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Adventures and running and stuff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in 🇦🇿

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Annie Glen @AnnieGlen20]

FFS .....another 35 peers to be elevated to the Lords!!
Old people are being forced to work until they are 68 because there is no money to pay their pensions yet there is money to pay another 35 dossers £371 a DAY ......plus expenses.
Bloody ridiculous.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I most definitely don’t want any of these men in my bathroom or changing room & I absolutely don’t want them changing next to my grand daughter. Ever. Believe what they show you… over & over.

[Venice Allan @roseveniceallan]

Disagree. Women should not have to work alongside men who publicly fantasise about an elderly woman being raped to death, as well as previously bragging that he breaks the law to use women’s spaces. He’s a dangerous man and should be sacked by the university, pronto.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Thames Water has already run out of money. Due to “funding constraints”, they do not apparently have the money to fix the illegal outfalls pouring billions of litres a year of raw sewage into my river before 2030.

A business that is so short on cash that it can only continue operating by breaking the law is called at best bankrupt, & at worst serious organised crime.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Help Find This Scumbag!

This man brutally and repeatedly smashed a Seagull against the wall of the Harbour View Cafe in Truro because it tried to steal some food. He then stuffed the Seagull through the fence onto the road where if floundered with two broken wings.

This was in front of numerous people and children who were hugely upset.

[tag 🇬🇧 @tag4UK]

I am married with a young daughter, both myself and my husband work.

-We are not entitled to housing benefit, or any other benefit for that matter.

-We do not get free eye tests, free dental care or free prescriptions.

-Our daughter is not entitled to free school meals, or free breakfast clubs, or free wrap around care, no help with her uniform.

-We don’t get council tax discount, or any other discount.

-We don’t get help with our energy bills, or low cost broadband.

-We don’t get help with the cost of going to the cinema, or days out at theme parks.

-My daughter is unable to play outside unsupervised, because you have failed to secure our borders and the streets aren’t safe.

-If I work more hours, I fall into the higher tax band.

Why should someone like me, vote for someone like you? @UKLabour @andyburnham

What are you offering my family?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[Carla Francome @carlafrancome]

On Hampstead Heath today at 4 PM, practically no one was on the scorched yellow grass in direct sunlight, but there were dozens of people under these majestic trees.

A reminder that it’s between 7 and 15 degrees cooler under trees. It’s obvious we need more everywhere …

[Marc Webber @marcwebber]

Hi @wimbledon.
Why don’t you have a day where you invite lifesavers & normal people that have done good stuff into the Royal Box?
I promise that will go viral better than a gaggle of influencers who don’t actually watch the tennis.
It would be a good thing to do as well.

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Another bad week for women in Britain is there any other now? a mother & her daughters murdered according to the BBC 'was a nice man who loved his family'. Rape Gang survivors asking the public for support because their torturers & rapists have been released early from jail. An elderly conservative woman politician murdered in her own home a leading political broadcaster describes her as 'old maid & 'virgin' & a #bekind Transwoman hopes she was handcuffed to her bed & tortured. All of this is male violence, the women are diverse the men are same they hate women.

[Athers @Athers83]

Controversial take but hear me out: I don’t think you have to share the same political views to think a 78 year old woman being bludgeoned to death in her own home is fucking awful

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

[Ben Maguire MP @BenMaguireMP]

🚨 🐶 TOUGHER action on animal abuse - NOW.

I stood up in Parliament last week to call for a COMPLETE ownership ban for people who cause horrific harm to animals.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I totally disagree with this. Uniform is cheap in most schools. Cheaper than normal cloths that will still get worn out & need replacing. Kids compete with their cloths (& shoes) ; uniform levels the playing field & makes kids feel like they belong. It’s a huge mistake to limit school uniform & sports kit will probably be worst affected. Big mistake.

[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

🚨 Yet more feral kids killing wildlife - if they're your kids, take a good long look at yourself.

The little hedgehog that was being kicked around like a football by kids in Maidstone hasn't been doing well.

Even though he was taken to a vet by a DPD driver before he was transferred here, a further and thorough assessment by our vet under sedation today found that his upper palate had been broken and his liver lacerated from the impact of the blunt force trauma inflicted.

He was helped across the rainbow bridge.

It's not often I cry even though I see some awful injuries and unimaginable suffering on a regular basis but this little one was a baby and had his life intentionally kicked out of him before he had even had a chance to live one. By children. 💔

Thorne Hedgehog Rescue.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.

Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital

He ran off and killed himself

[Jess 🖖 @strongjess91]

@DavidPSamson So sorry for your loss, her photo grabbed my attention and my dad also passed away due to brain cancer, I’ve donated 🤍

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

The news cycle moves on quickly - particularly when there’s huge and consequential things happening - like a change of prime minister.

But there’s one story that I haven’t been able to get out of my head. And I don’t just want to move away from.

It’s the story of what happened to little Preston Davey.

He was born to a murderer. When she was 15, his mum killed a pensioner, crammed her in a bin and used her savings to buy crisps and chocolate. Preston was taken from her when he was five days old.

Preston was then adopted by two men who abused him in the most unimaginable way. One of them - a teacher - was given a whole life order for sexually abusing him and causing his death.

Preston was only 13 months old.

But here’s the thing. Because it is not true to say Preston only knew abuse. To say Preston never knew happiness.

Because from the age of 5 days to 10 months, Preston was looked after by two people who actually sound pretty amazing.

His foster parents.

I haven’t said the names of his biological mother or his adoptive parents. But Preston’s foster parents are two people whose name we should remember.

Sandra and Paul Cooper.

Sandra told the court: "Paul and I will often watch the videos we took of Preston when he was happy with us laughing and giggling, playing with his toys smiling. Preston's face would light up when we looked at him; he was joyful, so content and happy, with sparkly smiling eyes. That is how we want to remember him.”

They warned the social workers about concerns they had over his adoptive parents. But they weren’t listened to.

And they’ve been left devastated by his death.

Sandra says she dreams of Preston. He’s still alive in those dreams. Paul says he cries for him every single week.

Sandra and Paul fostered dozens of children. Preston was going to be their last - their retirement baby. but now they feel they have to keep going, in Preston’s memory.