Bob Forbes

RT you will support rail and Royal Mail workers no matter how much pressure the establishment puts on them in the lead up to Christmas.

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We spend an equivalent £15-25bn less than France and Germany on healthcare. Enough to restore pay to all NHS staff and expand hospital bed capacity back to 2010 levels. Your access to healthcare is a political choice!

1/8 It’s Children in Need season. I always feel like an absolute grinch critiquing it because it’s so beloved and obviously raises much needed cash. But my ick outweighs my discomfort at being impolite so here we go (a thread)

My sister, a doctor, has life-changing long covid from the first wave due to PPE shortage - which Hancock then lied about theguardian.com/world/2021/feb… But yeah, sure, everyone’s fallible, hug it out over kangaroo bollocks. Fuck. This.

‘I’d rather face a polar bear than step on the dancefloor’: Strictly’s Hamza Yassin on salsa, Scotland and singledom theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Will Mellor and Nancy Xu #BBCStrictly

Tony and Katya close the show #BBCStrictly

Shirley Ballas and her little shoes #BBCStrictly

Fleur East dances to Elton John #BBCStrictly

Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez dance the jive.

Kym and Graziano dance in a bar in Buenos Aires

A scholarship (including tuition fees and stipend) for Black Britons to study any course at Edinburgh University has been set up in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. More information in the link bit.ly/3FHFXBM Please share. Good luck

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

Dear @SuellaBraverman - an 'invasion' is when they overpower your military and take control of your government and institutions. When people come in powerless and poor, keen to work and contribute, that's called 'migration'. Hope that helps.

Today Royal Mail declared war on your local postie. Ripping up terms and conditions, coming for the union and destroying the service. Still our members will not bow down. RT if you stand with your postal worker and will back them whatever it takes. #StandByYourPost

I think we all know what must be done here.

OK, been sat on this for quite some time As many will know, I lost my Dad to COVID in April 2020. And had to endure the grief, trauma and pain in complete isolation, due to lockdown. It was... hellish. Still processing it now. But what could I do about it? Well... /1