Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Proofreader/copy editor. Ex-bookseller, voracious reader, music fan, talker, amateur photographer, amateur drinker. The Doctor calls me 'Local Knowledge'.

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

Going to be retweeting this regularly, don't worry.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was built using public money. Now the government plans to sell it off during a pandemic.

This has to be stopped. Sign this petition to tell @KwasiKwarteng to stop the Vaccine Manufacturing Centre sell off👉 https://t.co/QolXhTKJ4c

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

Sitting in Aberdare bus station like a spare cunt at an orgy because the *only* bus from here to my village currently has a guy lying under it wondering if he can get the spare part. For fucks sake! It's 2026! You fuckers in the Westminster Bubble don't know about deregulation.

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Another day, another let off for Nigel Farage by our broadcast media.

Robert Jenrick has been on @LBC this morning to discuss anti-white racism [🤬] and Nick Ferrari, like the good little boy he is, allowed him ten minutes to spout his lies, without once asking about the £5M pound donation.

I've listened all week to see if it would be talked about and … no, of course not.

If Angela Rayner had accepted five million pounds, lied about it five times and failed to declare it, the Global building in Leicester Square would have self-combusted and fallen into a rage-induced sinkhole by now.

Can you imagine?

The sheer vacuum of silence from our media is so very telling and, quite honestly, stinks.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Epic moment 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 5:00 PM — “No President has done this. We got Iran to talk nukes. Maybe even give them up. This is First time ever.”

🇺🇸Obama at 6:00 PM — “Did it already. No missiles fired. Moved 97% of their enriched uranium out. We didn't have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz like you.”🔥👏

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

I think this guy is booked to play in Aberdare at some point. I've never heard of him but I spotted a poster outside my local theatre while walking to town. I've no idea why he's 'controversial' and I frankly don't care. I heard one of his songs once: in one ear, out the other.

[Standard News @standardnews]

South London pub to host controversial former Kasabian frontman despite backlash https://t.co/jaYDQMxprp

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

I have contributed some items to the 'Leader' in recent years - nowhere near as many as I did in my naive heyday - but I'd be extremely embarrassed to have my name associated with the dreadful toilet paper it's become over the past few years.

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

Quick look at my 'local' newspaper, now merged with the 'Rhondda Leader' west of here. Half the content of p.2 and most of p.3 is dedicated to Caerphilly news - different Senedd constituency some miles east. Rest of first six pages mainly about Merthyr Tydfil (also east of us).

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

For this pathetic offering, people are expected to pay £3.60. That's 15p a fucking page! I feel so glad I abandoned my idea of a career in journalism over 35 years ago. And I can completely understand why friends jumped ship when they saw where their profession was heading.

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @mary_got_grace]

don't use ai to write, use your childhood trauma like the rest of us

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

The Pocket Book of Boners, illustrated by Dr. Seuss. This is the 1945 omnibus edition.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Genuinely don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say these people need to be stopped, and fast, or we are headed to a very dark place.

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

It took me a few moments to see the joke here. Very clever.

[The Morecambe & Wise Archive 👓🌞♥️ @eric_ernie_col]

Happy Wednesday Folks!

#StillBringingSunshine 👓☀️❤️
#MorecambeAndWise #EricAndErnie

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

It is notable how the Pope is the only religious authority in the world that wields intellectual authority even among secular people.

No one secular cares what the Bishop of Canterbury or the Grand Ayatollah have to say.

[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

The Music Walk of Fame, Camden High Street. Honouring iconic artists of the music industry. Instead of stars, the artists are commemorated with specially designed, record-shaped granite plaques embedded in the pavement. Featured on the stones include: Amy Winehouse and Madness

[Julia Thorne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FullMarksEditor]

Most people are back in work after a relaxing long weekend ... and this happens. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with this shit every day. Now I just use public transport for fun and that's often bad enough.

[National Rail @nationalrailenq]

⚠️NEW: #CardiffCentral - Disruption at Cardiff Central expected until 07:00
https://t.co/3Z65VATti6

[Alain Beidou @avispartan1]

Liberal economics tells us this isn't possible because the landlords will compete with each other to lower prices, in reality landlords aren't stupid enough to start self-ruinous price wars and instinctively understand that the tenants are the enemy!

[PoorImpulseControl @whaleoilbefckd]

Here’s an idea: For every worker claiming universal credit in a company with a turnover of more than £1,000,000 the government reclaims the money paid to the worker from said company via the corporation tax system. Simples.