lougreen.bsky.social
@lougreen.bsky.social
I’m a London psychotherapist with a flawless track record in predicting incorrectly every single referendum and election in the last 10 years…
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Retail sales, Great Britain: November 2025

Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate. ONS

This is because there is more money in the pockets of many in the lower pay grades. This is great news!

www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...
Retail sales, Great Britain - Office for National Statistics
Retail sales rose in the three months to November 2025, according to our first estimate.
www.ons.gov.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Good luck to this fella, he’s gonna need it!
🔺 NEW: Sir Keir Starmer has appointed a career diplomat as Britain’s ambassador to the United States after Lord Mandelson was forced out over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
Career diplomat chosen to replace Mandelson as UK ambassador to US
He replaces Peter Mandelson, who was forced to step down from the posting in Washington after revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
www.thetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Honestly a *huge* part of the problem across UK politics is that political journalists completely lost interest in politics and completely wedded themselves to the drama instead. And the reaction to this only underlines the truth of that.
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me.

It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person.

And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Horrified by the sickening terrorist attack in Bondi Beach. My prayers are with the families of those tragically killed.

As Jewish communities come together to celebrate Hanukkah, we must stand together against violence and hate. Light will always triumph over darkness.
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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There’s a global effort to talk down London and to remove our democratically elected Government.

I will be out there as a little voice standing up for both. Because I love them.

London is fabulous.

Labour are fabulous.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We need an emergency flu vaccine drive to protect the vulnerable and prevent a disaster in the NHS.

That means jabs offered in pubs, churches and community spaces, and taking on the anti-vax lies promoted by Reform and other conspiracy theorists head on.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Another COVID fraudster held to account for fraudulently obtaining an £80k bounce back loan!

The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.

He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.

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Derby fraudster jailed after using Covid loan funds on share dealing platforms
Jail for Bounce Back Loan fraudster
www.gov.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I grew up in the 70s and 80s.

If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.

Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.

Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Much of the £10.9bn UK Covid scheme fraud 'beyond recovery', report says.

Lack of checks on Eat Out, Bounce back loans, furlough support & more.

£13.6bn spent on 38bn PPE items, 11bn unused. £10bn loss from over-ordering, £324m fraud.

Organized looting. Will anyone be held to account?
Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says
The response to the pandemic led to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Labour will bring rail back into public ownership under Great British Railways.
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Finally, a foe worthy of her talents.
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I love the fact that the Telegraph tried to cover the Rachel Reeves chess 'truth' story, and had to include the fact that even their own chess correspondent thinks it is utter bollocks.
I think if i won the under-14 title for the British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls Championship, you would probably hear me say quite a bit i was the champion. The Telegraph's own chess correspondent points out here why Reeves's is quite right to do so www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.

I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’ The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports. Streeting is understood to be concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the Times reported. He has asked leading experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become “over-pathologised”, the newspaper said, as he seeks to grapple with the 4.4 million working-age people now claiming sickness or incapacity benefit. The figure has risen by 1.2 million since 2019, while the number of 16 to 34-year-olds off work with long-term sickness because of a mental health condition is said to have grown rapidly in the same period. Streeting told the Times he knew from “personal experience how devastating it can be for people who face poor mental health, have ADHD or autism and can’t get a diagnosis or the right support”. He added: “I also know, from speaking to clinicians, how the diagnosis of these conditions is sharply rising. “We must look at this through a strictly clinical lens to get an evidence-based understanding of what we know, what we don’t know, and what these patterns tell us about our mental health system, autism and ADHD services. “That’s the only way we can ensure everyone gets timely access to accurate diagnosis and effective support.” The review, which is expected to be launched on Thursday, is set to be led by Prof Peter Fonagy, a clinical psychologist at University College London specialising in child mental health, with Sir Simon Wessely, a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatry, acting as vice-chair. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Why is anti-semitism tolerated in the UK?" asks Suella Braverman, shortly before defending man accused of saying "Hitler was right" and telling Jewish people they should be sent to the gas chamber
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.

Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Turning on my radio #R4Today to hear Richard Tice calling a Jewish victim of Farage’s school bullying a liar. His defence seems to be that loads of people are turning to Reform… not sure that’s a coincidence Richard
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Can’t we just spread the word ourselves?
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Odd how the whole media are determined to criticise lifting 500,000 kids out of poverty. Do you need to lack empathy to work in the media? Or be some sort of sociopath?

It explains a lot.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM