The price we pay for the huge pleasure given to is by our dogs is that every dozen years or so one's heart is broken.

Yesterday we let our lovely Lulah go. She had such a happy life and gave us so much joy, these last thirteen years.

Our hearts feel completely broken.

Stop the family reunion suspension: Email the Home Secretary The government has just suspended refugee family reunion – the main safe route for children to join their refugee parents in the UK. We can’t let them tear families apart in our name. This cruel decis...

If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads.

Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>

act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...

After my car was damaged in a Tesco car wash it has washed its hands of my complaint The tail spoiler and brake light were ripped off needing £750 repair, but it claims there was no fault with the machine

Another example of a British retailer much more interested in their shareholders' pocket that their customers.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pathetic or what??

With Arsenal clear and rivals stumbling, is the Premier League title race over? Mikel Arteta’s side have experience of being top of the table but have been unable to finish the job in previous seasons

What an utterly silly headline. A journalist with nothing to say.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

Jimmy Wales has done something truly valuable. One can see why the awful Musk resents him so much.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Does Steve Witkoff mean that he expected fewer than 93 Palestinians to have been murdered by the IDF since the 'ceasefire' began on 10th October?
www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/g...

There’s evidence Shein is powered by forced labour – let’s stop it listing on the London Stock Exchange with @GoodLawProjecthttps://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/lets-stop-shein-raising-cash-in-london/?utm_source=bluesky

Ask your MP to oppose the hostile environment and back safe routes The Government’s refugee citizenship ban and new immigration Bill are just more of the same: continuing the hostile environment. We can’t let this go on. These policies don’t address the real issue. I...

The Government’s new immigration bill and refugee citizenship ban are just more of the same: continuing the hostile environment. We can’t let this go on. Take action NOW:

act.safepassage.org.uk/ask-your-mp-...

Precisely the same is true of VAR in @plnews.bsky.social

Hilary Mantel accused of 'falsifying' history in Wolf Hall Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, which has been dubbed a 'landmark in historical fiction,' depicts the life of Thomas Cromwell as the chief minister of Henry VIII.

An even more than usually moronic piece from the philistine editors of the moronic Fail. I wonder if they ever read Mantel's delicious fantasy "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher"?
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Sky must stop funding hate speech CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...

I’ve demanded that Sky stops buying ads and funding hate on GB News. Join me and @GoodLawProject now to increase the pressure: goodlaw.social/c9g8

Richards Keys makes sensational Tottenham takeover claim with 'deal done' Tottenham takeover done? Here's what Richard Keys has 'heard'...🤝

This tripe is typical of 'news' stories about football - not a single hard fact in it.

www.football365.com/news/tottenh...

England/Wales now lock up 139 people per 100,000, compared with 124 in 2000. This is significantly higher than other European countries: France locks up 117 people per 100,000, Germany 68 and the Netherlands 64.

WHY????

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Red flags raised after debts soar at Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals empire Ratings agencies downgraded outlook for Ineos Group to ‘negative’ as tycoon’s sporting interests also hit crisis point

When Masters of The Universe, who love lecturing we mere mortals, fuck up their businesses as @ratcliffeutdera.bsky.social seems to have done, it's never their fault. In this case it's 'the de-industrialisation of Europe'. It's been happening a long time, Jim!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The French House — Two words for this lovable old friend: Je t’aime Review at a glance: ★★★★☆

Three words actually.

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Russia’s Costly Conquest in Ukraine When expansion yields few gains.

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russ...

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This graph shows that, in 1980 US life expectancy at birth was only very slightly lower than the average of a basket of similar countries. Since then, the gap has steadily widened and now the difference is 4 years

Russia’s Costly Conquest in Ukraine When expansion yields few gains.

The populations of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have declined by 90% since Putin's invasion. If he keeps these territories from a peace treaty, he will have gained a mass of ruins occupied only by the old, poor, uneducated and sick.

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russ...

Elizabeth Day: my toxic dating disasters and how I met the One Newly single at 39, Elizabeth Day faced a dating scene that had changed for the worse. She reveals a world of breadcrumbing and ghosting — and why she’s launched a podcast, How to Date, to help

Elizabeth Day's description of modern dating as an 'endless cycle of intangible hope, disappointing reality and the gradual crushing of dreams' makes it sound exactly like being a Spurs supporter.

www.thetimes.com/article/ae03...

Who honestly gives a fuck?

Almost half of young people no longer drink alcohol Britons of all age groups are cutting back to improve their health — although ‘abstinence influencers’ seem to have less impact on the over-55s

www.thetimes.com/article/2cce...

This is a quite extraordinary change in daily habits. I applaud it and can't help thinking about what I would have done with all the time I have spent drinking!

Protests by fruit pickers and farmers put spotlight on price of cheap food in UK In two actions, migrant workers claim exploitation while farmers demonstrate against inheritance tax plan

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

What a lovely mess. The workers want more pay, the Government wants the farmers to pay their tax, which the farmers don't want to pay, and, of course, the public wants cheap food.

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.

WARNING - IF YOU ARE AMERICAN YOU MAY FIND THIS OBJECTIVE STUDY OF US HEALTHCARE VERY FRIGHTENING

www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics Opinium survey of 2,000 adults found concern about the impact of growing wealth inequality in the UK

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

That depends what you call business as usual. International trade will continue but tariffs at the level the Rapist is proposing are certain to depress activity.

Someone (Will Smith?) said that Green Book was not a movie about the black experience but one to make white folk feel better about the black experience.

BlacKcKlansman would have been a much better choice.

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It's hard to imagine that Trump won't be inflationary.