Tominey is never going to let facts get in the way of her prejudice

I must read this. Assume it’s money laundering?!

We’ve turned off the heating and the dog has stolen a blanket!

Aren’t you supposed to be working?!! I could never work in a cafe as love to see and hear what’s going on

I realise this but we were living in the area and they passed the 11+. Yes it was very middle class but there was more diversity than in a private school and no we aren’t rich

One of the founding fathers?

I’m from a poor family and went to grammar school. I didn’t go to university but worked my way up to a senior role in finance. I think it gave me confidence. My sons went to Dr Challoners, no tuition, and then went on to Oxford University. It’s so hard as everyone wants what they think is the best

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes Nigel Farage's flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor's earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call "shameful"

🔴Reform-Run Kent Council Sells Off Antony Gormley Sculpture After Raising Taxes

Nigel Farage’s flagship council quietly sold Two Stones, one of the sculptor’s earliest commissions, as part of a wave of publicly owned art disposals that critics call “shameful”

bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/r...

Last year I was so excited by the duck and her ducklings in the beck behind my house. I was out regularly inspecting them. One day, after a summer storm, only the mum was there calling and calling. She continued for days. 🥲 let’s hope yours turn up soon

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The ending of Burn After Reading came into my head this morning. Sums things up well.
(profanity warning, though nothing you haven't heard from Trump)

Fake tax refunds: Welcome Accountancy exposed A UK tax tribunal exposes Welcome Accountancy’s false expense claims and fake refunds - part of a wider surge in rogue “tax refund factory” firms.

And here’s our report. Please don’t read it, share it, or repost it. The legal risk is, quite literally, incalculable.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/04/07/w...

Having seen Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in the original I cannot even think about this production

Love nigella! I too cook when life is too much

When we’re watching Sky news my husband always says “oh no it must be bad “ when you come on!! We love your reports but when this is over can you return to salt!!

Surely this negates the argument about artefacts from abroad that they should stay in the UK as they’re free to visit

Well Oak Apple day should be fun this year

Our park is full of such benches but I find them depressing. Maybe because I’m getting old but I want to walk in the open air and not in a mausoleum

The Richard Tice tax avoidance thing relies on a legal loophole where he spent three year “looking for outside investors” for his property firm, then declared he couldn’t find any. So the defence is… my successful profitable property investment biz was a bit crap?

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Reform UK's Crypto Provider on Register That Housed North Korean Money Laundering Reform UK processes cryptocurrency donations through a foreign infrastructure that housed a US Treasury sanctioned crime syndicate laundering $4 billion in illicit funds – including proceeds from Nort...

EXCL: Reform UK have been processing cryptocurrency donations through Poland, under a 'lax' regulatory regime which previously housed a Cambodian crime syndicate sanctioned by the US Treasury for laundering $4 billion in illicit funds (inc. proceeds from North Korean state-sponsored cyber heists)

I was thinking of the Saki cat and his waspish remarks but wombles good too!

Bit of a Tobermory too

Kemi de ville

I hope the price has doubled!!

Both of my boys went to Dr Challoners Grammar School in Buckinghamshire. They were both from a state school however we had moved from London deliberately for the schools. It’s so difficult as most parents want to do the best for their children

Maybe Clakton is the Russian spelling

137 8 hour days!!

Think of the poor child with a mother like me. I had one boy as Lion(curly orange wig and turmeric died tights) Witch(broomstick and cat) and Wardrobe (painted cardboard box to be worn until judging!) And yes I, sorry, he won!!

Life imitates art.

29 years ago, Wag the Dog told the story of a US president mired in sex scandal that threatened to undermine his presidency so he decided he needed to concoct a make-believe war to boost his support.