In Derry and found my pals!

I fully understand and validate that statement! 😂🧟‍♂️⛪️😴

Ah, thanks Ruth! Sorry I didn't see you after.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Government plans to overhaul asylum appeals system The government would establish a new and independent body, with the aim of hearing cases more quickly.

Or they could end the hiring freeze in their current system in the home office. 🤷 But no, let's keep more publicity on this issue, which was designed to be punitive and cause misery.

BBC News - Government plans to overhaul asylum appeals system
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a man in a suit and tie sits at a desk talking to another man with the caption well his name is trevor ALT: a man in a suit and tie sits at a desk talking to another man with the caption well his name is trevor

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Venues in Merton, Croydon and Wandsworth host pop-up opera shows Baseless Fabric Theatre is "bringing opera to new audiences" at unexpected venues in south London.

Wonderful to see in BBC News app top stories!!

BBC News - Pop-up opera surprises customers in cafes and pubs
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Ah, Toronto. Where all the churches are on Queens Street and all the queen's are on Church Street! 💅⛪️

Bangor Cathedral had 'binge drinking culture' at diocese Priests and choristers at a crisis-hit cathedral did a "seven last shots of Christ" drinking game.

This comes across as bizarre but actually so much of this is recognizable!⛪️✝️🍷🥂🍻

BBC News - 'Any excuse to go to pub' culture at crisis-hit cathedral
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good luck! 🫣

Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.

Obviously.

BBC News - Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
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Why do we pretend heatwaves are fun – and ignore the brutal, burning reality? | Zoe Williams The heatwave media formula is still extravagantly weird: all stock photos of ice-creams and suns with their hats on. It is time we recognised this extreme weather for exactly what it is, writes Zoe Wi...

This is spot on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The political weather really is shifting for the Greens in London.

Another by election win - this time in Greenwich.

Waking up every morning in 2025 be like...

2025

£1 gets you CAD 1.88. Better than it's been for years! (Obvs not been so great for Canada lately)

It is a *great* time to visit Canada, though, for this very reason!

Yay Aphrodite!!!

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Ha! I suppose it's a case of all's well that ends well, but the twitter blocking was hardly necessary. 🤪

But the experience for patrons and all visitors is extremely important, especially at the point of purchase. This always needs to be open to improvement.

It's a fair question, and the answer should be more than just because it's opera. The recent season announcement was more inspiring than I had expected, especially given the cost of new requirements to have a presence in Manchester, so I hope good programming may sustain belief in the company.

That's a real shame. Sorry to hear it's been like that, especially when opera companies need to value every supporter.

That is very odd!

Yes, that was his way. I think responses may be rather different now.

This is extremely silly. Have you written to anyone there? The CEO perhaps? They need to know at the very top the ways in which the front line impedes their mission (and their patrons!!)

This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to return. In one forum after another, I hear the same sentiments: “I voted for change, not the same or worse.” “I’ve voted Labour all my life, but that’s it for me.” “I feel I’ve been had.” It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s not disillusionment. It’s revulsion: visceral fury, anger on a level I’ve seldom seen before, even towards Tory cruelties. Why? Because these are Tory cruelties, delivered by a party that claimed to be the only alternative, in our first-past-the-post electoral system.

This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter...

But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.

Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Celebrating #eurovision by taking in some Hildegard Von Bingen, the original Euro song diva! #rocknroll

Haha! I completely understand that, though I confess I love his shows. My sense of humour tends to be OTT so it works for me.

I love this. I'll think of Frank during this moment. Frankly (yes, sorry.) I suspect half the chorus will sing Frank if I tell them this story. 😂

🤣🤣🤣 I hadn't thought of that. Actually, in this production, I recall they do plenty of roughing up to the point that it's 🤢 overwhelming.