People sleeping in a doorway, beneath a 'Spirited Away' sign, a film about someone stuck in a haunted world, unable to reach their new home. Let's hope homelessness is prioritised more highly in the next few years than it has been over the last.

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I understand this argument in relation to the new smoking law, but it applies to pension age in a far greater way, and there has not been much fuss about that from politicians.

Female A.Gentleman has massive impact on a gentleman’s club? theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Head of MI6, head of the civil service, supreme and appeal court judges, CEO of the Royal Opera House, the deputy prime minister...

A lot of very powerful men have chosen to join a club that repeatedly blocks the admission of women as members

Puzzling

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Looks like he had a great life, he was 96, why so sad?

Surfer and Lifeboat, stormy River Tyne

If you weren’t fortunate enough to hear Beatrix Campbell talking about this incredible book at FiLiA or even if you were, you should go to this.
Things are described as important too lightly IMO, but I genuinely believe this book actually is important.

Another tweet from 2019 that again has aged well.
Today apparently a non apology apology from a Tory donor is sufficient for Michael Gove.
So one rule for racist Tory donors another for everyone else

Would have meant MPs could not have contact with ANC when Nelson Mandela was imprisoned? theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Speaking to Emma Barnett, who called the women her father used as prostitutes ‘whores’

During today's #PMQs , Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott who repeatedly stood to ask a question. Britain's first Black woman MP being disrespected in the House of Commons, as news emerged of the Tory Party's biggest donor saying she should be shot, is most concerning.

‘California Dreaming’

HSBC ran a national ad campaign on offering bank accounts to homeless people.

A friend eventually got one after about a year of trying.

I just asked him how it's going: They blocked it, and won't unlock unless he shows documents re his address and where his money comes from.

Anyone know what happened to our £37,000,000,000 budget for Test & Trace which, according to the National Audit Office, didn’t make any difference?Although to be fair she only managed to spend £28,000,000,000 of it)

Shameful for every Govt of last decade. theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

The no-go zone for Jewish people is, it appears, full of Jewish people.

I suppose you need to say this kind of thing if you want to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, but given only 13% of the electorate agree (ipsos.com/en-uk/7-10-bri…) not if you ever want to be Prime Minister. And it makes you a laughing stock internationally

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Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa calls to genocide Gaza: “Don’t leave a soul alive…not only 14, 16-year-old lads…also the next generation. And those who create the future generation.” Asked “Babies too?” He responds “Same thing. You can’t outsmart the Torah.” ynet.co.il/news/article/s…