GillyMcGill

VAT advisor based in East Anglia. School Governor, PCC member, Sunday School leader, and keen social runner.

[Brian Willott Farms @BrianWillott]

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

I need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one’s late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported"

"We're price taker and not a price maker"

"There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson"

"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"

"We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband - please do this every time the subject is raised and get the message across 👏

[sandra @mrsDugskullery]

Isn't it interesting that all those people who want women in Iran to be free to wear whatever they like, are up in arms about Green MP Hannah Spencer wearing what she likes.

In fact most have a history of controlling what women can and can't wear.

😬🤦🤷

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

try the White House

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

Women don't want chocolate and flowers for Valentine's Day this year. We just want to see investigations and arrests.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

America : "We're invading Greenland. We're specially trained in cold weather activities."

Also America ...

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Statement by Becca Good.
Read it @JDVance—and burn in hell.

“First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.

Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.

Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.

Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.

What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.

We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.

On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.

Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Today I learned that pockets in dresses were phased out so women could prove they were not witches and carrying ill intentions and spells. This is why women love pockets in skirts and dresses now. We carry our spells and curses without purses and you won't see us coming.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

The Government must stand firm on Biodiversity Net Gain - if they don't the losses for people and nature will be catastrophic.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

"Christ would embrace the refugees and cast the fascists out"

Billy Bragg sings a new song in response to a far right carol concert in London

Song: Put Christ Back in Christmas

Put Christ back into Christmas
The season of goodwill
Peace on earth for everyone
So let the bombs be still

:et the guns fall silent
Let the hungry be fed
And let the tyrants of the world
Lay uneasy in their beds

You'll want Christ back in Christmas
Yet you ignore his words
And live a life of selfish
As if you've never heard

Of the Samaritan who stopped and helped
Strangers dressed in rags
And you pay lip service to the world
While worshipping the flag

A flag won't ask you've done to help the poor survive
But Christ demands you cast you cast away the sin of national pride

Love thy neighbour as thyself
And you will plainly see
That true message of Christmas time
Is one of empathy

In haste to vilify you forget
Christ was a refugee
King Herod's murders orders forced
His family to flee

Into the land of Egypt
Where their safety did lie

Would you refuse to let him in
And sent him back to die

God rest ye merry gentlemen
All drunken in dismay

You'd not be so belligerent
If Christ came back today
If he was forced to chose a side
I'd tell you without doubt

That he'd embrace the refugee
And cast the fascists out

Come all you peopel of good faith
And listen to my song

If you have studied your holy book
You'd know that it is wrong
To use the name of Jesus Christ
In order to divide

So stand with those
Who need the most
Goodwill at Christmas time

So stand with those
Who need the most
Goodwill at Christmas time

Put Christ back in Christmas

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

This is very good. Well done @churchofengland Christmas isn't cancelled.
https://t.co/9oiqfOIoY3 via @YouTube

[GillyMcGill @mc_vat]

@rbeccabeneworth @hmtreasury @HMRCgovuk @GilesMooney @ICAEW_Tax It still isn’t there!

[Dr Peter Prinsley MP @PeterPrinsley]

My annual Christmas Card Competition for children aged 11 and under is closing this Friday!

The winning design will feature on my official Christmas card for 2025!

Full details on how to enter can be found here: https://t.co/FXdGJSm0m0

[Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @DoctorChrisVT]

Weak regulation allows food companies to dupe parents into thinking junk food is healthy.
I was honoured to speak with the Health and Social Care Committee @CommonsHealth today just as new obesity figures show that almost a third of children in parts of England live with overweight or obesity by the age of five.
Obesity is 'commercially determined'. It's caused by the deliberate manufacture and marketing of food that is engineered to drive excessive consumption.
We know this from the stats, the academic literature, and from food industry testimony. And we know this by lived experience - it’s really hard to stop eating certain products!
The problem is not just the obvious junk; staple foods like yoghurts, cereals, breads, ready meals, baked beans and other products promoted as healthy are all engineered in this way.
If we are serious about a 'moonshot' approach then we need to use the same kind of approaches to that we used to control the pandemic of lung cancer caused by tobacco companies. 1/3

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[GillyMcGill @mc_vat]

@MartinSLewis I’m a VAT adviser and I love it. My job is intellectually stimulating, very varied, and people focused. I read Law and took a unit in revenue law which sparked my initial interest. Have never looked back.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Joanna Maciejewska with some truths about A.I. Do you agree? Credit: @awlilnatty

[GillyMcGill @mc_vat]

@MartinSLewis I went to Uni of Reading 1995 to read Law. I wouldn’t have the job I do now (financial services) without my degree as non-grad trainees weren’t a thing then. First in my family to go to HE and wouldn’t have done it if it cost what it does now. Had a job throughout.

[Penny 👩🏻‍🦰🦩 @pennywpennyw]

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