
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Creative industry - Make It Fair: big-tech bandits are holding thoughtful expression at gunpoint
The Yorkshire Post is very fortunate to have writing for it a quill of authors whose talent eclipses that of most in the regional and national press.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/creative-industry-make-it-fair-big-tech-bandits-are-holding-thoughtful-expression-at-gunpoint-5084199
10 months ago
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Harsh, or about bloody time!?
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Yorkshire woman fined for walking her dog on Cleethorpes beach
A Yorkshire woman has been ordered to pay more than £300 after she walked her dog on Cleethorpes beach.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/yorkshire-woman-fined-for-walking-her-dog-on-cleethorpes-beach-5047826
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Adolescence: Netflix masterpiece scarified the conscience of my parenting, leaving in its wake bagfuls of thatch for me to ponder ... and there's a real-life parallel - that haunted me into writing this - that all dads should see👇
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Adolescence - Netflix: if you are a dad to boys, read this now
Listening to Stephen Graham being interviewed by Chris Moyles live on air as part of his Radio X show, I was struck by a parallel that I hadn’t until now spotted in relation to Graham’s Netflix master...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/adolescence-netflix-and-the-manosphere-ive-spotted-a-real-life-parallel-in-stephen-grahams-netflix-masterpiece-that-all-dads-should-see-5040802
11 months ago
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Plague of Angels: York Minster prepares to host something some people think it shouldn't. This piece, by the band's guitarist Mark Mynett, might just make the naysayers pause for thought. 👇
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York Minster v Plague of Angels: band hits back at concerned critics
On Friday, April 25th, 2025, Plague of Angels will make history as we take to the stage in one of the world’s most magnificent cathedrals: York Minster.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/plague-of-angels-york-minster-my-message-to-you-if-youre-worried-about-york-minster-metal-concert-5040189
11 months ago
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1: Please be kind to Harry. He is 10-years-old and this
@altontowers.bsky.social
review is his first published piece; 2: Please be kind to me, he's my lad and he's on a penny a page view so just move along, now 😆
#Toxicator
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Toxicator: Alton Towers first ride review - through a 10-year-old's eyes
Toxicator is a ground-breaking Huss Top spin flat ride, reaching 78 feet high. Opening on the 15th of March, 2025, guests are seated back to back straight before being taken up to new heights and bein...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/toxicator-alton-towers-first-ride-review-through-a-10-year-olds-eyes-5036352
11 months ago
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Smacking children: The Yorkshire Post says 👇
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Do you smack your children? The law is coming for you...
‘It never did me any harm’ is the throwaway justification-of-choice for those who lived, or perhaps endured and survived, a less well-informed era of parenting, where societal norms meant that strikin...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/smacking-children-calls-for-a-law-change-that-parents-need-to-know-about-5019616
12 months ago
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"Rishi Sunak: let down by his predecessors and their associated self-serving rabble who together devoured the reputation and appeal of the once great Conservative Party." The Yorkshire Post says 👇
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Rishi Sunak: do you agree with The Yorkshire Post?
This newspaper is content to be amongst the first to express regret that the Richmond and Northallerton MP Rishi Sunak was not Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for longer than he was.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/rishi-sunak-let-down-by-a-self-serving-rabble-that-together-devoured-the-reputation-and-appeal-of-the-once-great-conservative-party-5019505
12 months ago
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‘Rachel from accounts’ has become the quip of choice for low-brow misogynists looking to impress like-minded friends of a similar hue of prejudice when addressing the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves...' The Yorkshire Post says 👇
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Rachel from accounts? Are you sure?
‘Rachel from accounts’ has become the quip of choice for low-brow misogynists looking to impress like-minded friends of a similar hue of prejudice when addressing the first female Chancellor of the Ex...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/rachel-from-accounts-we-cant-wait-to-meet-rachel-the-chief-of-treasury-and-first-government-finance-minister-5013799
12 months ago
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Today’s edition carries an extensive examination of coastal Yorkshire, which comes with a worrying timeline for homes, caravan parks and even key roads / routes. Page 3 is a corker, too. Have a great weekend, folks. 😁
12 months ago
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Page du jour
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Update:
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Yorkshire's Woodsmith mining project will ramp up again ‘no earlier than 2027’, says CEO
The CEO of Anglo American, the firm behind Yorkshire’s major Woodsmith mining project, has said that the company expects the project to “ramp up” again no earlier than 2027.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/anglo-american-yorkshires-woodsmith-mining-project-will-ramp-up-again-no-earlier-than-2027-says-ceo-4999360
12 months ago
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Morning BlueSkyers 😀
about 1 year ago
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We’re going nuclear Morning all
about 1 year ago
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UPDATE: Doncaster Sheffield Airport
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"Unfair competition": Leeds Bradford Airport boss hits out at plan to give Doncaster Sheffield Airport £90m public subsidy
The boss of Leeds Bradford Airport has hit out at plans to provide a grant of almost £90m in public funds to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/unfair-competition-leeds-bradford-airport-boss-hits-out-at-plan-to-give-doncaster-sheffield-airport-ps90m-public-subsidy-4956646
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EXC: Latest on the mission to revive Doncaster Sheffield Airport - and not everyone seems happy...
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Council's controversial £105m plan for reopening site revealed
A new council-owned company backed with £105m in public cash is controversially set to take over the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport after attempts to find a private operator to run the site ...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/doncaster-sheffield-airport-councils-controversial-ps105m-plan-for-reopening-site-revealed-4956068
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Grooming gangs: "One of the many vile comments about you that I've read on Facebook this morning looks not a million miles from an incitement to murder." Incitement to murder, for telling the truth 👇
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Grooming gangs: like it or not, Elon Musk has made a difference
Irked by the interference of ill-informed billionaire Elon Musk, for his own political ends, I was moved to ask our Westminster Correspondent Ralph Blackburn to examine further the child grooming gang...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/paedophile-grooming-gangs-threats-made-towards-you-amount-to-incitement-to-murder-4948847
about 1 year ago
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Chris Burn
about 1 year ago
Pulled this together a few months ago but now updated with the likes of
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for those interested in a refreshed list
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Elon Musk tweeted about a story I'd written about the Rotherham CSE scandal this weekend - but it was missing a key bit of context with the publication date erased from the screenshot he shared. Some thoughts here on what happened in my newsletter:
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You can’t say fairer than that, cocker!
about 1 year ago
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Gregg Wallace: "Now, before you try to get me cancelled for daring to be thoughtful about the fall of the BBC's Masterchef star, the details of which you likely know as little about as I do, allow me to move this on a little, because my point is this:
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The snowflakes will want me cancelled for this one
Before I get going in earnest, a confession: the following musings of this mad man represent a triangulation; an opinion formed through reading - how novel! A venn diagram of views: a nudge by the col...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/gregg-wallace-please-dont-try-to-cancel-me-for-daring-to-be-thoughtful-about-the-fall-of-masterchefs-greedy-gregarious-greengrocer-4898601
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There is something you need to remember about cash 👇
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Cash: your guide on how to ensure we keep our hard-earned money in our local economies - tell a friend
A report published today by the British Retail Consortium reveals that though cash is no longer king, it remains crucial to the economy. Cash usage, for the second year in a row, increased, with good ...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/cash-your-guide-on-how-to-ensure-we-keep-our-hard-earned-money-in-our-local-economies-tell-a-friend-4896463
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Finally!
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Social mobility report: a smorgasbord of the bleeding obvious, but...
The strategy document released today by the Social Mobility Commission is a smorgasbord of the blindingly obvious, a charge sheet of failure and neglect when it comes to the least well off.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/social-mobility-report-a-smorgasbord-of-the-bleeding-obvious-but-4896454
about 1 year ago
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"I ended up being gawped at like I was some sort of pervert at a petrol station..." A personal rant
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EVs: what's it like making the switch from petrol and diesel to an electric car?
This is an online version of the editor’s regular newsletter. Not all of James’ newsletters are published as online articles as well. To ensure you don’t miss one, subscribe today > https://www.yorksh...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/electric-vehicles-what-its-really-like-when-you-switch-to-an-ev-from-petrol-or-diesel-4889249
about 1 year ago
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Page du jour, with a leading article on Lord Moylan’s cutting insight into high street woes
about 1 year ago
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For every thank you we get for Maureen, we'll do our best to pass them on. We think she deserves a bit of love 😍 Let'see if this place can make good news travel as fast as the other place can hatred...
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'Maureen 118' retires from nursing - after 58 years working in the NHS
She was born days after the National Health Service was created and dedicated almost six decades of her life to caring for others.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/maureen-118-retires-from-nursing-after-58-years-working-in-the-nhs-4885861
about 1 year ago
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Do you agree?
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Shameful tolerance of depraved offenders within the Church of England has destroyed the public’s faith in it - Andrew Vine
There is a question those at the top of the Church of England need to answer which has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with its role in national life. It is this – why for decades ha...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/shameful-tolerance-of-depraved-offenders-within-the-church-of-england-has-destroyed-the-publics-faith-in-it-andrew-vine-4876255
about 1 year ago
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Hello you lovely lot. I've also put this out on Twitter. I'm keen to see if the response on here is the same as it is on what shall from here on in be known as The Other Place
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Hull and The Humber: the world is about to discover the Energy Estuary's secrets
We need to talk about Hull, or, more specifically, Hull and The Humber.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/hull-the-humber-and-that-blackadder-jibe-what-i-learned-from-spending-a-day-on-the-energy-estuary-4885512
about 1 year ago
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