Jennie Walker

Oh we have our own fair share of racist morons who have been brainwashed to believe that desperate people on small boats have stolen all their opportunities and it has nothing to do with conservative policy to strip industrial and working class areas of hope or optimism. Or even education

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.

They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.

That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

I’ve only got a 2:2 can I appeal

Fishburn’s got an airport ?

I love this - I grew up in Durham. This encapsulates the time when town was closing & it was time to get the bus home

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You can almost smell this, heavy disinfectant and a bit of wee

Sincerely hope the chronic cougher & wide-awake snorer that sat near us aren’t back to hear the bits we all missed

Durham. What the actual. As a daughter of this great county, I hang my head in shame. We are so much better than this

I was there in the VIP box! Sat behind Man United - told Roy Keane to sit down as I couidnt see

Aww man #ThePiano makes me cry for a full hour every Sunday night. Beautiful stories of how music changes lives. When things seem bleak this celebration of humanity is like a balm

This thread is like balm for a frazzled bonce (i.e. it’s good)

Thank you

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Today in 180AD Commodus succeeded his father, Marcus Aurlieus as Roman Emperor. He would go berserk, naming the city, months & legions after himself.

One contemporary wrote that he turned Rome "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust".

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

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Happy Retirement Sandy!

I’m not that clever, but somehow I could see it quite clearly

Amen

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.

Happy World Book Day.

The Star Spangled Banner in the minor key by Bill Bailey

Sounds very Russian

Perhaps he knows something about what’s going on?

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

Fatherhood.

I believe!

'Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?'

Carl Jung

This is what we all should remember.

It was my birthday. I’ve had better presents - that includes a tax bill