Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History

Novo Zordisk is running out of options. Its ozempic/wegovy drug is outperformed by mounjaro/tirzapatide by a long way, and in January it goes generic in Canada which means the price will halve including for US citizens who drive/fly across the border

Apis (deity) - Wikipedia

The Apis bull of ancient Egypt and the Canaanite god Baʿal come from different religions, different regions, and different mythologies, and they are not the same deity.

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My daughter's killer (French)
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Netflix documentary

A rogue doctor in Germany is brought to justice in France...

Amy Bradley is Missing
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Netflix Documentary 2025

Put together in the meticulous Netflix style with no narrator - allowing all of the people affected by Amy's disappearance to explain

I hope one day a fourth episode is made which finds her alive...

Agreed

To have a healthy, vibrant country, we need to get the fertility rate to a long-term stable level of 2.1 per couple

There are just so many things that make like difficult for young couples to start and raise families

The government could help a lot more

It's difficult to work out what was happening, but certainly there didn't seem to be any consistent policy to make sure that various parties got a fair amount of coverage

Or rather there was a consistent policy: pro-Reform and anti-Lib Dem

Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’ Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago

Farage says he can't remember being continually racist and antisemitic.

The axe forgets. The tree remembers.

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Stamp duty is an appalling tax. It taxes people who need to move house for life circumstances or need to get a bigger house because of children or need to downsize because the children have left.

These are the worst reasons to tax people

'We earn £60,000 and want stamp duty scrapped' BBC News hears from people with a range of incomes about what they want to see in the Budget.

And we wonder why the fertility rate is so low in the UK

Stamp duty is a tax on economically active & fertile couples on average salaries who just need a bit more room as children get older

Who can afford to have three children now?

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Yup - true

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I'm only halfway through the contract. It would be financial suicide to leave now

The BBC head of news resigned on same day

I did start off with the retention hotline saying that I was thinking of leaving...

But very subtly she mentioned the fact that I'm only halfway through my contract...

I just wanted to get a new 6GHz router for watching Netflix 4K...

BREAKING

BBC coverage of Liberal Democrats in national news has doubled since the resignation of the BBC Director General

(I HAVEN'T IMAGINED IT)

Thx to Copilot & Bing

That sounds like complete nonsense. Plastics and other oil derived products are commended in the Bible 🙃

Blocked & reported as spam

Virgin Media wants me to pay to give them customer feedback ?!?!

And to opt out by saying "stop" I have to pay for a message as well !?!?!?!

How Marjorie Taylor Greene went from Trump ally to quitting Congress Greene's tenure in Congress may be ending, but her involvement in US political life may not be over.

I thought Musk wasn't in favour in the White House anymore?

Let's face it. However loyal someone is to Trump. He is never loyal back...

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Lib Dems made loads of complaints. Nothing changed.

Ed Davey met with the then director General and complained. Nothing changed.

Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC over bias. Director General and Head of news resigned. Something now has changed.

What a mess.

A Republican candidate calling for death of homosexuals*

*And slurring gay people as paedophiles

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Kings Heath High Street daily scenario: I'm on a bus with (I'm estimating here) 50 or 60 people on it, being held up by about 50 or 60 single occupancy vehicles.

So we're all moving at 4mph.

The positive effects of the high street carrying two buses moving at 10mph are huge. Huge.

I hope they all " Retire"

I don't think it's my imagination that the Liberal Democrats are actually getting mentioned by the BBC more regularly now that the Director General & Head of news have gone

A month ago Lib Dems would not have been mentioned in these headlines

...but we do WANT America to be part of NATO

And you are right that Biden has tied President Trump's hands. He cannot leave NATO without Congress's permission.

The USA needs Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain as part of the 5 eyes network just to get geographic reach

Biden's 2024 defence bill blocks any future US president from quitting NATO without Congress or a two-thirds Senate vote

Biden effectively tied President Trump’s hands by stopping any unilateral attempt to leave NATO

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Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.

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The photo, the artist

The pictures I take of my boyfriend vs the pictures he takes of me

I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you're the colleagues that got caught cheating at the Coldplay concert