Credit to @glasgapaul on Threads (not sure if he's here) but he's just called the hideous Tesla trucks "Swasticars" and yes, that'll be sticking.

We need to be very clear.

There was NO vote yesterday in Parliament to add an Inquiry into child sexual exploitation to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

The only vote was on whether to throw out the whole Bill (See below).

Any politician or media saying otherwise is lying to you.

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

Hi Mike, the U.K. petitioning platform won’t allow a petition remove schools etc from Twitter, so I’ve started one here. The government shouldn’t participate with Musk on his app. Please sign and share chng.it/zgFbzhf2R6

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

I see Gregg Wallace has apologgised aggain.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate them.

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.

Today’s poem is called ‘The Good Old Days’.

Women of a certain age. Keep it up.