Lesley.Foote
69today.bsky.social
Lesley.Foote
@69today.bsky.social
Retired NHS manager, partner, mother, grandmother. Try to keep healthy.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The Kremlin is controlling the White House.
March 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Brilliant podcast, I love it best when they make each other laugh. Infectious.
We started The Trawl in our bedrooms…

And now we beat Piers Morgan and Murdoch’s TalkTV in the News Podcast charts

…makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
February 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Literally happening as we speak
January 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Thanks . In the Christmas @newstatesman.com
The brilliant @aiannucci.bsky.social on disrupters
December 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country
December 6, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Great article by @gracedent.bsky.social about the gift of sobriety at Christmas. It’s great that more public figures are talking about their positive sober stories.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#sobriety #sober #recovery #soberlife #addiction #soberliving #soberaf #alcoholfree
December 2, 2024 at 7:30 AM