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Amanda Forsyth

@pedaltrill

Charity Trustee, Choral singer, retired investment manager. Unlikely to follow an account that's not identified with an identifiable person/institution/No. 10 cat.

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Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

08.03.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 1839 πŸ” 385 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 8

boy that's a war crime

04.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 689 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2
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Ansari: "The DOJ was caught red handed withholding explosive and credible FBI witness interviews of a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. Shouldn't we hold hearings on that? Shouldn't Pam Bondi be here, forced to testify about why she's violating the law?"

04.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 3811 πŸ” 1139 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 43
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous β€œWe earn Β£345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

03.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 410 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 14

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post β€” including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East β€” based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

03.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 5809 πŸ” 1308 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 59

Bloody hell

03.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 360 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

The first rule of British Values?

Yes, that.

Because if you have to talk about them, you've nothing else to say that anyone wants to hear.

02.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure the Right could accurately point to All Over The Place on a map. Is it north of Watford Gap?

02.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just as well - Putin was checking down the back of the sofa to pay the military.

02.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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this policy is cruel and will make minimal difference to immigration numbers (as refugees are only a small % of overall immigrants, and most of them come from countries that aren't going to be safe any time soon [e.g. eritrea;afghanistan]).

It will actively harm integration and finding work.

02.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 292 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

Or, for reasons we can't imagine, Washington is content with a high global price for oil.

28.02.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy Died in Darkness.

28.02.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Guess the Board of Peace got bored of peace.

28.02.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 481 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 5

This.

28.02.2026 09:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am struggling to parse your question mark, but these are the times we live in.

28.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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St Giles, Edinburgh, tonight.

27.02.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 203 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Purple for Lent.

Absolutely not a foreshadowing of Cadburys chocolate on Easter Sunday.

27.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm."

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #medsky

27.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps, for a given (quite small) margin of uncertainty.

On the whole, it's pretty clear that data centres should be a regulated luxury.

27.02.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances ft.trib.al/x5HP0Co

26.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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ONS: UK's low carbon and clean energy sectors generate record revenues of Β£77bn in 2024 Impressive growth in turnover and employment continues across the UK's low carbon and renewable energy industries, latest Office for National Statistics data confirms

ICYM In a year when the UK economy grew 1.1% the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy grew 12 per cent. And yet somehow it remains received wisdom on much of the right of British politics that clean technologies are bad and must be stopped. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526135...

26.02.2026 10:50 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thursday's MIRROR: Don't let hate win #TomorrowsPapersToday

25.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Oh dear. It's years since I remembered how to Know My Place. I do hope the very clever gentlemen who tell me what to think have got this right.

24.02.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

24.02.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 17121 πŸ” 3837 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
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Former ICE instructor testifies that agency slashed training for new officers A former instructor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told congressional Democrats the agency has cut β€œvital classes” from mandatory training for recruits.

The agency eliminated 240 hours of β€œvital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants. wapo.st/4aS06mU

23.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 1712 πŸ” 777 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 21

I’m sure that β€˜We will ensure you can be sacked and/or evicted at a whim’ will be a huge vote winner.

Nice of Tice to highlight this Govt’s achievements, when the Govt has been reluctant to do so.

23.02.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

The person who approved that mortgage needs a stern meeting. No tea, no biscuits.

22.02.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bless.

21.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0