Stuart Parr

She grabs a book and leafs through its pages, as the murmur of rain merges with the text.

After hanging up, she places her phone aside, experiencing a sense of joy and closeness.

Delicious cuisine serves as the foundation for life's uncomplicated joys, and each dining experience deepens my appreciation for the beauty found in everyday moments.

@BBCShropshire Manchester doesn't have devolution. Nowhere in England has devolution. 100% of our laws are made by the UK. What they have is top down local government reorganisation. There is no extra money for England, it's just being diverted from rural areas to cities.

There was majority support for independence before their referendum and they bottled it. The only way to end the abusive relationship that is the British Union is if England fights for it.

@BenInRushcliffe @reformexposed Rayner evaded tax which is illegal, Tice avoided tax which isn't.

And will he get the same treatment as Rayner from the press?

@stuey_beef @RogerV52 And this only applies to England and Wales

800 years traded for a three‑line whip. MPs have just voted 304–203 to slash our right to trial by jury for thousands of cases carrying sentences of up to three years. More than 3,200 lawyers – including 22 retired judges and hundreds of senior barristers – begged the government to stop this “erosion of a deeply entrenched constitutional principle for negligible gain”. Labour backbenchers called the plans “unprincipled, counter‑productive and shameful constitutional vandalism”… then many of them abstained when it actually came to the vote. Eight hundred years of being judged by your peers, traded away for a three‑line whip and a cheap headline about “efficiency”. If this is what they do with a majority, imagine what they’ll do when you’re the one in the dock.

@WarMonitor3 I'm not anti-Trump and certainly not pro-Starmer but the president should reflect on how long it took the US to join WW2 before making such statements

Trump on the UK: "We don't need people that join wars after we have already won."

@bmj_latest Not just UK though, also the Republic of Ireland and others.

A bill promising to prioritise UK trained medical graduates for training places has become law. However, doctors’ leaders say questions remain over international medical graduates (IMGs) and the definition of doctors with “significant experience" bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Starmer is doing too little, too late. Italy, Spain, the Netherlands are sending ships to defend Cyprus. HMS Dragon won’t leave Portsmouth for a week. It can’t shoot down Iran’s drones from The Channel. Our bases and allies are under attack. We must act in our national interest.

The Labour politician responsible for keeping our streets safe is mourning the death of the mass murdering supreme leader of a country that has been actively attempting to commit terrorist attacks in the UK. #SackMahmoud

@EmilyThornberry Your warmongering party is responsible for the Middle East's religious and ethnic wars being played out on our streets.

Wars are only ever resolved through negotiation. It’s tragic that calm heads did not prevail in the US when the Omani Foreign Minister said, just hours before the bombing started, that a peace deal was within reach. And now hotheads in Iran think it’s a good idea to bomb Oman.

@jdpoc That's because it's the one-off income from the 50-60% of Self Assessment tax that's paid in January just before the deadline and nothing to do with Robber Reeves' disastrous mismanagement of the economy.

Things You Won't See In The Right Media Because It Would Undermine Their False Narrative ...

@Lincs_Wheelman @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole I've completed it to GPS and it's accurate

@wonkotsane @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole Those speed signs are not accurate, probably a few mph +- at best

Thousands of cyclists, e-bike and e-scooter riders are breaking the rules and yet no one is being held accountable. The law simply hasn’t kept pace. If we want safer roads, we need proper regulation, identification and enforcement. Please read my views in this article. #cycling

@Lincs_Wheelman @grok @smalldefaut1 @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole Come and ride a bike round Shropshire where every road is uphill both ways and half the population line miles from the nearest shop. One size does not fit all.

@wonkotsane @grok @smalldefaut1 @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole Unfortunately too much campaigning by the media and car nuts has removed what should be normal for cycling x.com/modacitylife/s…

@MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole I'm as fat and unfit as Clarkson, I've had a knee replacement and the other one is buggered and I could get over 20mph on a bike. There's a 30mph SID on the road at the end of my street which I've tried to get a sad face on. Unsuccessfully, but I can get over 20.

Very, very few people are capable of breaking the speed limit, even the 20mph one, on a bicycle. Legal electric-assist bicycles in the UK are limited to 15mph. The problem being identified here is with illegal electric motorcycles and e-scooters, which are nothing to do with cycling.

@grok @smalldefaut1 @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole Where I live it's the majority of cyclists you see, usually either training or taking part in road races.

No, there's no reliable data confirming exactly 20% of cyclists can sustain >20 mph. Strava's median leisure pavement speed is 14.1 mph. Global averages sit at 13.5 mph. Most recreational riders average 12-16 mph; only trained club-level cyclists commonly hit 20+ mph sustained. That's a small minority overall—likely far under 20% across all cyclists, including casual commuters.

@drewsnx @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole It would stand out by virtue of the fact it has no registration mark

@MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole The laughable part is people saying the problem of *illegal* bikes at speed would be solved by creating an entire pushbike registration and identification system. How would you register an illegal e-bike!?

@IAPonomarenko @LanguageIearner Hopefully this means Iran won't be able to supply Russia with drones any more

We in Ukraine call this a calm restful night

@EmpireEnjoyer3 @sentdefender You won't 😂

@sentdefender If they sink a carrier then we use nuclear weapons.

Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency claims that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea with four ballistic missiles launched from bases in Southern Iran.