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Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans
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Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered ...
Quick Glance: Decay of Royal Mail: An Insider's Account
  • After intense work abroad, the author quickly found a job as a parcel delivery driver at Royal Mail.

  • Conditions at the depot were chaotic, with outdated technology and decrepit delivery vans.

  • Workload was high, turnover was high, and the postmen looked tired and injured.
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Convicted pervert says new girlfriend 'misheard him' as police show up: Gareth Robertshaw said the woman must have 'misheard him' when he told her his ...
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Convicted pervert says new girlfriend 'misheard him' as police show up
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Blame Prince William, not Kate, for the royal photo blunder: The Princess of Wales has said sorry after a photograph showing her and her children was revealed to ...
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Blame Prince William, not Kate, for the royal photo blunder
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Anti-Israel virtue signallers should leave Eurovision alone: The hosts of the UK’s largest Eurovision screening have announced their decision to scrap the event ...
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Anti-Israel virtue signallers should leave Eurovision alone
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Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England: The Venerable Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, archdeacon of Liverpool, should read the Bible rather than ...
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Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England
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Rishi Sunak can’t save Britain: Rishi Sunak is talking tough on Islamist extremism and the threat of the far right, but the Prime Minister's words mean nothing
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Rishi Sunak can’t save Britain
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The middle-class obsession with the miners’ strike: The miners’ strike has struck again. It’s the fortieth anniversary of the protracted dispute of 1984-85 ...
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The middle-class obsession with the miners’ strike
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The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover: John Lewis's internal staff magazine Identity, set up by the department store's LGBT network ...
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The truth about John Lewis’s trans takeover
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Why Trump loves The Smiths: Donald Trump has been playing songs by Morrissey and The Smiths at his 2024 presidential election campaign rallies.
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Why Trump loves The Smiths
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The age of outrage has arrived: It often feels these days that there is simply too much mad stuff going on, day in day out. Let’s have a look at the last few ...
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The age of outrage has arrived
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How progressive ideology hijacked the festive season: Khan, like all the grim municipal fun sponges who run and ruin almost everything nowadays ...
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How progressive ideology hijacked the festive season
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The mad cult of Doctor Who: Doctor Who was revived – initially to incredible success. And gradually the fans changed from amiable oddbods to seriously deranged.
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The mad cult of Doctor Who
Quick Glance: David Tennant Shows Support for Transgender Community
  • David Tennant sports symbols of the transgender community at various events, including a Tardis pin in the colors of the transgender flag.

  • The pin has raised over £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT.

  • He emphasized that the Doctor has always supported those who are different or disenfranchised.

  • He also wore a t-shirt with a message in support of trans kids.
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Bring back schmaltzy songs: Christmas pop song lyrics play by different rules. Children, food and family togetherness are never mentioned in pop songs from ...
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Bring back schmaltzy songs
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Make drag innocent again!: One of the most regrettable things about the last decade of general cultural awfulness has been the politicisation and sexualisation ...
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Make drag innocent again!
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My favourite, ferocious teacher: In 1979, I was 11 years old, and I had a quite remarkable teacher. Don’t worry, though – this isn’t going to be one of those ...
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My favourite, ferocious teacher
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Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’: Britain is a place where we frequently express solidarity with victims of terror attacks yet ...
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Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’
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The return of rational fear: How else are we supposed to respond when we see the kinds of protests that happened in London at the weekend?
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The return of rational fear
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Holly Willoughby and the trivial narcissism of television: Holly Willoughby is stepping down from ITV's This Morning after Philip Schofield departed in a scandal ...
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Holly Willoughby and the trivial narcissism of television
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The BB and I are escaping the Soviet States of Surrey at last: ‘You’re only allowed one roll of packing tape per customer,’ said the lady in the local hardware ...
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The BB and I are escaping the Soviet States of Surrey at last
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Inspiring barber creates super hero play space for children: Gareth Roberts has been a barber for 14 years and has seen many styles of haircut come and go - now ...
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Inspiring barber creates super hero play space for children
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The fascinating obsession with Phillip Schofield’s downfall: The rift between Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, long-standing sobbing/giggling presenters ...
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The fascinating obsession with Phillip Schofield’s downfall
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Widow wants to sue health board over her husband’s Covid death: Gareth Roberts was working as a hospital nurse to provide for his grandson Zac and to ensure the ...
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Widow wants to sue health board over her husband’s Covid death
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Gary Lineker has exposed the truth about television: The Gary Lineker debacle has exposed the breathtaking historical and political ignorance of the supposedly ...
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Gary Lineker has exposed the truth about television
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The case against a cashless society: ‘We don’t take cash,’ said the boy behind the counter in Pret after I tried to hand him a £5 note and two pound coins ...
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The case against a cashless society
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Deaths of two nurses from Covid ruled as industrial disease: Gareth Roberts and Dominga David worked for the University Hospital of Wales and died during in the ...
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Deaths of two nurses from Covid ruled as industrial disease
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Deaths of two nurses who contracted Covid-19 ruled industrial disease: Dominga David, 63, and fellow nurse Gareth Morgan Roberts, who was 65 ...
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Deaths of two nurses who contracted Covid-19 ruled industrial disease
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Britain is the sick man of Europe – again: Liz Truss’s recent written confession is remarkable for its childlike air. It reminded me of my buck-passing wheedling ...
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Britain is the sick man of Europe – again
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An ode to Mrs Brown’s Boys: Mrs Brown’s Boys is a glorious aberration. In an age of irony, sophistication, disconnection and darkness this is lizard brain humour ...
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An ode to Mrs Brown’s Boys
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Twixmas and the truth about why people liked lockdown: We don’t have a standardised name for the little clutch of strange days between Christmas and New Year ...
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Twixmas and the truth about why people liked lockdown
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What Christianity teaches us about the transgender wars: It’s Christmas – again. For old timers like me, the familiarity of this time of year can blunt the ...
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What Christianity teaches us about the transgender wars
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King Charles should ignore Ngozi Fulani: If a visitor to my house suggested they had been abused and verbally attacked when they came to tea ...
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King Charles should ignore Ngozi Fulani
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'Gutted' fans think they know why Scarlette was evicted : 'Scarlette wasn't the most entertaining, but she was one of the loveliest people in ...
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 'Gutted' fans think they know why Scarlette was evicted
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Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage: Eco-loonyism is not about saving the planet, or even overthrowing society, at all ...
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Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage
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How did contemporary culture become so dismal?: Watching the Christmas John Lewis ad, over and over, I’m struck by how much British life has changed – and not ...
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How did contemporary culture become so dismal?
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Why can't MPs let Truss be Truss?: Our common culture – the huge audiences that tv, film and pop music used to attract – has evaporated ...
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Why can't MPs let Truss be Truss?
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Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?: He could be the madman who makes the internet less mad
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Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?
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What we’ll miss about Liz Truss: As Liz Truss prepares to leave Downing Street after 47 days in power, the PM’s reputation is in tatters ...
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What we’ll miss about Liz Truss
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Why does anyone bother making political predictions?: The answer to every political question right now is ‘your guess is as good as mine’
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Why does anyone bother making political predictions?
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Liz Truss has a language problem: The PM speaks fluent wonk. She needs to speak English
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Liz Truss has a language problem
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Does Stonewall have no shame?: Watching people brazening it out can be tremendous fun. The higher the stakes, the more extreme the disparity between reality and ...
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Does Stonewall have no shame?
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The death of bad-taste humour: The recent heatwave inspired many people to bring out their stories of the summer of 1976. I have a memory of it which has nothing ...
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The death of bad-taste humour
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The desperate demonisation of Liz Truss: We’re being asked to credit Liz Truss with a lot of unlikely things now that’s she almost certainly on course for No ...
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The desperate demonisation of Liz Truss
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Liz Truss is wooden. And it works: Her stiffness – which was on display during her debate with Rishi Sunak last night – might actually be a boon
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Liz Truss is wooden. And it works
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Cheshire: Man threatened to torch parents house: A MAN threatened to torch his parents house and shoot his dad after becoming addicted to drugs.
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Cheshire: Man threatened to torch parents house