@govangal68.bsky.social
In these very cold 🏴 days I've discovered the delight of the heated car seat - never thought I needed one - how wrong I was #toastydriving
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In these very cold 🏴 days I've discovered the delight of the heated car seat - never thought I needed one - how wrong I was #toastydriving
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Thinking of them all as they'll have been roasting out on the hills today 🥵
@hyndlandsec.bsky.social good luck & have fun to the young folk heading off on their #DukeOfEdinburgh trial #Silver expedition today. Child 5 designated videographer for their group 📹 - hope to see some good pics🤞🏻
August 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thinking of them all as they'll have been roasting out on the hills today 🥵
@hyndlandsec.bsky.social good luck & have fun to the young folk heading off on their #DukeOfEdinburgh trial #Silver expedition today. Child 5 designated videographer for their group 📹 - hope to see some good pics🤞🏻
August 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@hyndlandsec.bsky.social good luck & have fun to the young folk heading off on their #DukeOfEdinburgh trial #Silver expedition today. Child 5 designated videographer for their group 📹 - hope to see some good pics🤞🏻
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What’s it like to be an asylum seeker inside a hotel where racist mobs chant for your removal outside?
What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside
Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What’s it like to be an asylum seeker inside a hotel where racist mobs chant for your removal outside?
What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...
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Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.
Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
Would a SAFE ROUTE WORK to stop Channel crossings?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.
Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
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More useless tinkering announced by the government today around the asylum system.
No one in their right mind thinks this latest tedious rehash is going to turn the dial. We need radical change.
No one in their right mind thinks this latest tedious rehash is going to turn the dial. We need radical change.
August 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
More useless tinkering announced by the government today around the asylum system.
No one in their right mind thinks this latest tedious rehash is going to turn the dial. We need radical change.
No one in their right mind thinks this latest tedious rehash is going to turn the dial. We need radical change.
Including our youngest starring as Rizzo #FutureMusicalTheatreStar
We are delighted to announce details of our school show! Thurs 12 and Fri 13 June 7pm held in Broomhill PS - the show is Grease!!! Tickets available via parent pay! On sale now! We are very excited about this and hope you can join us!
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Including our youngest starring as Rizzo #FutureMusicalTheatreStar
Our #GoldenGirl is Philly - we took her to her happy place today for the first time in quite some months. She's 15 yrs & 9 months old & she was totally invigorated by it 🐕Her sight & hearing are poor but she has still got it - this is the end of a 45 minute walk #SeniorDog #LiveInTheMoment
June 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Our #GoldenGirl is Philly - we took her to her happy place today for the first time in quite some months. She's 15 yrs & 9 months old & she was totally invigorated by it 🐕Her sight & hearing are poor but she has still got it - this is the end of a 45 minute walk #SeniorDog #LiveInTheMoment
I only recently started watching this on the recommendation of @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social and others. Still on series 2 and Jo & Sam were my favourites. 💔 for all his family - sending them positive thoughts. RIP Sam
Race Across The World contestant Sam Gardiner dies aged 24
Race Across The World contestant Sam Gardiner dies aged 24
Race Across The World contestant Sam Gardiner has died at the age of 24 in a car crash, his family has said.
news.sky.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I only recently started watching this on the recommendation of @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social and others. Still on series 2 and Jo & Sam were my favourites. 💔 for all his family - sending them positive thoughts. RIP Sam
This weekends reading sorted ✔️ Finally made it to Mount Florida to pick up my reserved copy! @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This weekends reading sorted ✔️ Finally made it to Mount Florida to pick up my reserved copy! @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
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I have been so angry over Starmer's speech. As an emigrant myself, but also out of disgust at the horrible divisive language, and out of concern for immigrants in the UK.
I must say it: this episode was, for me, a balm for the soul. It solves nothing, but there is a solidarity there I really value.
I must say it: this episode was, for me, a balm for the soul. It solves nothing, but there is a solidarity there I really value.
"I look at Starmer's trajectory and it is immensely difficult not to notice the trail of devastation left behind. Disabled people, Palestinians, trans people, and now immigrants. All I can see is someone who is willing to throw anyone out of his hot air balloon, just so it can rise higher."
🚨NEW SHOW
This week it’s Naomi, Alex and Kenny!
We discuss the appalling rhetoric around immigration and set out everything we think we know about what’s actually happening at the big 🇬🇧🇪🇺 summit on Monday.
💚 open.spotify.com/episode/6NvN...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
This week it’s Naomi, Alex and Kenny!
We discuss the appalling rhetoric around immigration and set out everything we think we know about what’s actually happening at the big 🇬🇧🇪🇺 summit on Monday.
💚 open.spotify.com/episode/6NvN...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
May 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I have been so angry over Starmer's speech. As an emigrant myself, but also out of disgust at the horrible divisive language, and out of concern for immigrants in the UK.
I must say it: this episode was, for me, a balm for the soul. It solves nothing, but there is a solidarity there I really value.
I must say it: this episode was, for me, a balm for the soul. It solves nothing, but there is a solidarity there I really value.
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"There’s a reason a relapse is more unnerving than the illness: because you start to worry you’ll never get better at all."
Why I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party.
Why I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party.
Things Can’t Only Get Better
This week: I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party. Also: an early modern way of having too many browser tabs open; and some maps dropped on other maps.
jonn.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"There’s a reason a relapse is more unnerving than the illness: because you start to worry you’ll never get better at all."
Why I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party.
Why I have bloody well had it with the sodding Labour party.
How fabulous to wake up this morning & find this in my podcast feed ❤️ One of lifes great guys 🐩🐕🦺🐕https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/walking-the-dog-with-emily-dean/id1220510307?i=1000708200795
Niall Harbison (Part One)
Podcast Episode · Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · 12/05/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
How fabulous to wake up this morning & find this in my podcast feed ❤️ One of lifes great guys 🐩🐕🦺🐕https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/walking-the-dog-with-emily-dean/id1220510307?i=1000708200795
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Meanwhile in Spain...
Meanwhile in Spain...
"Foreign workers help Spain's economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe"
"Foreign workers have helped to make Spain’s economy the envy of the industrialized world, even as anti-immigration sentiments grow elsewhere in Europe and in the United States"
"Foreign workers help Spain's economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe"
"Foreign workers have helped to make Spain’s economy the envy of the industrialized world, even as anti-immigration sentiments grow elsewhere in Europe and in the United States"
Foreign workers help Spain's economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe
Foreign workers have helped to make Spain’s economy the envy of the industrialized world, even as anti-immigration sentiments grow elsewhere in Europe and in the United States
www.independent.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Meanwhile in Spain...
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The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference:
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
Pope Leo XIV Calls for News Media to Shun Divisive Language
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference:
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
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Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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Gov't criticised from all sides. From the right, "not enough". From all others for its awful rhetoric.
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Gov't criticised from all sides. From the right, "not enough". From all others for its awful rhetoric.
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
"Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
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And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually.
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment
Echoing the far right on immigration, his moral and intellectual stature has fallen away
inews.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
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As Britain's government marches ever further down the path of old-fashioned racism and fact-free scapegoating, Zoe Gardner has been one voice consistently telling it how it is.
I wrote an op-ed for @lbc.co.uk about Labour's immigration white paper today & how chasing Nigel Farage will take them nowhere
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
Keir Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ immigration warning is a xenophobic dog whistle
Sir Keir Starmer is blowing a dog whistle, warning that we are at risk of becoming an ‘island of strangers’ because of immigration.
www.lbc.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As Britain's government marches ever further down the path of old-fashioned racism and fact-free scapegoating, Zoe Gardner has been one voice consistently telling it how it is.
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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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If you are not already following @zoejardiniere.bsky.social please start now, for genuine heartfelt and empathetic discourse on immigration. Along with the @greenparty.org.uk one of the very few voices that challenge the Reform consensus on immigration.
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you are not already following @zoejardiniere.bsky.social please start now, for genuine heartfelt and empathetic discourse on immigration. Along with the @greenparty.org.uk one of the very few voices that challenge the Reform consensus on immigration.
Fantastic 🎉 Congratulations!
We are delighted to be short listed in the TES Awards 2025 for the following categories:
*Secondary School of the Year
and
*Headteacher of the Year
A proud day for our whole school community - we continue to strive to be the best version of ourselves
*Secondary School of the Year
and
*Headteacher of the Year
A proud day for our whole school community - we continue to strive to be the best version of ourselves
April 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Fantastic 🎉 Congratulations!
Remembering my lovely mum on what would have been her 87th birthday but who was taken too soon by a life-changing stroke. She adored her children & her grandchildren - sad she has missed so many of their achievements & seeing the fabulous young adults they have become ❤️
April 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Remembering my lovely mum on what would have been her 87th birthday but who was taken too soon by a life-changing stroke. She adored her children & her grandchildren - sad she has missed so many of their achievements & seeing the fabulous young adults they have become ❤️
Sadly our gorgeous boy was found deceased in a neighbour's garden last night - he looked like he was asleep but had a gash on the back of his neck & we think some debris from that garden fell on him. We are 💔 & he leaves a huge cat shaped hole in our life. Run free over the 🌈 bridge Otis 🐈⬛
Otis 🐈⬛ is missing from the Drumoyne Avenue/Drive area of G51 - he's a friendly boy & likely familiar to anyone who passes through the lane between the 2 streets regularly. His fluffy tail is very distinctive. Last seen Friday 14th March. Any info welcome as he's hugely missed 💔
March 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Sadly our gorgeous boy was found deceased in a neighbour's garden last night - he looked like he was asleep but had a gash on the back of his neck & we think some debris from that garden fell on him. We are 💔 & he leaves a huge cat shaped hole in our life. Run free over the 🌈 bridge Otis 🐈⬛