Writer on art and museums. Fan of JMW Turner, Antoine Watteau, gothic sculpture. Secretary of The Independent Turner Society https://nitter.cf/t.co/BBVjDwChKZ
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UNLAWFUL ARREST
On Sunday, police forcefully detained and handcuffed a young man under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. They stripped him of clothing while dragging him across the floor.
He had not committed any crime.
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Reform-led Staffordshire Council has today axed meals on wheels and home helps for pensioners, and grief counselling for veterans .
A reform spokesman claimed such services are 'woke'
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We must not forget that in the last three years Israel has killed more journalists than were killed in World War I and Il, American Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan combined.
You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth.
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Shocking but not surprising ... leaseholders burned out of their homes, stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation, still paying full whack for homes they cannot return to.
Hey @LabourParty
Please fix this before you subsidise the failing housing developers!!!
Shared owners who fled London tower block fire still liable for rent and service charges dlvr.it/TVgxBT #ukhousing
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Just for clarity, the pension triple lock is not three increases. It is one increase based on three factors.
1. A minimum of 2.5%
2. The average annual wage growth
3. Or annual inflation
Despite a lock the payment remains a comparative pittance.
Don’t let @andyburnham con you.
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1980: Margaret Thatcher broke the link between pensions and wages. Pensioner poverty hit 3.9m by 1989
2026: Andy Burnham vows to break it again, calling it social care. Full state pension is £12,548 a year. Britain’s richest 350 hold £783.5 billion
Labour went after the £12,548
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Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns..
So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations.
Will they be persecuted, imprisoned?
Reform UK getting desperate.
humanists.uk/2026/09/10/suel…
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Maximum monthly State Pension.
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
Guess which is unaffordable?
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🔴KEMI BADENOCH: Housing Benefit
'Taxpayers foot the £2,700 a month rent on @KemiBadenoch's six-bedroom farmhouse in Essex.
Then she goes on telly and argues that taxpayers shouldn't subsidise other people's rent.'
- @David__Osland
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Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records.
Not suspicious at all...
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Westmorland is made up of so many beautiful villages, towns, rivers, lakes, and fells.
But it is the people who live here that make our communities in Westmorland so special.
It is my absolute joy and privilege to fight for them every day as Westmorland's man in Westminster.
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Reminder - Tory embarrassment Whately is a millionaire on £113,612/yr salary. Yet taxpayers cover her London second home expenses (£39,000 a year). Council tax, water, electric, everything! Meanwhile, she wants to cut benefits for disabled people living on from £11k to just £7k.
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We are reliably informed that Netanyahu was warned in advance about the Hamas attack by Egypt and UAE. Presumably his re-election chances are cratering?
The head of Egyptian intelligence warned Israelis of an impending Hamas attack before October 7. Read @vmsalama
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Shakespeare's Tree: On the slope of Primrose Hill stands a large oak tree planted in 1964 to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, replacing the original tree planted there in 1864.
The plaque erected with the 1964 tree reads in bright colours on a black background:
SHAKESPEARE OAK.
Planted by Dame Edith Evans, D.B.E., for the Society for Theatre Research on April 23rd, 1964, to commemorate the Shakespeare Quatercentenary and to replace the oak planted by Samuel Phelps nearby on April 23rd, 1864.
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Blimey -the news talking about the £13,000 state pension as if it were huge riches.
Have they seen the price of, well, everything?
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Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at Britain’s leading blindness charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping small boat migrants. They mixed it up with the RNLI. Reminiscent of the time in 2000 when a mob daubed ‘paedo’ on the office of a paediatrician in Wales.