Sue

I'm playing all the *right* notes. But not *necessarily* in the right order.

[Dementia UK @DementiaUK]

NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) can be a lifeline for people with dementia.

But too many families face a process that’s confusing, inconsistent, and unfair.

As part of our #FixTheFunding campaign, we’re joining 11 other charities calling on the Health Secretary to fix NHS CHC.

Sign the petition: https://t.co/7HVQrGNT9n

@Britishpolio @CarersUK @DemCarersCount @HDA_tweeting @lbsorg @ParkinsonsUK @mndassoc @MDUK_News @NeuroAlliance @spinalinjuries @tide_carers

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Rob Kenyon Exposed

A short collection of the stuff @RobKenyonReform didn’t want people to find.

Rob Kenyon revealed to have been friends on Facebook with Gary Raikes the fascist campaigner.

https://t.co/jf2SXQiakg

Carol Vorderman: Kenyon tweet where a user posted “My god I’d love to smell and lick your arsehole”, responded: “He’s only saying what we’re all thinking”.

https://t.co/BfRemKiWdU

Kenyon calls abortion “cowardly murder”:

https://t.co/jKTUqUWPI7

Kenyon states “Women can’t ref, drive or give directions’”

https://t.co/teBuYoB0hi

Kenyon said women get abortions for “vanity purposes” and so they can “shag anyone they want”.

https://t.co/fiE1XsXNv3

Kenyon called for Richard Branson to be hanged

https://t.co/7xTGfBxnlK

Kenyon was exposed as homophobic

https://t.co/m95K8laPbK

[Sue @slomax]

@AldiUK Thanks

[Sue @slomax]

@AldiUK how can plants, which will go on sale today (17 May), already be limited stock or sold out before your stores even open?
Do you adhere to the on sale dates as advertised on your website and in your leaflets or do you put items out as they arrive?

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶

[Sue @slomax]

@LancashireCC please amend timings of traffic lights at Grimsargh bridge. Traffic heading north from Preston was queued back to Red Scar today. Very little traffic in opposite direction. Took 25 minutes to travel 5 miles.
@blogpreston

[Sue @slomax]

@GBNEWS To report @GBNEWS to @Ofcom
https://t.co/80U4qiesib

[Valeria Bradley @ValerieEBradley]

@GBNEWS cc @Ofcom, we have a "mainstream" TV channel platforming someone who is promoting the "Replacement Theory", straight from the Nazi playbook.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

[shitscaredmum @shitscaredmum]

Really grateful for the opportunity to share Laura’s story & discuss the #RareCancersBill with @2ndtimeMama on @BBCBreakfast today
The bill has now passed its second reading in the House of Lords - let’s hope it won’t be long before it becomes law.
Thank you @DrScottArthurMP

[Stand Up To Cancer UK @SU2CUK]

After being diagnosed with a rare and fast-growing cancer called glioblastoma, Matthew was determined to stay positive. He proposed to his girlfriend, Carrie, and soon after they got married. Just six weeks later, Matthew died.

Carrie describes their wedding day as a day full of ‘positive love’. Matthew and Carrie stayed up and enjoyed the celebrations with family and friends until two in the morning.

We Stand Up To Cancer for Matthew and Carrie🧡

#StandUpToCancer #CancerStory

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

Kemi Badenoch has rejected mask-wearing to curb flu, saying she is “still traumatised” by “all the mask-wearing” during Covid.

You know what's more traumatising than wearing a mask?

Having your family members die because politicians played culture wars with their lives.

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[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

'Dementia patients face a postcode lottery of care, with the NHS failing to hit diagnosis targets in more than half of the country, damning figures reveal.'

A third of people in England and Northern Ireland and nearly half of people in Wales living with dementia still don't have a diagnosis.

This means that thousands are facing the devastating realities of dementia without access to the vital care, support and treatment a diagnosis can bring.

@DailyMail Read more 👇

https://t.co/Vw6hG1y20z

[Dementia UK @DementiaUK]

“It’s been harrowing to watch one of the people I love most in the world grow increasingly frail, without the support they need”.

Marianne’s dad, Brian, who has Alzheimer’s, was denied NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) funding to help pay for his care. Months later, they’re still appealing the decision.

Many families in England face similar barriers to accessing vital care funding because the application process fails to recognise the needs of people with #dementia. We want to change this.

If you or a loved one has been though the #CHC process, take our short survey and share your views: https://t.co/7ERD5ONEIg

Every response will help push for a fairer system for people with dementia.

#FixTheFunding #CarersRightsDay

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Exactly, they were silent.

[Sue @slomax]

@RoyalMail why did you deliver my @eBay_UK parcel to the wrong address? How long for you to rectify this? Makes a mockery of 'Tracked 48'. This also happened to at least one other customer in this area yesterday. Perhaps staff need glasses and a map...

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Pets Corner tycoon Dean Richmond has been blasted by furious neighbours after a huge fireworks display at his £4million estate left a horse so badly injured it had to be put down.

Mr Richmond, 52, was forced to issue a grovelling apology after the celebrations spectacularly backfired and led to an angry confrontation with villagers.

But he also warned that he would call in police over 'any aggressive or threatening behaviour' directed towards him.
It comes as one local resident branded Mr Richmond 'a selfish idiot' while others hit out at the 'hypocrisy' of the businessman whose firm boasts of being the UK's leading ethical pet retailer.

Just days before Mr Richmond hosted his party, the company posted online guidance warning owners to keep animals calm during firework season.

The advice was deleted from the firm's page shortly after the Bonfire Night party was held at Mr Richmond's Grade II-listed, seven-bedroom home in West Sussex.

[Firework Campaign @fireworkreform]

Animals shouldn’t die because of anyone’s use of #Fireworks

One horse from a neighbouring paddock was so panicked that it bolted in terror before sustaining "catastrophic" injuries when it crashed into a fence.

The Mirror reports Dean Richmond, the CEO of Pets Corner, was branded a "selfish idiot" by neighbours after he held the massive display at his £4million estate in West Sussex on November 8. Fireworks launched at the Grade-II listed mansion on Bonfire night caused shockwaves locals complained could be felt "in your body", and were described as "waves hitting the house".

Back garden #firework displays run the risk of harming, something or someone, restrict them to professional organised public displays
only. You can find a petition on our pinned post or in our post in replies to this one. #fireworklawchange
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https://t.co/noIYp1cFzG

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

What has happened...what is happening at the BBC? In normal times you might be forgiven for dismissing that question as naval gazing by journalists who can't resist talking about themselves. In normal times I'd be inclined to agree with you. These, though, are not normal times.
Ever since the first rumours of the resignations surfaced I've been piecing together what happened which led to this crisis ...

Those at the top of the BBC have appeared paralysed for the past week - unable to agree what to say not just about the editing of Donald Trump’s speech by Panorama but also wider claims of institutional bias

One source described the arguments that have raged ever since the Telegraph published a leaked memo by a former adviser to the BBC board as “like armed combat”. Another alleged “political interference” after what they described as “a hostile takeover of parts of the BBC”.

The BBC is run by a board made up of the leaders of the major divisions of the corporation and part time directors appointed by the government of the day.

BBC News executives - the journalists who run the News division - agreed the wording of a statement at the beginning of last week, admitting that it had been a mistake to edit together two different sections of Donald Trump’s speech on the day of the Capitol Hill riots without clearly signalling to the audience that the edit had been made. It would have concluded that despite this error there was “no intention to mislead” the audience.

This was not enough for the BBC board which refused to sign off the statement. The report it had received from Michael Prescott, who was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board until June 2025, stated that the Panorama film “created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers.”

The argument which raged on the BBC Board ensured that the BBC neither defended itself nor admitted its mistakes for day after day after the leaking of the Prescott dossier alleging “institutional bias”. As criticism mounted from the White House, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and many others, the BBC only said that that it would not comment on leaked documents whilst promising that the Chairman of the BBC, Samir Shah, would respond in writing to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

In her resignation statement last night the chief executive of BBC News Deborah Turness stated that

“The ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC – an institution that I love”

Neither she nor the outgoing Director General Tim Davie explained what they thought had gone wrong.

A majority of the BBC Board appear to agree with their editorial adviser that there is a problem of institutional bias reflected in the coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza/Israel and trans rights. That argument has been led by one board member Sir Robbie Gibb - a former BBC executive in charge of political programmes who became Prime Minister Theresa May’s  Downing Street Director of Communications and one of those involved in the founding of GB News. Friends of Sir Robbie insist he has repeatedly and consistently supported Tim Davie and wanted him to stay and has written articles supporting the BBC and the licence fee .

As of last night the BBC board’s 15 members had still not agreed the wording of the statement that is due to be made today by the Chairman of the BBC Samir Shah.

We expect that letter to be published later this morning

A final thought...I understand that at the time of transmission of the Panorama film in October 2024 there were no complaints received about the editing of Donald Trump’s speech.

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

What is happening at the BBC?

@bbcnickrobinson has been trying to find out what led to Director General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness resigning.

#R4Today