Hugh Jones

We can but hope!

And thank you 🙏

County too has had its share of golden moments, false dawns and disappointments

Good luck for the rest of the season

Trump’s tariffs 🤣

UK median annual wage for employees is £31,056.

£25,880 after income tax and NIC. Graduates take home even less.

Tax thresholds frozen since 2021.

Millions can't afford to buy homes, start family or business.

No govt curbs profiteering.

Can't build sustainable economy without redistribution.

The form chart for the current championship: Sheffield Wednesday, in 24th position, with Ls all the way across

Way more consistent than the other teams

#GettingDesperateNow
#NeedAMiracle
#ItsTheHopeThatKillsYou

Before today's match, let me just say that one feature of Wednesday's season is consistency

Which is often touted as a virtue, but I personally think might be overplayed

#wawaw

Chalk board at a hotel breakfast advertising museli

To be fair, Muesli as a word never sits right with me either

Guys being Dudes

“Misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword” as a simile for Trump’s approach is a wonderful phrase

a key fact, skirted around

this was a white British woman — not someone noticeably 'other'

a lot of people who haven't felt personally worried so far, might suddenly have to think about what's been previously unimaginable, irrelevant, given unconscious structural privileges, when visiting the USA

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In a desperate bid for gold, the curler sends the stone so hard down the ice that the stones it hits fly out of the lane

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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BBC news headline: Team GB face uphill task for four-man bobsleigh medal

That seems a tad unfair when the other teams get a gravity assist

If you haven't been following the robo dog fiasco in India the last couple days you are missing out

Swansea’s been doing this for a couple of years now

#TeamTrencher

bowla.co.uk

Is there anything so confected as a LinkedIn Work Anniversary?

Sorry to butt in; just re-read LotR too, and strongly agree

Hobbiton is definitely a squirearchy - its Wodehouse’s world without the utter nincompoops

Merry and Pippin are well-bred enough to be Frodo’s friends; Sam is his devoted servant

Find your MP - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament Enter your postcode, location, MPs name or job title to find the name and contact details of your local MP.

You can find who your MP is here:

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Just written to my MP on this

It really does help promote an issue if MPs see that it is a matter of concern to their constituents

If you are a UK resident and feel strongly, please write to your MP too

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When the richest man in the world , who is not a UK citizen, starts weighing in on the side of racist UK politics, it’s clearly time for the UK government to take steps to eliminate foreign interference - money and media - from our elections

If we want to stay Lympical, how about:

In the figure skating, the death spiral was going well until divots started forming in the ice

The farmer used a scythe to harvest the wheat

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The flags were being raised over the podium, but it was all going horribly wrong

Only two flags! There would be Diplomatic Consequences!

An old colur picture postcard showing two pictures: on the top modern blocks providing student housing; the lower picture shows a Victorian brick built college building

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Crewe and Alsager College, once an HEI in its own right; then merged with @manmetuni.bsky.social

I don't think either of these campuses are still in use by MMU

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

ne e private secretary. The appointment of Andrew to replace the Duke of Kent as trade envoy was vigorously promoted by none other than Peter Mandelson, then out of government after his second cabinet resignation but still with the ear of prime minister Tony Blair. Blair overruled the principal opponent of the plan - none other than Andrew's big brother. Brian thought it wrongheaded as he suspected Andrew would use the post as an excuse to cultivate friendships with the wealthy, chase women and play golf. It would certainly be interesting to see the notes revealing why Blair ignored His Majesty's sage advice at the time. NUMBER CRUNCHING £43.0

Everything is Connected. From Private Eye:

A circular compass carved on an outcrop with sea views

A rock compass with sea views, carved alongside a First World War coastal lookout post on the summit of Garn Fawr, Strumble Head

In the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social

📷 My own, yesterday

Pot Noodles only come in pots; anything else is sparkling Super Noodles