Retired & loving it. Born European. Love The Hub, Family, Friends, gardening, Life, reading, Willy the Bard, Betjeman, History, knitting, philology etc etc 🇺🇦

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Here’s an idea, cut MPs expenses (£242.6 million) , freeze their pay, stop catering/alcohol being subsidised (£7 million to £8 )million, House of Lords catering (£3 million) stop daily rate (£23 m total costs £143 mill) Because difficult choices have to be made to pay 4 defence
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I give my 100% support to this pledge and do everything within my power to see @WASPI_Campaign women achieve justice #WASPIpledge
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Does anyone remember who hollowed out the military for 14 years, or should we just blame Starmer for everything that goes wrong. The r/w press blames Labour if the sun doesn't shine the morning!
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The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years. Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped. Why? State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers. The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage. If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes. Leave pensioners alone. They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.
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Arsenal, one of England’s big football clubs, just donated a pile of their players’ old socks to a horse and donkey sanctuary, and the rescued animals are now wearing them. It works because modern football socks are footless. Players wear separate grip socks on their feet, so the long sleeves get thrown out. That shape turns out to be perfect for sliding onto an animal’s leg, where they keep flies off sore skin, hold bandages in place, and cover the leg while hooves are trimmed. The sanctuary, the biggest of its kind in Britain, says the bright red socks have already cut down on vet visits. The donkeys have also decided they make good toys, and have taken to pulling bananas out of them.
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A good moment to remind everyone that the tories increased national debt from 1tn to 3tn. The interest on this alone costs nearly twice the defence budget. They also slashed the defence budget. The tories are responsible for the dire state of the uk.
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"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'." And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense. mirror.co.uk/news/feargal-sh…
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Raging mad at all those greedy, soulless b*st*rds who have normalised the pecuniary valuation of everything.
I think a lot of people are exhausted because it feels like every beautiful or useful thing eventually gets monetised, privatised, extracted, or bulldozed.
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In the next 5 years they plan to spend $10tn on 'Data Centers'. Imagine if they spent that on Housing or Healthcare.
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I am very tired from all the existential crises that threaten to end us all. Psychopaths in charge, libertarian tech bros, billionaires, AMOC collapse, climate collapse, plague after plague. No solutions, only problems. Personally, I'd start with removing the psychopaths.
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Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact. Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.
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14 years and some wankers think that it’s going to be fixed in 23 months. I fucking despair with the idiocy. #StickWithStarmer
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Working in 1920s Berlin, Lotte Laserstein stakes a claim for a position in the art-historical canon with her 'Self-portrait with a Cat,' (1928) which shows her at her easel, hair cropped, androgynous-looking and holding a very patient feline.
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Hi Jane Hill, Joe Pike, Harry Farley and everyone else “working” @BBCNews I have a sincere Sunday message for you. Go fuck yourselves. I’m sick of your negativity. #bbcnews
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So many of my followers are no longer seeing my photos. 😔 If you see this Kingfisher photo, please leave a comment! 🙏 Do you see my photos every day on your timeline or not? 🐦
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Ginger originates from maritime SE Asia. The current plant does not exist in the wild. Domesticated and adapted by people over at least 7000 years. First spread around the Pacific, later to Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Now used in so many cuisines worldwide. #BUC2026
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