Ian McClellan

I hadn’t heard of them, is this something created by a certain TERF who has a pseudonym?

Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted to horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column

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He can’t even say V.A.R.

He’s pronouncing it as vaaar like caaar.

It’s not an impediment, it’s deliberate and ignorant. Refusing to pronounce someone’s name correctly is just rude.

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Kessandra, the people’s favourite princess, recruits her ex Sgt Nix Marr for a covert mission to investigate a massacre in the underwater city of Fall. But all is not as it seems, and soon everyone aboard the sub is in danger...

@rebeccathorne.bsky.social's This Gilded Abyss is out now!
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Newcastle United v Manchester City: Premier League – live ⚽️ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off ⚽️ Live scoreboard | Latest tables | And do send Scott a mail Eddie Howe’s turn to speak to Sky. “We love playing here … our home record is really good … we are confident here … we want to try to express ourselves in the right way … certainly we have a lot of work to do in the Premier League to get back to our very best consistently … the team has to function really well to limit [Erling Haaland’s] space and the potential damage he can do to us … our technical delivery has to be really high … we certainly have some really good technical players on show today … it was a two-week break … much needed to refocus our mindset … we will attack these games we have … a really busy spell between now and the end of January … unrelenting but also really exciting … a lot of different challenges to come.” Howe also reports that Kieran Trippier has a “very minor hamstring issue”. Continue reading...

Newcastle United v Manchester City: Premier League – live

Why the frack have we got Nigel Gleghorn on BBC Radio Manchester again? He can’t pronounce half the English language never mind the names of the Man City team!

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🙂 Daily Quordle 1398
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Waffle The waffle-shaped daily word game.

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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Nov. 22, 2025 Can you sort 8 historical events?

Flashback for Nov. 22, 2025

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Play here:
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Strands #629
“Ivy League”
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I thought for a little while it was newspapers…

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22 Nov 1580: John Watson, Bishop of #Winchester refuses #otd to punish husbands for the the recusancy of their wives

(Edward Callam, 1904–1980, Wardown Park Museum)

BBC North West reported another one that’s appeared recently, I think it was in the Greater Manchester area.

It’s becoming a serious issue and the fact that councils have to wait for the Environment Agency to complete their investigation and assign blame is beyond belief.

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I’d missed this Ravinder.

Congratulations. 🥳

Snap. I nearly had a 2!

Wordle 1,617 3/6*

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Have a great weekend my fellow #WQuers

#Wordle #DailyWordle

Happy 84th Birthday to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish theatre, film and television actor #TomConti, born #OnThisDay in Paisley, seen here with co-stars Carol Lynley, Gerald Harper, Sue Holderness, Paul Angelis and Michael Byrne in the classic "THRILLER" episode “If It's A Man Hang Up!” (1975)

It’s not just the aircraft avionic software dependent systems that are an issue, the Americans want customers to be reliant on mission data for navigation & mapping plus the electronic warfare mission data. The risk being the flow gets turned off as happened in Ukraine.

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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

This is a shocking, brilliant piece of journalism.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Wow. Thank you.

So are you, your art and your skipping challenge. 👍

My report from the 5k app. If I can maintain my running over the winter, with some cross-countries, I should be ready for some road races in the spring.

And confirmation of my new PB.

Slowly inching my way to 30 minutes.

#ParkRun #LoveParkRun

Thanks Dave. 👍

Well done. 👍 Cracking pace.

My Garmin data for today’s ParkRun.

Garmin thinks I got 3 PB times.

And a Garmin achievement for running 5k this weekend.

And my Strava data. Lots of PBs today for a bit of a fun; it was a great turnout despite the weather.

So that was my 8th #ParkRun and I think I’ve scraped a little bit more off my time to get another PB.

Also I did the First Timers Briefing for the first time. #Volunteering

Cold morning today and we had some rain halfway around.

I hope all my fellow Runners are well.

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GB clinch two skeleton golds in World Cup opener Great Britain's Matt Weston wins the opening skeleton race of the season on the track that will be used for next year's Winter Olympics, in Cortina, Italy.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

BBC Breakfast chundering on about Team GB bobsleigh (presumably pre-recorded for Saturday morning); meanwhile they won two Gold 🥇 medals in the skeleton bob.

Thank you. 🙏

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "I'm seeking the help of Congressmen Vindman and Jamie Raskin, to get the transcript of the conversation between President Trump and Crown Prince MBS to understand the truth."

NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…