Speedo UK ordered a product, received something else, your customer service is refusing to send me what I ordered even though you have my money. Please sort!! #nothappy

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That speech could have been an email.

Oof this is blisteringly good from John Crace on Sunak’s little stunt last night 🔥theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

This week's Private Eye

#PostOfficeScandal Yesterday we heard at the Business and Trade Committee that Post Office CEO Nick Read had asked the previous chairman Henry Staunton very soon after his appointment in December 2022 to lobby for a payrise twice! First to then SOS Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP & later to Minister…

A UK photographer has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award with this shot of a polar bear sleeping in a makeshift bed carved into a small iceberg.

THREAD: On 29 Jan I got an email from someone I’d never met or spoken to before. We have been corresponding since and today we had our first chat. Anna (not her real name) is a former Subpostmaster. She is still fighting for compensation and has what she perceives as clear...

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I've just seen among all the other bad news for the arts in Birmingham that the council is closing 25 out of 36 libraries - genuine cultural vandalism. Libraries are one of the few community resources left in the UK: they offer incalculable support and value.

theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/2…
In one world, taking a left over tuna sandwich gets you sacked. In another (Michele Mone & Co) stealing millions as the country bleeds leads to nothing at all. I hate this country. This world, as it has become? Yeah, that too.

Rishi Sunak decided that the £14.9bn of PPE fraud cannot be investigated and wrote it all off.

This is fraud, theft, corruption on a ridiculous scale.

RT if you think Treason charges for all those in involved need to be brought including those who cover it up.

#BREATHTAKING

I love the fact that #BREATHTAKING ’s brilliant chief medical adviser Thom Petty cared for Michael Rosen in ICU & even pinned his poem “These Are the Hands” to the end of his bed - and that they both only discovered this fact at our BAFTA screening last week 💙

The first episode of Breathtaking was so spot on:

The chaos

The fear

The top down diktats ignorant to what’s actually happening on the frontline

And the kick in the teeth: there was no need for such chaos…we had plenty of warning!
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Russian embassy, London

When I was a GP 10 years ago, these were the wait times for a medical specialty referral:

Urgent: 6 weeks
Routine: 3 months

The wait time now for the SAME specialty is:

Urgent: 18 MONTHS 🚩
Routine: 2 YEARS 🚩

Tory gov - the public deserve an EXPLANATION NOW!

In russia dozen policemen attacked the girl and beat her
What did this girl do?
He came to lay flowers in memory of Navalny
If this is not fascism and dictatorship, then there is no fascism and dictatorships in the world

russia is the ugliest country of the world of all times

#CharlesDickens born 7 February 1812.

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.' - In today's turbulent world, Dickens' affirmation of hope and resilience remains important.

Having fun with the window cleaner.. 😅

So…my Valentine’s story is from a long time ago. Some teenage lads thought it would be a good prank to send me a card, ostensibly from H.

I liked H but wasn’t sure he liked me, so hoped the card was genuine.

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Guy, my toddler left his toy at an IHG Hotels & Resorts while traveling. We called them, and they said they would get it in the mail for us. This morning I opened my email and had this from them:

Please repost and help them get some recognition for awesome customer service!