Jane Shorrock

Lives in Scotland, roots in Chester. Want to come home

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

How can the @BBC @BBCNews axe #winterwatch. That is awful. Bring it back . @ChrisGPackham . We need a petition, such an important programme. Cut some of the
Quizzes or other low grade stuff you put out. Not the quality programmes.

[Cheshire Magazines @CheshireMags]

The @BBC @BBCNews have just axed Winterwatch well we own the BBC you’re always telling us and WE WANT WINTERWATCH so don’t cut it. Bring back AUTUMNWATCH TOO @ChrisGPackham

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

@AllForProgress_ @rovihop2 That is appalling. Maybe contact @AndyBurnhamGM

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

It’s really as awful @TraffordCouncil why do you allow this to happen. This car is well over half the pavement - blocking it.

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

Thank you @MartinSLewis I did what you said re insurance renewal, waited the correct time then did a comparison, I saved £10 which may not seem a lot but it is to me.

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

@lbvihara why is your website with the meditation classes not working. I have tried to get on via the link on Wednesday but nothing happens. Can you please let me know.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD

Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government.

In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found.

Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life.

The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for.

Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home.

Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed.

Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves.

In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation.

A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever.

Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up.

Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I don’t know what this world would be like without him right now. I like to think that another Ukrainian would’ve stepped into the breach, but the fact is we need authentic leaders so bad right now. And he’s always stood tall on principle. God bless him.

[Nature is Phenomenal @AnimalGeoLife]

Life is a gift and is our duty to preserve it!

Lets take care of animals and each other 🦥♥️

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

Trump is an embarrassment to the United States

Look at this DISRESPECTUL behaviour

[Jenni @hashjenni]

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.

Just thought y’all should know.

[Orlando Curioso @Orlando71156528]

Así actúa el imbecil presidente de EEUU 🇺🇸, elegido por más de 77 millones de estúpidos. ¿Que tal?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation.

It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025.

Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.” 

And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist.

Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered.

In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius.

Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people.
And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like.

It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

This is a photo of a bee in the US
The pollen on her legs is from dandelions & her tongue is sticking out because she’s been killed due to weed killer on dandelion flowers
Remember this #Spring what many see as weeds, is natures food for #insects
No bees, no insects, no life
#FirstDayOfSpring

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain built a 385.9 mile high speed train line from Madrid to Barcelona it cost £8.1bn.

The UK is still building a 140 mile high speed train line which will cost over £100bn.

Who is stealing all the money?

[Jim Njue @jimNjue_]

Baron trump is almost 20 years old, 6’7 and very healthy he needs to be at the frontlines in Iran.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Well done France Britain should do the same

[Jane Shorrock @HappyJanelady]

@Geniustechw @rovihop2 Anorexia? Looks like it.,like Lilly Collins.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

In this video, Polish PM Donald Tusk—who has no time for the Kremlin's games—blows the lid off what we’ve suspected all along: Epstein wasn't just some rogue billionaire creep. He was likely a high-level asset in a Russian-orchestrated kompromat machine. Tusk is confirming that the Polish government is officially investigating the link between Epstein’s "satanic circle" and Russian special services.

Think about it: if the FSB was co-organising this operation to collect dirt on global leaders, it explains exactly why a certain U.S. President is so terrified of the full Epstein client list seeing the light of day. We’re not just talking about a pedophile ring anymore. We are talking about a massive, state-sponsored blackmail operation designed to put the West’s "leaders" in putin’s back pocket.

Check out Tusk’s full statement below—it’s a total game-changer.

"We cannot allow any of the cases involving the abuse of the Polish children by a network of pedophiles and the organiser of this satanic circle, Mr. Epstein, to be treated lightly or ignored.

The first pieces of information have appeared relating to the individuals who informed Mr. Epstein from Kraków that they already had a group of Polish women or girls.

Together with the Minister of Justice, the Prosecutor General, and the Special Services Coordinator, we have decided to establish an analytical team and possibly also to launch an investigation if our concerns over the scandal involving pedophilia in the US are confirmed.

In fact, the famous Scottish journalist Andrew Marr asked yesterday the key questions, questions that concern every government in the world—questions as to what we intend to do about the growing, day-by-day suspicions of links between Epstein and the entire pedophile circle and the Russian special services.

This matter must, above all, be clarified by us in the light of security of the Polish state."