Kirstie Allsopp says detached houses should be banned because they are not 'environmentally practical' and lead to loss of community feeling, according to an interview in Mail. Posh people always seem to know what's best for the rest of us, don't they?
Let’s be clear- the new vaccine announced by Pzfizer and Biotech was trialled by 44,000 people on three continents - and linking it to Thalidomide is just plain wrong. If you don’t want to be vaccinated that’s fine but don’t put out lies to frighten others
chucking cans of tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting in the National Gallery show the Just Stop Oil mob have lost the plot. Vandalising a masterpiece make a point about the cost of living? well done Phoebe and Anna- you are a couple of twerps x
I am ok, but it was a bit of a shock. I don't know a single person who would get pleasure from driving up to a woman walking by herself on a quiet road by the sea and shouting abuse at her. But maybe I haven't lived!
Firework hell! Nov 4 and raining but still the morons are setting them off. Badger the Border terrier has been sick twice and is still shaking, I stupidly hoped that because so many people got dogs during Covid we might have less FIREWORKS. How dumb was that dream!
Please take your rubbish home when you walk! Picked this stuff up today on a ramble through local woods, probably dropped by some of the folk who claim they want to ‘save’ the planet x
Well done Marcus Rashford! How can Boris stop free school meal vouchers in the holidays and claim to care about the disadvantaged! My mum was a school dinner lady- she would have been disgusted x
Telling all over 70’s to stay at home shows the govt is full of ‘woke’ people who think anyone over 70 is one big homogeneous group- patronising and inaccurate!
I went for a quiet walk by the sea in Kent this afternoon. A car suddenly drove up behind me, the man behind the wheel screamed I HATE YOU, WE ALL HATE YOU, YOU ARE STUPID and when I tried walk away he turned round and spat out YOU WILL GO DOWN. He's driving a grey Golf.
Just went in Tesco N1 no customers under 30 wearing masks including two council employees who couldn’t care less-what can the staff do? If the government bring in a rule to protect us then they should have thought about how to enforce it.
Thrilled to be asked to compete in
@MasterchefUK
for a second time- and even more pleased I won !!! Trying to cook a new dish every week even in these dreary days- keeps the spirits up. Thanks for good wishes and the rest of you- get over it!
You can tell how civilised a society is by how it treats trees- Plymouth council chopped down 129 trees IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT for a 'regeneration' project and to install cameras. Apparently cameras work better on 'new' trees. Soon old people will be culled for looking untidy
Did something for the first time yesterday- sea swimming in torrential rain! Made me forget about the misery of not being ‘allowed’ to work ( for a bit anyway)
When I said in the indie that children should be regarded as state assets of course I don’t mean the state owns them! The state should invest in the next generation instead of penny pinching. To all the trolls, try reading the whole column before wasting your time trashing me
I was proud to to speak at the
#endloneliness
conference in London today- learning to be social when living alone is hard and more of us need to own up to it xx
I despair- a choir which has existed since 1924 and given huge pleasure faces the chop. The BBC plans to disband the BBC Singers - the only full-time professional choir in the UK. 20 performers will be out of a job as well as support staff. Football pundits, on the other hand..
The beeb are also demanding 20% cuts from their wonderful three orchestras. Sadly, music lovers aren't generally as shouty as football pundits, but this time they need to rise up and fight this cultural vandalism. The BBC says they're 'prioritising quality and impact' HOW?
Of course Murray has been a wonderful sportsperson and well rewarded for his unique talent. But if more men felt able to show their emotions then perhaps his tears would not be regarded as so newsworthy
Sinead was utterly unpredictable, enchanting, and special, extraordinary in concert. When her manager Steve (my pal)was dying with bladder cancer in 2001, Sinead and I moved into his hotel in Los Angeles for his final days. Now Saint Sinead's gone- if only she'd been cherished xx
Just wondering if there’s anyone running to be PM who hasn’t taken drugs and regretted it? Or anyone who enjoyed it at the time?? Or are they all suffering from false memory syndrome? Yes I know the answer x
Both
@eamonnholmes
and I have had shingles and it was exhausting and painful. We’re working with
@gsk
to raise awareness of shingles and recent changes to the Shingles National Immunisation Programme eligibility. Visit GSK’s . Funded by GSK.
Why do train companies have the arrogance to name themselves ‘great’ as in pitiful ‘greater anglia’. My train to Norfolk has no heating no lighting. Monday’s train had no food and was filthy. A week ago blocked toilets. What’s GREAT about my customer experience??
So sorry Suzanne Moore has left the Guardian- surely a good newspaper needs to showcase a range of views? Or maybe freedom of speech is no longer acceptable to some people?
None of the candidates (all male) wanting to be the next Prime Minister would change the law to allow the women of Northern Ireland the same access to abortion as the rest of the UK. Important to reflect how this ridiculous election process favors the existing power balance!
What do you say to a hertz bloke when u turn up having booked+paid for an automatic car weeks ago and he says 'we haven't got any'!!! Good job hertz don't run the nhs