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RIP Ellroy ❤ my bengal cat. Into: Theatre. Films. Art. Music. Gardens. Flowers.
Cats - obviously!
Hate: litter!
Love: our NHS.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@zarahussain999, the far right card. Every time. Without fail. A man is nearly beheaded on a residential street in Belfast and within hours the story becomes about the far right.

A Sudanese national, granted leave to remain, pinned a man to the ground and stabbed him repeatedly in the face, eyes and neck. A member of the public stopped it with a hurling stick. That is where this started. Not with protesters. Not with the far right. With a man who should not have been in that community, in that country, given leave to remain by a system that admitted it had no trace of him on any security database.

The burning of homes is wrong. That has been said. Now say this: the near murder of a man on a residential street is also wrong. The policy that put an unvetted Sudanese national in that neighbourhood without the community's knowledge or consent is also wrong. Three consecutive years of immigration-related disorder in Belfast is also wrong.

You feel unsafe. So does the man in hospital with stab wounds to his face and neck. So do the communities that have been told for years that their concerns are racism. So do the families who were not consulted before unvetted young men were dispersed into their streets.

The far right label is a silencing mechanism. It has been used to shut down this conversation for thirty years. Look where that has got us.

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@NationOfEldia @BlackkkSsswan Precisely!!!

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[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes.

They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

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@HeidiBachram Needs removal

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@aldotorchiaro @BlondShelley Great work

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@EliAfriatISR Wishing you good health and many more Birthday's!

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[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SIR ALAN BATES - THANKS GOD FOR THIS MAN. EH.

In 1998 Alan Bates and his partner Suzanne packed up their lives in West Yorkshire and moved to a small town in North Wales.

They put everything they had into a post office. Every penny. Every hope. A future they had planned together.

Two years later the software started lying. Money appeared to be missing. He called the helpline 507 times. He kept going. He kept records. He kept asking.

The Post Office's response was simple. It wasn't the software. It was him.

In 2003 they sent him a letter terminating his contract. No reason given. He lost £65,000. Everything he and Suzanne had invested, gone. Their private notes about him, revealed at the public inquiry decades later, described the situation with devastating corporate elegance. He had become unmanageable.

That is what they called a man asking why the numbers were wrong.

So he did what any reasonable person would do after losing everything to an institution that called them a liar.

He spent the next 25 years fighting back with nothing. No legal fund. No media empire. No government support. Just a burning refusal to let them win.

He wrote letters promising his continued and increased resolve to bring this to people who would have no choice but to act, regardless of how many years it took.

It took 25.

While he was fighting, at least 13 people who had been through the same thing took their own lives. People who couldn't hold on long enough. People who needed someone to believe them and found nobody there.

While he was fighting, the Post Office and its lawyers billed £265 million in legal fees between 2014 and 2024. Making sure the truth stayed buried. Making sure men like Alan Bates ran out of road before they ran out of fight.

He didn't run out of fight.

He rejected three compensation offers he considered insults. He watched an @ITV drama turn his life into a television event. He watched politicians suddenly discover outrage they had been too busy to feel for two decades. He watched the country cry at a story it had been ignoring since 1999.

In June 2024 they gave him a knighthood. Twenty-five years after calling him unmanageable.

In November 2025 he settled his compensation claim. He received 49.2% of what he was owed.

No executive has been charged. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) still holds government contracts. The Post Office (@PostOffice) is still standing.

This country failed Alan Bates for 25 years. It failed every person who could not hold on long enough to see what he saw. It handed him a title instead of justice and called itself generous.

He deserved better. They all did.

Teach this man in every school in Britain. Not as a feel-good story. As a warning about what happens when ordinary people trust institutions that were never built to protect them.

And as proof that one person, with nothing but the truth and the stubbornness to keep saying it, can make an entire country look at itself in the mirror.

Even if it takes 25 years to get them to look.

Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews AND many others

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@HeidiBachram @BlondShelley @novaexhibition Sending hugs to you all x 💔😥

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@VeteransFdn Rest in peace Sir, 🙏

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