Jane Franklin

social media addict, culture junkie and irreverent blogger dressed up as fundraiser for deserving causes

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Starmer looking utterly
pathetic because there is no excuse for this
Mandelson vetting nonsense. He should never have been appointed. No humility and no credibility. Classic spineless behaviour. He needs to go.

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@hm never collected my return. The WORST customer experience imaginable. 4 calls to different agents all giving different info. Chaos

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@nextofficial customer service really dreadful. Ordered 3 chandeliers for next day delivery and the 3rd never arrived.

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Typical disorganised chaos from Shittish Airways who sell tickets on the basis of carry on luggage and then confiscate it when boarding. If they are using small planes they should not offer carry on luggage when they can’t accommodate it. @British_Airways #notgoodenough

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Flying @Virgin to US. A stark contrast to @flynorse and their nasty rude staff. Lots of charming @Virgin smiley air hostesses and the toilets are clean! Last flight home from Orlando with @flynorse was over 3 hours late. Under EU law they should have compensated us and didn’t

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@flynorse Shame that you have made it impossible to get in touch and your customer service is non existent. Flew 3 times with you to Orlando this year - each time a problem. Thursday’s flight back to London was 3 hours late. No compensation either despite EU laws #flynorse

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Absurdly avoidant and incompetent questioning of @BBCNews by @DCMS committee leapfrogging the partisan elephants in the room. I smell yet another rat! Why am I not surprised?

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Honestly @flynorse have the rudest staff on the planet! Unacceptable. I have never had to put my back back in a sizing frame ever and as a result a miniature perfume bottle shattered and ruined my AirPods and MontBlanc pen. They could not give a **** #norse

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@flynorse stewardesses haven’t improved their customer service skills since the last time I flew with them in July. I guess you get what you pay for and they think it’s okay to speak to passengers rudely because they paid for a cheap fare!

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

Excellent new podcast featuring deep dive into entrepreneurial success stories. This guy knows how to tell a story - throughly recommend #finance #business #podcast #startup #thoughtleadership #strategy #entrepreneur #stories https://t.co/8Iep4ugr0g

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Since the Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023, there has been a horrific rise in antisemitism.
Hourly anti-Israel stories by @BBCNews and others, hateful protests by the left have made life dangerous for British Jews.
Today’s heinous attack on a synagogue is where it leads.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Four people were wounded in Manchester today - one stabbed, three mown down by a car - outside a synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year. The attacker was shot dead by police.

The attack is the result of years in which antisemitic rhetoric has been allowed to fester and grow unchecked - on our streets, in our schools, on our campuses, across social media, and from within politics itself. It is fed every weekend by pro-Palestinian marches that exude raw Jew-hate: chants of "From the river to the sea," cries of "Khaybar, Khaybar," placards likening Israel to Nazi Germany, and the relentless drumbeat that frames the Jewish state as a genocidal pariah. Words like these do not evaporate harmlessly. They embolden. They license hatred. They teach that Jews are fair game.

The danger today was so clear that police launched Operation Plato - Britain's emergency response to marauding terror attacks. That protocol isn't triggered lightly; it exists for the nightmare scenario of roaming killers on the hunt. Police feared Jews gathering to pray might be prey. That alone should shake this country to its core.

Yet while the immediate threat was contained, the climate that produced it was built over years by cowardice and indulgence. Instead of drawing a line between legitimate criticism of Israeli policy and the demonisation of an entire people, our political class blurred it beyond recognition. The casual use of the word genocide - repeated by left-wing MPs, echoed by ministers, amplified by media desperate for moral theatre - has consequences. If you tell the public over and over that Israel is exterminating people, do not feign surprise when men with knives and cars see Jews themselves as fitting enemies.

Adding fuel is the long courtship between the Left and Islam. This isn't conspiracy; it's political fact. Since the late 1990s, when the term "Islamophobia" was engineered and pushed into policy, a shield has silenced scrutiny of Islamist ideology by branding it bigotry. Under that cover came decades of looking away - from misogyny, grooming gangs, radical preaching, and now the antisemitic undercurrents spilling out of pro-Hamas networks. Universities have become test beds for this alliance: campuses where Jewish students are isolated, abused, told to answer for Israel's existence, and abandoned by staff and unions who parrot slogans reducing a living people to a colonial sin.

All the while, British institutions have shrunk from the fight. Police look for "balance" when there is none to find. Party leaders issue tepid condemnations sandwiched between affirmations of protest. Social media companies act with speed against unfashionable speech but leave posts glorifying violence against Jews to fester. The result is a culture where hate thrives, intimidation is normalised, and knives find their mark outside a synagogue.

If this continues unchecked, Jewish life in Britain will wither. Parents will hesitate before sending children to Jewish schools. Synagogues will harden behind concrete and steel. Ordinary families will live with fear as a constant companion. And Britain itself will be diminished - because a country that cannot protect its Jews is a country that has lost its moral spine.

It's time to break with cowardice. The government must draw a clear line: protests with antisemitic chants or terror glorification are not "free speech" but incitement and must be shut down. Universities tolerating Jew-baiting should lose funding until they enforce their codes. Social media must act on the high-visibility hate they let spread. And leaders who cried "genocide" must own the permission they gave to hate.

Britain stands at a crossroads: today's blood in Manchester echoes the hate we've excused - name the antisemitism, confront it, or watch the darkness spread.

"The government must draw a clear line: protests with antisemitic chants or terror glorification are not "free speech" but incitement and must be shut down."

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the Holocaust, promising freedom under the rule of law. Today I pray for the victims, thank the brave who responded and wonder if that promise is fading. A community this small cannot stand alone. If you believe in Britain (wherever you’re from & whatever your faith) you must stand with us. Many Jews cannot imagine a future here and history tells us what follows when that happens.

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

⁦@FitbitSupport⁩ ⁦@fitbit⁩ refused to replace this device under warranty when there is clearly a manufacturing fault where the glue is failing and the screen is detaching from the frame. 3rd time I have purchased a Fitbit for my husband and definitely the last

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@thewhitecompany Many thanks Sue - appreciated

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@thewhitecompany customer service is now officially really sub standard. Placed an order a week ago which hasn’t even been processed let alone despatched. Online chat revealed “distribution issues” meanwhile they banked my money. #notgoodenough

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@thewhitecompany I did that - no one responded

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

@X I cannot access my account on my MacBook at all - can you help?

[Olivier Awards @OlivierAwards]

The Olivier Award for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre goes to Boys On The Verge Of Tears by Sam Grabiner at @sohotheatre.

#OlivierAwards

[Jane Franklin @jrfrank]

‘Devour Feculence’ Go Milchick …
My new favourite phrase. #Severance Best TV show ever. Sling them every award going.
Masterful @AppleTV