Debbie Middlemass

We went looking for palm oil-free hot cross buns… in @marksandspencer… And couldn’t find a single one. How is that acceptable in 2026? Cheaper ingredients. Higher prices. And farmers losing out again. 👉 If brands can do better, why aren’t they? Like, Comment & Share.

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There are only two problems with 'independent regulators' like Ofcom and Ofwat; they're not independent and they don't regulate

We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-den…

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BREAKING: Reform UK have pledged to cut the size of the Scottish Parliament and regularly review its devolved powers if they win the Holyrood election The party's Scottish manifesto also says they would would 'repeal SNP bad laws' and introduce sweeping changes to the tax system

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Hey @officialcalor,. My lpg gas on a metered estate on The Black Isle was shut off for a leak yesterday at 11am. Today I reported urgently it's still leaking at 1pm. Promised an engineer in 4 hours to stop it. Now you send an email stating you'll come out on FRIDAY to fix it. IT'S LEAKING now! Not to mention I have cancer and respiratory failure and you think no heating or hot water for 4 days is ok. I have called over and over and been passed from pillar to post. The elusive call back promised 7 times, hasn't materialised. Hung up on 4 times. Call back twice as system down. IT is LEAKING. It's cold as fuck here and I have to wash with cold water or at sink with boiled water. Non mains customers have absolutely no protection in an emergency and somehow a gas leak isn't a rush. Cc @BBCNews @PressandJournal @BBCScotlandNews @BBCScotland @Jamie4North @ScotNational

We don't need to keep people working until they are 75. We need to stop people who have NEVER worked from having hundreds of millions or billions.

6am, Dingle - Ireland's earliest St Patrick's Day parade. The pre-dawn tradition dates back to the Land War of the 1870s when British authorities outlawed public gatherings between sunrise and sunset. The people of Dingle found a way...

Another former sub postmaster has died, still waiting for compensation for being wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal. Parmod Kalia had his conviction overturned in 2021, 20 years after being sentenced to six months in jail after being falsely accused of stealing £22,000

#PostOfficeScandal #ParmodKalia #StateSponsoredCrime The Quiet Dignity of Parmod Kalia (6th December 1958 –13th March, 2026) Parmod Kalia was a trained Banker. An Associate of the Institute of Bankers. Assistant Bank Manager. Treasurer of an International Charity. A man for whom every penny had to be accounted for. He chose the Orpington Post Office for the quiet life. Stable hours. Time with his wife and four children. The Horizon system repaid that modest ambition with a phantom shortfall of £22,202.01. Post Office Ltd told him he was "the only one." The National Federation of SubPostmasters — his supposed protector — told him to repay the money and fabricate a story. He borrowed £22,000 from his Mother's life savings. Post Office pocketed every penny. Then they prosecuted him anyway. 6 months in Prison. 14 years in hiding. 3 occasions where he nearly took his own life. A 17 year estrangement from his son Mahesh, who was just 17 when they took his father away. Children who grew up asking: "Dad, have you taken the money?" His own children. Asking if their father was a thief. Because the State told them he was. His conviction was finally quashed in May 2021. He should have spent his remaining years in peace, rebuilding what was stolen. Instead, the Post Office unleashed elite City law firms to fight tooth and claw over every penny piece of his Redress. They challenged causation. They delayed. They low-balled. They rejected his interim claim of £100,000 on "public interest grounds." Highly paid lawyers — billing more per hour than Parmod earned in a week — deployed forensic cruelty against a traumatised, terminally declining man whose only demand was that someone look him in the eye and say: 'we did this to you, and we are sorry'. He tragically died on March 13, 2026. Still fighting. Still waiting. Still uncompensated. Still dignified. The inhumane savages masquerading as lawyers who wage this war of attrition against Parmod, his family and hundreds like him will simply move on, adjust their cufflinks, sip their flat whites, and open the next file. Another victim. Another billable hour. This obscene tragedy simply cannot continue. The time is long overdue for the Prime Minister to intervene — to show some leadership, some backbone, and some basic human decency. These are not commercial disputes. These are traumatised victims of a State-sponsored crime. The lawyers instructed to handle their redress must be ordered — ordered — to show compassion, humanity, and urgency. Every day of delay is another day stolen. And as Parmod Kalia's demise has proved, the days run out. Rest now, Parmod. The truth outlived them all. The shame belongs to those who made you wait. @Keir_Starmer @darrenpjones @biztradegovuk @AGinsight @liambyrnemp @commonsBTC @RachelReevesMP @DavidDavisMP @kevinhollinrake @CastletonLee @Janetsk20073533 @SeemaMisra_OBE @edwardhenry1 @BBCEmmaSimpson @nickwallis @Karlfl @marksweney @hrw @Cyclefree2 @DanNeidle @SkyNewsAdele @BBCBreakfast @ElCShaikh @VarchasPatel @Pinsent_Masons @hmtreasury @HouseofCommons @premnsikka @TimBushLondon @UKHouseofLords @TjX50 @Malcolm22206844 @NFSP @postoffice @PostOfficeNews @NFSP_UK @voiceofthepm @NigelRailton

I see the proposal that retirent age should be raised to 75. My question is - Where are these jobs going to come from? Given that the young and mid-lifers alike are struggling to find work.

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In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.

It’s vital to talk about rape victims, & important to correctly categorise whisky theft, but - important too - to have grown-up conversations about what these provisions will mean in practice for tens of thousands of people. And what they - one rainy night - might mean for you.

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Do Fesshole a favour and like this post so that people SEE IT. Your admin Rob (me) is doing a Fesshole show in Glasgow this Monday and would love you to come, assuming you're in Glasgow that is. It's at the Òran Mór which is a lovely venue, actually an old church, so the perfect place for some fesses. The show itself is a fun show, first half I do a best of and second half it's audience fesses and they're always a laugh seeing what people have to say in the flesh. DO COME. I had a bloke turn up at the Luton show this week who said he'd come because he liked the account and didn't expect the show to be actually good and was surprised when it was. Because I'm an idiot, it didn't occur to me to film him saying this endorsement. Tickets in profile. Or google them. You'll find them.

Elon Musk is a white supremecist who stirs up hate and directly interferes in British Politics. The UK government has just granted his company Tesla the rights to sell electricity to UK homes. This is not okay.