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[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

@oelma__ My first car, a Datsun Sunny.

[Joey Carbstrong @JoeyCarbstrong]

Albyns Farm in Essex, is an 'award-winning' milk supplier to Muller & Tesco and owned by the man in the video, John Torrance. John has held high positions in the dairy industry including the @NFU_Dairy chair for East Anglia. He also won @Tesco farmer of the year 2020. Disgraceful

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

@Acko1963 @nw_nicholas I'd describe Small Prophets the same way. A must see.

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

@Baddiel It is sue sue sue good.

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

Must also acknowledge the beautiful sound of Briana Corrigan and Dave Hemingway needing #alittletime @bbctwo @paulheatonsolo

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

Must also acknowledge the beautiful sound of Briana Corrigan and Dave Hemingway needing #alittletime @bbctwo @paulheaton

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbot. @BBCTwo @PaulHeatonSolo

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

In April 1955, a nurse held up a newspaper for a polio patient so he could read the headline...the disease that paralyzed him had finally been beaten.

Vaccines came too late for him. But they did come in time for millions of others. Let's never forget that.

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

How brilliant is Paul Heaton? @BBCTwo @PaulHeatonSolo

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGowan: They spent years demonizing Hunter Biden… And then we're watching, like you said, 23 deals last year, 16 deals this year that the Trump brothers are getting, that they were in businesses they never had. They're buying tungsten mines and AI and drones and all the things that their dad actually makes decisions on.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Today, Gaza buried 112 members of two families — Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia — whose remains were pulled from the rubble of homes destroyed earlier by Israeli airstrikes. The funeral came during one of the deadliest stretches of Israeli bombardment in recent days, proof that the #GazaGenocide‌ has not ended despite ceasefire and deal announcements. Israel’s plan has not changed since 1948: the mass expulsion of Palestinians and the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, many were shocked by yet another video of the drone “safari” Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson. A Russian drone deliberately hunted down a man selling vegetables and detonated right next to him. The Russians even admitted to the crime, showing zero regret and openly boasting about tormenting people. The man was wounded in the blast. Every single day, ordinary people in Kherson face these Russian "safaris."

The world must see this. It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abusing civilians. Without pressure on Russia, the dismantling of its capacity for aggression, and real security guarantees, it is simply impossible to imagine the world being able to coexist with this evil. We must remain resolute in defending life. We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to seriously think about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.

This is not just about Ukraine. Russia’s campaign against human life must be stopped here in Ukraine before it spreads further. Finland and Kazakhstan, the Baltic states and Poland, the countries of the South Caucasus, Romania, and Moldova—all should work together to ensure real security guarantees and bring Russia’s war to an end. Peace is needed, which requires cooperation among everyone in the world who truly values peace. Thank you to everyone standing with Ukraine!

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

@dieworkwear When I first started working in clothing in 1988, there were 2 seasons, spring/summer and autumn/ winter. That changed to spring, summer, autumn, winter. And now the retailers are churning over new ranges on a continuous basis.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Sky's @sparkomat reports from the West Bank on the impact of the escalating violence and the challenges of delivering urgent care under an increased Israeli military presence.

🔗https://t.co/COTnQGpoU1

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

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[sarah @sahouraxo]

700 tons of explosives.

Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.

A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Beyond sad. He’s been given a second life, but the reason want to kill him anyway. We need your help.
This young man, was scheduled to be executed alongside two other protesters in Iran on Tuesday. But before hanging him, his heart gave out from pressure. They rushed him to hospital, not out of mercy, but to keep him alive long enough to hang later.
His name is Alireza Sepahi. He is still alive.
We need international media to talk about this war being imposed on unarmed Iranians.
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Gillian @Gillyhbean]

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[UEFA @UEFA]

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