Pat McClay

Fifty five miles at the nearest points.

Elon Musk's father suggests having babies should be more like breeding horses Elon Musk's views are in the spotlight as his influence on Donald Trump - and his future policy - deepens. Few understand the origin of his pro-birth views better than his father, Errol Musk - an engi...

Yeah, it really is Eugenics...

news.sky.com/story/i-woul...

UK's food bank crisis is violating our basic human rights Food banks are a violation of our human right to food on an unprecedented scale. Hunger should spark outrage, writes Just Fair’s Alex Firth.

Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.

Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.

1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...

🧵 Whatever your views on assisted dying, I always assumed we’d all agree that the topic is ethically fraught & complex.

Not so Matthew Parris.

For him, it’s simple.

Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n

He added: “If as an act of compassion you wanted to help somebody escape suffering, then why only in the last six months of a terminal illness? Why not for somebody who simply cannot come to terms with being wheelchair bound let us say? Or who is clinically depressed and is never going to be independent of medications for the rest of their lives?”

A Dignity in Dying patron, AC Grayling, has told The Telegraph he’d already like to extend assisted dying to people who are “wheelchair bound.” Not remotely chilling. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

Andy said that this morning. Was saying it will be murder when folk are shopping for Christmas/New Year booze!

Or maybe I mean the future 🤣

I know very little about anything, but I think history will prove her wrong.

They'll be putting you in text books next! Really genuinely chuffed for you. (I too am deaf as the proverbial post, but not for same reason.)

Excellent news Moira!

And he manages it without even trying 🤣

In the name of fortune 😂

Things I learnt while working on overseas emergencies: no. 1) everyone who knows anything is terrified of a measles outbreak and that's why we vaccinate

Do you remember Clive James' programmes on tv? Particularly the Japanese game shows which were the precursors of I'm A Celeb, etc.? We said at the time that they'd never fly here. How wrong we were.

I rarely recommend blocking, but ⬇️
@trobinsonnewera.bsky.social

I listen to plenty of people on mainstream tv/news that I don't agree with. I don't really NEED it on social media as well. If I encounter it that's fine, I don't seek it out.

Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes' More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.

This is awful & heartbreaking. Schoolchildren from struggling families have pretended to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food.

Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh jeez Moira, sorry to hear that. It's hard some years. Haven't yet lost contemporary rellies - bar two. And those were more than a decade ago.
Will catch you up on some of our stuff by DM in coming days. (Nothing dreadful, but some challenges).

Yeah, we're doing away. Hope you are too. Time defo goes much faster the older you get 😂 (Which is a bit unfair I feel.)

I thought we'd already spoken on here. But I'm getting old and confused 😂

Peak Twitter for me was 2011 - 2014

NEW: Neo-Nazis are planning to descend on the Scottish town this weekend for a white power gig.

Around 150 white supremacists will attend an event featuring big names in the neo-Nazi music in Bathgate, West Lothian, on Saturday, the charity Hope Not Hate said.

www.thenational.scot/news/2472549...

There was a T in there! 😂

Did the Laborites just discover this?

A huge thank you to all our new followers. 🙏

We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.

Hi Mo! Welcome! You'll find lots of other familiar people here too. @justme21.bsky.social for one😀

Always this. Never not this. You don’t get to say “well, if you read the story, you’ll see it’s a careful and nuanced take”. Is it? Then don’t use a dogshit headline!

If you are we are too. 😂

Not song lyrics but
I was brought up Catholic and when saying a Hail Mary I thought for a long time it was 'play with my scissors now' (pray for us sinners now)

And you. x