Gerri

It was just used by the newsreader in the headline news on BBC R4

Which reminds me. Can you let me know when your favourites are on sale again? I'm trying to help my PhD student son build an appropriate wardrobe for his future career. Quality cardigans are a necessity for geography/geology scientists.

There's something rotten in the structure of Home Office. Who are the people who have been consistently around Home Secretaries for the last decade?

But the Tories of today aren't The Conservatives they were a decade ago

And from tomorrow, no one on any BBC flagship news programmes will bother to push Tories or Reform about this change of mind. Well, maybe once, but they'll quickly move on and then forget about it.

I'd like to know a little about the civil servants and SpAds who have consistently worked alongside the various Home Secretary's over the last decade.

👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.

Maybe they should start demanding this stuff is independently verified like they do when schools are bombed

The Today Programme now values presentating with confidence over the value of the content they're presenting.

Gove's reforms completely destroyed the joy of reading.

My first thought when someone uses AI slop is where else have they cut corners or been careless?

Hear me out. Could the US do the impeachment thing by distracting him with a season in Vegas?

On the plus side, he's now admitted to war crimes on the record in order to get a laugh from the audience. So smart.

Is 100 enough to do this properly? And I really hope they learn from the Irish and don't do this on the cheap (financially and informatively)
like we do everything else.

I've recently been looking to move house, and as I'm unable to drive, I've noticed many newer estates don't have a shop or a bus service. I'd be trapped and reliant on deliveries. That's no way to live.

I'm definitely with Eliot on this one.

In 1990, friends and I did the Keith Floyd version of it for Sunday dinner. My public facing job wasn't impressed, and along with my morning shower, I had to go home at lunchtime and shower again for the next 2 days. Day 3 was still pushing it. It was worth it.

Hang on, I thought it was destroyed last summer, so digging it up shouldn't be an issue.

And her roast dinners are amazing!

It's great when we have good people in our family. My ex-husband's sister is probably the best (unknowing) matriarch I've ever met.

It is! But I'd be foolish to make any comment about my 2 ex SILs or the widowed one. I've made that mistake before 😅

I taught my son how to cook before he went to university, and that skill alone has helped him make friends. Being able to cook for a budding friendship group is a wonderful thing.

I've got a couple of frames, I've been wondering what to do with! I love it

Didn't he allow India to buy oil from Russia? Who needs nukes for mutual destruction when we have Trump. He really is a tool.

I've known people who did trade contract work out there, and I'd definitely want to help them. I also know people who live there and work in the "service sector". They were out in the dessert shooting footage of drone strikes last week for fun. Surely, they don't need us plebs to get them back home?

I'm tired of hearing about education as a route to a job and nothing else. We need to remember that education is about feeding our curiosity and enriching society for the benefit of everyone, regardless of ability to obtain paid employment.

Yeah, but how can they pay for technical staff when "talent" is sooo expensive? I'm old enough to remember when the Beeb nurtured and developed both.

She's super smart with a strong moral compass, and I'm incredibly proud of her. She wants to work in the think tank sector. And that's in no small part down to having dealt with too many people like him in positions of power!

My daughter has hEDS and was really unwell as a teenager. As a result, she only did 5 GCSEs, rather than her predicted 11 A/A*. Now, at 28, she can manage her condition better and is doing an Access course. She's acing it, and has several offers from top uni's. I'm so glad she didn't apply to his.

My adult kids encouraged me to study during the pandemic when I was reading all the latest scientific research and discussions and correctly interpreted and predicted discoveries. I failed at school, but, aged 60, I've now completed 2 health science OU modules with over 80% scores. I love learning.