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Sunday night watching jimmy mcgovern’s ‘the lakes’. It’s like the millennium never happened.

PT: because at THAT time, we still had virgin steel production at Scunthorpe, and PT isn't being lost completely, it's getting investment for a future.
GM: Far from last refinery in UK, so not critical UK infrastructure.
These stories are not the same.

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They can help with many things...
The colours will make you happy.

🙄 no shit Sherlock.
Training needs a lot of kit and therefore expensive, so profit driven FE & HE dropped or ‘fudged’ courses.

Birmingham residents celebrate their council tax increase by climbing on rubbish piles and high-fiving rats It is revealed today that residents of Birmingham have been celebrating their council tax rises by climbing on massive piles of rubbish, jumping up and down, and high-fiving rats.

NEWS! Birmingham residents celebrate their council tax increase by climbing on rubbish piles and high-fiving rats

NHS plan will see funds allocated to social care, Health Secretary says Wes Streeting suggested he will increase NHS spending on social care but did not say by how much.

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting suggested he will increase NHS spending on social care but did not say by how much.

Must end privatisation of the NHS and social care.

30%-40% of public money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

Healthcare must not be a profit centre.

Scrutiny

We Will Remember Everything.
Charcoal on paper
#art #portraits #selfportrait #charcoal

Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”) The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence bedeviling the ranks of upper management. There is “the Peter principle,” first described in a satirical book of the same...

Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)

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And the women responded ‘No shit, Sherlock’ for they have known this for a long long time.

Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in leaked report The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots Hindu nationalism, misogyny and the “manosphere” have been identified as breeding grounds for extremism in a leaked report commissioned by Yvette…

Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in leaked report

A woman holding a white mug with a definition of the word "Caughtism" in black text. It says: Noun. 1.1. A condition which causes sufferers to blame their reprehensible behaviour on dubious neurodivergence, rather than taking responsibility for their actions. 2. "He's acted like a knob for years, and now he's been found out he is blaming his caughtism."

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Elvis 68 Comeback Special followed by Jailhouse Rock. Perfect way to wait for the snow to arrive.

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases

UK Tory govt spent £50,000 to stop release of review into disabled man’s death.

DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income.

He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped.

Govt tried to conceal murder.
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

6/ Incredibly, over the last few years around £200,000 has been raised for homeless charities as a result of this thing. So, this year, if you're enjoying the pix, you could fling a few quid to Centrepoint via this link: gofund.me/637d21d0

1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.