Cat Horn

@cat1.bsky.social

Photography and politics. Anything beginning with “p” really.

I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

Kemi Badenoch, who just a few months ago was part of a government that oversaw migration numbers rising to their highest levels since records began, says that Keir Starmer "will never take responsibility" for his own record on immigration

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💧 Now Brexit is putting UK tap water safety at risk 💦 water companies are unable to use products to clean water as all the laboratories that test and certify the chemicals have shut down. 💧 Europe is harmonising standards for EU members by December 2026 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad

theguardian.com

It's not saying the Conservative party is running out of things to attack the Government about, but the current complaint is that Rachel Reeves claimed to have won the wrong chess competition when she was 14

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But more importantly, what does it say about your independence if you are prosecuting based solely on something you’ve seen on Twitter, without waiting for the police and CPS to do their job? It might suggest you care more about clicks from special interest groups than actually seeing justice done.

2. If you've just come here from elsewhere, ask yourself: How do I want to be here? Do you want to bring over the destructive energy that, after all, made you leave that somewhere else to be here? Or do you want to be something else? You can reset here, if you like. You might like it better. /end