I can give you one of my favourite words from Scots: 'flenched', used for weather that promises to improve but never actually does.

I love how the word 'atone' wears its heart on its sleeve. It began as 'at one', because to atone is to bring back unity. Atonement is really 'at-one-ment'.

In the same way, 'alone' began as 'all one'.

⚖️ The Safety of Rwanda Bill will soon become law, but we believe it remains a defective, constitutionally improper piece of legislation. (1/4)

This is just one example of how profiteering is making simply existing unaffordable...

See also trains, water, gas, electric, rents, mortgages, etc.

Just reading about Tesco’s profits for the year to Feb: 2.3bn. Up 883 million. You know when you look at your trolley and think how?? HOW is this a hundred quid?? This is how.

It was absolutely magnificent.

This is an unedited photo (with the dust specks to prove it). There is an HDR photo captured using 5 telescopes coming soon, just give me a bit to go through all my thousands of photos :)

MACARC You clearly need what we had here in Sweden: Vedspisupproret (The Woodstove Uprising) in 2018. They tried to change the rules and had to back down, they were overwhelmed with protests and logs. People were furious and actually sent logs by mail to the governing bodies. Now you ->

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

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Inflation fell to 3.4% in February. That's good news in all the chaos of this govt

BUT many get confused with inflation. Imp to remember that prices have already risen dramatically & they aren't going down.
They're still rising, just not as quickly bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

I was interested to see some on here asking 'why should a rich person pay more for the same services than a poorer person?' on the back of council tax/poll tax discussions. Now of course no one likes tax, but we need to understand it, so I wanted to bash out my quick, unpolished…

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Some of the most incisive and insightful journalism anywhere - The News Agents episode yesterday was fantastic, including an important interview with Sayeeda Warsi and impactful, thoughtful closing remarks from Lewis Goodall. Well worth a listen & a follow.

Jonathan Glazer is a filmmaker of the highest integrity, craft & bravery. A filmmaker who researches his subject matter painstakingly, & weighs his artistic judgements with high care & deep humanity. That care, judgement & humanity led to the conclusions of his speech. Solidarity

🧵Since being appointed as Shadow Minister I've met hundreds of people in the Creative Industries, picking their brains in roundtables and 1:1 meetings about how we can get the UK growing. This is vital to the UK. 1 in 14 work in the Creative Industries which contribute £125b.

THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/

Not us piling as many of the team into the kitchen as we can… just because we can😂. A shiny new kitchen, a plum happy looking crew and a vast journey of flavours (and memories) just waiting to be unleashed.

We’ll be seeing you 🤍

It’s going to take me actual *weeks* to recover from the hangover from the election night drink-every-time-a-Tory-loses-their-seat party I’ll be having.

5 years old - Dad knows everything!

7 years old - Dad knows.

10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?!

12 years old - Dad doesn’t know.

14 years old - Dads gone crazy!

16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously.

18 years old - What does dad know?!

22 years old - Dads…

.Radek Sikorski on 🔥. The kind of diplomacy I can get behind. Everyone should watch this clip today