Andy Mcleod

The kitten will REPORT to Larry the Cat.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Loving all the standing-down Tory MPs saying what an honour it's been to serve their constituency, when in truth they don't fancy being an opposition MP as it involves little other than serving their constituency.

Martin Lewis here explaining why children need to be taught financial education in schools. And that’s the Tory Schools minister. Shaking his head.

@ActivewearGroup Also missing our order. 254153. Pretty simple order, but no response to phone calls or emails. Terrible.

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Anyone else can't quite believe that the petition to rescind the new 20mph limit is officially the biggest petition that has ever been submitted to the Senedd? Not the one to reinstate free school meals during school holidays for children living below the poverty line. Not the one to commission suitable NHS services for people with EDS or hypermobility spectrum disorders. Not the one to fund more specialist school places and staff for children with additional learning needs. Not the one calling to increase funding for mental health services and improve waiting times for people needing help in crisis. Not the one to recognise teaching assistants as an important asset to schools by raising wages. Not the one calling for Welsh working parents to receive the same financial support for childcare as parents in England. Not the one to improve services for people with metastatic breast cancer. Not the one calling to create, fund and sustain sufficient affordable nursery and childcare places for all working parents. Not the one calling for a mental health unit for men in north Wales. Not the one to make Blue Badge applications lifelong for individuals who have a lifelong diagnosis. Why can’t we rally like this for other causes? In Wales (and the UK) we have a falling life expectancy, falling living standards and falling wages in real terms, as well as rising food bank usage, rising homelessness and rising NHS waiting times, and we’re outraged by having to drive 10mph slower? I thought I must have been missing something so I did some research into both sides of the debate to educate myself, and I do understand the arguments against - lesser productivity, the implications for professions such as drivers and carers, additional costs for increased travel time etc. I don't have the answers, but I did find that this speed limit is already in place and successfully proven to reduce casualties and deaths in areas beyond Wales. More than half of London's roads are now 20mph as well as other communities in England having already implemented the limit, including Norwich, Tonbridge and Chichester. Lower urban speed limits have also been adopted in many countries and cities across mainland Europe, including Spain and Brussels, where they use km/h instead of miles. In mainland Europe, many areas have 30km/h limits, which is 18.6mph. I think I'm just bewildered at our furore, and our tendency as people to make decisions to avoid personal discomfort in the present moment at the expense of the long term outcome for all. Of course there is a cognitive bias that explains this, called the Present Bias. "Present bias is the tendency to focus more on the present situation than the future when making decisions. This can lead us to prioritise immediate rewards over future payoffs, even if that decision benefits us less overall." Anyway, to look at the positive, I hope if anything, this shows that as a people we are capable of coming together, rallying and demanding change when a situation calls for it.

Mars!!! 128 million miles away. Listen to the sounds.

I don’t like this sort of politics. Societies are made up of individuals with different backgrounds, opinions, economic interests and moral and philosophical positions. The primary job of politicians in my view is to at least try to navigate these differences (guided of course by their own hopefully well-thought out political philosophy) with the aim of building a stable consensus - a necessary foundation for a well-functioning and prosperous society. That’s very hard of course, but it should be the desired destination. Nobody gets everything they want in a democracy, because a free society is a collection of individuals who hold different views, but also nobody should feel absolutely defeated. This is not compromise in a wish-washy sense of the word - it’s the very essence of and indeed the guarantor of our freedom as individuals. As Feynman memorably said, democracy is based, like science, on a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance; running societies is very hard, and nobody really knows how to do it, so we regularly change direction whilst building on the achievements of the past. Understanding this requires humility, and the instinct to unify rather than to divide. Seeking division therefore runs counter to everyone’s interests because it undermines a key idea underpinning democracy itself - the idea that individuals have legitimately differing views. To Mr Sunak - topically - I would say read some post-war Oppenheimer. He was aiming to persuade national leaders not to do what this article says you want to do, because in the context of countries with atom bombs, that would be literally playing with fire.

🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks: 1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week. twitter.com/Rishusharma26/…

Absolutely nailed it

"Just Tuesday". #NHS75

Padstow Blues #HalfTerm

This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BBCQT “ I’m staggered that you think you’re succeeding… Watch and listen!

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Nobody is more surprised than me but this is by far the best contribution I’ve seen Rees-Mogg make to public discourse. He has literally never made more sense than he does here.

Ready to play with @MattTarling and the Antler Ceilidh Band in the beautiful @folkhouse #livemusic #ceilidh #drummer #caller

This is quite remarkable. After winter storms in January last year, we found the remains of an old teddy bear washed up. When we shared a picture online, Anglican priest @CassWoollibold asked if she could restore him. A thread.

@ThreatNotation Cajon

Reply with the instrument you play and I’ll roast you.

Please spend 10 mins watching this. All the way through, please. Please share as widely as you can. Please keep it in a place where you can find it, in the months to come.