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"Boris Johnson considers himself a feminist and will promote more women to the cabinet in the next few months"
"In time, it became customary for young people who were working as servants in large houses, to be given a holiday on Mothering Sunday."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb_55J1nmqA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/britain-royal-fami...
"They could use this day to visit their own mother and often took a gift of food or hand-me-down clothing from their employers to her."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/mar/13/reclaim-these-streets...
"The sun goes round the Earth. At night, Johnson grows wings and flies around London distributing soft blankets to the homeless. And he is all about promoting women."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf60CU4gKJI&list=PLLbe89-48z5PknM6L0Jz_U...
“Our new, full-spectrum approach to cyber will transform our ability to protect our people, promote our interests around the world and make the lives of British people better every day.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC4O9dY6e1c&ab_channel=FranciscoDiaz
"The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) said the plans "provide a green light for a renewed expansion of surveillance on political and social movements", saying the introduction of the term "aggravated activist" instead of "domestic terrorist" is particularly concerning."
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Slow & Clunky
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"Before you go on air, you discuss which stories you want to do, expecting this to be a rufty-tufty sort of exchange, since the whole point of the two guests is that they will never agree about anything.
So anyway, there I am, discussing the papers with a producer and a foe, and I have chosen a story from our own front page, and the foe says: “Can we not do that? It’s just so dismal. Nobody’s interested.” And I say: “Well, I’m quite interested …”
“I’m going to die of boredom!” she exclaims. “The Guardian is just so boring.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-ins...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS33wtUDh10
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/24/how-ive-missed-peo...
Alpha to Omega
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/covid-19-variants-to-be-gi...
Now we're hooked...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/new-zealands-alpine-parrot...
Ssssh ...
https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-you-know-the-greek-alphabet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5PBpbCQFH8
Anyone got an Iota?
That's this week sorted.
"all these millions of wasted words, the unopened bottles of mineral water"
lol
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/10/ministers-hope-to-ba...
"If you get pressure on cost of living, pressure on real earnings, that will tend to restrain demand in the economy... and that could lead to an output gap opening up, and it could eventually of course lead to higher unemployment and that would bring inflation down."
'Fixing Bugs'
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“The nature of the film, one could argue, is connected to executive functions...”
"Physical checks on fresh food and plants from the EU were due to begin in July but have been pushed back to the end of 2023, the Brexit opportunities minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, confirmed in a written letter published on Thursday."
"Oil and gas oil exploration and production business Egdon Resources said the Anglo-Dutch oil giant had advised them they intended to withdraw from two licences containing the Resolution and Endeavour gas discoveries. The North Sea Transition Authority imposed the penalty for breaches of production consents."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61258336
"This is incredible news. It basically means that the entire hierarchical status of every cabinet position has been completely overturned. Until yesterday, you could be forgiven for thinking that every ambitious politician in government had designs on being the next chancellor of the exchequer. Well, not any more. Who’d want a job where you’re only allowed free tickets for films about economics?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysG96dUtGh4
"Instead, he announced plans to digitise all checks and paperwork at the border, with a new strategy published in the autumn."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/27/priti-patel-bond-blag-film-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0UZN83N-w
“We’re running a risk. Someone could fall down there and we won’t be able to find them.”
https://www.the-observatory.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE
Area 51
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"UK seaside locations have seen a surge in popularity owing to Covid, with many people opting for domestic holidays rather than overseas trips, Which? said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-61283408
"Richard Flinton says the new authority will be built around what are being called "local area committees" (LAC) which will consist of the councillors from the local area, Richard says they will have significant responsibility."
Sleep Tight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQwI3rDETk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63161838
"... the allure of spontaneous combustion."
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey/history-an...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy6gPGeniL0
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/yorkshire-coast-parish-...
Tolerance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62982113
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciuEJSpPq0
"Three years after our lives were upturned by the Covid-19 pandemic, questions remain. What have we learned? What about our leaders and policymakers? What happens next time?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLBdDP1HDl4
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/28/more-nice-things-s...
lol
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/30/barbie-baroness-se...
'How to Respond'
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"The Cabinet Office says the service will be secure, free to receive and will not collect personal information such as someone's telephone number, identity or location."
"The new system uses cell broadcasting technology and messages will be based on someone's current location - but location services do not need to be switched on to receive the alerts."
"Our stories run in parallel in so many ways,” he says. “I’m glad there was a fork in the road, and that I didn’t end up doing what she did, because there were times when it could have very easily ended that way.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQSqCvpAVQQ
"That is because when an alert is triggered, all cell towers in a defined area will broadcast it, allowing the message to reach an area the size of an electoral ward."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/18/middle-east-ukrain...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KE2a5qo0g
Apparently, according to my nearest and dearest...
I am a Troll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
"“These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.”"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64999417
"Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden told the BBC the warnings are sent in a "very targeted way" and other than the test, he hopes many people will never hear the alert again."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/01/electric-malady-review-real...
"You'd walk into an office, there would be a coffee cup half-drunk, a doughnut with a bite taken out of it," he says. "It was eerie."
Ere, when's Michael Portfolio on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMdwFkO8xA0
Sleep Tight.
When you're quietly having a panic attack...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/dead-after-tourist-boat-ca...
And... She's still there
XXX
Bless her little Cotton Socks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20n9yzxyyvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ANUP5-aW4E
Thou must not faceache...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
Robert Frost?
"“We will take the diamonds and see what we can do with them. They are ours. These diamonds are ours. And so before the end of this year, something very drastic in that space will happen. If it doesn’t happen, we will die trying.”"
The Isle of Dogs.
The 'Butler' Did It
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"Mrs Pylypenko and her family now have a new home in the garden of their old one - a factory-made house that was assembled in just a few days last autumn."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66044111
Baldrick !!! You had a Cunning Plan .. ;-0
"Drive east on the old A14 towards Cambridge and a broken billboard looms into view, promising "New Homes, New Community"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66179323
One's Company, Three's A Crowd.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/21/life-aboard-bibby-stockh...
'Bucket Lists'
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"Loch Ness is the top UK destination in the 'bucket list' tourist attractions, followed by the Scottish Highlands and the environmentally focused Eden Project in Cornwall.
The iconic White Cliffs of Dover in Kent, the picturesque Scottish Coastline and London’s Kew Gardens, were also popular ‘wish list’ destinations."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/us-supplies-ukraine-with-a...
“We’re visiting destinations on repeat, yet there are so many gems just waiting to be explored.”"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejZKuaukig
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23868683.york-minster-one-uks-top-bucke...
"It’s a toss-up between Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, but Murdoch’s had so much longer to be awful."
Oh.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-21/wave-rock-in-hyden-changing-colou...
Grrr...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/21/neil-gaiman-interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/21/cracked-tiles-wonky...
"Mining and renewable energy magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest has used a National Press Club address to accuse the National Party of "betraying the bush" by supporting nuclear energy over renewables."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-25/traditional-owners-section-18-equ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5W8EBHNsLc&ab_channel=Dropout
Bless.
"“‘OK, Mel, you can come up for air,’ he said. ‘OK, Mel, start singin’ – they quit droppin’ … Hey Mel … Mel … Levy!”"
The Twilight Zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsfdZBeJSI
Due Diligence...
"... you make Churchill sound like "Let's give up and surrender now" by comparison :)"
One Eye.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/14/gary-oldman-to-read...
Counting Our Blessings.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/23/tim-dowling-heres-a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_5J1eSe_U
"“We have a ghost book so that when people say we’ve just had a strange experience, we record it and sometimes people put drawings in.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/24/ghost-stories-english-he...
Never, Forgets.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/24/wifi-mattr...
I'm not quite sure what Horrid Henry has to do with it.