Alice Lilly

(And to be clear it’s understandable there is confusion about who does what- this stuff isn’t really ever taught!)

Agree and would add a lack of understanding about what level of govt does what- so often the things that pop up in MPs’ inboxes are things that are in the gift of the local council and not MPs! And equally, local councils are blamed for things that are the result of funding envelopes set centrally

The (v helpful) staff at the station confirmed to me that I absolutely should have been allowed to travel and tried contact the train to track my luggage but couldn’t. They said I would get a call from them when it got to the end station. Of course I never did and luggage was never found.

Explained the situation and he said i couldn’t get the train. I showed him the statement on the train company’s own website saying people could get any of their trains. He refused to accept it and said no dice. So I didnt travel. Train left. Then I realised I’d left luggage on train in the scramble

ARGH. A couple of years ago trains going north were messed up, so train company said anybody with tickets north could get on any of their trains. I did. Announcement on train said only people with tix for that specific train could travel, so I hopped off train to find train manager on the platform…

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme

An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking

fullfact.org/technology/d...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

100% would rather clean that up than slobbery mashed banana

It’s just picking things up off the floor and then, once they’ve started weaning, cleaning the high chair, the floor, the wall, the baby, and yourself. Endlessly.

Horrific. Thoughts with Jewish friends.

I think a lot of this is primarily about what many of us in the media now rewards. I chaired quite a few fringes at Labour conference, and at all of them I walked away impressed by the quality of all the MPs and their contributions.

Say what you will about GOV.UK, but this kind of thing (which is, to be clear, an absolutely outrageous political statement to make on an official government website) would never happen

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I swear train ticket pricing is just based on throwing a dart at a board of large numbers and laughing at customers

Needed to change some train tickets- simply to get the same trains as already booked on, just on a different day- and am changing them quite a way in advance and apparently the train company thinks it can charge £104 for the new tickets, on top of what I've already paid for the original tickets

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Incredibly useful thread from @chanret.bsky.social for anybody contemplating a PhD

When in doubt, watch Taskmaster or Parts Unknown

Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Department

Looking after a kid is an absolutely brilliant exercise in staying very humbled on a daily basis

Was feeling v organised having made baby’s breakfast, folded laundry, and gone shopping so I could make her lunch; so treated myself to coffee which I haven’t been able to have for a couple of weeks after an illness.

Instantly dropped my coffee on the floor AND forgot a vital ingredient shopping

As trailed in the papers earlier, Reeves's speech did roll the pitch for tax rises in the Budget - pointing to 14 years of weak growth creating a fiscal problem and the foolhardiness of simply ignoring fiscal constraints (she said there was "nothing progressive" about that)...

Sorry but carrying a copy of Erskine May is an instant dating green flag

(I can hear my husband rolling his eyes)

At this stage we must also acknowledge the vital contribution made to the European team today by Viktor Hovland’s neck

Shane Lowry 🙏🏻

Have the US simply considered not winding up Justin Rose?

Exquisite. EXQUISITE.

Going to try this at MMM

Yes! They just seem full of joy and to really enjoy being a team.

(And I especially enjoy Rose and Fleetwood looking supremely unbothered by everything while also having nerves of absolute steel)