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A man at the crossroads of history and experience. Ahead; unending episodes of Eastenders and the X Factor. Behind; the Palaeolithic Era and primordial soup.

Liverpool, England
Joined March 2011
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Jeez. The Government is actually doubling down on its claim that port delays chaos has nothing to do with Brexit! This shameless Government is taking the public for fools
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I think this is called 'speaking truth to power'
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I can totally understand why some people are terrified of a Labour Govt… Listen to the state of this …bloody awful.
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BREAKING: The full resignation letter from Boris Johnson's ethics advisor Lord Geidt. Geidt says he resigned after the Prime Minister asked him to approve "a deliberate and purposeful breach of the Ministerial code,” which placed him in an “impossible and odious position."
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Exactly
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Going well, is it, Brexit? Express up in arms as hopes of post-Brexit US trade deal fade away thelondoneconomic.com/?p=318… via @LondonEconomic
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0K, fine... I'll say what UK news presenters are too scare to say about Rishi Sunak's #SpringStatement.
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Hey Twitter! I've just donated to the @decappeal DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal to help provide aid to people fleeing the conflict. Can you help? bit.ly/3tnSOBo
And Britain’s STILL without a medal! Why are the team organisers holding me back? Are they afraid of success?
I’m quite encouraged by this. Maybe, just maybe, with the correct performance-enhancing drugs, this could be me!
“Music is the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It isn’t a straw to which a drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living.” P. Tchaikovsky
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I seem to recall that when buying PPE from Turkey that was proved unfit for purpose back in 2020, May Hancock later discovered shedloads of it in a warehouse in Milton Keynes,or something like that.
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Sue Gray report facing further delay after Met police intervention theguardian.com/uk-news/2022… More time for this despicable cabinet to wriggle off the hook. Doubtless, there will be concessions to backbenchers and u-turns galore -anything and everything to cling to power.
This remains a brilliant film, and despite all its inaccuracy, over emphases and poetic licence, its box office success did one vital thing; it shot down the erroneous public perception that Mozart was a bewigged prissy, who merely wrote schmaltz for people who liked chocolates.
A tutorial on how to chat up the waitress. I'm clearly getting soppy in my old age. I love this movie. It's a toss-up between Howard Hawk's 1964 romcom 'Man's Favorite Sport?' and this one.As good as it gets ending.avi youtu.be/5CGdnIkuRMI via @YouTube