When you're raising a child it's daunting and frightening and lifechanging and you need the support of real humans around you who have done it for themselves, and to learn from them. What you do not need is conmen selling you their lying machines to do a job we have been doing since our beginnings.

The Wish Tower Friends are delighted to share that we welcomed an incredible 3,664 visitors and have been incredibly grateful to receive £2,130 in donations in 2025 - it's been a record-breaking year.

Find out more: wishtower.org.uk/a-record-bre...

I'm so glad we're sacrificing the planet, intellectual property, independent thought, etc etc so that a pretend dog can fail to help me with a broken website.

The chatbot can't even automatically transfer me to a human - it gives me a prompt I then have to type in.

I think an actual f-king dog might have helped me more efficiently with far lower water & electricity consumption.

A very 2025 sentence follows.

I've just had to plead with an AI customer service chatbot that pretends to be the platform's office dog, to be put through to a human, after the dog very confidently got the answer to a simple question entirely wrong.

✨Brilliant to welcome over 300 visitors to The Wish Tower over the past two weeks as part of #HeritageOpenDays

👉Read more on our new blog: wishtower.org.uk/until-next-y...

🩵Thank you to everyone who came along!

#eastbourne #localhistory #localheritage #martello

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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More videogames to include this, please

An incredibly effective marketing campaign for making me *not* want to go to Prezzo any time soon

Can we have more software like this, please?

What a hollow victory for the Government. This is no way to treat Parliament or the thousands who would have been affected by the original planned cuts.

Hard to see how Kendall's position is tenable, given her major piece of legislation has been torn apart brick by brick as the day has gone on.

What a brilliant speech in the Commons today by Rachael Maskell on the devastating impact the UC/PIP bill will have

Promising concessions after failing to properly consult, and causing unimaginable anxiety this week, is no way to make policy. Needs to go back to the drawing board.

Naive of me perhaps, but I really expected so much better from Labour. This week has played out more like one of May's Brexit votes.

How truly bleak it is to see Labour’s miserable attempt at the UC+PIP changes.

Data clearly shows the proposals will directly lead to immense hardship for those already among the poorest in society - on top of the already degrading PIP application process and stigma around claiming social security.

David Mitchell convicted for covering road with potatoes and silt Huge loss of soil from potato field costs farmer over £40,000 for polluting river, with potatoes and silt escaping into the road.

Well, that's a round of Would I Lie to You? sorted

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Wow. Numbers signing the amendment opposing the governments welfare reforms growing - up to 119 now. Thank you to all the Labour MPs who have had the courage to step up and do the right thing 👏

June 2025 Update – Wish Tower Friends Here’s a quick update of what the Wish Tower Friends have been up to in the first half of the year – it’s been busy!

We've had an incredible start to the year - with over 2,000 visitors so far!

Read our new blog post to learn more about what we've been up to: wishtower.org.uk/june-2025-up...

Would modern democracy look different if the King hadn’t hidden in a tree? And, might pubs have different names?

A bit of historical trivia today...

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Atwood, Palin, Olusoga, the economy, and a lettuce. Here's my March & April in books!

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Come and visit us on Sunday 6th April! We're open from 1-4pm, and the Wish Tower Friends will be on hand to answer any questions you have about our lovely Martello Tower!

#eastbourne #visiteastbourne #eastsussex #localheritage #localhistory

Southampton now have as many PL points this season as the city has Tescos

First Open Day of 2025 – Wish Tower Friends We’re delighted to share that our first FREE open day of 2025 will be on Sunday, 16th March!

We're delighted to share that our first FREE open day of 2025 will be on Sunday, 16th March!

The Wish Tower will be open from 12-4pm for you to have a look around and learn more about the role our Martello Tower has played in Eastbourne's history.

Satsuma, Chernobyl, and Donkeys
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All books I've read this month - my February reading round-up is here: seanfirth.uk/february-rea...

Post-work walks don't get much better! (and there's a pub at the end)

#eastbourne

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I wonder hypothetically if the ref would've given this as a second yellow to Ndiaye

(Don't need to wonder if it were an Arsenal player)

Great sunset at Priory Lane (shame I can't say the same about the referee's performance)