Happy Tuesday. Interesting choice of word.

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

I guess we now know that even if Congress votes to release Epstein files, Pam Bondi probably won’t comply.

Major businesses are adding significant square footage and there is urgency to lease even more office space in New York City with no sign of any looming corporate exodus caused by democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election win.

Shareholder of GBNews with a massive conflict of interest… Farage: Reform would change law to strip BBC of licence fee www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Europe is deeply confused about China handling and it shouldn't be - you either engage with a superpower that is the main trade partner to over half the world's countries, or you retreat into protection and decline. So it has to be engagement.

Happy Monday. Finding letters to start with was the only challenge and I doubt if I could cracked it in 3️⃣or less today. Not too tricky a word for a rhyme either, although I think I could have been a bit more creative than another "what am I?" Something witty about wrongly parked cars comes to mind.

Well, quite.

Breaking news. Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings has left hospital. Samir Zitouni, the whole country has been willing you through. What fantastic news, a true hero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “…Epstein would have felt still welcome as a member of polite society, receiving no social incentive to change his ways. Far from being ostracised as a sex offender, he was normalised….”

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Happy Sunday. I guess I could have written a verse about sword & sorcery barbarians or boys' own paper cricket bat swinging heroes, but it's not what this word triggered, being too close to painful memories of people I've known & the hollow feeling that follows the thought how could anyone go there?

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

Happy Saturday! My favourite rhyme for this word comes from Dr Seuss. I wish I'd thought of it! "I floated twelve days without toothpaste or soap. I practically, almost had given up hope....." From "I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew" So here's a verse about Rose and Jack!

I think people are missing the point with this Epstein thing. The question is not did he have sex with underaged girls. He did. The question is not did he have illegal financial transactions with Epstein. He did. The question is not did he serve as an asset and agent of Putin. He did.

Zarah Sultana, "Wages are stagnating, bills are rising, companies are posting record profits, the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. Everyone can see it." Yes they can. #bbcqt

"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

Nigel Farage says the NHS should be replaced with an insurance-based system like they have in the USA, which would mean crippling medical bills for Brits. Drop a ❤️ if you love our NHS and want to keep it in public hands.

Happy Friday, even if it's washout weather where I am. I think luck was with me & the word is thought-provoking, describing one of the major experiential, social, & psychological transformations of this era. Has the trend towards stronger images come from being habituated to what we see? I wonder!🤔

Blanche didn’t ask Maxwell a single question about any of these emails. Then he moved her to Club Fed where she is served individual meals and has a puppy and numerous other special privileges while she prepares her clemency petition. WHY?

You realize his guilt when the most litigious guy on the planet isn’t making lawsuit threats.

> have no storage left > buy a 512gb sd card for $150 > apps dont like external storage > put everything else on card > phone still 90% full > look up prices for good storage phones > over $2k > angry. mad. fuck u government.

Happy Thursday! I wanted to solve this in 2️⃣, but it wasn't to be. Mostly, the likeliest word approach is the best one to take, but today it didn't work that way. The poem pretty much wrote itself & I like the way today's word expresses both physical & emotional realities. I hope it's captured that.

As it should!

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall ************************** Bill Bramhall, who posted a couple of days after Lucko's turkey, caught that this pardon was in the right season.

Clark: So what are we doing here today? You have already voted to dismantle medicaid, the largest health care program in America. A program that covers 40% of all births in this country. 40% of children in this country. 40% of disabled people in this country.

DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862. Image: Wellcome Collection, London.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

Happy Wednesday. I must admit today's word was a hard find. I actually won a dice game recently. It was at an Ibis hotel in Reims. Reception asked customers to roll a pair of dice. I got snake eyes, which won me an "unuseless" prize ..... a water bottle that doubled as a dumb bell!

Never forget that the only country in NATO history which triggered NATO article 5 is USA after a bunch of Arab terrorists took down some buildings in New York. Now when Europe is in existential threat by former Soviets, the USA is throwing us bones and expecting gratitude. EU need to step up.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Framed by nature, focused on the journey. 🍃 Sometimes stepping back gives you the clearest view. #natureperspective #mindfulmoments #innercalm #outdoorvibes #HappyHippieSoul

Happy Tuesday! I admit I couldn't have solved this with less than four attempts, so kudos to anyone who did. I quite like the word. It catches many things, even if it does need to be solved after midnight! For further illumination do check out the Japanese art/science of Chindōgu.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Defend the BBC with everything you have. We know how it’s been infiltrated by Tory political appointees but it’s OURS. It’s the only independent media we have left. That’s why they want to destroy it.