I feel like this will be like when I "listen" to my teenager daughter's passionate appeal for us to buy a miniature pig.
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Rishi Sunak will 'listen' to Liz Truss, says No.10 huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rishi-su
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what if the Chinese were just doing nos out of the huge balloon and they were so wasted they just let it go
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Many happy returns to the superb human being . He has written countless beautiful songs and many of us have experienced his warmth, generosity & sparkling company over the years. All of which just about makes up for jokes like the one below.
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I’ve conducted more orchestras than you can shake a stick at.
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the spy balloon shows how far we’ve fallen behind china in steampunk technology
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It's very fun to date a journalist bc for like two weeks you are forced to watch every TV show, movie or vintage YouTube interview one actor ever did and then you'll never discuss that actor again for like a decade
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In which I moot the fact it's very possible to have sex in a small bath ...
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Dear ,
I'm an immigrant NHS worker. We're charged £2,400 for permanent visas despite the govt cost of £243. A family of 4 is charged up to £12,000! In the worst NHS staff crisis in history, this is profoundly foolish and incredibly cruel. FIX THIS NOW.
#SOSNHS 🧵
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This is absolutely correct. We saw the libel laws used to try to silence those pointing out some of the affairs of Putin’s people in the UK too. Anyone with bottomless pockets can take advantage to silence those who simply want the truth. Thank you
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"The real problem here is libel law, and how it can be used by the powerful to silence people who criticise them"
To me that’s the most important lesson from the Zahawi affair. Tax law worked fine. HMRC did it’s job. Libel law is broken. twitter.com/TimesRadio/sta…
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UPDATE | We are continuing to appeal for information about missing Nicola Bulley, 45, from Inskip, last seen on Friday at 9.15am on the footpath by the river off Garstang Rd, St Michael’s on Wyre.
More here: orlo.uk/CixZx
Information? Call 101, log 473 of Jan 27.
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Tbf that’s actually pretty sound advice 🤷♀️
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Polls haven’t generally shown this number for rejoining the EU (although they have shown the majority now think leaving was a mistake).
The point about major political parties is correct. There is a giant opportunity now for a party brave enough to make the case for the EU.
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63% of Britons now want to rejoin the EU. And that’s with no major, nationwide party advocating rejoin. Extraordinary.
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"River Wye: Why the impending ‘death’ of one of the UK’s longest and best loved rivers should worry us all."
"The state of the River Wye fills me, and should fill everybody else in this country, with a righteous indignation and rage."
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A quite angry column, about rivers, and the sea, and sewage-dumping. The only kind of patriotism I can get fully on board with would be a Green Patriotism: love of our actual country. Which is now being drowned in shit:
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If your local MP complains about their blue plaque remind them of this.
Gov MPs voted to legalise the dumping of sewage into the environment; something that had been illegal since 1991.
Did they not understand that or hadn't the Whips Office explained it to them?
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DIRTY WATER CAMPAIGN
Today Rebels from XR Norwich joined a UK wide day of action unveiling a blue plaque . This was to shine a light on our local MP, who didn't vote in favour of an Amendment which would have protected our waterways.
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Blimey.
Rod Stewart rings into to say: “I personally have been a Tory for a long time but I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour Party a go at it.”
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Last night, 292 Conservative MPs voted to allow sewage dumping by water companies in our rivers and coasts for at least 15 more years.
Can you spot your MP on the list?
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i knew it
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These Flying Buttocks Are Actually A Pigbutt Worm
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The US edition of #EmpireLand is out next week, it features introduction from Marlon James and new material from me about why the USA should understand this history, and Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off with the coupon code PREORDER25. Just for today!
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Just gonna hoof my foot with a shoe, brb
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"Beige shoes hoofed her feet."
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Come on - the Daily Mail Online stories HAVE to be being written by AI bots. This is a story about Jennifer Lawrence wearing some clothes:
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Yesterday I FREAKED OUT because I'd read Chris Packham was retiring from TV presenting. This morning I learned he's stepping back for THREE MONTHS ONLY, which is roughly the same amount of time the wrong news took off my life.
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This is an astonishing performance: I would watch ANYTHING with Barry Keoghan in it.
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He spent 7yrs in foster care, in 13 different foster homes.
He got his first acting job answering an ad he saw in a shop window.
He was given nothing, was meant to achieve nothing.
Today - aged 30 - BARRY KEOGHAN was nominated for an Oscar.
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022)
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Although I love that he has other things planned, genuinely so sad that is quitting TV. I know we all rightly love Attenborough, but for me, Chris's gleeful, minxy, insanely detailed knowledge, knocked out live, night after night, on Winterwatch, makes him my GOAT
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Idea: Doomsday Cock, altered every few months to show how close we are to Jizz-Night, depending on how "sexy" the world is right now.
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A week investigating Andrew Tate in Bucharest and it seems he’s an imposter. His home; a Norman Bates inspired meat factory (see pic), his chain of casinos;fictitious, his web-cam empire; two girls in a Brookside-style semi. Still trying to follow the money!
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This is an absolutely passionate and beautiful and correct piece
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Writer Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) spent Saturdays with his siblings reading in a library — it changed his life for ever. Now the building is derelict.
He goes back to Wolverhampton to find out why 
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Woah, HUGE news.
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“It sticks in my craw. We are not accepting favours from our masters. We are not their serfs. It isn’t the 19th century. Dartmoor is not a private gentlemen’s shooting estate.”
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“It has also emerged that the Home Office was warned repeatedly by police that the vulnerable occupants of the hotel – asylum-seeking children who had recently arrived in the UK without parents or carers – would be targeted by criminal networks.”
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"About 600 unaccompanied children have passed through the Sussex hotel in the past 18 months, with 136 reported missing. More than half of these – 79 – remain unaccounted for." theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j
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Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel
Deeply shocking story from
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This the part of today's #RightToRoam/#Wildcamping demonstration walking on to Dartmoor. Great turnout, beautiful day
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Does ANYONE think this is a coincidence?
We are now constantly discussing whether a free* NHS is financially sustainable, after 3 years of the Tories literally stealing billions from the NHS budget via dodgy contracts.
WEIRD, HUH! 🤯
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I spent the afternoon with Helena Bonham Carter, and it was an absolute joy, despite the fact we'd promised we'd jump in a freezing lake and we didn't:
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Loved Noelle Gordon. Love HBC (and , of course). Love this piece, and especially HBC’s insistence that “You cannot afford to put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers”
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I interviewed Helena Bonham Carter, and we'd vaguely planned to go "wild swimming", but it didn't really work out that way: thetimes.co.uk/article/helena
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I interviewed Helena Bonham Carter, and we'd vaguely planned to go "wild swimming", but it didn't really work out that way:
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"I came across a frankly astonishing profile from 1997 by Lynn Barber. I’ve brought it with me today, to jog Bonham Carter’s memory, but as soon as I mention her name, she exclaims, “She’s such a bitch!” "thetimes.co.uk/article/helena
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This is Crumble. He works for me. He is single, earns less than 30k, shares a cage with his brother in Edinburgh, no student debt, never goes on holiday. He doesn't need to use a foodbank because my sister feeds him every day.
Crumble makes my point really well.
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Remembering when the Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand tweeted me about cheese sparking international diplomatic incident. #cheesegate #jacinda
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