Construction workers four times more likely to die by suicide as 7,000 lives lost, report says news.sky.com/story/construc…

This morning's dog walk - if anyone is looking for somewhere relatively cheap to stay Christmas/ New year .. I know a lovely apartment I can get you

Vets financial exploitation of the love we have for our pets is disgraceful.. 10 min consultation, anti-inflammatory medicine and 5 day antibiotics £134. It's the assumption of Pet Insurance cover that does it.

After almost 25 years of marriage - Natasha gifts me a strong hint at seeking some serious self awareness.

Goodness me - I've shuffled around a few prison exercise yards ( too many occasions 'rattling'). It brings me great joy decades later to be running a half marathon around one .. please see Prison Reform Trust run for reform and donate if you like: justgiving.com/campaign/run-f…

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

I don't need to tell people how good this open access journal is -

Will 50 plus years be enough to quieten so called enlightened prison commentators siding with calls for the state to put people to death ?

Someone smashed the wing mirror off Dylan's old Polo. Anyone ever used one from those outlets that sell wing mirrors- no necessary VW brand ?

Despise everything Farage stands for - BUT not right to go after him on the crimes committed by family members.. just because that's something they do doesn't make it right.. A tiny glimpse of what some families have to face when someone is convicted

Parents, you know the terror of being the passenger of your kid learning to drive - being far too close to kerb/ hedge/ cliff drop-squeezing through tight gaps with oncoming cars. Hours reverse parking - yards from kerb.. bay parking in Sainsbury's- today it's all over,thank god

How long does that 'just passed test', he's out out in the car, worry last for?

They really do think that being so rich to not need to draw a salary for a job that comes with so much power and privilege, is a some kind selfless virtue thing ..

Baxter wondering why he's not having his morning treats. He has no idea that after holding onto to them for almost 12 years, today he loses his bits.

He made it - and got a doggygrow thrown in

Hiya all - working with a group of long serving men in prison who want to do something on the 'myths and realities of 'institutionalisation'''.. Can anyone recommend a good paper - not too jargon heavy .. or any other recourses they can access?

Great overview on trends to more punitive sentencing

The important report of the independent sentencing review on history and trends in sentencing paves the way for the review to bring forward bold proposals in the spring to place our use of prison on a more sustainable and proportionate footing prisonreformtrust.org.uk/prt-comment-in…

How's all the ' we need a 'Trump' people doing?

The spectacle of so many on the British right unpatriotically desperate for Starmer to fail and then Starmer spectacularly succeeding is worth bookmarking.