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Hallo and Welcome if you've followed me from Twitter.  

I closed my Twitter account today for many reasons mainly because I felt so helpless in the face of all the animal cruelty and abuse and was totally unable to help.  My main charities have presence on Facebook.  I have an account but rarely use it - I think Facebook is worse than Twitter for abuse.  However I will now post for my charities on the site and also, if I can come to grips with it, on Instagram.  

A very small part of my decision to leave was the nasties.  Admittedly I've been subjected to very few over the years but they hurt and very often, unless one engages in a 'tit for tat' one is unable to explain fully what you meant because of the restriction of 240 characters.

On my Website I can explain myself fully.

I will see if I can make the site for Members only - free of course.  I would like to stop JobsWorths and journalists snooping on what I see as my right to express my feelings freely.

As you possibly remember I was cancelled in September 2022 for two old Tweets in which I had done nothing more than express an opinion about the Abominable Yulin Dog Festival and also a comment on a BBC breaking news story.  The first was posted in 2020 and the second in 2021.  I was due to do a special recording of Pointless celebrating 'A Hundred Years of the BBC' and was obviously a last minute replacement (but I'm not proud) as I presume the Newsreader originally engaged must have been called away for duties to do with the Queen's funeral.   I was cancelled at the last minute and possibly have a Black Mark on my record.  I approached the FSU - Free Speech Union-on my behalf and despite asking the BBC for disclosure under 'Freedom of Information' the request was ignored.

BTW - If you believe in Free Speech then please look them up.  You can get the Newspaper for free or if you become a member - where fees are used to fight legal cases of people wrongfully accused - the fee is less than £3 a month.

Under the new Government I rather suspect there will be many more cancellations of otherwise innocent people.