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@OwlDarling @David90shaw He will have to agree an orderly transfer by September. It’s the only way to distract the throng (leadership contest = reality show), placate the markets at least short term, and keep Labour in power.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

And as C.S. Lewis once wrote...

"To be happy at home, said (Samuel) Johnson, is the end of all human endeavour. As long as we are thinking only of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing the sand and sowing the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of spirit. Collective activities are, of course, necessary, but this is the end to which they are necessary."

[Von Barken Twins @VonBarkenTwins]

The Royal Society correcting misinformation in 1973..

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@RebeccadeLuca8 @AlexSVisram @biltontowers Yes, I worked until I was 64, but working isn’t the same as standing up on public transport 😄

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@AlexSVisram @biltontowers Come back when you’re 64.

I’d’ve just sat sideways I think.

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@irishelt This was his biggest error, treating the advisory referendum as if it were mandatory. Ironically, that was about personal survival in his party, but once it was done he couldn’t live with himself. A modern tragedy.

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@RobSFowler @ikeijeh How, seriously, can someone with so little gravitas end up in the HoL with permanent influence over the legislature?

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@Niall_Boylan A monster.

[Jules @00julesj]

My lover's got no money, he's got his trombolese."

The only answer

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Fra Angelico

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Asda is going bust... stripped of its assets by Private Equity like BHS and Debenhams were. Now paying rent on assets it used to own... and interest on debts to fund it's own purchase.

When will we ever learn.

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@aigne_aighne Yes, absolutely.

I’m puzzled by GL tbh, he would have gone to school in our era which was noted for liberalism. Even pushback from oldies didn’t focus on this, they were more interested in our lapsed morals.

There was highly ecumenical, historical, interest in “the Holy Land”.

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@aigne_aighne I don’t remember Irish Catholics of old obsessing about any of this. What’s familiar is the fervour, but it’s political.

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Canicule

📷 Antje Woolum

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@paula_hall @NiecyOKeeffe Ohmygod

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@KB127 @prodnose His father was a coal miner.

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Outstanding woodcut from Dutch artist Elaine Brontsema. Mind blowing! 🫶👍

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@ThePosieParker @JohnCleese The line is “I don’t want to sacrifice my children for my beliefs”. I have been listening to it for nearly 60 years.

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@QcWynter I just say, you called me.

[Rebel Ada @DearRebelAda]

When I was adopting my son, I knew I was the luckiest person in the world. My whole life revolved around him, as it must: it was integral to our happiness. The early years were a honeymoon without end.
Jamie Varley voiced suicidal and even homicidal ideas within weeks of caring for the beautiful, happy baby that Preston was. He didn’t have to work, it was spring and summer, he had no other children to care for, a decent home, a partner and family to help. A lack of sleep is part of the deal.
How could this mental instability be brushed off, not treated as a serious danger to the baby? Did they think it was within the normal dramatic repertoire of this gay man? His falsetto wailing after Preston’s death seemed performative, contrived.
It isn’t normal to react to the presence of a baby with such destructive thoughts, but he felt comfortable to express them to social worker and colleagues, saying don’t worry, “My social worker knows about my mental health”. Then the social worker should have recognised the danger and acted.
The placement had not been made permanent and should have been suspended then. Preston could have had a “holiday” back with his foster family, and his grandmother who had already adopted his sister could have been re-assessed, in the hope her health had recovered. She should have had more support, a longer fostering period, a graded approach.
We need to eradicate the ideological capture of Social Services.

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@Goto_paulcastle @DeborahMeaden @Carriegusewize Their dispersal to HMOs is mentioned on the news and has a project name and everything.