A boy once told me it was "a bit tragic" to travel alone.
But I think the real tragedy is to not see the places you want to because you're scared of your own company.
I'm eating pizza in a Roman piazza and I couldn't be happier about it.
Absolutely mugged us off. Spent the past two hours knocking on doors asking people to check sheds and searching under bushes for a deceased cat. Got home and he was in the fucking house.
British Recipe:
2 eggs
300g flour
300g sugar
200g butter
American recipe:
Well the first time I ever ate a cake was on a crisp fall day, when the temperatures were getting cooler. It was a Tuesday, and I was wearing my plaid shirt. On the radio, Bob Dylan was playing, it was a
In more “country totally prepared for hot weather” news: Blackpool Victoria Hospital has propped its doors open to keep the building cool, but now the hospital is full of seagulls 🏥🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
All of these Christians who are getting upset about the Archbishop of Canterbury standing up for the poor and the needy are going to absolutely lose it when they find out about Jesus Christ.
It is quite astounding that the Sabina Nessa murder is not dominating the news. Yes, there has been an arrest, and so there are significant reporting restrictions in place, but the conversations about violence against women, and the stories about her life are sadly lacking.
Came down to the Rashford mural, and there are so many people here. From as far away as Birmingham & Rotherham. All different ages and ethnicities. Parents bringing young kids & educating them about racism. Local businesses giving out free refreshments. I am in *BITS*
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
The NHS is not and should not be a charity
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My friend (m, 44) gave me access to his entire WhatsApp chat history so that I (f, 48) could help him write a book. I published his messages in a national newspaper. AITA?
My Iraqi dad is sick with worry that a war is going to break out there for the third time in my lifetime, and you all start a Iran vs USA hashtag? Absolutely disgusting. It’s not a game, this is people’s lives.
Years ago, late at night, I got on the wrong train at Waterloo and ended up in Surbiton, and a woman found me and put me in a cab home to London.
Tonight I found a drunk kid crying in Piccadilly Gardens and sent him home to Stockport in a taxi.
It’s the circle of life ⭕️🦁💚
There is a real theme to the current news: rich, white men thinking laws and rules don’t apply to them. Boris Johnson, Prince Andrew, Novak Djokovic.
Remains to be seen whether their actions will indeed have consequences.
“Are you ashamed of what you’ve done?“ 🔥🔥🔥 from BBC Radio Kent.
Liz Truss says Britain was facing rising inflation. Presenter says “and you’ve made it worse.”
Kent definitely winning so far, brilliant stuff. Truss clearly uncomfortable.
A friend in Blackburn has sent me this video: boys at a local Muslim school celebrating Harry Kane’s goal last night. It fills my heart that national football is now for everyone 🥰🏴
Oof BBC Radio Bristol: “it’s hard to know what has fallen more since you entered Downing Street, the value of the pound of the Tory poll rating.” 🔥🔥🔥
Presenter pulling apart her Ukraine line: “Putin was responsible for the Bank of England’s intervention yesterday, was he?”
@StuartEdwards
@Conorpope
If you're walking behind a woman, even at a distance, and it's dark, cross over to the other side of the road and walk there instead.
I've had men do this a couple of times and it's like a huge weight lifted.
It’s great that girls play football at school now, but true equality will only be achieved when boys are forced to play netball, the most boring sport of all.
I’m at Euston. The last train from London to Manchester left at 12 minutes past 5.
The next one isn’t until 3 minutes to 7.
The ones in between have been cancelled.
On a Friday evening.
This is not a functioning service.
Corbyn supporters have so far blamed the following for Labour's losses:
Brexit
The MSM
The Lib Dems
Tony Blair
Alastair Campbell
Lord Adonis
Jewish voters
The electorate
Absolutely baffling that Liz Truss keeps saying she became a Conservative because she saw kids getting a crap education… under a Conservative government?
I have a lot of questions.
- is this even legal?
- what are the grounds for swabbing people?
- how are people selected?
- what happens if someone tests positive but isn’t in possession?
- who thought it was a good idea to tweet this?
Yet again, huge picture of the woman involved in this story, small picture of the actual perpetrator. Why? And don’t even get me started on the headline.
Just leaving parliament now after one of the worst nights I’ve ever seen here. Journalists were close to tears tonight. I can’t imagine how it feels to be an MP.
Okay but I waited nearly 8 months at the bottom of an NHS waiting list to have a polyp removed, enduring painful and heavy periods, until I gave up and went private. The procedure took ten minutes.
Prioritising basic women’s healthcare would also change so many lives.
'This is going to change so many lives.'
@OwenJones84
'This will mean everything. It's a chance, it's a hope for the future.'
@DrAmirKhanGP
Surgeons at Imperial College London have carried out the UK’s first successful womb transplant.
If you want families to have more children the answer isn’t telegrams from the Queen and “educating” women that fertility decreases with age (believe me, *we know*)
It’s:
• affordable childcare
• good maternity/paternity pay
• bringing down the cost of living
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can MPs stop telling people not to get involved in politics. We live in a DEMOCRACY. Our elected representatives should be encouraging MORE participation, not less. You can't tell people not to care about politics just because they don't agree with you.
We are all proud of our England team, who have had the support of the whole country over recent weeks, but please focus of football, not politics. If you win for England, you win for everyone! 🏴🇬🇧
Does anyone else when they're going on holiday print out all of their flight details/hotel details/car rental vouchers/travel insurance certificates *just in case* or am I the only loser that doesn't recognise that they will probably be fine just on my phone?
On reports that Graham Brady is waiting for 50% of MPs to submit letters: I'm told he will act on letters from a third of MPs, not half.
Logic is that by 50% she has lost the confidence of so many MPs that it wouldn't need a vote.
Source says 1922 officers have agreed this.
Some MPs were in tears tonight, some walked out, some told me they feared they won’t be able to return home because of the language the PM is using, some told me abuse on twitter has already got worse tonight:
Older man on the tube opposite me in a beanie hat covered in Chelsea badges intently reading a match programme and I’ve just realised it’s a women’s football programme and also one of the badges says “support women’s football” & it’s made me so happy. And also I want that badge.
A mouse has been captured tidying up bits and bobs in a pensioner's shed.
Stephen McKears from Gloucestershire says he couldn't understand how small metal items were returning to their box every night.
So he set up a special night-time camera to find out 🐭 📹
Wimbledon commentator just said of Kyrgios: “Despite facing court for a domestic assault allegation, he’s made it to the Wimbledon final, so admirable work from him.”
That’s really not the one.
On Friday, a young mother was sent to trial, standing accused of taking abortion pills illegally. She faces life in prison.
Next week, another woman is in court accused of taking the pills too late. She also faces life in prison.
In England. In 2022.
“But my immediate reaction was I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person."
Not how old were they? How tall were they? You just asked what colour were they? I don't care how sorry you are, Liam Neeson, that is disgusting.
Southgate was very academic at school, fancied a career as a journalist, and did work experience at his local paper, but sure it's "suspiciously well-written" because all footballers must be thick.
Tory MP reckons around a dozen letters went in to Graham Brady last night.
This must be a record in terms of length of time before they try to depose their leader?
🚨🚨 PLEASE I am begging you, DO NOT TWEET ABOUT LIVE CRIMINAL CASES 🚨🚨
Publishing statements suggesting that someone is guilty of a crime before or during a trial is *NOT OKAY*
It could collapse the trial, prevent justice being served, and see you ending up in court.
Pretty sobering press release that I've received from the Trussell Trust just now: need for food banks has outstripped donations for the first time.
The charity distributed 46% more emergency food parcels in August and September than it did in 2021.
Me, ten years ago: “I want to be a journalist because it’s so glamorous!”
Me, at 8.30pm last night: in bed in a Travelodge, eating a curry with a teaspoon
The maximum amount of savings anyone can have and qualify for means-tested benefits is £16k. Most banks are asking for a 15% deposit now.
So I hope the government will also be making sure that there are plenty of £106k houses available to buy, to make this workable.
Exclusive:
Boris Johnson will tomorrow announce plans to allow low earners to use benefits to buy a home
He wants to change rules so people can use benefits to pass affordability checks & make monthly mortgage repayments
Tory MP tells me:
- they expect this to be the end of Rishi as chancellor
- that the letters will start going in to Graham Brady again on Tuesday
So much for a nice quiet recess!
Wasn’t going to tweet but 🤷🏽♀️
It’s been an absolutely brilliant three years, it’s been the best job I’ve ever had, & there’ll probably never be another one better.
So proud of what our tiny team have achieved & always will be.
If 👏🏽 you 👏🏽 can 👏🏽 explain 👏🏽 your 👏🏽 own 👏🏽 relationship 👏🏽 to 👏🏽 your 👏🏽 children 👏🏽 without 👏🏽 explaining 👏🏽 your 👏🏽 sex 👏🏽 life 👏🏽 then 👏🏽 you 👏🏽 can 👏🏽 tell 👏🏽 them 👏🏽 that 👏🏽 gay 👏🏽 people 👏🏽 exist 👏🏽
It’s not LGBT people or LGBT-inclusive education that sexualises children, it’s bigots and homophobes. They reduce us all to sex acts. Not human beings who love, who have an identity as wide and deep as theirs. Not children who grow up in fear and silence. Just sex acts. Animals.
All the white people trashing this wedding as irrelevant don't understand how symbolic it is, (speaking as a mixed race British person), to see a royal wedding full of POC.
I mean call me a bleeding heart liberal or whatever, but I personally am fine with paying the same amount of tax, if it means children and pensioners not starving and freezing to death.
Being a woman on twitter means that every time you tweet even the nicest, most innocuous thing there will always be a man in the replies trying to correct a mistake you haven’t made.
The ignorance & privilege of this is astounding. Some people have to take jobs that pay the bills - not everyone gets handed a column in the guardian. Junior reporters trying to make a career aren’t guilty of anything.
When one of us on the left is hurt or killed, which will happen, the entire right wing press and their so called “journalists”, who could have chosen to take a job which actually helps people, are all partly responsible and let’s put that on record now.