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Helen Lister

@doodleflapper

Lefty Remainer. Books; Cats; The Archers; Gardening and the Great Outdoors.

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I don’t know…. I mean, is this👇🏻 a ‘warning’…?

08.02.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yet this is what he said at the time…

08.02.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing to see here…

Only the UK deputy PM’s newest best buddy (who happens to be vice president of the United States) declaring he doesn’t “give a shit” about murder he endorses of civilians being Actual War Crimes…

07.09.2025 09:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Someone needs to change the passwords at The White House and keep them from the president…

05.05.2025 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am LOVING the new album! Particular favourites so far are ‘The Girl with The Curse’, ‘Master Kilby’ and ‘The Yorkshire Couple’ — and ‘Coal Not Dole’ is just achingly, beautifully perfect. Just fabulous — brilliant.

We’re seeing you in Leamington next month and can’t wait!

25.04.2025 17:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Liberation Day - A PNG Courier special It’ll always be free.

LIBERATION DAY - A Papua New Guinea Courier special edition.

Click through to read it all...

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

02.04.2025 18:48 👍 274 🔁 88 💬 14 📌 19
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#Caturday

29.03.2025 18:38 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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18.03.2025 09:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For all you raptor apologists, the full interview is here.

17.03.2025 09:23 👍 87 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 0

I’ve never understood why it hasn’t always been obvious to everyone that all Nigel Farage cares about is ‘Nigel Farage’.

EVERYTHING he does is totally about promoting brand Farage — all the early (failed) attempts to become an MP, being an MEP, UKIP, Reform — ALL just vehicles to promote HIMSELF.

12.03.2025 09:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If we elect people devoid of empathy then we create nations of cruelty led by people who constantly whine about how people are not kind enough to them

11.03.2025 14:58 👍 192 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 0

“Breakaway right wing party”…?

Isn’t that what he’s in already? How many such parties does one small country need…?

Seriously, if this bloke can’t get along with four other blokes who think the same way as him, then he probably can’t get along with ANYone — so should be avoided at all costs.

11.03.2025 12:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s almost Spring…

If you start gardening naked in your back garden, your neighbours will put up a free fence for you.

(Follow me for more gardening and money saving tips.)

11.03.2025 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cat Haiku:

International
Women's Day, you say...? Not here...
I rule in this house.

#Caturday #InternationalWomensDay

08.03.2025 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2025 19:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Strewth! My poor head! I
fear I may have overdone
the catnip again.

😻

01.03.2025 16:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Potential whitewashing': COVID inquiry criticised after saying it won't hear from PPE suppliers Bereaved families accuse the inquiry of "protecting" PPE suppliers from public scrutiny but a spokesperson for the probe tells Sky News there is no need for them to give evidence to ensure a "thorough...

The Covid Inquiry's decision not to call PPE suppliers to give evidence smacks of a whitewash.

Inadequate PPE killed thousands while enriching a few wealthy individuals.

Now, those individuals are being protected from public scrutiny.

news.sky.com/story/potent...

28.02.2025 11:58 👍 268 🔁 179 💬 11 📌 11
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27.02.2025 20:44 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

‘The Art of the Deal’ indeed…
#TheArtOfTheDeal

19.02.2025 22:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feeling so, so good!
Perhaps that vet isn't such
A twit after all.

19.02.2025 15:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I said, when Trump won in November, that one good thing that may come of it is the slow collapse of Reform by 2029, as its supporters witness the shitshow their leader campaigned for, sponsored and welcomed.

19.02.2025 02:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cat Haiku:

Expensive Waitrose
prawns are fine; identical
Aldi prawns are not.

04.02.2025 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kate Hoey "Why is Keir Starmer rushing to be the first prime minister to have dinner with the EU 27 since we left"

Oli Dugmore, "Because they're our largest trading partner"

Kate Hoey, "So what"

04.02.2025 00:49 👍 680 🔁 119 💬 232 📌 40
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Bee.

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep.

Dream truths to their lies, kindnesses to their malevolences and solidarity to their divisiveness.

#bee #goodnight #dream

04.02.2025 01:22 👍 62 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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Brexit was a con.

Sold on a pack of lies by fantasists, ladybird libertarians, chancers, xenophobes and spivs.

On this day of all days we should take a moment to remind everyone of that.

31.01.2025 09:50 👍 2098 🔁 695 💬 108 📌 20
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GBeebies visiting really Brexity areas to find anyone who thinks it was a good idea. It's not going well.

"I really struggle to think of anything positive that's come out of it. A lot of people that I speak to said that if they had the choice again, would vote to stay." ~AA

31.01.2025 11:40 👍 1672 🔁 467 💬 73 📌 36

Over 50,000 excess deaths since 2023 due to delays in emergency care caused by cuts, underfunding, staff shortages and prioritising privatisation.

There should be a monument made entitled 'Government Failure'

Stop prioritising privatisation

Fix the NHS 💙

👉 Invest
👉 Fix NHS pay
👉 End outsourcing

27.01.2025 09:59 👍 150 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 3
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Wes Streeting heckled by climate protesters at Fabian Society address Speech calling for unity against ‘populist right’ interrupted by two women opposed to Drax power plant subsidies

How dare Wes Streeting - who cynically regurgitates the Far Right narratives about trans people - ask for unity against it. What front he has! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

25.01.2025 16:54 👍 301 🔁 74 💬 13 📌 4
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a man in a white shirt and tie is holding a clipboard in front of a white board with the word almost written on it ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is holding a clipboard in front of a white board with the word almost written on it

So, the people who've been putting Bibles in classrooms, the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and legislating away women's rights to their bodies are suddenly worried about the mixing of politics and religion, huh?

24.01.2025 01:14 👍 11945 🔁 2382 💬 247 📌 71