Sam Wheatley

Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

Repair planned for A52 bridge lights stuck on Ukraine colours A software issue has been blamed for the bridge lights being stuck on blue and yellow.

This from the country that loves to wank itself off over 'WW2 war time spirit', can't even handle some lights. I'm sure the Ukrainian's are bored too. But more about the invasion rather than some LED lights.

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Genuinely not sure how long you can hold out on not fighting violence with violence.

“Residents baffled as England flags appear in Welsh village”

Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.

Audi bellends out in force today.

Perios in Birmingham for those interested.

Had a nice meal. Left it pissed off because they slipped service charge on at the end. Leave that shit out of our restaurants. (And don't bleat on about 'challenging environment'; nickel and diming people isn't the way to return customers).

As someone in education who gets a lot of emails from students from all over the world, I had not considered this - and wish everyone would start using them for this reason. I'd love to address people respectfully at all times! This would really help me achieve that!

Also, the things taken away - being able to be messaged etc are all things I don’t like anyway. Messages are usually spam. So do whatever you need to do.

Owing to staggering Government Overreach (dressed up, as always, as ‘protect the children) Xbox want me to age verify my account.

The same account I’ve had since 2002.

That fancy AI not working too great is it?

Patients struggle to get weight loss drug ahead of price rise The drug's US manufacturer has asked UK distributors to stop taking orders from pharmacies until next month's price increase.

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I really hope people taking this drug find an alternative, stop using this, and tell the price gouging company to go fuck themselves.

Lucy Connolly: Woman jailed for race hate post says she was political prisoner She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.

Lucy Connelly believes if you break the law you should be locked up. Unless she’s broken the law then it’s ok. And if she’s wondering why the law is the way it is, remind who was in power the last decade?

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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Yup. I couldn’t imagine being a CEO without making sure for wage parity. All jobs are hard one way or the other.

“Air Canada to resume flights after pay deal struck with union”

Stand by others and the unions of others. Companies don’t listen to reason they listen to action.

But they won’t. It’s less about sport and more about money.

I hope whatever happens at the White House today the world continues its decoupling from the United States. Tired of our lives being dictated by the whims of whichever president is installed.

Air Canada: Return to service delayed after union defies order Canada's jobs minister intervened in the dispute in a bid to preserve "stability and supply chains".

As someone that will need Air Canadas service relatively soon: good. If companies aren’t going to treat its staff fairly then they need to be stood up to.

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I am shocked. *Shocked*

North American ‘pubs’ need to let me order a drink at the bar and then go back to my table. ‘No you have to wait for your server’. What a faff.

In a Canadian pub last night. I’m trying to find out what something is in baseball without googling. Anyway,

To our waiter: “do you follow baseball?”
Waiter: “No, is it on?”

I look at the two 70”+ screens on the wall thats had the baseball on for the entire hour we’ve been here.

Me: “…yeah.”

Fuck. Off. I work with young people, yes at times they’re a pain in the arse. They are not the blame punching bag every organisation thinks they are.

Struggling families need school uniform grants, government told Grants are offered as standard in Scotland, Wales and NI - but only by a quarter of councils in England.

Or, rather than handing out money, we could just end this school uniform nonsense.

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I believe them like I believe children, stood alone amongst chaos and destruction, when they say “it wasn’t me.”

“The Chinese embassy in London called the report "groundless and absurd", adding that China respects freedom of speech in the UK and elsewhere.”

White House announces new $200m ballroom - a longtime Trump wish Donald Trump has been calling for the White House to build a new ballroom for nearly a decade.

Government efficiency

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I would bet GOOD money that they didn’t misread anything.

24 hour news programs when they’re waiting for something live to happen need to be ok with just being silent. Silence is ok.

Jellycat: Independent shops devastated as brand pulls supply Jellycat has stopped supplying its plush toys to around 100 independent stores in the UK.

Tell your family and friends that they should be gently explaining to their kids why they shouldn’t buy Jellycat toys anymore in a collective effort to tell the company to go fuck themselves.

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I set Siri to a Yorkshire accent and feel her tone is now the right balance of sassy. As opposed to all the other male and female voices that felt like they spoke to me as if I were scum.