Award-winning journo writing mostly on health & lifestyle. Also PR. Europhile, Francophile, French speaker. Own views. [email protected]
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Languages give us different ways to express ideas, feelings and experiences, while helping us connect with people and cultures across Europe and the world.
Today, we celebrate our linguistic diversity and the EU’s 24 official languages. 🇪🇺
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The greatest trick science ever pulled was making miracles boring.
Clean water.
Antibiotics.
Vaccines.
Safe food.
Electricity.
Anaesthesia.
We stopped calling them miracles because they work.
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BREAKING: Today, Eurail (established 1959) & Interrail (established 1972) merge into a single European railpass range for EVERYONE regardless of nationality or country of residence, called INTERRAIL. Read why I think this is excellent news here: seat61.com/news.htm
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Today is #NationalTeddyBearDay which reminded us of that time we found this old book full of terribly terrifying teddies to traumatise and terrorise.
Sweet dreams everyone. Don't have nightmares.
ALT A terrifying old teddy bear
ALT A terrifying old teddy bear
ALT A terrifying old teddy bear
ALT A terrifying old teddy bear
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I don't think I've got another password in me'
--Henry Normal
#Poem #Poetry #PoetryTwitter #PoetryCommunity #PoetryLovers
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“British people should “enjoy” multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine.”
Reform UKs Richard Tice shows his understanding of the cost of living crisis.
It’s a sort of Reform UK version of “let them eat cake”
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You can’t do, see, experience or be everything you would like to do, see, experience or be. So, choose wisely.
#existential
I took these v. old camping gas canisters to be #recycled today, as I didn’t think they were safe to use, and was quoted £3.80 each! It only costs £10 to buy 4. I was advised to pierce them to get round it but some are full! Highly dangerous. Come on,@SomersetCouncil! – at Taunton, England
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Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA en.as.com/entertainment/umbe…
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Social media created a world where someone who spent 20 minutes on X thinks they know more than someone who spent 20 years studying the subject.
The real pandemic is the belief that expertise is optional.
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According to the Guardian, George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her Reform donations. To be fair, lots of adult children move out of their parents’ house but still get them to do their laundry
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One minute you’re young and wild, the next you’re constantly being told your phone torch is turned on.
