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Glen Monks
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Northern out-crop, thriving in the south. Leftie. Husband. Homo. Sweary. Tired of the social cat litter tray that Twatter became so here I am, the eternal optimist.
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“It is difficult, if not impossible, to see how the current informal permissiveness of assisted suicide is preferable to actually setting out what is allowed & not allowed by Act of Parliament”

@davidallengreen.bsky.social in support of #AssistedDying Bill👇

davidallengreen.com/2024/11/an-a...
An argument about Assisting Dying – matters of life and death need to be properly regulated by law, and not by official discretion
28 November 2024 I almost did not publish the post below. The online (and no doubt offline) debate about this topic is heated and often abusive, and as one gets older one loses usually loses the ta…
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November 28, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Feels like I’ve had more edifying interactions on @bsky.app in the last 5 days than I have in the last 5 years on Twatter.

Long may it continue.

💙🦋
November 21, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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Now that she owns Jeremy Clarkson (net worth £55m) Victoria Derbyshire's family have to pay inheritance tax on him when she dies.
“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.

#Newsnight
November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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And this morning the Shed is the turret of a castle, high in the mountains; rooted in granite, crowned in clouds and gleaming in the sunlight...
November 21, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Sunday yomp to Purdown was good for the soul.
November 17, 2024 at 12:20 PM
@natashadevon.bsky.social So lovely seeing my former X tribe in this sunnier place! Yay.
November 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM
@jackmonroe.bsky.social Oh you are here also - this make me very happy, lovely Jack.

The sky got bluer!

Xx
November 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM
It’s a genuine wonder to me that here, deep into autumn and just 3 degrees outside, our passion flower continues its majestic tropical display.

Show off.
November 16, 2024 at 7:17 AM