@nealc97.bsky.social
Old. Thin. In Evesham, Worcestershire.
Was at opening of 1st UK McDonalds. No cat/dog/bunny pics.
Was at opening of 1st UK McDonalds. No cat/dog/bunny pics.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Pointing gambling taxes at the most harmful forms of gambling, whilst supporting community institutions that involve low-harm gambling. Another example of Labour in action.
Abolition of bingo duty
It's a measure from the 2025 budget which often gets overlooked.
It raises less than £30m a year.
But for the 250 bingo halls (which pay the majority of the tax) and the +2.5m members, it could make the difference between being profitable or closing down.
It's a measure from the 2025 budget which often gets overlooked.
It raises less than £30m a year.
But for the 250 bingo halls (which pay the majority of the tax) and the +2.5m members, it could make the difference between being profitable or closing down.
Tax Minister and Bingo Association celebrate scrapping of Bingo Duty
Bingo clubs across Britain are celebrating the scrapping of bingo duty as UK tax minister Dan Tomlinson and the Bingo Association’s Paul Swindon joined players in London.
www.gov.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Pointing gambling taxes at the most harmful forms of gambling, whilst supporting community institutions that involve low-harm gambling. Another example of Labour in action.
Almost makes you think our media is some sort of problem.
How good a year do Britons say 2025 was for...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Themselves personally
Good: 36%
Average: 35%
Bad: 27%
The UK
Good: 6%
Average: 24%
Bad: 66%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Almost makes you think our media is some sort of problem.
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Full report: www.britishchambers.org.uk/news/2025/12...
December 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Full report: www.britishchambers.org.uk/news/2025/12...
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The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The damage wreaked by Thatcher is incalculable. Here’s one of the worst examples 👇
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December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Just seven hours & 43 minutes of daylight - and most of that cold drizzle.
How about we organise some sort of fire & light festival?
How about we organise some sort of fire & light festival?
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just seven hours & 43 minutes of daylight - and most of that cold drizzle.
How about we organise some sort of fire & light festival?
How about we organise some sort of fire & light festival?
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The Labour government has done something really good.
Yup.
Yup.
The House of Lords fought hard to dilute parts of Labour’s Employment Rights Bill – but the core reforms survived. From sick pay to fire-and-rehire, here's how the landscape is about to change dramatically ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Labour delivers on its promise to workers
The Employment Rights Bill aims to reverse a generation of employment legislation. This week it became law
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Labour government has done something really good.
Yup.
Yup.
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
A small joy of WhatsApp group memberships: Random 4s voice clips of whatever was on the radio when the wrong button got tapped.
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A small joy of WhatsApp group memberships: Random 4s voice clips of whatever was on the radio when the wrong button got tapped.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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The government has published its first national youth strategy in 15 years, promising £500 million to open new hubs across England.
Labour unveils national youth strategy with vital promise to young people
www.bigissue.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The government has published its first national youth strategy in 15 years, promising £500 million to open new hubs across England.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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It's beach-banana Monday!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Public urged to stay away after ship containers of bananas wash up in West Sussex
Receiver of wrecks says finds of perishables do not have to be flagged, but council asks for space for clean-up operation
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's beach-banana Monday!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Here's a good plan.
Even if they'd still have £7.5million left afterwards.
Even if they'd still have £7.5million left afterwards.
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Here's a good plan.
Even if they'd still have £7.5million left afterwards.
Even if they'd still have £7.5million left afterwards.
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Betting that this doesn't make headlines.
Best Start Family Hubs
You may have missed that the Labour government is setting up these new hubs - a rebranded & modernised version of Sure Start!
The latest announcement is that from April they will act as a one-stop-shop for SEND support, & speech & language services!
Great stuff from Labour!
You may have missed that the Labour government is setting up these new hubs - a rebranded & modernised version of Sure Start!
The latest announcement is that from April they will act as a one-stop-shop for SEND support, & speech & language services!
Great stuff from Labour!
Access to early SEND support through Best Start Family Hubs
Best Start Family Hubs to act as one-stop-shop for parents with SEND professional and services to support speech and language development confirmed.
www.gov.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Betting that this doesn't make headlines.
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This is very funny.
Only yesterday Starmer was swatting away hacks at a press conference who believed they had questions to answer over it.
The mainstream media, the Tories, and Farage accused Reeves of doing something wrong, again, and were proved wrong, again.
It’s marvellous.
Only yesterday Starmer was swatting away hacks at a press conference who believed they had questions to answer over it.
The mainstream media, the Tories, and Farage accused Reeves of doing something wrong, again, and were proved wrong, again.
It’s marvellous.
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is very funny.
Only yesterday Starmer was swatting away hacks at a press conference who believed they had questions to answer over it.
The mainstream media, the Tories, and Farage accused Reeves of doing something wrong, again, and were proved wrong, again.
It’s marvellous.
Only yesterday Starmer was swatting away hacks at a press conference who believed they had questions to answer over it.
The mainstream media, the Tories, and Farage accused Reeves of doing something wrong, again, and were proved wrong, again.
It’s marvellous.
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Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
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Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Rachel Reeves did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trusted, independent Resolution Foundation put into an easy to understand chart why Labour are despised by the Media and their bosses. It’s time to stop listening to them.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Trusted, independent Resolution Foundation put into an easy to understand chart why Labour are despised by the Media and their bosses. It’s time to stop listening to them.
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Hope everybody is enjoying their Advent colanders so far.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hope everybody is enjoying their Advent colanders so far.
Is "journalism" now Britain's main creative industry?
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Is "journalism" now Britain's main creative industry?
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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 9:24 AM
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.
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Politics by vibes is really not helping us. Especially when the figures are so clear.
'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.
'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Politics by vibes is really not helping us. Especially when the figures are so clear.