Today has been difficult in the shit show of my Employment Tribunal & I would really appreciate it if anyone would repost this as I now have to raise another £2000 to cover the costs of another assessment of my claim crowdjustice.com/case/maria-esp…

I’m reading part 2 of the Sullivan Report. Hard to pick out any examples of outstanding charlatanry highlighted, there are so many. But I think this is a particularly startling one. sullivanreview.uk/barriers.pdf

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And the major precedent was the Manchester Arena bombing. Radical Islamist hatred towards teenage girls or young women attending a pop concert.

The post-FWS legal landscape summarised in 2 minutes 30

Disgraced TV chef Gregg Wallace is spotted waving his willy at startled motorists on the A229 near Maidstone. “My autism’s got really bad today!” he yelped

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In the shadowed streets of Brussels during 1942, as Nazi boots echoed through alleyways and fear thickened the air, a young schoolteacher named Andrée Geulen noticed something she couldn’t ignore — her Jewish students arriving at school with yellow stars stitched to their chests.

A Tribute to Sir Roger Norrington (1934-2025) youtu.be/pV664zw7F1o?si… via YouTube

Woman of the Day is Mistress Blake of Bristol. I don’t know when she was born or much about her but it’s her day because OTD in 1621, Bristol's city fathers paid for a new ducking stool, a device exclusively used for punishing women. 97 years later, Mistress Blake made sure the

Stephen Flaherty NHS Fife The person who complained about me said that babies were born with 2 sets of genitalia. One on the outside and a different one on the inside. He’s a social worker in the NHS. I got a written warning. Tribunal next year

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Thank you to everyone who has supported our crowdfund. We are just over £200 short of our target. Would be great to get this wrapped up and then we can sit back and wait to see if we will be be granted leave to appeal. crowdjustice.com/case/in-defenc…

Want to retire into your 70s? A Government review of the state pension age could see all of us forced to work longer. They're targeting ordinary people to plug funding gaps, instead of the mega-rich. I've signed the petition against these plans, will you? 38d.gs/ckvr

Did you hear us on BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday? You can listen back now to our recording of Swan Lake, introduced by Nikita Naumov (Principal Double Bass): bbc.in/4l9anht Starting from 31:44 🎶

Scottish Terven: There’s a dance studio up your way that’s pissed off the TRA’s for the temerity to have women only classes Currently getting shitty emails & one star reviews Don’t want to name names on here for risk of making it worse for her But DM me for deets if you’d

Julius Drake joins us to lead a masterclass 1/9 and to perform Tosti songs with all of our singers 2/9 in Tosti’s summer home in Folkestone. One of the truly great musicians and pianists, Julius has devoted his life to collaborating, especially with singers. Some insight here..

The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.” I’ve always loved the quote, because it so simply encapsulates our situation as the newest members of the human species: We enter the world with fine tuned powers