Lauren V

Teacher. Enthusiastic eater. Loves dogs.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

All these men chose to rape an unconscious woman because her husband invited them to do it.

They didn’t say no.

They didn’t get her help.

They violated her instead.

Name and shame every last one of them.

[Lauren V @LollivF]

@Rachel_A_P_ @goustocooking Regularly find something has leaked in our boxes. This was from Monday’s.

[Sally Urwin @PintSizedFarmer]

Neep the Sheep, son of Turnip and owner of a teaspoon-sized brain, is now under maximum security in the glamping paddock.

On Friday I put a new extra thick chain on his gate. Neep spent two full days staring at it, thinking very hard.

By day three he decided subtlety was for cowards, charged the hedge, blasted a Neep-shaped hole and gallumphed down the road in triumph.

Wilbur and Thrusty Clappernuts followed.

(Thrusty, an elderly gentleman got tired halfway through the jailbreak celebrations and fell asleep in the middle of the road.
On a blind corner.)

I tracked them by following a trail of mud and sheep poo, found Thrusty impersonating a traffic bollard, Wilbur standing guard in the ditch, and Neep casually eating someone’s bedding plants.

So now they’re in the glamping paddock, which has high stone walls, an outdoor library, tents and children’s toys.

We are hoping this will keep Neep’s ADHD brain busy while we remortgage ourselves to re-fence the farm.

[Greenwytch 3 @Greenwytch3]

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[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

Advertising is so artificial and annoying. I don't get how NTs get so persuaded by it.

[Mr P MBE @ICT_MrP]

In today’s education news… let’s take a look at some of the key findings from the report from the NASUWT looking at where some of the money in education is being spent. The full document can be found here - https://t.co/EVKZcy2Bfm

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

In journalism it's important to reflect both sides of an argument, to listen, to try and understand nuance and different perspectives, to be aware of your own bias. 
But sometimes it's also important to state facts, and to call out facts that are not true

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

SHOCKING
Sunday @thetimes & #Dispatches investigation into the grubby & secretive earnings of the Royal Family

Incl charging huge rents to Marie Curie & Macmillan charities WHICH THEY'RE PATRONS OF & which WE donate to. They get the money!

The list is long
Follow @JCalvertST

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Or get free voter ID here. https://t.co/PWQ7gSj3Hn

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour.

And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour.

It's hard not to see the lie.

RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

[Liam Thorp @LiamThorpECHO]

There was some big news this week which should have been top of the news agenda - the fact that it wasn’t and the story that dominated the public space instead tells a worrying story about the priorities of many in this country 🧵

[Lauren V @LollivF]

@atomicgxrden And why do they have it on speaker like they’re on The Apprentice?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It cost £1,593,535,200 to rent for 2 years.

That is £15m a week, the £300,000 is the additional moorage and power costs.

Don't RT and let this secret out, it could embarass them.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Toxic school ‘hangover’ is real. This wknd has been one where my memories were triggered and I was reminded of dark times, times that looking back I’ve no idea how or why I persisted through. Also, the ability of groups of adults to form groups to bully and make you feel like you are going mad. In fact, there’s no need to be intimidated and it’s always worth asking yourself ‘what did I ever do to any of these ppl?’. When the answer comes back ‘nothing’, that’s when you realise that all the pain they caused was incredible in its complete pointlessness.

[The Body Shop UK @TheBodyShopUK]

We are deeply concerned to hear that the ruling in the UK High Court, published today, means that the ban on animal testing in cosmetics was effectively lifted in 2019, under the radar.

The Body Shop was the first global beauty company to campaign to ban animal testing in cosmetics in 1989, with the UK becoming the world’s first to rule it out in 1998.

We join our long-standing partner @CrueltyFreeIntl in calling on the Government to reimpose this ban immediately. We can’t turn back the clock.

Allowing animal testing for cosmetics in the UK would be a devastating blow and so our fight continues. We will campaign vigorously, as our late founder Dame Anita Roddick did, for as long as it takes.

At The Body Shop, we are Forever Against Animal Testing.

#ForeverAgainstAnimalTesting #EndAnimalTesting #CrueltyFree

[Love Britain, Hate Tories ℹ @realtoryparty]

Yesterdays “Special Alert” was a disaster which wasted £millions

The UK Government awarded the contract to Fujitsu who subsequently sub contracted the work to Indian company Infosys

And who owns infosys?

So you can bet we will have many more alerts.. and they will all fail

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Junior doctor starting salary in:

🇦🇺 Australia: £60,000
🇨🇦 Canada: £46,000
🇫🇷 France: £43,700
🇺🇸 USA: £41,900

🇬🇧 UK: £29,384

Any ideas why they might be leaving in their droves?

We simply cannot afford to lose these skilled dedicated professionals

#JuniorDoctorsStrikes

[Lauren V @LollivF]

@atomicgxrden What about S Club 7? You saw them live