Marian Nicholson
@mjn009
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Geek, tech professional, AI enthusiast, problem solver. All my own views.
Joined April 2009
#mojainsurance,@AXA,@mojainsurance. Left on a Welsh hillside with no way of contacting my Insurer as the 24×7 line isn't available on a Sunday. #abandoned
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Lucille Ball, doing a Q&A with UCLA theater students for America Alive! in 1978, repeatedly ordered co-host David Sheehan to stop touching female students. She knew the girls felt powerless to speak up, so she used her power to speak up for them. Queen.
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And @HumzaYousaf puts his hands on the female protestor, because of course he does. Would he stroke the arm of a male heckler? Would he physically take hold of him? Or would he respect a fellow man's personal space and physical boundaries when trying to reassert his authority?
🗣️“Folks, let’s not boo.” The moment a heckler disrupts Humza Yousaf’s flagship independence speech to SNP members. The First Minister leaves the stage to try and engage with protester.
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Only sadness, and anger, after another deadly tragedy at sea in the Mediterranean. May the victims rest in peace. May the survivors find consolation and care. May governments cooperate to increase safe pathways and work together on collective solutions to address these flows.
It is heart-breaking. 41 bodies recovered & fears that hundreds more may be missing in a shipwreck off Pylos, Greece. Such tragic deaths at sea are avoidable. We need more safe pathways for people forced to flee. They should not be left with impossible life-threatening choices.
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Charlotte Owen has gone from parliamentary intern to Baroness in 6 years, a record? 🤨 (incidentally we were at uni together and no one remembers her showing any great prowess for legislative scrutiny)
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This is absurd and worrying.
🧵 19 people have been arrested in connection with planned criminal disruption at the Epsom Derby Festival this morning. 11 arrests were made at addresses in Mitcham & Byfleet in the early hours, following warrants based on intelligence received ahead of the Epsom Derby Festival.
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Word of the day is ‘mumpsimuses’ (16th century): those who insist they are right and apportion blame to others without looking at themselves.
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Just a reminder of average energy costs: €650 - France €650 - Belgium €620 - Spain €558 - Germany €558 - Denmark €546 - Holland €545 - Austria €543 - Norway €476 - Finland €174 - Poland €2,960 - UK #bbclaurak
Energy giant BP reports record annual profits, days after Shell announced highest profits in its history, due to soaring oil and gas prices
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Anyone would think Nadhim Zahawi personally jabbed each of us with the covid vaccine the way Ministers are talking this morning. It’s thanks to our nurses and doctors you idiots!
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Gender diversity in UK tech industry ‘still terrible’, says Martha Lane Fox
theguardian.com
Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades
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in 2016, only 47 British MPs & Lords held an Irish passport - by 2021, that figure went up to 227 - in 2022, there are now 321 of them with an Irish passport Our ruling class seems to have remained in Europe. People next?
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"Can Tory MPs really be contemplating supporting the scoundrel who only weeks ago they rightly dumped? Have they so quickly forgotten why they dumped him?" | ✍️ Matthew Parris
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Boris? Again? That charlatan? They cannot be serious. Kipling was not wrong: “The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire/ And the burnt Fool’
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I’m not sure the strategy of ‘you’re not clever enough to understand our growth plan you plebs’ is going to wash with voters.
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