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policy, politics🗣, urban, rural, 🏏 & much else. lamenting the alteration of a cherished landscape🏗. usual t&c apply, incl rt ≠ agreement

[P @pgsaunders]

@PJDarran200 Exactly!

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

This is a funny scene from Return of the Pink Panther (1975). Peter Sellers, playing Inspector Clouseau, imitates Humphrey Bogart, making Catherine Schell burst out laughing during take after take. Director Blake Edwards eventually decided to keep those genuine moments of laughter in the final cut.

[P @pgsaunders]

@Moonlighhy Genius. On so many levels.

I was laughing even before the light was switched on.

[Peter G Thompson @deGourlay]

Cabinet meeting minutes, 11 November 1918.
#LestWeForget

[P @pgsaunders]

@AwakenedOf I read today that the @UKLabour is
a. forcing landlords to pay a new £65pa per property tax and
b. Is mandating registration via the One Gov site

No way round it as far as I know. 🤨🤨🤨

[P @pgsaunders]

@NatureUnedited Are they naturally that inquisitive or are they fairly tame ones?!

[Andrew Gold @AndrewGold_ok]

Laurence Fox says the London he grew up in no longer exists.

He remembers living with his first girlfriend on in Bethnal Green. To him, the city felt completely different from the London he sees today.

He says the change is not only about crime statistics. It is also about the harder-to-measure feeling that the culture of your home has changed around you.

He thinks people are now afraid to admit they feel sad about that.

“My home is different and this is my only home. I’ve got nowhere else to go.”

Fox says there are things he likes about immigration and doesn’t pretend every change has been negative.

But he says that does not stop him missing the London he remembers.

He points to ordinary things that now feel different to him. Supermarkets with security guards. Large protective screens. A city that, in his view, no longer feels like the one he grew up walking around.

And he thinks younger Londoners may never understand that sense of loss because they never knew the city before it changed.

Is missing the culture of the place you grew up in simply nostalgia, or should people be allowed to say something has genuinely been lost?

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[P @pgsaunders]

@OldBlightyTies WOW. 🤩 thank you 👔👨‍💼

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The British railway networks explained brilliantly 😂

Video credit: British Brainrot on YouTube

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

In 1977, the Lion of Stalingrad, Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov, sat down with young reporters and students to answer their questions.

I have added English subtitles to the video to the best of my ability. I hope you all enjoy it!

This is the full video.

[P @pgsaunders]

@MacRosie3 @Delly_Innes @ScottishPower Yes this is crucial. Also speak to @CitizensAdvice and @ofgem
Scottish power almost certainly acting unlawfully.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

In 2019, @BBCPanorama sent undercover reporter Olivia Davies into Whorlton Hall for 38 days.

The NHS funded hospital in County Durham held adults with learning disabilities and autism. Ran by Cygnet Health Care.

The footage showed staff mocking, taunting, restraining and threatening patients. Alex, a 20 year old autistic woman, had been there almost a year. Her family learned the truth when the BBC showed them the tape.

The regulator @CareQualityComm had warnings twice. It inspected in 2018 after a whistleblower spoke up and never investigated the staff at the centre of it.

It also sat on a 2015 report of serious concerns instead of publishing it.

Whorlton Hall shares its corporate lineage with Winterbourne View, which Panorama exposed in 2011.

8 years later.

The hospital closed after the broadcast. Durham Police charged 9 former staff with 27 counts of ill treatment or wilful neglect.

4 men were convicted and received suspended sentences in 2024. The judge described the place as inherently frightening to live in.

Suspended sentences for filmed cruelty against some of the most vulnerable adults in the country.

SOURCES
@BBCPanorama
@BBCNews
@CareQualityComm
and others

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

This may be one of the best explanations of male depression that I’ve ever heard. This is explains why guys are suicidal and their friends, parents, and/or wives don’t even know it. This is also why a man can be married with kids, great job, etc. & feel lonely & depressed.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”

Shakespeare wrote those lines more than 400 years ago, but every soldier knows the feeling. The men and women I served with were my band of brothers and sisters. Though time and distance scatter us, our bond never breaks.

This Veterans Day week, I dedicate this one to every soldier who ever stood beside me. I am proud to have served with you.

(Henry V, 1989)

[P @pgsaunders]

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[P @pgsaunders]

@claire_adams694 Avoid @OctopusEnergy and @BritishGas the former will wrongly charge you and the latter with insist on incredibly high direct debits(well beyond your usage).
In both cases this happened to me (British Gas being last week!!)

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

One of the most moving moments in cinema. The British, who know they are done for, sing “Men of Harlech” as the Zulus attack in “Zulu” (1964), starring Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and Michael Caine, in his first major role.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

RICHARD BURTON — born 101yrs ago today — reads the V.C. roll call at the end of

ZULU (1964)

[P @pgsaunders]

Heroes. Beyond almost anything we can imagine in 2026.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

RICHARD BURTON — born 101yrs ago today — reads the V.C. roll call at the end of

ZULU (1964)