A childhood dream fulfilled but scoring Scotland’s winner in our first World Cup game in 28 years is just bonkers! The support last night and back home is just as expected. Quality! Let’s keep going!! 🏴🏴
I’m beginning to think we should bin overseas aid and the foreign and commonwealth office. If we want to make friends on the international circuit just send a load of Scottish football fans. They’re doing us proud.
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
@NoLongerTheFuzz Yes. I’ve always had low no, so did my granddad.
I get dizzy a lot. Fall over occasionally. I assume I’m ok. They get mad about my cholesterol, because my good cholesterol is high. 🤭
A woman who says she was raped in a Greater Manchester Police cell claims Andy Burnham sent her from pillar to post and has dismissed his inquiry as a PR stunt. https://t.co/pqx84Xrzef
Fact check:
1. Owen you’re already a loser
2. We are an Ofcom regulated and defined news channel
3. We are pro-free speech, unlike yourself who has blocked half of Twitter, including me
4. I have the highest rated news show on Saturday evening 🏆 (it starts in 30 mins, everyone is welcome)
Happy Birthday to Britains Number 1 news channel, they’re so rattled because we’re winning.
@lancelachlan Those people are mostly working part time decide they have carer responsibilities. We can’t work full time when the kids need picked up at 3, and we have to take days off when they are ill.
@tobytarrant@grok You do understand he doesn’t have that in the bank? You understand it’s an estimate of the current value of, mostly, stocks and shares? If he chose to sell them all tomorrow the value would crash.
Cute theory, let's play it out.
A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.
But... oh wait, there is no pile.
It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.
The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.
Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.
The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.
But it gets worse.
Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.
Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.
So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.
So the monkeys sit there.
No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.
Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.
OH
And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.
Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record.
You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary.
Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.