Christine Manning
@cjtuptim.bsky.social
Mum, wife, sister, servant to Duchess the cat ⭐️ Liverpool FC ⭐️ retired dentist; VSO 🇹🇭 ⭐️ plays all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order ⭐️
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Finally…
BREAKING: A Hillsborough Law will be laid before Parliament on Tuesday after decades of tireless campaigning by the families of the 97 Liverpool fans who died at the 1989 stadium disaster
A huge and historic moment
A huge and historic moment
A Hillsborough Law will finally be laid before Parliament
After decades of campaigning and years of negotiations, a "seismic" change in the law is now happening in a huge and historic tribute to the 97
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Finally…
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Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…
September 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…
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Good on you, Mo!
Mohamed Salah didn't take kindly to Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak being described as big upgrades on his former teammates Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez, who left Liverpool for Bayern Munich and Al Hilal this summer.
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Good on you, Mo!
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He made so many people so happy
July 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
He made so many people so happy
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I know this isn't the point. But Liverpool has great museums and galleries, superb nightlife for all tastes, two awesome cathedrals, an attractive docklands, rich musical and footballing heritage, and a boycott of the Sun. If you believe it's a shithole, you're both intellectually lazy and wrong.
May 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I know this isn't the point. But Liverpool has great museums and galleries, superb nightlife for all tastes, two awesome cathedrals, an attractive docklands, rich musical and footballing heritage, and a boycott of the Sun. If you believe it's a shithole, you're both intellectually lazy and wrong.
Top work 👏👏👏 @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
As if trolling Arsenal at the weekend wasn't enough, Liverpool fans have turned their attentions to Man United 😂
This sign RIGHT OUTSIDE Old Trafford.
📸: TW/ground_guru
This sign RIGHT OUTSIDE Old Trafford.
📸: TW/ground_guru
May 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Top work 👏👏👏 @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
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From the front page of the New York Times this morning, a shocking story about hundreds of deaths of African domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, largely reported as “natural deaths.”
Thinking about this instead of the aesthetically pleasing wall of scarves and noise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
Thinking about this instead of the aesthetically pleasing wall of scarves and noise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia (Gift Article)
East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
From the front page of the New York Times this morning, a shocking story about hundreds of deaths of African domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, largely reported as “natural deaths.”
Thinking about this instead of the aesthetically pleasing wall of scarves and noise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
Thinking about this instead of the aesthetically pleasing wall of scarves and noise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
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Thoights on brain size, birth, and the ignorance of obscene wealth open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Thoughts on Brain Size, Birth, and the Ignorance of Obscene Wealth
2025 is going to be a bumpy ride
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Thoights on brain size, birth, and the ignorance of obscene wealth open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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A month ago beloved Liverpool baby hospice Zoe’s Place was set to close for good
Then the city stepped up and raised a staggering £5 million to save it
Incredible
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Then the city stepped up and raised a staggering £5 million to save it
Incredible
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Zoe's Place baby hospice is SAVED after incredible city campaign
It's official - Zoe's Place in Liverpool has been saved from closure after an enormous £5 million was raised in just 30 days
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A month ago beloved Liverpool baby hospice Zoe’s Place was set to close for good
Then the city stepped up and raised a staggering £5 million to save it
Incredible
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Then the city stepped up and raised a staggering £5 million to save it
Incredible
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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I needed this today.
You may too.
You may too.
November 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I needed this today.
You may too.
You may too.
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NEW: Video footage shows patients sleeping on hospital floors as woman speaks of ‘horrific’ and experience and nurse talks of her distress at what she and her colleagues are up against
In Merseyside’s hospitals, the winter crisis is well and truly here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
In Merseyside’s hospitals, the winter crisis is well and truly here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
The bleak video that shows the NHS winter crisis is already here
Special report: It is only October, but the winter crisis has well and truly arrived in Merseyside's hospitals
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
October 20, 2024 at 6:53 AM
NEW: Video footage shows patients sleeping on hospital floors as woman speaks of ‘horrific’ and experience and nurse talks of her distress at what she and her colleagues are up against
In Merseyside’s hospitals, the winter crisis is well and truly here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
In Merseyside’s hospitals, the winter crisis is well and truly here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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New Kings Fund report on health inequalities. 🧪
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Tackling Health Inequalities | Seven Priorities For The NHS | The King's Fund
Drawing on our five-year programme of work on health inequalities, we outline what we think the anticipated 10-year health plan should focus on.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
September 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
New Kings Fund report on health inequalities. 🧪
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...