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Rulebreakers! #BigBed #dog #dogs #labrador #lab #yellowlabrador #labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky #labradorsofbluesky #yellowlabradorsofbluesky
#dogsofbluesky #labradorsofbluesky #yellowlabradorsofbluesky
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
Ban the sale of fireworks to the general public to minimise the harm caused to vulnerable people and animals. Defenceless animals can die from the distress caused by fireworks.
I believe that permitt...
petition.parliament.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
So much beauty in trees yet so many see them simply as “timber” :(
Living sculpture.
Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).
Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So much beauty in trees yet so many see them simply as “timber” :(
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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Good turnout for Remembrance Day events in and around York
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November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good turnout for Remembrance Day events in and around York
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Walls of beauty and strength.
There was a great art to the building of drystone field walls, since, without mortar, every stone needed to be held in place by gravity.
Construction styles varied according to locality and stone type, and some walls could be 100s or even 1,000s of years old (but with periodic repairs).
Construction styles varied according to locality and stone type, and some walls could be 100s or even 1,000s of years old (but with periodic repairs).
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Walls of beauty and strength.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
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Wow. Just wow. We can safely say that leaving Europe is very bad for your economic health.
So what are UKG doing about it, and why is the answer not dropping the May-Johnson redlines?
So what are UKG doing about it, and why is the answer not dropping the May-Johnson redlines?
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Wow. Just wow. We can safely say that leaving Europe is very bad for your economic health.
So what are UKG doing about it, and why is the answer not dropping the May-Johnson redlines?
So what are UKG doing about it, and why is the answer not dropping the May-Johnson redlines?
One man and his dogs #dog #dogs #labrador #lab #labradorsofbluesky#labradorsofbluesky #yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky #labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#dogsofbluesky
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Autumn sunshine and labradors. Perfect #dog #dogs #labrador #lab #labradorsofbluesky
#yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky
#labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky
#photography
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky
#labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky
#photography
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Autumn sunshine and labradors. Perfect #dog #dogs #labrador #lab #labradorsofbluesky
#yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky
#labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky
#photography
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
#yellowlabrador #yellowlabsofbluesky
#labradorretriever
#dogsofbluesky
#photography
#wicklow #wicklowoutdoors #nature
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Sorry what????
Bringing back the stocks??
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sorry what????
Reposted by Lorraine Meehan
That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong.
Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.
We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.
We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong.
Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.
We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.
We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
This will get me through a long winter!
🏛️ PODYSSEY SEASON 2 - All the details! 📜
What. Where. When.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1...
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What. Where. When.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 04/11/2025 · Bonus · 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This will get me through a long winter!
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What dogs can teach us... This is the best day. Ever. Be excited that there is food in your bowl. Act happy when someone you love walks through the door. Take walks every day. Nap when you need to. Love with a full heart. Protect your pack.
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What dogs can teach us... This is the best day. Ever. Be excited that there is food in your bowl. Act happy when someone you love walks through the door. Take walks every day. Nap when you need to. Love with a full heart. Protect your pack.
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Imagine this, and places just like it all across Ireland, once again covered in its natural habitat of *wildly* species-rich, spellbinding, rainforests.
By simply making it worth farmers' while to remove their few sheep, we could so easily magic wand them back into existence.
By simply making it worth farmers' while to remove their few sheep, we could so easily magic wand them back into existence.
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Imagine this, and places just like it all across Ireland, once again covered in its natural habitat of *wildly* species-rich, spellbinding, rainforests.
By simply making it worth farmers' while to remove their few sheep, we could so easily magic wand them back into existence.
By simply making it worth farmers' while to remove their few sheep, we could so easily magic wand them back into existence.
Reposted by Lorraine Meehan
Voters’ anger is largely focused on asylum, and perhaps on low-skilled immigration.
The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.
This will not end well.
The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.
This will not end well.
Haven’t read the report yet but this looks to me like another example of adding yet more makework to the immigration process for unclear reasons other than possibly getting mentioned in Politico Playbook.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Voters’ anger is largely focused on asylum, and perhaps on low-skilled immigration.
The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.
This will not end well.
The government response seems to be focused on making sure no high-skilled immigrant will ever pick the UK in future, and the ones currently here will rapidly rethink their decision.
This will not end well.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
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And, per @jdportes.bsky.social, the more friction/uncertainty you put into the immigration system the higher the likelihood that you dissuade higher skilled migrants from coming/staying because they have options. It’s self-defeating and doesn’t work as signal cause the rhetoric ratchet goes one way.
One way that Keir Starmer's lack of a project distorts everything else is that all the Labour-aligned think tanks are now doing some kind of big polling-based project, because the Downing Street project is 'how can we win?'. Leads to yet more economically and socially harmful nonsense.
Haven’t read the report yet but this looks to me like another example of adding yet more makework to the immigration process for unclear reasons other than possibly getting mentioned in Politico Playbook.
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
And, per @jdportes.bsky.social, the more friction/uncertainty you put into the immigration system the higher the likelihood that you dissuade higher skilled migrants from coming/staying because they have options. It’s self-defeating and doesn’t work as signal cause the rhetoric ratchet goes one way.
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🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
Reposted by Lorraine Meehan
Golden autumn leaves
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Golden autumn leaves
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Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
Andrew Bailey confirms what we've all known for years.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...
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An autumn morning in our local park
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
An autumn morning in our local park