Nick Kirk
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Nick Kirk
@KirkNikkirk
Entrepeneur, blues and rock fan, motorcycle rider and a member of the Sons of Royalty. I also share my music playlist each day.
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Lies lies lies, they said what they thought we wanted to hear and very many voted for them. Never again vote for #Labour!
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Hands up if you’ve had your council tax bill for the next year and it’s going up! 🙌🏼 Mine wasn’t frozen, it’s gone up. Labour lied to get into power. “Labour would freeze your council tax” “Not a penny more on your council tax” “No ifs, no buts” Lies, lies, and more lies.
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@benonwine Totally agree, football shouldn’t be involved in religion, if they need to break their fast, then pick another player
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@_01Legion Loan or sell, he needs to improve and be more consistent
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AN OPEN LETTER TO LEWIS HAMILTON
Mr Hamilton,
You have recently spoken about Britain’s past and suggested that the country should consider returning land in Africa as some form of historical reckoning.
Before making such sweeping statements, it might be worth revisiting the full history — not just the fashionable fragments that circulate on social media.
Slavery was not invented by Britain. It existed for millennia across the ancient world — in empires from Rome to the Middle East and Africa. By the time Britain emerged as a maritime power, slave trading networks already stretched across continents.
The Atlantic trade itself involved multiple participants. African rulers and traders captured and sold prisoners to European merchants on the coast. It was an ugly system, but it was also an international one.
What is often omitted from modern lectures about history is that Britain became the first major power to turn against the trade. Parliament passed the 1807 Act abolishing the slave trade, and the Royal Navy then spent decades enforcing that decision.
The West Africa Squadron patrolled thousands of miles of coastline. Sailors died from disease and from gunfire while intercepting slave ships. In doing so they liberated tens of thousands of people who would otherwise have been carried into bondage.
Many of those liberated Africans were settled in Sierra Leone. The capital was named Freetown for a reason.
There are also chapters rarely mentioned today. When Napoleon restored slavery in French territories after it had been abolished, it was British power that ultimately helped end those systems again.
There is also the matter of the enormous compensation loan taken by the British state when slavery was abolished across the empire — a debt British taxpayers continued servicing for generations.
None of this erases the suffering of those enslaved. But it does mean the story is far more complex than the simple narrative often presented today.
So before condemning Britain wholesale, perhaps a moment might be taken to acknowledge the sailors who fought the slave traders and the role Britain played in shutting down the Atlantic system.
A fitting tribute would be support for a memorial to those men who served and died enforcing abolition.
History deserves honesty — not slogans.
Yours sincerely
Stan Robinson
Voice of Wales
@VoWalesWren @alanlester
#SouthAfricaSquadron #RoyalNavy #VoiceOfWales



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I'm often called a boomer, it's meant as a slight and usually comes from younger males who think we had it easy.
They're posting from their double glazed homes with the heating on Fridges, multiple TVs, gym memberships, and they love playing on their X Box
keeping their working hours under 21 per week so they can claim benefit
The reality of being a boomer.
We had parents who served in a war and suffered a further 10 years of food rationing so
breast milk was scarce due to malnutrition.
Being born in a cold damp house heated by a coal fire, your dad's army coat was used as surplus bedding.
Vegetables were seasonal as were childhood diseases. We fought them all off Measles, Mumps, chicken pox and even scarlet fever.
The countryside was a world away, and you only saw grass if someone in The street had a car and took you there as a weekend treat.
We didn't need a computer to occupy our Sunny Delight hyper active minds, the journey, looking out of the window was the treat.
We walked everywhere,
We usually had just one fat kid in school not a full class of them with their allergies and syndromes.
We had one special outfit known as our ' Best Clothes' and these were looked after like the robes of an ordained dignitary.
Hygiene wasn't even a thing, there were no bathrooms, the toilet was at the bottom of the yard heated by a paraffin lamp to stop the pipes freezing.
The only hot water was the kitchen sink with a water heater known as a geyser .
Used frugally to keep costs down.
Teachers smoked in schools, everyone smelled of nicotine. Windows weren't opened till May as heat was precious.
Often the bills outweighed the income and were juggled for payment .
No automatic washing machines or dryers, mangles were in the back yard to squeeze out the excess water after a dolly tub wash .
You might have to research these items.
If you wanted to learn you had to read books, there was no Google short cut .
Communication was someone five doors down who might have a phone you could use as long as you took a threepenny bit to pay for it.
The operator would put you through!.
You didn't follow your dreams, you didn't dream, you just took a job to bring money into the house and tip up to your parents to help with the bills.
No spa days no film star beauty treatments no weekends away or hen nights abroad, two weeks in Blackpool once a year if you were lucky.
This went on till you could afford to start your own dreary journey of a life as a working class Brit in the very early 60s.
This is the same generation now helping fund kids and grandkids education or house purchases because you've blown it on take aways, tattoos, designer clothes, stag nights that last longer than family holidays, and other such self absorbed bollox.
Boomers have usually contributed at least 50 years of a 42 hour week so they can have time to themselves before some health issues steals what's left of their lives.
So if choose to use social media mind your own business and get up your own end!
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@SarahForRuncorn This reeks of corruption at its highest level, people have the right to vote in a democratic society
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This is starting to look genuinely sinister.
The Tories and Labour appear to be moving into an unholy alliance that could see yet more elections cancelled this May. For the second year running, people could be denied their democratic right to vote.
When governments begin cancelling elections, we are on a slippery and deeply dangerous slope. @Keir_Starmer , in a democracy, governments do not choose their voters. Voters choose their government.

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@JamesMelville It’s madness, the lunatics have taken over the asylum
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@NotFarLeftAtAll Trigger for me. Just think of the government savings on brushes!!
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They bulldozed 100,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest for a highway to shuttle 50,000 delegates to COP30—and private jets are falling from the skies in a carbon confetti parade. The Avenida Liberdade (Liberty Avenue) slices 13 km through the protected Belém Environmental Protection Area south of Belém (Nov 10–21). The irony of desecrating the iconic rainforest to host a climate summit!
Red dirt is flanked by dense green jungle. Yellow excavators and bulldozers grind forward amid scattered vehicles. Experts warn of fragmented habitats, supercharged roadkill (Brazil loses ~475 million wild animals yearly to roads), & a red carpet for illegal loggers and sprawl.
Net zero on the tarmac: biodiversity in the ditch.
#COP30Hypocrisy #AmazonHighway #COP30

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Probably the most epic takedown of Net Zero ever aired on television, courtesy of Peter Hitchens.
"If you want to live in a country where nobody can afford to heat their house... if you want lots of people to lose their jobs because there's no energy, if you want to be cold all the time... then carry on believing that the demand to go for Net Zero... is intelligent and thoughtful."
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