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Sarah McDonald
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UEFA B Licence Football Coach. Kopite. Love Indie/Alt Music. People, Pets and Politics. Left Leaning.
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Fair question.
March 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Liz Truss is still refusing to comment about her first day as an electrical engineer at Heathrow.
March 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org
March 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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A rise in the UK minimum wage is welcome but it hasn't checked poverty.

Millions rely on charity/benefits.

As a percentage of median earnings, the UK minimum wage is lower than in Colombia, Costa Rice, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Turkiye, Slovenia, France and South Korea.
Prem Sikka: A boost in the minimum wage is welcome, but more must be done to improve people’s material conditions
'Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.'
leftfootforward.org
March 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Palestinian health authorities said Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people.
Death toll in Gaza passes 50,000, says health ministry
Palestinian health authorities said Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people.
www.rte.ie
March 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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It’s clear that the brainless estate agent Trump picked as his special envoy is a Russian asset - why else would he speak to Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin’s number one useful idiot? Don’t be surprised if US defence contractors end up supplying Russia under the deal he fixes
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine
Steve Witkoff says the UK plans for an international force to support a ceasefire are a "posture".
www.bbc.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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This is grotesque and no, Today Programme, it isn’t funny - as the excellent Lyse Doucet made very clear
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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open.spotify.com/episode/1taG...
Loved doing Walking the Dog with Emily Dean podcast - we managed to persuade #SophieFromRomania to stay out for an hour and she was mostly very polite to Emily‘s sweet dog Raymond. Part one today, part two later in the week.
Rory Cellan-Jones with Sophie from Romania (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... Absolutely essential piece on why journalism is broken just when we need it most and what we can do to fix it. Please read - or you could click on a story about a man with three nipples. Your choice…
Journalism is collapsing in the middle of the information war
Just as we need them most, media outlets are failing to cut through Trump's noise.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan remains staunchly opposed to a third runway at Heathrow.

“I’m simply not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights at Heathrow every year without a hugely damaging impact on our environment.”
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Reform UK is just another Far Right party screaming "Bring out your racists."

And the racists vote for them thinking things will get better, or at least whiter.

But of course all they want is power, and lots and lots of money.
January 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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January 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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BYE BYE BIBBY!
An event to mark the end of the Bibby Stockholm. Join us in Dorset next week, for a celebration of human migration and diversity.
Please see link for more info👇
bookings.careyssecretgarden.co.uk/event/careys...
January 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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The courage of those Georgians and especially of this woman is just amazing.
December 1, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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I mean this obviously can't stand. You can't have a foreign extremist, who used social media to encourage & facilitate far-right violence, plough huge donations to his favoured British political party.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-elo...
Is Elon Musk Planning To Make A 'F*** You Starmer' $100 Million Donation To Reform UK?
The tech billionaire has been at war with the PM for months.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Every complaint about people abandoning Twitter is essentially “but my mom says you have to play with me!”
December 1, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Oh no! We never meant for this to affect ordinary hard-working castle owners.
November 25, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Mr Fox is a dog I fed on the streets of Thailand for 2 years. One of the very first ever. He was the most easy going, best behaved boy on my feeding found.

I decided to get him a home earlier this year and he ended up in the USA. I find this hard to believe... (1/3)
November 25, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK.

Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.

Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.

Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK
Chain says it won’t be able to stop buying fast-growing breeds by 2026 because poultry industry cannot supply enough higher-welfare animals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Britain is knee deep in an information war. Young men radicalised at shocking rates, conspiracy trumping facts, swathes willingly participating in subterfuge that goes against their interests. The usual fake patriots at the helm. Our system, lacking checks and balances, exploited.

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November 25, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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I love this.
November 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM