Fay Heatley
@fayheatley.bsky.social
A life in the London suburbs. Very disappointed to announce that there really are no more heroes anymore. And finding out I'm an old fool feminist after all. It is time to go and do that reading.
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#HolidayRobin #FestiveDailyRobin #EastCoastKin #robins #birds 🪶 #photography #birdphotography
a robin looking very neat + prim - I think there is a hint of a smile
a robin looking very neat + prim - I think there is a hint of a smile
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#HolidayRobin #FestiveDailyRobin #EastCoastKin #robins #birds 🪶 #photography #birdphotography
a robin looking very neat + prim - I think there is a hint of a smile
a robin looking very neat + prim - I think there is a hint of a smile
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As I wrote about last week, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration plans are dividing Labour. “Performatively cruel,” Stella Creasy says.
Labour Splits Erupt As MPs Condemn Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Crackdown
One said the government had taken "a wrong turning".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As I wrote about last week, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration plans are dividing Labour. “Performatively cruel,” Stella Creasy says.
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These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
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Monday’s @theguardian.com front page: Most sweeping reforms to asylum rules in a generation to be unveiled www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Monday’s @theguardian.com front page: Most sweeping reforms to asylum rules in a generation to be unveiled www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing
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Opening on 15th December, one of the largest snow and ice hotels in the world, Arctic SnowHotel invites guests to spend the night surrounded by stunning snow & ice art, dine in one of their three restaurants, or experience the Snow Sauna & Ice Restaurant:
www.discoveringfinland.com/destination/...
www.discoveringfinland.com/destination/...
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Opening on 15th December, one of the largest snow and ice hotels in the world, Arctic SnowHotel invites guests to spend the night surrounded by stunning snow & ice art, dine in one of their three restaurants, or experience the Snow Sauna & Ice Restaurant:
www.discoveringfinland.com/destination/...
www.discoveringfinland.com/destination/...
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Quite interesting that Fraser Nelson - who has done his fair share of stoking and facilitating far right agitprop as Spectator editor - is out there combatting the far right hell fiction about London.
Elon Musk and his pawn Tommy Robinson are lying to you.
Europe is a very safe continent, with homicide rates far lower than those in the United States or Russia
Europe is a very safe continent, with homicide rates far lower than those in the United States or Russia
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Quite interesting that Fraser Nelson - who has done his fair share of stoking and facilitating far right agitprop as Spectator editor - is out there combatting the far right hell fiction about London.
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Like anyone who writes about Trump, I still get threats now and then, but I am no longer a government employee, so the "I'm a taxpayer and you have to fire him" stuff is over.
And that, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story. /6x
And that, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story. /6x
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Like anyone who writes about Trump, I still get threats now and then, but I am no longer a government employee, so the "I'm a taxpayer and you have to fire him" stuff is over.
And that, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story. /6x
And that, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story. /6x
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Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field
The enormous pile of rubbish is called an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It is pretty amazing that anyone in Labour would be briefing favourably about one of the least popular members of an administration that is already unpopular in the US, let alone over here. Have they gone entirely mad?
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It is pretty amazing that anyone in Labour would be briefing favourably about one of the least popular members of an administration that is already unpopular in the US, let alone over here. Have they gone entirely mad?
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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No one in America could have watched the programme at the time without a VPN because iPlayer is geo restricted. I doubt that Trump was even aware of the programme until his allies in the UK saw it as opportunity to continue their long running campaign against the Corporation.
The BBC has told President Trump’s lawyers that it would fight his lawsuit for up to $5bn, claiming nobody in America watched its misleading Panorama programme and it didn’t damage his reputation
BBC says Trump has no case as misleading Panorama did not air in US
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No one in America could have watched the programme at the time without a VPN because iPlayer is geo restricted. I doubt that Trump was even aware of the programme until his allies in the UK saw it as opportunity to continue their long running campaign against the Corporation.
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Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
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November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
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And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3
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It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely.
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely.
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.
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Orcas at first daylight this morning...wish the sun had come out to play...
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Orcas at first daylight this morning...wish the sun had come out to play...
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Update: The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
USS Gerald Ford enters Caribbean Sea as threat of U.S. action against Venezuela rises
The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update: The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
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Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
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The women described a culture of fear where even seasoned correspondents did not dare veer from the Stonewall-mandated position on trans issues in case they were accused of “transphobia”. "… It felt like activism, not news.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Emails reveal BBC women complained over trans reporting
Messages dating back five years show female staff raised concerns with bosses but felt rebuffed or ignored
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The women described a culture of fear where even seasoned correspondents did not dare veer from the Stonewall-mandated position on trans issues in case they were accused of “transphobia”. "… It felt like activism, not news.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Noise to some
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Noise to some
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices
Joy to my heart
#7syllablesentence #Noise #Microverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Haiga #ImageAndVerse #BlueskyPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Jays #BlueJay #GardenLife #GardenVoices