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Colin Pritchard

@stroller63.bsky.social

Grumpy old fart who has a wonderful wife and two terrific children. Supports West Bromwich Albion! Member of the Green Party.

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Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · yesterday

For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk

Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition

theguardian.com

Boothby Graffoe@boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here's an alternative solution: Get Nigel Farage & Richard Tice & Zia Yusuf & all the other Reform MPs, add Rupert Lowe, stick them on a small boat, float it out to sea & ask the RN to form a Naval blockade that stops them from ever coming ashore again? Problem solved www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France hits out at Reform UK plan to return migrants using Royal Navy

It comes after the party said it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

bbc.co.uk

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm glad to see this. It's what many of us have been arguing for a long time, but until now no one in government seemed ready to listen. Let's hope we will begin to see an education policy which works for children, and for the 21st Century. In The Times today.

Schooling ‘straitjacket’ has left a million behind, minister says Lucy Powell, the education secretary, says ‘one-size-fits-all’ academic approach has led to children being branded a ‘failure’
Colin Pritchard@stroller63.bsky.social · 4d ago

Frank Skinner: ‘I’m more careful now that my bones have the consistency of Aeros’ www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Frank Skinner: ‘I’m more careful now that my bones have the consistency of Aeros’

Football fandom is like ‘the dole’, ‘Mock the Week’ is a ‘trout farm’ and death is like ‘Kangeroo Island’ – in the mind of Frank Skinner, at least. Louis Chilton meets with the veteran comedian ahead ...

independent.co.uk

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social the daughter of a Holocaust survivor has been arrested because of a policy Starmer and Cooper rolled out which Labour Baron Hain said in the House of Lords, was shameful, and the UK's High Court initially said was 'unlawful' She says, "It's not what my parents died for"

Dr Helen Webberley@www.helenwebberley.com · 4d ago

The EHRC code gives employers a framework. It does not tell them whether to use it with dignity or with the minimum effort possible. That gap is the real HR test. Come and read what I think: https://www.helenwebberley.com/news/hr-leadership-single-sex-spaces-trans-workers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medi

The HR leadership test hidden in the single-sex spaces debate | Dr Helen Webberley

Legal clarity is not the same as easy decisions. Helen on what employers owe trans workers right now.

helenwebberley.com