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Amanda
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EU Loyalist 🇪🇺, amateur beer drinker, semi professional waffler and motorbike racing enthusiast. LUFC fan, film, TV and art lover. Librarian by day, opinions my own.
Wow!
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Leeds have scored twice!!!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Honestly I really enjoyed the Championship (even when we weren't winning). I find it very hard to care about the Premier League #lufc
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 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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Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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November 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Stokes eh? #theashes
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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The famous British character, who is one of the best known success stories of immigration the UK, said he was thrilled to meet Paddington.
Classic Langdon waiting to happen.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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why can they not just fix it
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I've wasted my life
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Obviously I caved and got a ticket
Think I might give the Tuesday ticket lottery stress fest a miss for the Chelsea game. 8.15 kick off is bollox anyway #lufc
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England.
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Think I might be jumping on the sack Farke bandwagon after that one (& I've been his biggest defender) #lufc
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Think I might give the Tuesday ticket lottery stress fest a miss for the Chelsea game. 8.15 kick off is bollox anyway #lufc
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Imagine if your job is always having to be optimistic about this load of rubbish 🙄 #lufc
⚔️ On the hunt for the leveller. 2-1
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I love that little rhyme about today’s date.

“Remember, remember it’s only the 5th of November, so stop banging on about fucking Christmas.”

Pretty sure that’s how it goes anyway.
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Ghosts playing football
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If the service is shit people give up 🙄
Steep fall in West Yorkshire bus use 'shock' to transport bosses
A report says the number of bus passengers in West Yorkshire fell by 8% this summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way.

I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.

<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM