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@EmilyThornberry Were you paid by them to post this?

Across the world, the BBC is recognised as the best source of impartial news reporting. It's not perfect, because nothing made by people ever is. However, in these days of deliberate lies, manipulation & populism, it's a beacon of truth. Britain should be proud of it. And we are

@livnerys @PopCrave Pigs are in pig (pregnant) for 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days.

@PopCrave the fastest pregnancy ever

Mummy Pig has welcomed her third child, Evie Pig.

@UPS_UK unfortunately ups was chosen to deliver a parcel I needed on Friday… it’s in a warehouse and has been stuck there for 3 days. I go round and round in circles with your virtual assistant! Can I please just get the parcel sent on a next day delivery service on the 15th?

Congratulations to Spain and Portugal on achieving net zero ahead of schedule

@SkyNews Good to see that not a single person believes this.

BREAKING: 'Rare atmospheric phenomenon' behind outage and disruption could last a week, Portuguese operator says - after huge power outages hit large parts of Spain and Portugal 🔗 Read more news.sky.com/story/spain-po…

@pushonfridays @indy_singh_uk @Andrew__Kennedy You aren’t automatically given a receipt. You are asked if you want one. No reason to select yes not knowing the future and that this would be a problem. They can easily check cctv and their tills to make sure he is telling the truth.

@indy_singh_uk @Andrew__Kennedy Not a stupid reply. There is a reason you are presented with a recipe

Hi @Tesco On Good Friday I experienced the most awful and humiliating experience in your Hurst Park (Surrey) store. I popped in to pick up groceries on my way to visit friends. I used “scan as you go” as I always do, and paid £75.92 for my groceries, using my Apple Pay.

@ianmiles Seems a bit silly. A lot can happen in 100 years…

Britain has signed a hundred year agreement to support Ukraine militarily and financially. This includes providing Ukraine £3 billion a year until 2031 and to support Ukraine “for as long as needed,” and establishing military bases along the Sea of Azov, which Russia controls.

@dshensmith If we don’t like it, we don’t go there.

@debbiebarnes66 @RupertLowe10 Rubbish! These things are all that the news speaks of, but they’re really rare and insane reasons not to have children. We need to get off social media and stop watching the news. There is a great life to be had once you stop listening to fear.

@RupertLowe10 Why on earth would you want to bring a child into this world? To be stabbed, groomed,unable to enjoy the childhood that we did, to be unsafe even in school and be taught untruths and hate for their own country??? 🤔😡🤬

Having a child is an incredibly difficult decision for young men and women now. The brutal truth is - we need Brits to have more children. We are dying out. The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest ever level on record, just 1.44 children per woman. Think about what that means... This is not good. What's happening? We're importing millions of low-skilled migrants, and our own people are not having enough kids. There's no point just moaning - we need serious policy to reverse this, and urgently. The most important move is to brutally slash tax across the board. Messing around with subsidies for this and that won't solve the fundamental issue. Parents don't need to hand their salary to the state, to have it returned with all sorts of strings attached. Let them decide how THEIR money is spent. There is so much we need to properly consider. Spousal visa reform, front-loading child benefits, combat anti-natalist narratives, further tax breaks for parents, VAT reform, reverse Labour's assault on private schools, scrap interest on student loans, tax advantages for childcare and more. Not forgetting the impact of immigration, particularly on housing where prices have been driven to outrageous levels exactly because of uncontrolled mass immigration. As we all know, it needs to be drastically slashed. British people should have absolute priority for social housing over foreign nationals. Legal migrants who come here must be capable of housing themselves. If they can't do that? They should leave. Those homes should be for British families. We generally need to make Britain a safe and pleasant place where parents feel comfortable raising their children. There is a LONG way to go. I understand that. But look. I don't have all the answers. I do know, this is definitely a conversation we need to have. We need British men and women to have more children. It's that, or we will eventually die out. Our rotten establishment has made the country such an awful place to live, people are more and more reluctant to raise a child here. That can be changed, but we don't have long to do so. Having children, raising a family - these are positive things. We should celebrate and encourage them.

@Sian_Arkay @theweeflea @timfarron Sometimes love requires correction and discipline. When someone breaks the law, we should bring correction. Letting someone do whatever they want is not loving. It’s enabling and potentially dangerous for them and those around them.

@theweeflea @timfarron He’s given a priority order of love, not care. Of course I can’t provide for my neighbour on the same level I provide for my mother. It’s simply not possible. I should, however, love my neighbour as myself. That’s a direct command from Christ. Vance is wrong here.

Christians may support Trump/Vance, but they absolutely must call out this false teaching. In the Good Samaritan, Jesus clearly tells us that our neighbour is *everyone* - including the ‘alien’ - and that you must love them, and that love is costly. Jesus trumps your politics…

@timfarron @theweeflea Loving also sometimes means discipline, which in this case is a consequence for disobeying the law. This is a way of loving the alien who did not disobey but is in the country legally, as well as loving and providing for our family which we are also commanded to do (1Tim 5:8).

@theweeflea He misses out that our first and primary love is for God, and that in doing so we will then see that we must love all, including the unlovely and the enemy. That is what is so radical and impossible. Vance is being the ‘expert in the law’ here and trying to set limits.

@MartinSLewis Do a click and collect shop, sticking to the list of groceries you need. For a family of 6, we now spend £60 on weekly shop instead of £100, plus a couple of fruit/milk top ups which haven’t changed. That’s over £2000 saved a year just by not being tempted by rubbish in store.

TELL US: What are you top budgeting tricks - both for making, but more importantly sticking to a budget? Please post your responses in reply, and my podcast team will collate and read some out. And do like your faves.

@2Be2Gether2 @CrazyVibes_1 @libsoftiktok Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (+Pluto) that’s how it goes… right? 😂

Can someone direct me to the articles where the media expressed outrage over this? Can’t find any…

@Sargon_of_Akkad “Christian Welsh boy” with a lovely photo of a well kept school boy is what we were told…

Rudakabana's mugshot is a frightful thing.

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@Keir_Starmer Got your priorities right, that’s good to see. 👍

I said I would stop fans from being ripped off by ticket touts. I am. Today, my government set out plans to cap resale prices and ban ticket hoarding so fans can see the acts they love at a fair price.

@CapelLofft Jesus said “let the little children come to me.” I’m sorry your curate does not agree. I’d recommend finding a church that welcomes your son as Jesus does.

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@Wikialb1 Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 far outperformed both those films at the box office...

@KateBMwriting Saw the BBC had 100 women list and immediately wondered how many were men.

This is Brigitte Baptiste, one of the BBC’s women of the year picks. Another breathtakingly insulting move from the woman-haters at the BBC.