Christine Livesey

Winding down on my time in Saigon. June 2027 will see a return to the UK. What will retirement hold-catching up on special times with grandsons and exploring.

[Lloyd @LGB_1962]

Carry On lying......

[Christine Livesey @liveseyc1921]

One of my favourite actors.

[Irene Sutcliffe Fans @IreneSFans]

Wishing the wonderful Clive Francis a very happy 80th birthday today!

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

ROBERT HARDMAN: Proof that Bridget Phillipson IS a spiteful class warrior and that children are suffering as a result of her policies https://t.co/dsq10fIRcy

[Judi Smith @judismithJudi]

Thought of the day........

[World Cup Out Of Context @WorldCup__26]

Wilson Isidor’s stunning goal for Haiti against Morocco 🤯

[𝔅͛𝔯͛𝔦͛𝔞͛𝔫͛ ͛𝔚͛𝔥͛𝔢͛𝔩͛𝔱͛𝔬͛𝔫͛ @brianwhelton]

Vote @Number10cat

[Christine Livesey @liveseyc1921]

I remember it well, Ian Richardson in House of Cards.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel, or a whore — not, I think, in a Prime Minister...”

Francis Urquhart [Ian Richardson] House of Cards

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I sense that political obituarists are preparing to run with the line that @Keir_Starmer was a decent fellow, but ill-suited to politics. Honest but naïve.
Well, have a look at this and then try to tell me he was honest. The signs were there from the start.

[Christine Livesey @liveseyc1921]

Lunatic

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

You're looking at our future Chancellor.

God help us all...

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Happy Birthday Thelma Barlow, born this day in 1929.

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

The Sunderland admin at the stadium when Granit Xhaka scores in the #FIFAWorldCup 🤯🇨🇭

[𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 ‘𝓣𝓲𝓵 𝓘 𝓓𝓲𝓮 🐈‍⬛🔴⚪️ @1973mackem]

“Sun’lun take over everywhere we go….” #SAFC #HawayTheLads #England

[Christine Livesey @liveseyc1921]

This does matter but not to the likes of Blair and his cronies.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

NEW: Al Carns TEARS SHREDS out of Keir Starmer for his treatment of Northern Ireland veterans.

Well said.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

One hell of a letter in The Times today from General Sir Nick Carter, a former head of the armed forces

He warns that Britain risks becoming ‘Belgium with nuclear weapons’ unless it spends more on defence

‘Successive governments have hollowed our armed forces out to such a degree that if we do not spend what is needed now to arrest that decline, and transform them for the modern world, we risk becoming Belgium with nuclear weapons. And our enemies are watching’

Times letters: Britain’s slide down the Nato league table

https://t.co/wwL5HT5fFy