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Susie Henley

@susie-h.bsky.social
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Clinical psychologist @ Guy's Hospital, violinist, gardener, occasional runner. Lover of dogs, diversity & equitable access to healthcare. She/her.

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
‘We all know that waiting for something can be hard enough – waiting with uncertainty is even worse.’ New analysis explores why uncertainty and poor communication continue to define the experiences of waiting for too many of us. 👉 Read the full blog: bit.ly/3SxIkQ4
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Waiting Matters: Bringing Down NHS Waiting Lists Is Important But So Is The Experience Of Waiting
Margot Kuylen and Dan Wellings consider the results of the Health Insight Survey and finds that while waiting times have improved, for many the experience of waiting hasn’t.
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Susie Henley @susie-h.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Been following @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social for a while and treated myself to this find in Burway Books, a wonderful independent bookstore in Church Stretton
The cover of Tom Cox's book "Villager"
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We didn't deserve this day.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026
🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.
Screenshot of Times piece with headline "Millions to be denied hospital referrals in drive to cut waiting lists."
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Half a million strong. Together. The biggest march against the far-right in British history.
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today’s the day! Meet at 12pm on Park Lane to march together against the far right. Let’s make history.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Girl on a Spacehopper, Byker, Newcastle, 1971, photo by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Anne's great piece should be read in full and is available here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Emma Westcott @ecwestcott.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Friday
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 10/03/2026
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms "I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, and luminaries. www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org · 19/01/2026
Today marks the start of Health Information Week. The theme for the day is 'Children and Young People' and we are highlighting the Cochrane review that found that free or subsidized school meals lead to modest gains in math and school enrolment. www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #HIW2026
Free or subsidized school meals gives small boost to school enrolment
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending My popular seasonal post from last year: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Now with a couple of footnotes one year on: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 18/12/2025
Today is #InternationalMigrantsDay, and a chance to celebrate the contribution of migrant nursing staff to the profession and to patient care. Without your dedication, our health and care system would cease to function. Explore our resources for international members ➡️ bit.ly/3XFjH3k
Royal College of Nursing appreciation poster with pink brushstroke stating 'THANK YOU' addressed to all migrant health and care workers, dated 18 December.
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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I don't think "mental health conditions are being over-diagnosed" but that "real suffering is being over-medicalised". These are very different things. The former tries to justify cutting support, but the latter does not: it acknowledges real suffering but asks for different (psychosocial) provision
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Saved by Stoppard
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act Sepiati There i aneks her tutor.
a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy",
, and rapidly
we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
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Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
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Susie Henley @susie-h.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So excited for our #sicklecell end of year patient party @gstt-nhs.bsky.social !
A table with crackers, and materials to make winter buttonholes: pine, ivy, ribbons, berries, cinnamon and dried fruitA wide view of London at night, with lights, and St Paul's Cathedral in the background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A UK female spitfire pilot, 1944, known as a ferry pilot, delivering newly manufactured aircrafts from the factory to airfields #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman wearing goggles in the open cockpit of an aitcraft
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It was raining, so I was very excited travelling to Newbury Park Underground station. Outside the entrance is a Grade II listed bus shelter, designed by Oliver Hill in 1937 but built after the war I knew a puddle shot would look good here, so I took a shot as the 66 bus arrived
Bus a Newbury park station
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
'Prof Nicola Ranger, the union’s general secretary, said: “A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.' 1/2
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NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
One of our students has created a petition. Please sign and share: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended. Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This is only the latest version of a recurring pattern. In the 1930s it was ‘if they are so poor how can they afford to go to the cinema?’ The response is that poverty is revealed not in choices but the cost of choices. What do they have to sacrifice to do or have things others take for granted?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I want to think that this clip along with the Katie Lam madness represents the end of the Faragist cul-de-sac the Tories have gone down.
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Susie Henley @susie-h.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with a feast with my amazing team
Trays of chicken, puff puff, plantain and jollof rice, and Ting drinks and ginger beer
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
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A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program
A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We're commissioning an artist to co-create an artwork for our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Help us tell powerful stories of identity, home and care. 🗓 Deadline for applications: 19 October 2025 📍 Location: Anywhere in the UK 👉 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/3IKaZNA
Hands painting a sign. Text reads "Nursing and migrations exhibition. Open call for artists"
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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here. #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords www.change.org/p/strip-mich...
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Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage
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RNIB Connect Radio @rnibradio.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"It's just a safe therapeutic space." Charity RNIB are launching new support groups for blind and partially sighted people run by qualified counsellors. The groups will help connect those with shared experience and our Hywel Davies has been hearing more.
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New RNIB Support Groups Available
RNIB are launching a new series of support groups run by qualified counsellors. Hywel Davies has been hearing about the benefits of sharing your story.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 29/09/2025
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Susie Henley @susie-h.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
BBC News - Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In tears at this amazing news, @profwild.bsky.social
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Susie Henley @susie-h.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
BBC News - Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside
A BBC reporter goes into four hotels and speaks to asylum seekers and staff about what daily life is like.
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Hey, we're the RNIB Social Media Team and yes we can be friends x
"Unfortunately I do love: 
- descriptive alt text on thirst traps 
- braille menus at my fave restaurant 
- respect for my guide dog 
- other ‘Royal’ charities 
- accessible telly 
- when allies call out ableism
- decluttered pavements 
- a boop with my guide dog while watching the telly on the sofa "

In the background, a film photo of Jeremy Allen White laying on  an orange sofa on a rooftop in New York City. He's only wearing pale Calvin Klein jeans. His toned physique is partially covered by the things we love. One of his arms is draped delicately over his forehead, his trademark curly hair poking through the gaps, as he tilts his head and looks directly into the camera.
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Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Great interview with Baroness Lady Hale, first female president of the supreme court, from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
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Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’
She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded...
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I once said to a friend that the easiest way to judge someone's privilege is "if a single member of this group committed a high-profile violent crime, would it be treated as a justification for violence against the entire group?"
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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