Jackie T
@jackiet.bsky.social
Retired history teacher, keen caravanner and Archers addict x
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Many years ago I did a cultural awareness course and rule one was this: You can criticise your own country and you can do it as much as you like. But when someone else does it, you remember all the things you actually love about it and - it's enraging.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Many years ago I did a cultural awareness course and rule one was this: You can criticise your own country and you can do it as much as you like. But when someone else does it, you remember all the things you actually love about it and - it's enraging.
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Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
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BBC apologises for false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a govt contract for digital ID www.politicshome.com/news/article...
BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme
The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...
www.politicshome.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
BBC apologises for false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a govt contract for digital ID www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
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The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…
September 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…
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I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Rayner resigned.
Your move Farage.
Your move Farage.
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Rayner resigned.
Your move Farage.
Your move Farage.
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Can we convince you to continue your campaign against those who seek to get out of paying stamp duty, @thesun.co.uk? How about you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social? Surely, you're outraged about this, @dailymail.co.uk? Anyone?
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can we convince you to continue your campaign against those who seek to get out of paying stamp duty, @thesun.co.uk? How about you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social? Surely, you're outraged about this, @dailymail.co.uk? Anyone?
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I oppose the Council’s proposals for new paid parking areas near Boscombe and Southbourne beaches.
It’s a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The proposals are unworkable, I believe the Council are wrong, and it’ll be people on lower incomes who are impacted most.
It’s a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The proposals are unworkable, I believe the Council are wrong, and it’ll be people on lower incomes who are impacted most.
June 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I oppose the Council’s proposals for new paid parking areas near Boscombe and Southbourne beaches.
It’s a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The proposals are unworkable, I believe the Council are wrong, and it’ll be people on lower incomes who are impacted most.
It’s a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The proposals are unworkable, I believe the Council are wrong, and it’ll be people on lower incomes who are impacted most.
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Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945
This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945
This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945
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“They were careless people, they smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money,"
The Great Gatsby.
F Scott Fitzgerald.
100 years old today.
The Great Gatsby.
F Scott Fitzgerald.
100 years old today.
April 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money,"
The Great Gatsby.
F Scott Fitzgerald.
100 years old today.
The Great Gatsby.
F Scott Fitzgerald.
100 years old today.
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After the recent Dorset fires, I am campaigning to ban disposable BBQs.
Sign my petition to show your support.
Link here – tinyurl.com/vikkibbqban -
Sign my petition to show your support.
Link here – tinyurl.com/vikkibbqban -
April 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
After the recent Dorset fires, I am campaigning to ban disposable BBQs.
Sign my petition to show your support.
Link here – tinyurl.com/vikkibbqban -
Sign my petition to show your support.
Link here – tinyurl.com/vikkibbqban -
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The oracy champion with a 'leftish streak': everything you need to know about the government's new education adviser
7 key facts about Starmer's new education adviser
What you need to know about Oli de Botton, the government's new 'expert' education and skills adviser
buff.ly
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The oracy champion with a 'leftish streak': everything you need to know about the government's new education adviser
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Setting tariffs is not some presidential power set out in US constitution.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
April 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Setting tariffs is not some presidential power set out in US constitution.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
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I accidentally purchased some food vouchers for La Trattoria in Swanage, Dorset instead of La Trattoria in Helmsley for a work colleague’s birthday! Let’s make sure they don’t go to waste. Get in touch if you could make use of them! Let’s spread the word to the good people of Swanage! 😂😂😂
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I accidentally purchased some food vouchers for La Trattoria in Swanage, Dorset instead of La Trattoria in Helmsley for a work colleague’s birthday! Let’s make sure they don’t go to waste. Get in touch if you could make use of them! Let’s spread the word to the good people of Swanage! 😂😂😂
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Given that just 4.25% of the world's population lives in the United States of America this might be the moment for the 95.75% of the rest of us to leave them to it.
Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.
Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.
April 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Given that just 4.25% of the world's population lives in the United States of America this might be the moment for the 95.75% of the rest of us to leave them to it.
Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.
Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.
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Martin Lewis, "They talk about April showers, I would say April pees down on the nation's finances every single year"
"Water bills are going up
an average of 26%"
"Yes we had rises last year and the year before, so these are rises upon rises upon rises"
"Water bills are going up
an average of 26%"
"Yes we had rises last year and the year before, so these are rises upon rises upon rises"
April 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Martin Lewis, "They talk about April showers, I would say April pees down on the nation's finances every single year"
"Water bills are going up
an average of 26%"
"Yes we had rises last year and the year before, so these are rises upon rises upon rises"
"Water bills are going up
an average of 26%"
"Yes we had rises last year and the year before, so these are rises upon rises upon rises"
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We have a graduate generation struggling to find good, secure jobs, and a teaching profession that can't attract enough applicants. Pay teachers better and you might go some way to solving two problems at once. And a bonus: better educated kids.
January 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We have a graduate generation struggling to find good, secure jobs, and a teaching profession that can't attract enough applicants. Pay teachers better and you might go some way to solving two problems at once. And a bonus: better educated kids.
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Macron says “NON EU citizens will pay more” (that includes U.K. as we were daft enough to leave the EU.)
But ridiculous, boring and predictable Independent (is that Lebedev’s Independent?) frames it as an attack on the British
But ridiculous, boring and predictable Independent (is that Lebedev’s Independent?) frames it as an attack on the British
January 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Macron says “NON EU citizens will pay more” (that includes U.K. as we were daft enough to leave the EU.)
But ridiculous, boring and predictable Independent (is that Lebedev’s Independent?) frames it as an attack on the British
But ridiculous, boring and predictable Independent (is that Lebedev’s Independent?) frames it as an attack on the British
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Former Conservative Minister for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention
Says people should stop using 'mental health' as an excuse and learn to deal with life's ups and downs
Says people should stop using 'mental health' as an excuse and learn to deal with life's ups and downs
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Former Conservative Minister for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention
Says people should stop using 'mental health' as an excuse and learn to deal with life's ups and downs
Says people should stop using 'mental health' as an excuse and learn to deal with life's ups and downs
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LBC people are starting to trickle over...here's an ever-updating list:
LBC presenters, reporters, producers
Join the conversation
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November 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM
LBC people are starting to trickle over...here's an ever-updating list:
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #909,829!
September 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #909,829!