Simon Jones

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Sorry to hear that, Katie, hope you’re okay

Don’t really want to get into the ‘can immigrants really be British’ far right dialogue but is there a more‘Yorkshire dad’ than #AnitaRani father? #CelebrityRaceAcrossTheWorld

EV drivers could face new tax in Budget The BBC understands there have been

As an #EV driver, I don't in principle have an issue with some form of tax, but this seems a remarkably cack-handed way of going about it. Why not a levy of say 2p per Kwh on charging stations? #Budget2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

Do you think someone has just shown him Lord of the Rings and he thinks it was a documentary?

Even though I’m only following it on #BBC text, the #CWC25 final sounds like an amazing match #IndvSA

I don’t know if this post should make me laugh but it did
1. Has Trump ever read The Great Gatsby?
2. Did he understand it if he did?
3. Jay Gatsby actually served in the military when required to, unlike a certain person
Further proof that #irony is lost on Americans

Definitely worth a read - it appears that, as with #Reform, the leaders are racists and grifters, even if not all those following them are.

I'm deeply concerned that a 'Lib Dem' MP is posting stuff like this. I hope that @eddavey.libdems.org.uk takes some firm action to repudiate this borderline racist comment that I'd expect more from Farage and his ilk.

Will Lucy Powell's win turn things around for Labour? Chris Mason looks at what Lucy Powell's return to frontline politics might mean for Labour.

I’ve been outside the UK for a week but I could have written a more perceptive article than this. How on earth did #ChrisMason - who comes over as a fairly untalented regional news reporter- become BBC political editor? bbc.com/news/article...

Scott, Virgil, Gordon, Alan, John… Brains, Kyrano, Parker- nope, don’t remember a “Prince Andrew”. Although The Hood was Kyrano’s evil brother so maybe that’s him #InternationalRescue

In Joseph Conrad’s 1904 novel, “The Secret Agent”, Italian restaurants are described as a ‘peculiar British institution’. Mind you, as Polish immigrant, Conrad is probably top of Farage’s list of banned novelists 😀

Oops, sorry 😀

I 100% agree with this approach- I have a lot of books that I have enjoyed but may never read again, and I would sooner others enjoy them than they just languish on my shelves

Nothing to add to your research (my parents didn’t divorce) but I love that you included your sample size 😀

German singer Nico, Andy Warhol’s muse, was born on this day 1938. She came to live in Manchester in 1981. ‘It reminds me of Berlin after the war. Everything was broken and falling down.' She loved the architecture and cheap heroin.

I'm enjoying #CelebrityTraitors and it was a funny incident, but it's hardly front page news. Although I think some of the conspiracy theorists are a bit much - a lot of the reasons for stories like this is simply the BBC using its website to promote its own TV shows

Trump has insisted it is renamed Green Giant Americorn?

The most radical Labour plan you haven’t heard about Collective bargaining in social care could save an ailing sector — but only if it’s done properly

Missed this last week - the return of Collective Bargaining, in the #SocialCare sector. A considered and even handed article by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com, featuring a quote from @melaniesimms.bsky.social #HR #EmployeeRelations
on.ft.com/4n2JVam

Most suburbs of Liverpool 😀
Gateacre
Fazakerley
Aigburth
Childwall

Show us the last four albums you listened to

Next Tory to defect to Reform? 🤣

But there also needs to be adequate funding for the pre-claim conciliation process - that's not working either since #ACAS is also under-resourced and unable to cope with demand #HR #UKEmplaw 3/3

'I won £65,000 at an employment tribunal – but I haven't seen a penny' A BBC investigation reveals thousands of workers are still missing out on tribunal payouts.

The Employment Tribunal system is in a complete mess, as this other story today shows (the employer taking what we now call the Michelle Mone strategy) #HR #UKEmplaw 2/3
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

I don't in principle have an issue with fees at this level - £55 - (personally I think employers should have to pay an equivalent fee to enter response) but there are lots of details that need to be sorted out before they're introduced - a short🧵 1/3
#HR #UKEmplaw
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Sorry, am being very stupid- it was Julian Amery she wanted to marry 😂

Famously the man novelist #BarbaraPym wanted to marry

Don't we? 😀 (I'm a huge fan of JW but I treat her like the Bible - not to be taken literally)

Now this is the content I hope to see on social media 😀