Christo. London, England.

https://mastodon.me.uk/@Christo_459

I'm 77 , married to Bill, who is 81 for 59 years this year, have a son and a deceased daughter. I'm anti-royalty and anti-celebrity, anti-capitalist, more simply a Socialist. I love live music from classical to opera to rock, R&B, pop, jazz, experimental, contemporary etc., growing food and flowers, volunteer and seek a way to live sustainably. No God's, No Masters. Hate Racism, Trans Ally. Anti-Fascist. Humanist
I will vote Green. LONDON

Joined: 9 Sept 2024

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2026-08-18 08:21:20 UTC

Sometime I look at what jobs are out there. I am amazed how low pay is, full time, permanent £23,400 a year
How do folk live? In London you need £70k to be able to rent a 1 bed flat. It can't go on.
#EverythingIsExpensive #ExceptPay

2026-04-21 08:55:24 UTC

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What would be better is strong action against tech bros products

2026-04-18 08:38:37 UTC

Old folk voting far right. Thank goodness I do not see myself in this.
‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/18/the-families-torn-apart-by-older-relatives-going-far-right?CMP=share_btn_url
#VotingFarRight

2026-04-01 18:08:50 UTC

Are we getting Covid jabs soonish, does anyone know? In London
#LondonCovidJabs

2026-03-30 14:33:29 UTC

Is Starmer delusion. We have US planes loading bombs at Fairford to bomb Iran. We have US bases all over the UK fighting an illegal war against Iran.
Starmer says UK won’t get ‘dragged into Iran war’ and there is no need for drivers to stock up on petrol – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/30/starmer-iran-war-labour-values-local-elections-campaign-launch-uk-politics-latest?CMP=share_btn_url
#StarmerOut

2026-03-28 09:11:24 UTC

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The trouble with tech bros is that they lack other intelligence compounded by their wealth isolating them from mosts folks lives

2026-03-28 08:53:32 UTC

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Time to be joyful again

2026-03-24 12:51:39 UTC

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We should not allow Palantir anywhere in the UK

2026-03-15 08:40:59 UTC

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We either join fully including the euro or we struggle on as a failing state

2026-03-05 21:06:35 UTC

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Disgusting attack on a veteran. They have no respect for their Military

2026-02-27 11:43:27 UTC

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#FediHire

2026-02-19 08:59:25 UTC

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Really, define poverty.

2026-02-16 13:51:38 UTC

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Renationalise Postal Services

2026-02-15 16:53:07 UTC

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We need a full Rejoin , no cherry picking , including the Euro

2026-02-13 12:03:36 UTC

Labour took our freedom to protest away and want to fight the High Court judgement re Palestine Action. Never vote Labour again
#VoteGreenParty

2026-02-10 15:22:24 UTC

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The USA needs an alternative to MaGa Republicans and Weasel Democrats

2026-02-07 17:49:16 UTC

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Trump is so far away from the Obama's intelligence and humanity. Trump is the bug you stamp on

2026-02-05 09:48:01 UTC

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Palantir needs to be removed completely from the UK

2026-02-02 17:49:25 UTC

Nobody should be a peer. This aristocratic nonsense needs to go .
Mandelson should no longer be a peer, says Starmer https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/02/house-of-lords-should-strip-mandelson-of-peerage-says-starmer?CMP=share_btn_url
#CloseTheLordsAndHaveAnElected2ndChamber

2025-05-19 15:39:43 UTC

I have often wondered why people buy houses next to schools who are annoyed about balls coming over or noise.
Couple successfully sue council over school’s footballs landing in garden of £2m home https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/19/couple-successfully-sue-council-over-schools-footballs-landing-in-garden-of-2m-home?CMP=share_btn_url
I do understand when a new school is built bang up against existing homes.
#BloodyKidsAgain

2025-05-06 18:42:49 UTC

Ok Calling Glaswegians
Are there good places for breakfast in central Glasgow. We will be staying near Buchanan centre. Thanks, in anticipation.
#GlasgowBrekkieSuggestions

2025-04-01 13:45:06 UTC

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Oh I hope the Greens or a new Democratic Socialist party offers that in 2029/30

2025-03-30 11:14:46 UTC

Time is running out. We must stop deep sea mining.
https://act-int.greenpeace.org/e3t/Ctc/UC+113/d33VTK04/VVTKDb1_BGxGW60ZHYM4N-H3_W4qM5Xr5tNpJCN6L2Zrs3qgyTW6N1vHY6lZ3ngW91xCqK2F-7XkW77gMhg3sS8dZW4XlBQQ2swmYLVnj-Mg6q23-KW5V51Sv5bt5PBW44f1DN8yrX2NVL8XLV5cHmR-W6Zksjh7t-cm-W59GDNd6RTlFBVhTrN15JCMg0W4p26bM13jhXdW910XP91g2YhSVrCLGB8DDQLcW56nDH289bfSfN7pg54qHQ-89W6NHRNQ4LNzKCW88DRNv3Hlrb-W7S6BwM8bw9rJW5d3ww37TrZrNW24VwWw7MXKkcW4ty_mn517GSFVLSZRV3_q1V1f5yWdsj04
#StopDeepSeaMining

2025-03-22 21:25:33 UTC

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Thatcherism
Brexit
Austerity
Neoliberalism economy

2025-03-22 15:27:12 UTC

Lots of thunder overhead but no rain so far
#WeatherReport

2025-03-22 10:27:28 UTC

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Absolutely or at least the 30min to 45min city. But in 15min I can walk to dentist, doctors, hospital, library, food shops and more

2025-03-22 10:05:31 UTC

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I live I the City of London so no need to drive . I walked to Waterloo via Fleet Street on Thursday. It was one giant traffic jam. Apart from EV vehicles I think others had turned their engines off because I felt no breathing discomfort as an asthmatic. So many cars with just a driver.

2025-03-19 14:08:11 UTC

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I expect to see some 18-22 disabled living on the street

2025-03-19 09:48:20 UTC

Netanyahu has tried to get other countries to take the Palestinians, and quite rightly they have said no. So what are his options if he wants all Palestinian land? Extermination. He will blame Hamas , who he once found useful. Hostages who he has bombed if its true that hospitals are really Hamas hideouts. So no Netanyahu is a monster wanting every Palestinian gone.
Netanyahu warns Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive ‘is only the beginning’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/israel-gaza-strikes-deaths-latest-update?CMP=share_btn_url
#TheCrimeThatMustNotSpeakItsName

2025-03-17 10:35:05 UTC

Buy to let was and is an obscenity in housing especially when people can no longer afford private rents or massively expensive homes to buy.
Buy-to-let firms become biggest single type of business in UK, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/17/buy-to-let-firms-become-biggest-single-type-of-business-in-uk-data-shows?CMP=share_btn_url
Housing as a business instead of a necessity and human right.
#BuyToLetHorror

2025-03-16 11:28:01 UTC

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I have two organisers. One for home that's based on a wooden pencil box with sliding lid. The other is a plastic 7 day container for travelling away fir a couple of days. A tab for B.P., a statin and Montelukast for asthma. Plus inhaled steroids etc

2025-03-15 08:44:59 UTC

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When folk have no money to spend we fall into recession. When folk have money to spend it circulates because they spend it. Sigh

2025-03-01 12:08:48 UTC

The only humiliation on view was that of Trump and Vance showing their true ugly selves, bullying , greedy and ignorant. President Zelensky of Ukraine doesn't need Russian Assets interfering

2025-02-20 17:01:24 UTC

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It has never had anything to do with the real East End of London

2025-02-20 10:16:03 UTC

Yesterday my son lost his wallet on a London bus
This morning the wallet was pushed through his letterbox, intact, with a note attached which just said. 'Mate, you left this on the bus, good luck'.
It's great to be reminded that there are good folk .
#WalletRestored

2025-02-07 14:46:59 UTC

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I saw thus in Gloucestershire, UK years ago, everything in the river died. Dye released from a factory upstream

2025-02-02 17:21:14 UTC

The UK must apply now to rejoin the EU. It will take until the 2030s but we must show willing. TRUMPELON will cause trade wars that will lead to bloodshed. We must join with allies now against the billionaires and fascists everywhere before all is lost.
#RejoinEU

2025-01-26 09:37:13 UTC

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I see Reeves has agreed Brexit was damaging and is making positive remarks about the EU and closer links today, in the Guardian.

2025-01-25 14:28:04 UTC

We should learn nothing from Trump or his government of cruelty and chaos.
Labour need to dump Reeves and Starmer and the rest of the red tories or serve one term.
UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/25/uk-rachel-reeves-chancellor-economy-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url
#OneTermRedTories

2025-01-24 10:28:15 UTC

I hope everyone in Ireland , Scotland, Wales and other areas badly affected by the storm stay safe.
When we get the chance please vote for governments who take Climate Change as the biggest challenge facing us. This isn't 'once in a generation' weather.
#StaySafeInTheStorm

2025-01-22 12:31:35 UTC

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We also need to remember the disastrous restructure the tories imposed in 2011. That needs undoing

2025-01-19 18:53:38 UTC

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Isn't there an existing review that needs implementing?

2025-01-18 10:38:55 UTC

Apropos of nothing.
I think we need to go back to fountain pens.
Reusable, lovely to draw and write with.
#FountainPens

2025-01-12 17:03:12 UTC

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Serco are an evil company

2025-01-11 11:40:39 UTC

Reeve is an ex Bank of England Thatcherite economically. Considering cutting Public Services already starved of funds for 14 years instead of taxing the super rich.
#LabourWothABlueRosette

2025-01-09 18:55:34 UTC

A rose on my balcony Summer 2024
#BloomScrolling #SummerRose
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2025-01-07 22:46:13 UTC

I'm making Bara Brith, a traditional Welsh tea cake. Mixed fruit, orange zest, muscovado sugarcane black tea are in a bowl, overnight. I will complete the mixture tomorrow and bake it. To be eaten sliced with lots of butter.
#BaraBrith

2024-12-29 09:58:20 UTC

Greenwash Labour
Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/29/labour-under-fire-over-plans-for-40-more-greenwashing-waste-incinerators?CMP=share_btn_url
#IncineratorMadness

2024-12-29 09:09:19 UTC

Correction , Reform telling lies to win a by-election.
Reform woos voters before potential byelection test in Labour stronghold
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/29/reform-woos-voters-before-potential-byelection-test-in-labour-stronghold?CMP=share_btn_url
#TheLimitedCompanyFartage

2024-12-23 10:26:13 UTC

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The UK is not a democracy. We hold other nations against their will, we lock up people with addictions and mental health illnesses and of course those protesting against corporations destroying our environment. If you voice support for Palestinians you risk being classed as a terrorist.
Our system of government is archaic and voting ensures too many don't bother to vote

2024-12-20 00:27:02 UTC

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It says this government was elected on a manifesto that theyvwould not seek to rejoin the EU. No they were elected to get rid of the tory government and a lot of promises that they have renamed on such as WASPI women cheated out of pension money

2024-12-19 23:54:38 UTC

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Cops work for the people who want you under their foot

2024-12-13 12:55:19 UTC

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The FDA needs to say no or give JFK Jr polio

2024-12-09 16:31:17 UTC

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I don't think Israel wants them evacuated , Netanyahu want all Palestinians dead

2024-12-06 09:24:08 UTC

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The US is turning into another rogue state

2024-12-04 12:20:28 UTC

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I hope you consulted [@FediTips](https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips )

2024-12-01 10:46:15 UTC

No Greg , those women are not afraid of you ruining their careers. Other MasterChef contestants have too much to lose to take on a 'celebrity
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/01/gregg-wallace-says-complaints-came-from-middle-class-women-of-a-certain-age-masterchef?CMP=share_btn_url
#NothingToLose

2024-11-28 09:40:25 UTC

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Exterminate, exterminate

2024-11-25 12:34:57 UTC

The past week or so temperatures outside and been in single figures Centigrade, often low . Then suddenly 14⁰C plus then back to 8⁰C or 4⁰C
#ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDiary

2024-11-24 11:00:53 UTC

I'm so tired of crackdown on benefits, while the very rich laugh.
This time it kick the kids
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/24/liz-kendall-says-young-people-who-wont-take-up-work-will-lose-benefits?CMP=share_btn_url
#KickTheKids

2024-11-23 14:14:03 UTC

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When my daughter was dying the palliative care consultant told us there was no such thing as a pain free death

2024-11-21 14:47:48 UTC

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Tell us lies about Palestine

2024-11-19 12:36:32 UTC

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Haha tv journo thinks his is in the real world

2024-11-19 10:16:38 UTC

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This is far worse than the Blitz in the UK during WW2 or the retaliation in Dresden. This constant bombing and destruction is unimaginable

2024-11-18 17:09:28 UTC

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And now with a MAGA government coming into power we need to get as far away from pleasing the USA as possible

2024-11-18 10:30:56 UTC

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.very unsure about these drugs.exercise and healthy eating, a better system to live in. OK if carefully managed for the right folk

2024-11-16 17:29:12 UTC

To hell with religious objections. If you don't want assisted death when you cannot bear the agony don't have it or aid it, but don't you dare force your beliefs on others.
Revealed: ‘Grassroots’ campaigns opposed to assisted dying financed by conservative Christian pressure groups https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/16/revealed-grassroots-campaigns-opposed-to-assisted-dying-financed-by-conservative-christian-pressure-groups?CMP=share_btn_url
#BanReligiousInterferencewithlaws

2024-11-15 20:30:43 UTC

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Every one working under him needs to say they will do as he orders but not do it.

2024-11-14 09:29:50 UTC

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I think you have to export your WordPress stuff to a.n. other blog site preferably already ok with activity pub

2024-11-13 12:18:52 UTC

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Israel is an evil in this world. The cause of war and hatred with its genocidal government

2024-11-11 14:37:17 UTC

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the term intelligence should be dropped , it's just machine learning

2024-11-08 16:04:55 UTC

Here we go.
US election: millions of Americans reportedly risk losing health insurance under Trump – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/nov/08/us-election-live-donald-trump-cabinet-house-of-representatives?CMP=share_btn_url
#TrumpMAGA

2024-11-04 11:23:21 UTC

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Israel will take Eygpt one day

2024-10-28 09:05:21 UTC

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Cancel both

2024-10-22 18:40:38 UTC

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What an evil woman

2024-10-22 10:31:02 UTC

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And why isn't this jerk in jail?

2024-10-22 10:27:14 UTC

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Why is he allowed to run for president ? Why isn't he in jail?

2024-10-21 17:10:54 UTC

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Israel wants all Palestinians gone for ever

2024-10-10 20:35:25 UTC

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We are booked in for both flu and covid on 25th October. Then we get the RSV one a bit later

2024-10-10 12:45:49 UTC

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The media put too much store on polls. They don't tell you the state of things , polls tell what the folk engaging a poll want things to be.

2024-10-10 08:06:01 UTC

Morning all, this rewilding project looks exciting.
Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/herd-of-tauros-to-be-released-into-highlands-to-recreate-aurochs-effect?CMP=share_btn_url
#TheTaurosAurochEffect

2024-10-07 09:04:34 UTC

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They would need to take 'banked land' out of property developer hands and create a national home builder organisation .of property developers don't work with the organisation take them over. Any homes built need to be sustainable and provided with transport links etc

2024-10-05 12:43:16 UTC

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A traitor then

2024-10-02 17:55:54 UTC

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Apart from the constant Vance lies

2024-09-30 10:39:48 UTC

Declaring gifts or donations isn't the point.
Gifts to politicians are all about buying influence | Letters https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/29/gifts-to-politicians-are-all-about-buying-influence?CMP=share_btn_url
#BribingThroughGiftsAndDonations

2024-09-30 10:28:35 UTC

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He isn't even marginally left of centre. He is a Thatcherite like Blair

2024-09-30 08:15:57 UTC

The Conservative Party of today in England must never, ever gain power. It is an extreme , right wing, idiot party. There's not a single person vying for leadership now who has anything in their head bar ambition and mad ideology.
#DontLetTheToriesBackEver

2024-09-25 12:39:37 UTC

Looking around I see so many houses that are now offices and I also see too many empty offices. I'm sure the same can be seen in other cities and towns. Maybe we should shift companies out of houses and restore them to house people plus turn some office blocks into housing. We should do this before building anything new.
#HousingConstructionIndustry

2024-09-24 07:56:31 UTC

Are we really back to this shit. Welfare scroungers ?
Starmer promises swift action against welfare fraudsters https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/24/starmer-promises-swift-action-against-welfare-fraudsters?CMP=share_btn_url
#LabourCruelty #ToryContinuation

2024-09-22 11:04:19 UTC

Ban second jobs for MPs
Did you know that MPs earning money from second jobs spoke and voted less than other MPs in parliament last year? Agree this is wrong? Join me and sign the petition to ban MPs from taking paid media jobs: https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/mpstandards-gbnews
#BanSecondJobsForMPS

2024-09-21 15:50:23 UTC

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And I'm a monster that eats them buttery and garlicky on toast.

2024-09-19 16:57:05 UTC

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You can give a regular small amount too. I do that plus just donated a one off.

2024-09-19 12:28:11 UTC

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How do we know mostly Hezbollah?

2024-09-19 11:20:14 UTC

A letter to Rachel Reeves
https://taxjustice.uk/blog/uk-in-a-vicious-circle-of-stagnation-and-decline/
#StopUKDecline

2024-09-18 08:01:57 UTC

Oh look evidenced based stuff.
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/18/prof-coined-presenteeism-employers-force-staff-back-dinosaurs?CMP=share_btn_url
#FlexibleWorking

2024-09-17 15:59:53 UTC

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Public transport should be free. It's value is in supporting the population in getting to work, to hospitals, doctors, dentists and vacations without contributing to global warming etc. It's priceless

2024-09-16 08:16:21 UTC

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We have this, it was my introduction to Coltrane when it first came out.

2024-09-15 16:25:29 UTC

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Shrink cars and reduce car numbers.free public transport.

2024-09-14 20:38:42 UTC

I feel rage and shame about my country treating vulnerable people with such cruelty.
‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare?CMP=share_btn_url
#InhumaneTreatmentAsPolicy

2024-09-14 08:15:59 UTC

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I've always thought full prisons are a sign of failure. There will always be a small number of very dangerous folk that cannot be released fully but we have people in prison who should be receiving good mental health care, desperately poor folk and a majority who could be helped with education and counselling and secure housing.