Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱

Speak the truth.

[Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱 @TiddelyPomPom]

Young me : someone with power makes crazy decisions, wow, are they stupid or mad?

Old me : someone with power makes crazy decisions, wow, I wonder who's paying them?

[Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱 @TiddelyPomPom]

@AnnetteMckay15 Oh thank goodness. My brother stopped visiting a relative because he found them 'annoying' and started visiting again when they had died. Typical of him I'm afraid.

[Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱 @TiddelyPomPom]

@marksandspencer I can't work it out in chat but am happy to post it here.

[Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱 @TiddelyPomPom]

@marksandspencer

Hi, I've just bought a gift card for a wedding. In order to scan it the assistant had to scrub away at the strip of foil to reveal the bar code. It now looks a mess and I'm going to have to explain that the card is legit. Who on earth thought this up?

[Becky Argyle @ArgyleBecky]

Absolutely shocking & deeply discriminatory language from this Aberdeen school. Christmas cards are Christmas cards, they are part of our culture, traditions & celebrations. No school should erase, undermine or dictate which aspects of our culture we are allowed to celebrate.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Rhiannon's killer was Deng Chol Majek, a Sudanese illegal migrant who had entered Britain by small boat less than three months earlier. He was housed, fed, clothed, and protected by the taxpayer. He stalked Rhiannon after her shift. Followed her to a deserted train platform while she was speaking to her family on the phone. He stabbed her twenty-three times with a screwdriver. Then he went back to the hotel, bought beer, and danced in the car park. That sequence matters. Not for shock value, but for responsibility.

Majek should never have been there. Not in Britain. Not in that hotel. Not near unprotected women doing their jobs. He lied about his age. He had been observed staring at female staff. Police had been called repeatedly to the hotel. Former staff warned it was a ticking time bomb. The warnings were known. They were ignored. This is the real cost of the Channel crossings con. Not statistics. Not slogans. Lives.

[British father 🇬🇧 @EnglandUK]

1 October: about 700 walked out early because the prisons are full.

13 October: another 650 are due out. Sentences of up to two years and five months, released at a third.

Still a cell for the man who pleaded not guilty to slashing a dinghy. Trial in March.

Same country. Different rules.

[Jennifer Thetford-Kay @JenKteach]

🕯️ IN MEMORY On this day in 2004, British civil engineer Kenneth John Bigley was murdered by his captors in Iraq after three terrible weeks as a hostage.

Ken, a 62-year-old Liverpudlian, was working on reconstruction projects in Baghdad when armed militants abducted him from his home on 16th September 2004.

Taken alongside him were his American colleagues:
Eugene Armstrong
Jack Hensley
Eugene and Jack were murdered several days after the kidnapping. Ken remained in captivity until 7th October. During those agonising weeks, people from many countries, faiths and political backgrounds appealed for his life.

Christian and Muslim leaders gathered in Liverpool to pray for his safe return. The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the kidnapping and sent a delegation to Iraq to plead for his release. The British and Irish governments, international leaders and, above all, Ken’s family worked desperately to bring him home. Their efforts could not overcome the cruelty of the men holding him.

Ken Bigley, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley were not political symbols or pieces to be used in a conflict.

They were three men doing their jobs. They were husbands, fathers, brothers, colleagues and friends. They were loved and people were waiting for them to come home. Today, we remember all three men and the families who endured unimaginable grief.

Kenneth John Bigley
22 April 1942 – 7 October 2004
Eugene Armstrong
Jack Hensley
May they be remembered not for the cruelty inflicted upon them, but for the lives they lived and the people who loved them.

Rest in peace. 🕯️

[Mike Ferguson @omahaglenn]

Just came across in a folder where I have collected interesting things...

[Galanche ♀️💜JKR 💜🌱 @TiddelyPomPom]

@Jammyjack88 I've never watched a Nigella show, I know she's very popular but I can't stand the way she talks, eats, the obsession with salt. Missing Prue big time.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The Afghan resettlement schemes are a crime committed against the British people, committed in plain sight by Tory ministers.

Almost 40,000 Afghans have been smuggled in.

10 TIMES the number the Tories initially claimed.

They spent £3.1 billion of your money on these schemes, and that will rise to DOUBLE that within a few years.

Afghan nationals in Britain are 22x more likely to be convicted of sex crimes than Brits.

The Tory ministers who did this do not care.

They boasted about it.

Could not stop gushing about how many they had imported.

The average resettled household has 5.5 people. One man brought 22 family members.

The fraud committed on these schemes is off the charts.

Nobody voted for this.

They must be held to account.

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

If the Government knows that male migrants are raping women on boats during their journey to the UK, how does letting them into the country align with its stated mission to end violence against women and girls?

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

The police operation around Gosport is impressive in its scale and organisation. What it proves is that, when it comes to its own priorities, the government can be ruthlessly competent. Incompetence is a policy choice.

[June Slater @juneslater17]

Talking to a French coastguard contact (Gus) today - his English not perfect but the point was clear:
So I looked it up he's right!
♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
Under UN Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and UNCLOS, the duty of a coastal state is to STOP overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels leaving its ports.
👇👇👇👇👇👇
If such a vessel is at sea and a French vessel is the first to it, the duty is to take it back to the nearest safe port - which is France.

It is NOT the duty of the UK to then take over the chaperoning of an unsuitable vessel across the Channel.

Stop them at the point of departure. Return them to France if intercepted by French assets. That's what maritime safety law actually says.
It's all in The UN document
👇👇👇👇
SOLAS Article 98 /Chapter V

[Make Britain Great Again @UK_Needs_Reform]

Definitely, Passenger transfers at prearranged points are not rescues.

THE RNLI must be the only emergency service that's booked in advance...

[Oldspeak Bookshop 📚 @oldspeak_books]

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Putting people on the wrong sex hormones for their biology comes with a high price, to them, but also the NHS. I saw this first hand with the young East German girls of the 1970s & 80s. ALL are very ill, many prematurely died. Several had children with severe disabilities. 😔

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE BANKRUPTED A MAN AFTER HE ASKED FOR HELP 91 TIMES

Lee Castleton @CastletonLee did not hide the problem.

He reported it 91 times in just 12 weeks.

He kept telling the @PostOffice that Horizon was showing losses he could not explain.

Their response was to audit him, suspend him, demand around £25,000 and eventually bankrupt him.

In 2003, Lee Castleton and his wife sold their home and bought a small Post Office branch in Bridlington, hoping for a quieter life by the sea with their two young children.

Within a year, Horizon was showing unexplained shortages.

When the case reached the High Court, he could not afford a lawyer and represented himself.

He lost.

The Post Office then pursued him for about £321,000 in legal costs.

He was bankrupted.

His children were bullied at school. His daughter was spat at because people believed her father was a thief. His wife's health suffered.

In 2019, he was one of more than 550 former postmasters in the group litigation that ended with a £58 million settlement.

His share was around £20,000.

Years later, former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry that his treatment had been unforgivable. She also accepted that she had probably signed off the legal costs that helped bankrupt him.

He is now pursuing the Post Office and Fujitsu for up to £8 million, arguing that the original 2007 judgment was obtained by fraud.

In May 2026, the Court of Appeal ruled that his claim should proceed as one trial.

Almost two decades after those first calls for help, he is still fighting.

91 calls.

No solution.

Then bankruptcy.

Sources @BBCNews @lawsocgazette @ComputerWeekly and others