Has there ever been a reported case of a staff mutiny in a pub leading to the cancellation of a celebrity booking in the UK? Has J.D. Vance just made history?
Swanky restaurant managers may turn folks away if they don’t think they’re posh enough…but staff refusing to turn up for shifts because they won’t serve a celebrity is not something I’m familiar with reading in the British press.
#Vance
#USPol
#Cotswolds
https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny-forces-pub-to-turn-away-jd-vance/
According to Feargal Sharkey my water provider Anglian Water paid £4.6 billion to shareholders between 2012 and 2022.
But you will find no mention of that in the BBC’s ‘balanced’ reporting on the funding of Anglian’s very belated infrastructure project to keep the taps on in the East.
Privatisation created monopolies in water industry which were a license to print money for shareholders. Make it stop.
#Renationalise
#ToriesOut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66535388
I was having a conversation with my father in law just last weekend where he brought up the fact the Nazis not only persecuted the Jews, but also those that were disabled, gay, trans, Roma, Travellers and Gypsies. For some reason just popped into my head…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/david-tc-davies-welsh-secretary-leaflet-travellers
Dear BBC, Channel 4 and Guardian,
Please cover this debate. Our democracy depends on it:
Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence”.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576886
The debate is scheduled for 23 October 2023.
Yours faithfully,
The British People
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nostr:npub1lmlmw58fvhzaay8980zx8rgu4uk7gz68d8xavxe09xl5mjhmuhvsvryucw Wow. That had to be very scary. 10 hours is an excruciatingly long time on a day like that where everything is so uncertain. I lived in Manhattan at the time. My apt. was filled with everyone who couldn't go home and it was very stressful.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx it was only my second ever flight (the previous year I’d flown from Bournemouth to Dublin, which is barely an hour). The worst part of it was we couldn’t contact our loved ones for many hours. The only news about what was happening came from a Canadian sports radio station. Eventually the Canadians allowed us off the plane and drove us to a high school. Following morning we were billeted with local families - I managed to contact mine again last year. Lovely people
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx I spent 10 hrs stuck in a plane diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia on 911. They had just dished up breakfast and then had to make an emergency landing so quickly whipped away our trays and chucked the food…there was nothing but pretzels and vodka/whiskey miniatures handed around for the rest of the time we were on the plane. Exceptional circumstances and very harrowing day - everyone was just kind and patient to one another.