Andy Taylor

@andytaylor128.bsky.social

🇬🇧 British #Bristol. I love Metal Rock Music, eating out, cooking, booze, Rivers/Oceans, nature, history, engineering & Rugby Union. Dog person, Pagan. Buyer & Seller of Militaria. Bard in training. Succubus Friendly

In 1776, Adam Smith risked his reputation to tell the world that his friend David Hume had died cheerful, kind, and unafraid — without religion. That is friendship. I’ve written about it (and about making friends in middle age) for the #InternationalDayofFriendship.

Lessons in friendship: David Hume and Adam Smith | Andrew Copson

For International Day of Friendship, Andrew Copson reflects on one of humanist history's great friendships – and on why making friends in middle age is worth the awkwardness.

humanists.uk

A tax on banks would bring down energy bills - and bank CEOs aren’t happy. Banks had an 8% surcharge tax on their profits, but the Conservatives cut it to 3% in 2023. Even just restoring the surcharge to 8% would raise £9 billion over 4 years.

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“Reform repeatedly say we are a police state... Now they expect Zack Polanski to be arrested.” “It’s one or the other, lads!” Is there a hypocrisy in how Reform deals with free speech, and incitement to violence, when it is directed at them?

Fig arrived with her mam & the rest of their family after coming from a difficult situation. Fig & her mam Ebony are so lovely & we’d be over the moon if they could be adopted together. They’ve already been through so much, it would be wonderful to see them begin their next chapter side by side.

Andy Burnham is now the new Labour leader, and UK Prime Minister. Now the consultation is closed, Burnham needs to ensure that Labour's manifesto pledge to ban hunting is implemented fully, with no exemptions, excuses or loopholes, and this time they need to do a proper job, and get a shift on.

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‪In 1764 Frances Ruscombe and her maid, Mary Sweet were found stabbed to death in their house on College Green. The crime was so violent and frightening the house remained empty for over 50 years. It stood on part of what is now the Royal Marriott Hotel. The case was never solved.‬

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I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.