Carol Bell 📎

I'd love to book the COVID vaccine but for some reason you've decided that people who were eligible last year are not eligible this year unless we fork over £100. Is this post just to rub it in?

Was....was he drunk?

He couldn't even walk in time to the music and threw his partner round like a sack of spuds.

Just finished reading it and really enjoyed it.

Johnson can fork right off.

I have been known to put a bunch in my trolley then hide them behind the boxes of cereal.

He obviously has no ruddy shame.

Cream quilt with images of music and musical instruments, including keys of a piano in a wave like shape and a guitar as well as musical notation

'Shimmering Symphony' quilt by Karlee Porter, contemporary US quilter #WomensArt

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't.

Kamala Harris did not lie.

So Is The Military Ready To Rise Up Behind Trump? In a snapshot that perfectly frames the recent “gathering of generals” in the US, Trump openly threatened to fire all US generals he “doesn’t like”.

This is a great read!!!

open.substack.com/pub/barrygan...

Differing political definitions of patriotism 3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊 Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism", , comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel Johnson's much-quoted remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words still count for some of us. Shaun Leavey Sherborne, Dorset Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness". "In 300 years' time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure. Jerry Stuart London SEI Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag". °. She doesn't indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism. The Rev Paul Dowling

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

"Collateral damage" sounds so much cleaner and more acceptable than thousands and thousands of ordinary people being killed and injured.

So, if I've got this right, according to you, if a bunch of criminals hide behind the children in a school, it's fine to murder all the children, teachers & parents in that school, & keep murdering them because they don't matter to you & you don't class them as real people. Is that what you mean?

Unmitigated claptrap. Didn't you used to have actual journalists at one time?

Fred Brown is a sand artist and he re created Banksy art on the beach of Scarborough

Palestina Libera waving colourful flags in Bologna.

Palestrina Libera in Piazza del Nettuno in Bologna.

Dear Guardian,
don't you mean "Nigel Farage LIED when he said he had bought a house in Clacton"?

Timeline cleanse

Excellent description of Farage here by Jamie Raskin. Makes me wonder when all of our media know this information but are reporting on NONE of it. Looking particularly at you, BBC News.

Farage lies to EVERYONE

This one too

Excellent 👇

Mural on a wall with a Gazan kid climbing a broken ladder. The street is called hope street.

Glasgow, Scotland.

We saw that artwork in Florence last year. It was mesmerising.

Excellent use of the word "jackanapes". It is not used nearly enough nowadays.

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