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Simon Whitehead
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Politics, gardening, history, books old and new, beer and ale glasses. Walking our dog. Financial adviser helping people ensure their financial plans support their life plans. www.eadonco.com/meet-the-team/
Very good
Using a search engine is a bit like asking a librarian for help. Using GenAi is like asking an actor pretending to be a librarian for help.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Pure corruption
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Chichester Cathedral in the sun
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Samir Zitouni who works for LNER was the first person to try and stop the attack in Huntingdon.

He is a hero spread his name far and wide, judge people on their actions not their names or immigration status.
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This fascinating. Apart from giving a tip every time you buy a pint. Very annoying
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Interestingly direct
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is fascinating. More English people should learn more about this important part of the world. Me included.
On the precipice of generalisations, Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Gujaratis’ exposes a shameful underside of Gujarati pride, Gujarat’s conflicted cultural landscape, and the community’s broader moral and political failings.

A review essay by Hemang Ashwinkumar:
Salil Tripathi’s portrait of Gujarati pride and contradictions
INARGUABLY, these are Dickensian best-of-times to read a tome on the Gujaratis. If the opposition’s loud protests in India’s parliament are to be believed, a fo
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This year’s vintage ale is here
October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Came off in the wind
October 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Crab apples in the back garden
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Some hopeful weekend reading.

“This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Oxford people - tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 11.30 there is a gathering at the Holiday Inn Express near the Kassam Stadium to counter anti-refugee protesters.
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Interesting. I didn’t know the RA history.
By 1768, Joseph Wright of Derby had gained widespread praise for his new candlelight paintings. So why was he overlooked by the founders of the Royal Academy? Was it his depictions of science that went against tradition, or were there other factors at play?
Joseph Wright of Derby put science at the centre of his art | Aeon Essays
Joseph Wright of Derby put science at the centre of his art. Eclipsed in his lifetime, his work still burns with radical ideas
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Well produced
How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Can't imagine why a Labour Prime Minister like Keir Starmer would be threatened by a party that is working to:

- Lower bills.
- Protect the NHS.
- Nationalise our water companies.

Ignore the name calling and his rants about me at in Parliament and join.greenparty.org.uk
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September 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This baffles me. It’s as easy as excluding students from the statistics. Why don’t they do it?
Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities.

Billions lost to local economies.

Education is a major export, being systematically harmed by xenophobic policies of successive govts.

Students going elsewhere, loss of UK soft power.

Exclude students from immigration total.
Crackdown on international students could hurt struggling UK cities, thinktank warns
University sector, which is reliant on overseas students for a quarter of income, key to economic activity in cities like Leicester and Hull
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Israel bombed a hospital.

Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.

Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.

Read that again.

Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
August 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Our best pelargonium
August 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Disillusioned by Labour? While Starmer’s party loses members, more and more people are finding their political home with us — join them today! ⤵️

join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=j...
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Fascinating
On Reform UK: “This alliance between the working poor and a load of rich rightwing toffs has been the basis of fascism for a century. How can we still be living it out? I find it really upsetting.”
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
August 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So funny
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Not very well known
#OtD 16 Aug 1842 during a Chartist general strike for universal male suffrage, troops fired on a march in Stoke-on-Trent, killing 19-year-old shoemaker Josiah Heapy and injuring others. 146 were jailed and 54 transported to Australia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8756...
August 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM