Jonathan Roberts

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Don't mind me. I'm just working out how much whole flour I can sneak into my kids pancakes

The first time I ever wrote to my local MP was about Starmer's immigration rhetoric. I said Labour would loose my & others vote if it carried on. I got a really feeble response about their election pledge to get immigration down. The temptation to write back now, simply with "I told you so" is high.

I'm looking forward to the Laura Kuenssberg article where she asks what the amazing Reform vote share means for the downfall of Starmer.

One of the biggest stars in the universe might be getting ready to explode One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Ob...

Observers noted the Star's children had said they needed the toilet 5 mins into a car journey after refusing to do a last wee at home

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My favourite people in the whole of cinema are these two from Spider Man. They've gone to an illegal cage fight and prepared by spending the afternoon arts and crafting these delightful saws to support their favourite fighter.

*chuckles* I'm in danger!

...bungee rope on standby

I'd like to see Liz Truss on the second series of celebrity traitors

Lizz you voted for...Claudia?

Yeah

But I'm the host Liz.

That's why I think you'd make an excellent traitor.

As someone who has worked in the NHS for 15 years, I concur.

Depends where you live. Median wage in London is 47.5k. Hard to call a wage below the regional median 'high'. If you live in rural Wales though, 47.5k might well be called high.

🎶 If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit don't buy Club! 🎶

That polite protest in full:

Would you mind changing please?

No

Ok then.

...

*Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has entered the chat*

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more funds to fix outdated infrastructure.

Good job they've clawed back that £50 billion they gave to share holders that should have been spent on infrastructure, otherwise this would be outrageous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'll be honest, I didn't realise it wasn't subject to VAT. Closing tax loopholes for private healthcare providers and using this to fund NHS pay rises seems like an easy win from where I'm sitting.

Maybe, and here's an idea, if Labour is intent on ushering in a far right government they shouldn't put in place the infrastructure for a surveillance state.

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Laura Kuenssberg: do Reform's Russian connections spell the end for Keir Starmer?

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If you call going round putting up flags given to me by a notorious right wing extremist and then asking people to bow to them political, then yes, it's 'political'.

Approaching my 10th wedding anniversary and my 4 year old is incredulous my wife and I still have anything to say to each other. 10 years, in her view, should be quite enough time to say everything you need to each other.

He's also failed to tackle wealth inequality (instead preferring to blame immigration for everyone's woes).

As far as I can tell Farage has been called out in Congress after calling for sanctions against the country he seeks to lead. It's an act that should bar him from ever being PM. Yet, the BBC only seems interested in breathlessly telling us how Reform are the Government in waiting

If anyone without children asks my advice about having children I ask one simple but important question. How much do you like side quests?

This feels like a mad idea because - among other things - these data centres require heaps of water and we've spent the last 30 years siphoning £50 Billion into shareholders pockets rather than investing in water infrastructure. We've built no new reservoirs in the last 30 years!

New paper where we argue that (at least in the UK genomics context) we need to make it easier for the full diversity of our workforce to contribute to research. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/8...

Just going through the self check out while the kids scan everything themselves

For what it's worth I've found the work of Lisa-Feldman Barrett super helpful in thinking about how to respond to my children's emotions.

There's also a lot in the gentle parenting movement (and that ilk) that prioritises validation of emotions over all else. There's little space within these frameworks for trying to re-frame or contextualise emotions.

Labour betting the house on economic growth rather than solid principles is looking worse and worse every day.