Former blogger for Community Care magazine and freelance on the erstwhile College of Social Work's digital magazine, Social Work Matters. Now lurking on Twitter
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This is also an admission that last few governments failed to do the work everyone agreed was urgent after the last time they had to do this. They could have built the data architecture to enable much better targeting. But clearly didn’t. So we’re stuck still with the choice…
NEWS ENERGY PAYMENT: £100 payment to all households in Council Tax bands A to D for England (and funding for same in other nations). That's 20m homes.
Translation: This is the support for the huge rise due in January price cap. Its expected to be 27% up. Which equates to roughly £100 from Jan to March alone.
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Often called Old Man’s Beard it is exceptionally sensitive to air pollution, so their presence on Hangman indicates high air quality & clean air in the local #environment. #Lichen is a symbiotic partnership between a fungus & an alga working together.
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28 October 1794. Medical pioneer Robert Liston was born in Ecclesmachan, Scotland. He was known for the swiftness of his surgical procedures and for carrying out the 1st British medical operation with the aid of anaesthetic.
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In an ideal world yes. But in terms of priorities I prefer the government to focus its attention on bringing the water industry into public ownership, rather than a letter delivery service which will have less and less relevance to our daily lives with every passing decade.
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The Chancellor should give surplus public land to councils for free so that they can build council houses. My piceve for @zeteouk
Read his piece: zeteo.uk/p/what-i-want-to-se…
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28 October 1962. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the US government that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. It was the beginning of the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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A single mature tree can be 50, 80, even 100 years old—quietly building a world for birds, insects, fungi, and mammals.
In minutes, modern machines erase decades of growth.
What took nature a lifetime to create, we destroy in a heartbeat. 🌳💔
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"Sorry boys!!" 🤣 Hilarious moment today where two workers got caught watching the Test in the office! 🫣
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In May 1994 Westow CC in North Yorkshire featured in a number of national newspapers as their ground was pictured surrounded on three sides by oil seed rape. A local farmer who owned the land wanted the club out but lost a legal case so this seemed to have been his retaliation. The farmer claimed it was simply crop rotation but club members appeared to think otherwise. One told the Daily Mail: "It's impossible to find balls when they go in there." Can anyone shed light on whether this was resolved ...
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A short film showing traffic on Blackfriars Bridge in July 1896.
Pioneering filmmaker Robert W. Paul positioned his camera at the southern end of the bridge, looking north towards the City of London. Beyond lay Fleet Street and St Paul’s, while steam trains (unfortunately not seen here) crossed the neighbouring railway bridge.
A wonderful glimpse of ordinary Londoners going about their lives 130 years ago.
#VictorianLondon #1890s #VictorianBritain
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Never underestimate the stupidity of a man who thinks he's qualified to 'rate' a woman's appearance.
Joe here, the Cillian Murphy of Margate, needs to book his hard drive in to be checked.
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Further cutbacks announced by the BBC have affected Dr. Who as the new Dalek is revealed!
