One good pun deserves another

Out next week...

Oh! I’ve just missed @ageuk.bsky.social #silverSunday. Never mind - in a #mensshed every day is silver

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

My dear old dad used to say 'the longest way is often the quickest'...

Too much choice can be liberating (as well as debilitating) and how do we free ourselves from thinking how others will judge us by our choices?

I love the link with cruise ships!

So easy to spot many pro Palestinian terrorists, no balaclavas, no St George’s flags wrapped around them, not attacking the Police, not throwing petrol bombs.. It’s the grey hair. Walking sticks, white sticks, mobility scooters that give them away.. the thugs

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It’s not wrong - it’s correct!

The problem we face was articulated by Mark Twain: “It is Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled”

National Front —> BNP —> UKIP —> Brexit Party —> Reform Different names, same racist bigotry. Don’t let Reform voters claim they are anything but the National Front in disguise. WE SEE YOU.

Brilliant to pop into @shuckhappens.bsky.social l at #Minories #Colchester today @wiltonsquare.bsky.social & be told that they loved my latest book; they even remembered my name! #ProudAuthorMoment #ColchesterBookEvent?

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Laura Kuenssberg to Keir Starmer "How much trouble are you in?" "So how much trouble are you in?" "Do you accept you are in political trouble?" "When did you realise you got it wrong?" "People say: we don't have much faith in you" "What if the problem is you?" *Other interview styles are available

“Why is Keir Starmer allowing the right wing to set the political agenda with confected crises, rather than engaging with real issues?”

And if you have trouble taking that first step, check out the pomodoro technique - it works for some (including me)

Starting the weekend at #parkrun #Wimpole @nationaltrust.org.uk doesn't get much better than this. Have a lovely day everyone

Netanyahu: "Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not" Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39. Ignorant of Jewish history.

Cost price and value is always a difficult balancing act, creating 'genuine' scarcity adds an important dimension to the equation

A nice metaphor that would appeal to DIYers

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely - most of us are putting on some sort of a front...

Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is one of the biggest cons created by Tories, expanded by Labour. For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes. Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Chris Mason’s most sycophantic, Reform cheerleading dressed up as journalism yet❗️😡 This affected, faux intellectual, glib little git is paid £270K by licence payers to portray 4 MP far right wing political party as a major political force.. Which has a small % of councillors who quit weekly 😤

No words required.

Very excited to see that my book, 'Flushed!' almost made it into the Amazon top100 books list for 'career advancement and professional development' over the weekend! www.amazon.co.uk/Flushed-firs...

Every word.

I want to propose that any politician who alters images to create a false impression be barred from holding public office, permanently. Frogface is a real chancer, a total fraud just like, if not worse than, his best pal in Washington. Why do people vote for them? Beats me.

This👇🏼👇🏼soft touch stance by Govt & policing is inexcusable and empowers right wing 😡 26 officers injured yesterday but just 25 arrested for "wholly unacceptable" violence There were 857 arrests for showing support for Palestine Action & 17 for assaulting police officers Totally disproportionate❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

Algebra of dictatorship. Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics? Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?

Charlie Kirk was not a good man.

Can you see me-ow? #catouflage #caturday

Let me check I’ve got this right. Someone calling for entirely innocent foreign-born people to be burned alive at a time of serious social unrest is a free speech champion who must be feted. And some calling them & their hideous promoters in politics & media racist is a menace who must be silenced.

Catouflage- can you see me? #caturday

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

Charles makes final preparation to "welcome" the King Across the Water.

This is a good illustration of how far right views are being mainstreamed in the UK. Johnson says Charlie Kirk didn’t have extremist views. This is the same Charlie Kirk who said black people were better off under slavery and pushed the far right ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory.

If the BBC based airtime by the # of MPs. 1 Labour 2 Tories 3 Lib Dem 4 Independent 5 SNP 6 Sinn Fein 7 DUP 8-10 Green,Plaid Cymru,Reform. And, let's be honest, if Fartrage was just shouting from the sidelines – I didn't say sitting in the Commons, because he doesn't – it would be tumbleweeds.

You'd think the Boris Johnson episode, where Nelson went, in ten months, from scolding those who called him a charlatan, to bemoaning the shambles that resulted, would have taught him not to gloss over unseriousness and sloppiness, in the name of "fun". But no. It's just unforgivable. ~AA

LET’S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD AND GET STARMER OUT BY CHRISTMAS!

No mean feat to survive as a freelancer for two decades - well done!

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Left: Andrea Jenkyns on stage singing in a shiny dress to support Reform UK Right: Andrea Jenkyns as Conservative greeting journalists This is a perfect metaphor for Reform, policies just as bad as the Conservatives but delivered with a little more glam 🤷‍♂️

Sorrywhatpardon?

Keir Starmer appoints Yvette Cooper as Foreign Secretary days after she suspended Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights Starmer and Cooper both spent years saying that removing or separating refugees from their families would breach Article 8 🤷‍♂️

God Save the Queen? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣