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If only it was all a bad dream and we could rerun the last ten years with the benefit of hindsight.

Spare a thought for Wales, with Senedd elections due next year. Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour, please get your acts together now!

The building on the right is the fish finger factory.

Language evolves and any usage that becomes common currency is clearly like fulfilling a need.

Newcastle Emlyn, waiting to join the annual tractor run? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Butterscotch Angel Delight 😋. Delicious and wholesome. You won’t regret it, Mr Pip.

Is the UK the "dirty man of Europe"?

Apparently so - our bathing water is 5x worse than the EU's.

"Once again, when it comes to environmental regulation, enforcement and protecting people’s health, the European Union leads the charge." @pimlicat.bsky.social

Yesterday I said I thought she showed a degree of naïveté that was almost endearing. Almost.

They don’t care about getting the facts wrong. Their “apologies” mean less than nothing. It just gives them yet another opportunity to bleat about immigration.

This is how apologies go these days. “Ok my facts were wrong but still, I make no apology for mentioning immigrants.”
It’s just another opportunity to reinforce the message.

As the Gaza famine death toll rises, UK imports of Israeli fruit and veg have soared - £51.3m in just three months, up from £29.1m.

While Palestinians starve, Israel’s agricultural exports to Britain are booming.

Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

Tis the season for outdoor Shakespeare. Just the other day we were at Measure for Measure, staged in the ruins of St Dogmaels Abbey. Flocks of crows added to the atmosphere.

Charities such Age UK provide this kind of support. Does Ms Whately see them as criminal “sickfluencers” too?

I am truly sorry to hear your tragic news. He must have been such a lovely and precious boy.

1927 photo of 12 passengers travelling in a car to Clovelly, Devon

My son & girlfriend have just been to Clovelly. This photo shows his great- grandparents going there almost a century before. I have no idea what this fine automobile might be.

N: Alta, Norway
E: Larnaca, Cyprus
S: Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
W: Los Angeles, USA

Spent a day in Turku with my cousin, who lives there. Pleasant train ride from Helsinki, lovely river, imposing castle and impressive town library.

Strangely enough we prefer not to be aggressively cross-examined, never mind detained or deported.

No more men sitting gloomily outside changing rooms, dreading the moment when their opinion is sought?

Lovely city. Last there when expecting my daughter, 39 years ago so kein Wein for me. Aber das nächste Mal …

Civil Service had something similar with “government property” stamped on every abrasive sheet, just in case you were tempted to steal it.

On this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima, my thoughts are with the survivors who have suffered so much. And it’s frankly horrifying that the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs - and still want more. @cnduk.bsky.social

Why are we commemorating Hiroshima’s 80th anniversary with new nuclear weapons? The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be a reminder of the horrors of nuclear attack – not a chance for Britain to announce it is spending billions on submarine-launched atomic warheads, says ...

Why are we commemorating Hiroshima’s 80th anniversary with new nuclear weapons? And why is the Govt backing idea of a glossy new PR campaign to persuade us we need nukes whilst simultaneously trying to block inquiry into impacts of nuclear war?
Me for @indyvoices.bsky.social
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I would say she’s showing such a degree of naïveté that it’s *almost* becoming endearing.

Almost.

What I don’t understand is that every adult who “hates children” was once themself a child.

As my son would say, “pwned.” 😂

Ew, father’s favourite, along with Wright’s Coal Tar soap and scratchy Izal toilet paper.

I know of a lonely shepherd’s hut where they could be very happy together.

Companies House confirms identity verification rollout from 18 November 2025 We are phasing in identity verification over 12 months to make things simpler for companies and business owners.

We're finally coming to the end of the weird period where you have to prove your identity to vote but not to launch a UK limited company
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I knew it. West Wales is just an outpost of the Cotswolds. We’ve got the sheep. Just lacking a Waitrose and some head-scarved ladies in 4x4s. And Cameron and Clarkson …