Sally Lewis
@sallylewis.bsky.social
Frequent traveler, aspiring optimist. Interested in social justice. Always keen to hear informed views. Eternally young at heart.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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The Communications Director @nationaltrust.org.uk is definitely one of the organisation’s treasured assets.
Customer feedback this week;
‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’
Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’
Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Communications Director @nationaltrust.org.uk is definitely one of the organisation’s treasured assets.
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I just love how supporting the National Trust and the RNLI now makes you a dangerous radical.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I just love how supporting the National Trust and the RNLI now makes you a dangerous radical.
Restores my faith in personal agency that RT2021 who describe the nature of their business as, “Activities of other membership organisations not elsewhere classified” (Companies House) have again failed to succeed at NT council elections where they were relying on mass voter apathy from members.
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Restores my faith in personal agency that RT2021 who describe the nature of their business as, “Activities of other membership organisations not elsewhere classified” (Companies House) have again failed to succeed at NT council elections where they were relying on mass voter apathy from members.
“Rebuilding the system requires a revitalised multi-agency partnership to set strategic direction, improve working relationships and provide a clear set of principles and priorities to galvanise activity across the system.” Valuable report here.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Performance Tracker 2025: Criminal justice system | Institute for Government
The government must act to avoid the justice system returning to the crisis point seen when Labour entered office, or worse.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“Rebuilding the system requires a revitalised multi-agency partnership to set strategic direction, improve working relationships and provide a clear set of principles and priorities to galvanise activity across the system.” Valuable report here.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Appreciative of @nationaltrust.org.uk for their inclusion of a mesmerising film showing the (still surviving) industry upon which the wealth of the household was based. “Haunting” is the perfect description.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Appreciative of @nationaltrust.org.uk for their inclusion of a mesmerising film showing the (still surviving) industry upon which the wealth of the household was based. “Haunting” is the perfect description.
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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There are just 7 days left for you to make your voice heard in our Annual General Meeting: buff.ly/LcZhyeO
Cast your vote before midnight on 31 Oct.
Cast your vote before midnight on 31 Oct.
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
There are just 7 days left for you to make your voice heard in our Annual General Meeting: buff.ly/LcZhyeO
Cast your vote before midnight on 31 Oct.
Cast your vote before midnight on 31 Oct.
This reminds me of the joke, “People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.”
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This reminds me of the joke, “People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.”
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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VIDEO: Probation under pressure
Thank you to everyone who attended our Spotlights event on probation. If you missed it, or want to hear the discussion again, head to our YouTube channel to watch the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6DBzA8GY
Thank you to everyone who attended our Spotlights event on probation. If you missed it, or want to hear the discussion again, head to our YouTube channel to watch the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6DBzA8GY
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
VIDEO: Probation under pressure
Thank you to everyone who attended our Spotlights event on probation. If you missed it, or want to hear the discussion again, head to our YouTube channel to watch the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6DBzA8GY
Thank you to everyone who attended our Spotlights event on probation. If you missed it, or want to hear the discussion again, head to our YouTube channel to watch the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6DBzA8GY
Government plan to further alienate offenders from their community.
Probation Officers (who are now civil servants) have no choice but to comply.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
Probation Officers (who are now civil servants) have no choice but to comply.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
Ministers plan to allow naming and shaming of offenders completing community sentences
Exclusive: critics say the move, part of the sentencing bill for England and Wales, would bring shame upon families of offenders
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Government plan to further alienate offenders from their community.
Probation Officers (who are now civil servants) have no choice but to comply.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
Probation Officers (who are now civil servants) have no choice but to comply.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
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Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.
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What’s the difference between a Will and a Power of Attorney?
Full help in the new ‘Grown Up Stuff: (Free) Wills & even more important Power Of Attorney’ Martin Lewis Podcast available on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pods
Full help in the new ‘Grown Up Stuff: (Free) Wills & even more important Power Of Attorney’ Martin Lewis Podcast available on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pods
September 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What’s the difference between a Will and a Power of Attorney?
Full help in the new ‘Grown Up Stuff: (Free) Wills & even more important Power Of Attorney’ Martin Lewis Podcast available on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pods
Full help in the new ‘Grown Up Stuff: (Free) Wills & even more important Power Of Attorney’ Martin Lewis Podcast available on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pods
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Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage.
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
Culture Warriors’ Attacks on the National Trust
Charles Moore uses the Spectator of 3 June to rally support for a rebel National Trust group. Calling themselves Restore Trust, this group of disaffected members and former members bemoan the insti…
blogs.sussex.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage.
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
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MoJ COO James McEwen has been named chief exec of HM Prison and Probation Service:
HMPPS names next chief executive
MoJ chief operating officer James McEwen will take helm of Prison and Probation Service next month
www.civilserviceworld.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
MoJ COO James McEwen has been named chief exec of HM Prison and Probation Service:
“If culture eats strategy for breakfast, then community power eats national strategies for lunch and dinner.
📈 'As public sector funding and bandwidth become ever tighter, reawakening the capacity and responsibility of communities is now the leadership priority of a generation'
Community is the new leadership priority of a generation
CEOs can no longer be content to simply lead their schools and trusts. They must reawaken community power to meet today's challenges
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“If culture eats strategy for breakfast, then community power eats national strategies for lunch and dinner.
“Every minute, every second, has to be spent with one’s device clutched in one’s hand.”
The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
nyer.cm
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“Every minute, every second, has to be spent with one’s device clutched in one’s hand.”
….yes
The Sentencing Bill - an opportunity missed? - response from the Probation Institute
The Sentencing Bill - an opportunity missed? — Probation Institute
Response from the Probation Institute.
www.probation-institute.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
….yes
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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll. Here's how to check and turn it off 👀
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll. Here's how to check and turn it off 👀
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Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
August 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
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Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster
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“Pledges to build more prison places risk simply making a dysfunctional system even larger and even more dysfunctional again.”
Read our response to the Independent Review of Prison Capacity by Dame Anne Owers:
Read our response to the Independent Review of Prison Capacity by Dame Anne Owers:
The Howard League | Decades of investing in the wrong places has led to the prison capacity crisis: Howard League responds to Independent Review
The Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to the report of the Independent Review of Prison Capacity, published today (Tuesday 5 August).
howardleague.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Pledges to build more prison places risk simply making a dysfunctional system even larger and even more dysfunctional again.”
Read our response to the Independent Review of Prison Capacity by Dame Anne Owers:
Read our response to the Independent Review of Prison Capacity by Dame Anne Owers:
This piece hits the spot. High quality Pre Sentence Reports should return to be the key quality product of a high performing probation officer. Focus on courts and communities not prisons.
This recent commentary from Kelly Grehan, Policy Manager at Revolving Doors, reflects on the fall in the use of community sentences and points - among other issues - to the lack of information available to Magistrates. www.probation-institute.org/news/the-sen...
The sentencing disconnect: Why sentencers need better information about community orders
Recent commentary from Kelly Grehan, Policy Manager at Revolving Doors.
www.probation-institute.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This piece hits the spot. High quality Pre Sentence Reports should return to be the key quality product of a high performing probation officer. Focus on courts and communities not prisons.