Anyone from Europe and Scandinavia would be puzzled listening to Emma Barnett on #r4today hearing her obsession with the word socialist. Perfectly normal label there and why their public services are so much in advance of ours in the UK.

Different era, same train woes: (from E. Nesbit’s story ‘John Charrington’s Wedding’, 1893)

Absolute cheek of the man to then claim he considers himself a socialist

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The same people who said Covid protections were an assault on freedom are being strangely quiet about the state mandating 18 year olds to do forced labour.

Anyone know who this little fella might be? Landed on my hand and tried to make a beeline for my apple

'Too many young people live in a kind of a bubble within their own communities,' James Cleverly

Dementia changed my grandma and by the end she couldn't recognise her family. The one constant that remained right until the end was her utter hatred of Eamonn Holmes

It's genocide and we are complicit. Stop arms sales now. #RafahMassacre

These pieces make me want to go back to bed. Please can we just be averagely ok?

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