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British, gay, ginger, amateur musician Retired MD of restaurant food supplier , now making music for fun www.youtube.com/@andybrookmusic Politics: slightly left of centre, pro EU, pro PR music: lifelong fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. Don’t laugh.
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Does anyone else have this umbrella bamboo plant (Fargesia spathacea) and is yours also flowering? I thought ours was diseased but it turns out these are the flowers, and it seems that every plant of this species anywhere will flower at the same time… and then die.

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Does anyone else have this umbrella bamboo plant (Fargesia spathacea) and is yours also flowering? I thought ours was diseased but it turns out these are the flowers, and it seems that every plant of this species anywhere will flower at the same time… and then die.

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An excellent piece from EAB exposing one element of the much wider failure of populists to understand how the world actually works as opposed to their cartoonish ideas and simplistic misunderstandings.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

1/2 I was amongst several Labour MPs who joined thousands of protesters outside parliament demanding the UK place sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel as Prime Minister's Questions took place last Wednesday. In this clip, I explain why.

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