Elaine Langford
@francoanglophile.bsky.social
Retired so I have time for my garden, books, art galleries, travel and anything food related. Living between central France and northern England, best of both worlds.
Don’t know this dahlia’s name but it’s beautiful shining through the mist
October 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Don’t know this dahlia’s name but it’s beautiful shining through the mist
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May 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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To those talking about 'Brexit surrender' - talk to this dipshit. He's the one who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, selling out farming & fishing, erecting huge barriers to trade and making everyone worse off. Just because he fancied a bash at being PM. Twat.
May 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
To those talking about 'Brexit surrender' - talk to this dipshit. He's the one who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, selling out farming & fishing, erecting huge barriers to trade and making everyone worse off. Just because he fancied a bash at being PM. Twat.
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
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So true.
America has been given the gift of an alternative American to admire and worship.
My advice take the gift with thanks.
America has been given the gift of an alternative American to admire and worship.
My advice take the gift with thanks.
It was the late Cardinal Francis George of Chicago who once said: “There will never be a Pope from the US, until the nation falls into political decline.” Well, here we are.
May 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
So true.
America has been given the gift of an alternative American to admire and worship.
My advice take the gift with thanks.
America has been given the gift of an alternative American to admire and worship.
My advice take the gift with thanks.
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There are clear lessons so far - we need a fairer voting system & Labour needs a reset. Trying to out-Reform Reform doesn’t work. Instead of lurching to the right, government urgently needs to rethink its approach. It could start by addressing the genuine concerns of working people by taxing wealth
Support for Reform has surged – what does this mean for UK politics? Our panel responds | Gaby Hinsliff, John McTernan, Carys Ofoko, Caroline Lucas and Peter Kellner
Can Farage’s party now claim to be the official opposition? And what lessons should Labour and the Tories learn after a chastening night, asks our panel
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There are clear lessons so far - we need a fairer voting system & Labour needs a reset. Trying to out-Reform Reform doesn’t work. Instead of lurching to the right, government urgently needs to rethink its approach. It could start by addressing the genuine concerns of working people by taxing wealth
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I'm announcing emergency funding to address a mental health crisis in Lincolnshire, where thousands of people are suffering from delusions, believing that Andrea Jenkyns gives a shit about them.
May 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I'm announcing emergency funding to address a mental health crisis in Lincolnshire, where thousands of people are suffering from delusions, believing that Andrea Jenkyns gives a shit about them.
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John Bolton former Trump Security Advisor on CNN describing how Trump's brain works day to day making decisions on National Security & Foreign policy:
"These are random neuron flashes.....I compare it (working with Trump) like living inside a pinball machine."
"These are random neuron flashes.....I compare it (working with Trump) like living inside a pinball machine."
May 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
John Bolton former Trump Security Advisor on CNN describing how Trump's brain works day to day making decisions on National Security & Foreign policy:
"These are random neuron flashes.....I compare it (working with Trump) like living inside a pinball machine."
"These are random neuron flashes.....I compare it (working with Trump) like living inside a pinball machine."
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I really hope the last words Pope Francis heard weren't "Do you even own a suit?"
April 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I really hope the last words Pope Francis heard weren't "Do you even own a suit?"
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
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I think the inability of any of the British establishment to acknowledge clearly that Brexit was a terrible mistake is the same cognitive block that prevents people confronting the reality of the British Empire, just a much shorter time period.
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments”
#wetoldyouso
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#wetoldyouso
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
April 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I think the inability of any of the British establishment to acknowledge clearly that Brexit was a terrible mistake is the same cognitive block that prevents people confronting the reality of the British Empire, just a much shorter time period.
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Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
April 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
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It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.
April 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.
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“If you don’t like the cost of education, try the cost of ignorance”. Great line!
& We’re all paying that price from the 2016 referendum #r4today
& We’re all paying that price from the 2016 referendum #r4today
April 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“If you don’t like the cost of education, try the cost of ignorance”. Great line!
& We’re all paying that price from the 2016 referendum #r4today
& We’re all paying that price from the 2016 referendum #r4today
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The demands made by Trump were not just abt protests.He demanded a "rebalancing" of views & ideology, & a change of who & how they decided upon hiring staff to ensure more RW Trump friendly views were represented.
Trump's attacked Law firms & media orgs whch hve displeased him.
Now education.
Trump's attacked Law firms & media orgs whch hve displeased him.
Now education.
April 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The demands made by Trump were not just abt protests.He demanded a "rebalancing" of views & ideology, & a change of who & how they decided upon hiring staff to ensure more RW Trump friendly views were represented.
Trump's attacked Law firms & media orgs whch hve displeased him.
Now education.
Trump's attacked Law firms & media orgs whch hve displeased him.
Now education.
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April 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Who saw that coming..
April 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Who saw that coming..
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Trump just caved in and exempted Smartphones, computers and other electronic components from tariffs. The art of the deal, or the art of being a gormless dickhead making it up as he goes along?
April 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump just caved in and exempted Smartphones, computers and other electronic components from tariffs. The art of the deal, or the art of being a gormless dickhead making it up as he goes along?
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Update!🚨
Trump Admin contacted the 3 US relief workers whilst in Myanmar to inform them they were being made redundant.
Trump Admin contacted the 3 US relief workers whilst in Myanmar to inform them they were being made redundant.
How little America has become.
Turkey earthquake USAID had immediate life saving provisions & structures in place to help. US sent 200 rescuers.
Myanmar, no USAID provisions, US has sent just $2 million & 3 men.
UK tiny country sent $15million.
What a diminished country.
Turkey earthquake USAID had immediate life saving provisions & structures in place to help. US sent 200 rescuers.
Myanmar, no USAID provisions, US has sent just $2 million & 3 men.
UK tiny country sent $15million.
What a diminished country.
April 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Update!🚨
Trump Admin contacted the 3 US relief workers whilst in Myanmar to inform them they were being made redundant.
Trump Admin contacted the 3 US relief workers whilst in Myanmar to inform them they were being made redundant.
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Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or
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Who’s the weak one and stupid one now? What happened to being strong, courageous and patient??
He is a total moron, an embarrassment to the very concept of language and to the entire the human race.
He is a total moron, an embarrassment to the very concept of language and to the entire the human race.
April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Who’s the weak one and stupid one now? What happened to being strong, courageous and patient??
He is a total moron, an embarrassment to the very concept of language and to the entire the human race.
He is a total moron, an embarrassment to the very concept of language and to the entire the human race.
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By “not going backward when it comes to Brexit” Starmer is condemning us to going backwards on literally everything else because that’s all we can afford to do.
So depressing.
So depressing.
Asked whether Trump's trade war means the UK will now consider re-entering a customs union with the EU, Keir Starmer's spokesman replies that "we're not going backwards when it comes to Brexit"
April 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
By “not going backward when it comes to Brexit” Starmer is condemning us to going backwards on literally everything else because that’s all we can afford to do.
So depressing.
So depressing.
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It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
April 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.