Annie

Making it up as I go along. Big fan of my husband, cake, reading stories, writing stories, allotments and cats.

[NewsThump @newsthump]

Interesting Fact of the Day: If Robert Jenrick were to catch 50 fare dodgers a day, recouping £2.90 each time for the taxpayer, it would take him well over 1,000 years to recoup the amount the taxpayer lost when he helped a major Tory donor avoid a £45m tax bill back in 2020.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Benidorm the greatest example of immigrants refusing to learn the language, adopt the culture or integrate into society.

[Annie @LalaCHam5]

@ElliottBlackwe3 Beautiful. Reminds me of an episode of Northern Exposure. 🥰

[lindsay littleson @ljlittleson]

I made many parenting mistakes, but this advice is worth repeating. Read stories to your children every day and don't stop when they can read by themselves. It will develop empathy, build confidence, increase vocabulary and spark imaginations. You're helping them to fly.

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There is no Cost of Living Crisis.

Supermarkets have permanently quadrupled their profits.
Energy Companies have permanently x10ed their profits.

It is a Cost of Greed Crisis and it needs to be reversed.

[paul bassett davies @thewritertype]

I just tried saying “Sir Grant Shapps” and laughed. And laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed, and painted all the mirrors black, and asked my sofa to marry me, and climbed into a suitcase with only a potato for company and I live here now.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Tariffs on → Markets crashed → Super-rich buy in.

Tariffs off → Markets rally → Super-rich even richer.

We used to have a word for this: Criminal.

[Woke Lefty 🫣 @SalfordMe2023]

If they aren't going to bring back jousting they should abolish knighthoods.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

And, for example, how he helped to fix up a huge PPE deal for Meller Designs, owned by a Tory donor 💰 https://t.co/pcSIyw71Li

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

We exposed how Gove was key to helping strike some of the biggest PPE VIP Lane deals, leading to millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money going down the drain 👇
https://t.co/jVhbBYy9Dr

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I'm old enough to remember Michael Gove turning up at work to vote completely off his face.

For that he didn't get fired, but he did get a peerage.

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Oh fuck off Tories trying to say Labour made the steel crisis. How’s about you not selling almost all our British assets? You even sold the post office you absolute twats.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In any reasonable society, people writing stuff like this would be ostracized, or worse.

[David Doak @SouthPoint1000]

Hint for Americans: He wasn't a great businessman, it was just a TV show, he wasn't worth billions, he lied about his worth, he is not a great deal maker, a ghost writer wrote the book, he inherited 400 million and lost it all, he bankrupted 6 businesses, he cheated stockholders

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

What level of capitalism are we at?

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax…

Them: What band are you in?

Me: Erm, The Charlatans

Them: Your council tax band

😬

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The more people say “a woman’s worth is in marrying young and having children” the more I’m grateful for the example of Jane Austen, who turned down a proposal of marriage so she could keep writing and whose six novels are an enduring testament to all a woman is capable of doing.