Johnny Morris on a boat
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‘Continuous cruiser’ narrowboater with wide interests. Left wing, Rejoiner, keen but rusty botanist He/him 🏳️🌈
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‘Tis the season to cook everything in batter
December 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
‘Tis the season to cook everything in batter
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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Give me more of this England, please - the one with lovely people in it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Give me more of this England, please - the one with lovely people in it.
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All the other FIFA Prize Winners:
Literature: Richard Osman
Economics: The Count off of Sesame Street
Physics: Egon Spengler
Chemistry: Boots
Medicine: Margaret Gaviscon
Literature: Richard Osman
Economics: The Count off of Sesame Street
Physics: Egon Spengler
Chemistry: Boots
Medicine: Margaret Gaviscon
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
All the other FIFA Prize Winners:
Literature: Richard Osman
Economics: The Count off of Sesame Street
Physics: Egon Spengler
Chemistry: Boots
Medicine: Margaret Gaviscon
Literature: Richard Osman
Economics: The Count off of Sesame Street
Physics: Egon Spengler
Chemistry: Boots
Medicine: Margaret Gaviscon
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 4th June 2024.
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 4th June 2024.
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
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![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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How many of these hundreds of thousands of people were actually in significant pain, and had already tried to get treatment elsewhere?
How many had gotten lost in the toils of GP online systems that make you answer 10 or 15 irrelevant questions before asking what's actually wrong?
How many had gotten lost in the toils of GP online systems that make you answer 10 or 15 irrelevant questions before asking what's actually wrong?
Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
NHS bosses warn the public to use hospitals wisely amid concern this could be a tough winter.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
How many of these hundreds of thousands of people were actually in significant pain, and had already tried to get treatment elsewhere?
How many had gotten lost in the toils of GP online systems that make you answer 10 or 15 irrelevant questions before asking what's actually wrong?
How many had gotten lost in the toils of GP online systems that make you answer 10 or 15 irrelevant questions before asking what's actually wrong?
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People have NO IDEA how much of what they think is "normal human behaviour" comes from an experiment someone ran on a dozen psych students in 1974 for a $5 reward, and could never actually replicate, but managed to get the results into a textbook anyway.
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
People have NO IDEA how much of what they think is "normal human behaviour" comes from an experiment someone ran on a dozen psych students in 1974 for a $5 reward, and could never actually replicate, but managed to get the results into a textbook anyway.
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Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
This does seem pretty much guaranteed, especially combined with increased use of magistrates, to risk fundamentally restricting people's rights. I am genuinely confused how it is getting so little attention, unless I have seriously missed something.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
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Cow Parsley hanging!
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Cow Parsley hanging!
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
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NEW BLOGPOST
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
thesecretbarrister.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NEW BLOGPOST
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
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December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
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Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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If I were Tory leader I'd simply avoid saying things a 12 year old RE student would know to be bollocks.
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If I were Tory leader I'd simply avoid saying things a 12 year old RE student would know to be bollocks.
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And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
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“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”