Can anyone help out?
Perfectly healthy laying hens are going to be destroyed because of a stupid rule at @waitrose and @marksandspencer.
If you can make room for a couple of feathered friends please get in touch with Richard.
On the spiteful nature of Labour’s education policy, let’s revisit the single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing, as well as frustrating.
Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities - a noble endeavour backed by funding from Eton as well as a commitment to share their passion and expertise.
The last Conservative government said yes in 2023 under @GillianKeegan, in a victory for local children and parents and for a great campaign led by independent Mayor Andy Preston @centre_right_ and Conservative Councillor @MiekaSmiles.
But astonishingly, Labour locally campaigned against it. Andy McDonald MP raged against Eton as a "hallmark of stifling elitism”.
What did Bridget Philipson do when she became Education Secretary? She killed the project. Prejudice trumped social mobility.
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Loki is 3yrs old and this boy spent his first year living in a plastic bike shed and only allowed out for loo breaks! Loki missed out on a lot and can be a scared boy so will need an exp and patient home please
#dogs#germanshepherd#Cornwall
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THE SILENCE ENDS 1 JULY
If you do not know what an ombudsman @financialombuds is, you are not alone. Most people do not, until they need one.
Financial Ombudsman Service is meant to be the place consumers go when banks, lenders and insurers fail them. It is free. It is meant to be fair. Over a million people contact it every year hoping for one thing. Someone to finally listen.
In 2018, @Channel4 Dispatches went undercover inside FOS. What they found was staff making decisions on people's lives without proper training, without reading case files, more often then not ruling in the bank's favour by guesswork.
Hundreds of thousands of decisions may have been wrong. I am sharing that footage. Watch it. Then ask yourself how many of those decisions touched someone you know.
I have lived this. Five years of fabricated documents. Forensic proof ignored. A 122-page complaint blocked by the Chief Ombudsman's own office. Evidence of fraud dismissed as a printing error.
Gary Smith @G8GWS has lived it from the other side for twelve years.
He has watched elderly consumers wait years for an answer that never came in time. He has seen complainants pass away before their case was even concluded.
People who trusted the system and ran out of time waiting for it to work.
This is about a watchdog that too often sides with the institutions it was built to hold to account, while the people it was built to protect are left waiting, beind defrauded or worse, never get an answer at all.
Strong institutions do not fear scrutiny. They welcome it. FOS has had every chance to show that. It has not.
That is why the FOS Litigation Group exists.
1 July 2026. 10:00 AM. The website goes live. Gary has built it and funded it personally, down to the hosting, from his own pocket.
What comes next needs all of us. Funding for a Judicial Review. A Public Law advocate. Every penny raised goes to the cause, none of it to Gary or @MeridianLegals.
If you have ever waited for an ombudsman and been let down. If you know someone who waited and ran out of time. If you believe a watchdog should actually watch.
Be ready. Show up on 1 July.
Share this everywhere you can.
This is in the public interest.
This is in our interest.
@stevemiddi1@Victoria_Rixon@TransparencyTF@MLorrM@sharmilaxx@ClareCraigPath@markbishopuk
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.
Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.
Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵
Gorgeous Delilah at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary, 14 years old, and now looking for her retirement home .
If you can offer Delilah a calm home her senior years please email [email protected] with your full name address telephone number and email address.
I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.
The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.
There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.
What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.
Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.
This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.
That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.
What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.
Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?
No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.
@AllisonPearson@hools When my kids were younger I turned off the Internet at 9 .. parents can take control if they want to.. they also don’t have to buy their kids phones if they don’t want to.. parents should parent, not the government
Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.
Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.
I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.
This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.
We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.
If you, or someone you love, has
cancer,
B12 deficiency,
kidney dialysis
or a stent
you need to know they they must now avoid ALL white flour.
They also need to check wholemeal and even gluten free products which also contain folic acid.
Sign this petition to stop it being mandated in flour:
https://t.co/OgdjkgUBHW
Urgent, please retweet to help Coco find a FOSTER HOME #SUSSEX#UK - Must be able to attend local vet appointments. Abandoned, now in a council pound‼️
Yes ... yet ANOTHER abandoned, badly bred, deformed little Frenchie!!!! What on earth is wrong with this country!!!
Currently in council pound kennels and needing our help!
The 'owner' on her microchip has been contacted and says that they rehomed her before moving!
She was born on 1/4/21
Her teeth are understandably pretty dreadful, her breathing is poor and she is very underweight...
She will, no doubt need fairly extensive veterinary work but for now we need to get her to us and into foster to care for her while we help her recover
Thank you for reading and sharing
Details or apply for Coco below 👇
https://t.co/NosLT7ju5P
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU CAN COMMIT TO VET VISITS FOR US
#dogs #Frenchie #FrenchBulldogs #adoptdontshop @lucydahlia@JaneFallon@rickygervais@domdyer70@KatieAmess@AndrewRosindell@AlistairCarns@APDAWG1
Coco, desperate to be saved from a council pound, needs a local foster home, posted 11 June 2026 💔
What you need to know about the new Social Media Ban in the UK:
1. All persons under 16 are prohibited from accessing social media platforms without verified parental supervision.
2. Parental supervision must be logged digitally through the UK. gov app.
3. Parents must approve each post, comment, like, or share in real-time.
4. Failure to supervise constitutes negligent digital guardianship.
5. Penalties for negligent digital guardianship include fines up to £10,000 and potential removal of devices from the household.
6. Educational use is not exempt.
7. Mental health considerations are not exempt.
8. Checking the weather on a browser that could access social media counts as attempted access.
9. Screenshots of banned platforms are treated as contraband.
10. Discussing banned platforms in school counts as conspiracy to access.
11. Parents who express disagreement with these rules online will have their supervision privileges revoked.
12. Any family member can report violations anonymously (encouraged).
Compliance is mandatory.
Britain is safer for it.
🎥 REPAIR SHOP ‼️
we would love to get this Baptism Jug given in 1860’s to All Saints Mackworth Church repaired!
it was sadly quite badly damaged in an arson attack on the church and we would love to see this jug live on and serve more people locally, for decades and centuries to come…
maybe @TheRepairShop could help⁉️ TAG THEM & let’s see what they think 👇
#repairshop #baptism #church
🚨The time between Conspiracy Theory and fact is now about 6 hours in the UK
The government has unveiled plans to amend online safety laws to allow
Ofcom to impose a ‘crackdown’ on information, at times of heightened social & political tension … I told you.
read this 💣⬇️