There's a group of kids who hang out under a bridge near me. I call them the Trolls. It's affectionate, I'm quite fond of them. Today, one of them fell in the absolutely gross water under the bridge. I don't think trolls fall in...do they need a new name now? The Floaters?
Conservationists, ecologists and nature lovers - I’ve done all I can over the last five and a half months to get this petition over the line of 10,000. We’ve done well to get it to 6,630 - thank you everyone - but we can’t do it without your help now. https://t.co/0xWOyZG1fq
Today, 700,000+ workers take part in the biggest strike in decades:
🧑🏫 Teachers
🩺 Junior doctors
📚 University staff
🏢 Civil servants
📦 Amazon workers
🚆 London Underground
📻 Local radio journalists
RT this if you support their fight for a cost-of-living pay rise!
A budget summary in tweets and charts https://t.co/SfA9bdCzv0 A dismal budget summarised as best as I can in a series of charts that lay out the budget fantasy that underpins the forecasts
The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press https://t.co/qY2ZwZS90q
Whatever the government and right wing press would like you to believe we are not near record levels of UK debt and when it was much higher we built the NHS, masses of social housing and education for all. In other words, national debt funded real improvement in our lives
We are in the surreal situation today where our police could not apparently investigate a retrospective crime by our prime minister not so very long ago but they are now being given the power to investigate prospective crimes. You literally could not make something this absurd up
Last year, Jeremy Hunt spent £1.4bn on NHS redundancies - then spent £3.9 billion filling the gaps with temporary agency staff in the NHS – tripling costs in just 3 years.
Why isn’t the MSM covering this? https://t.co/JBnLIyhasK
By 2pm today, January 5th, the CEOs of the FTSE 100 companies had been paid more than the average worker earns in a year.
At 3pm the government announced legislation to potentially allow those CEOs to sack workers who take lawful action to win a fair deal at work.
Sickening.
Vivienne Westwood driving a tank to David Cameron's home to campaign against fracking when he was a sitting Prime Minister, will be forever etched in my mind as some of my favorite memories of her.
Cause havoc up there fierce Queen ✊
If you want to complain about the outrageous hatred expressed by Clarkson you can email the Independent Press Standards Organisation at [email protected].
“Cities are dangerous! Move to the countryside!” My good man, I live in England. Nowhere is more treacherous than the English countryside, where old lady detectives chase murderers, fairies steal babies, Old Man Willow entraps travellers and Herne the Hunter stalks the forests.