John Dexter FRSC

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

Is there anyone anywhere in the Uk that wouldn’t like to see water utilities back in public hands?

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

Cant just run over the rosd
I mean even Farage was string on this

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Ok Bluesky
I’m thinking of setting up a small magazine - like a parish magazine or community magazine.
It will have photos and stories and articles and events pages and contacts.
What’s the best piece of software - is it ‘word’ ?
What are any pitfalls?
Any help or advice? TY

I recall the massive impression made by Nadine Zahawi when he was education secretary - I mean there was ……

Oh hang on ……

To be fair he was number 6 of 10 in 14 years

If you spend about £25,000 ( a fairly average UK salary) every day you spend up in a day
1 A millionaire is spent up in 40 days
2 a billionaire is spent up in 110 years
And
3.a Trillionaire lasts 110,000 years

I see Musk is nearly a trillionaire

1 A millionaire can spend just over £10 every day for 10 years and still have change
2 A billionaire can spend over £10,000 every day for 10 years
3 A trillionaire can spend over £11 million every day for 10 years - in fact probably couldn’t spend it

I don’t understand how the Republican candidate for Miami mayor could have possibly lost when he was endorsed by Donald Trump, Ron Desantis, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz.

There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact,

most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

Freedom of speech as long as you love potus

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thank you Paul

Ok annual request - what books have you read recently to recommend? THis will create my Christmas shopping list for the family- so any genre, and any age too - and then I’m shopping in this amazing bookshop - Waterstones Bradford

Exactly

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

Oh Dear Nottingham

This will make receiver ofMFL and Music teachers locally very difficult if not impossible

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting

English councils to remain poorer than in 2010 despite funding rise, says report Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds

Despite growing needs in adult social care, children’s services and homelessness
Councils remain rung out

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

TY
We’ve never had one but I did have a small external
Camera as I was bothered unnecessarily about my car. So just wondering in our new home. Thanks and hope alls well

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist & Nobel Laureate, born #OTD 1885; pioneered research on atomic structure & quantum theory; admired for moral leadership in support of other refugee scientists in 1930’s & of founding CERN 1954; commemorated at Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen University
@cern.bsky.social

Video doorbells BLue sky people do tell me

Is Ring ( battery/solar) a good option ( may build in other cameras

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

Tories to continue their approach of claiming that everything would just be fine if we could just leave one more thing...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GSK pledges $30bn US investment as UK's pharma woes deepen The company is the latest pharma firm to have either reduced spending in the UK or diverted it to the US.

Is Biotech sliding away from UK?
No AZ
No Merck
Now no GSK

Asking for a friend

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Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

‘It’s a disaster’: drought measure to suck water from River Wharfe met with anger Campaigners accuse Yorkshire Water of negligence and say plan to top up reservoirs will kill the river’s fish

Not happy
Allowed to extract almost half what is lost from their pipes

The chicken coming home to
Roost - no adequate investment, not thoughtful environmental planning

Profit and senior incomes and consumers pay

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not happy

“Yorkshire Water applied to extract 120 million litres of water per day from the River Wharfe. The company loses an estimated 260 million litres of water per day through leaks, which is approximately 21% of its total water distribution”

Yes, and nobody cared much about the EU till the media started platforming Frogface and proprietors made their publications anti-EU.
It was a weird obsession by a few old buffers until the super wealthy realised they could make money out of it.
Then they told us we all wanted to leave.

It takes 10 weeks to sway the population with emotion, and 10 years for them to change their minds with facts.

Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers

‘This behaviour makes the case why water should return to public ownership & those at the top held accountable for every penny spent & every benefit taken.’ Yes. & in all public services. So find the balls to *do* something about this, massive majority Labour government, & stop whining about it.

The Element Song by Tom Lehrer YouTube video by KoolScience

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