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Willis Faber & Dumas Offices, Ipswich 1970-75 Foster Associates bit.ly/45lteSe

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Trip out to Rosslyn Chapel, already heaving on wild and windy Monday morning. Took advantage of the quiet outside while the talk was in progress inside. Very different experience from my first visit in the mid-1980s.

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The 6th Earl Ferrers clearly had a profound fear of being buried alive. In his will, he insisted his executors make various checks, and demanded that he not be sealed within his lead coffin in less than a fortnight after death 'unless I become offensive'! #skystorians #HistParl

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Police called in row between villagers and rector in Malpas, Cheshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Graeme Souness rips into 'chancer' Farage in Hamilton by-election Farage will "show up for the cameras, then disappear when it matters". www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

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Big investors shift away from US markets https://www.ft.com/content/019a275c-ab14-4ac3-8a7e-68758dd234a8

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Why does Maga world hate Europe? https://www.ft.com/content/45d36a9d-62f9-4949-a256-aafbc6bed245

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Reform UK Doge unit warned it will find little fat to cut – but will face a fight over sackings www.blogpreston.co.uk/2025/06/refo...

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Larkhall butcher has “barred” Nigel Farage after he ambushed them with a T-bone steak by-election stunt. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

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The phrasing - whether deliberate or not - is far reaching: "It cannot and will not be reliance on America. It can't just be American capabilities" Thus, whereas the second sentence is understandable, the first is a notably clear answer to the question: Can European allies still rely on the US?

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Age profile of Tory vote much commented on but also striking how much the Conservatives are being saved from electoral oblivion by women - across average of our last three polls Tories are performing 7 points higher among women than men.

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One of the quiet revolutions of British constitutional history is the embrace of the referendum - famously denounced by Clement Attlee as "the instrument of Nazism and Fascism". From a thread marking the 50th anniversary of the UK's first national referendum, on 5 June 1975.

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You couldn't write it

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Interesting overview over which member states have so far used the escape clause to get more fiscal space for defence spending. I am very curious which member states will use the second leg of von der Leyen's fiscal offer on defence, SAFE:

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incredible stuff!

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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Hotter world will drive more wars, EU climate chief warns https://www.ft.com/content/a1d0e1d1-104c-4fc1-ae12-1ffb508eab42

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An independent school local to us has just informed parents it will close at the end of this school term, after 75 years of educating children.

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Seriously, was there something wrong with normal car door handles?

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#DOGE

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Reeves can no longer outrun Labour’s early choices | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/bbf54d9e-eab5-413d-b441-7c158367aaa3

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Is the DOGE project backfiring on Reform UK in Kent? Check the comments on this article: www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/re...

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Victory for Ed Miliband as Labour’s £13.2bn warm homes plan will not face cuts in spending review Source confirms decision that will help meet net zero targets and pledge to cut energy bills by £300 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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BBC Hits Back At Trump Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt's 'Repeatedly False' Attack On Its Gaza Coverage www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-hi...

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Reform UK chairman calls Farage’s newest MP ‘dumb’ over burqa ban calls www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... #ZiaUseless

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Donald Trump has launched a probe into aides of Joe Biden, as the US president escalates his effort to seek retribution against political foes https://on.ft.com/3FKPV7W

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www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... It was a chaotic scene in Chicago's South Loop on Wednesday, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other officers took several people into custody. Community activists and city leaders clashed with the federal immigration agents at the scene.

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www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Trump said Wednesday that he will deny visas for foreign students trying to come to the United States to attend Harvard University, his latest attack on the prominent Ivy League college.

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Mike Johnson Pushes Back at Elon Musk, Gets Hit with Community Note Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Gets Fact-Checked meidasnews.com/news/mike-jo...

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www.reuters.com/world/europe... Trump's administration is pushing Serbia and other Balkan countries to take in migrants deported from the United States.

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The Trump administration is ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, and the NIH has been instructed not to issue any more HIV vaccine research funding in the next fiscal year, with few exceptions. People will die.

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Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was hit with a whopping 18 health violations and the lowest grade in the county after an inspection last month.

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"One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism." Literally putting an intern in charge. Compare/contrast with the prior director

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I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

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You can't negotiate with fascists! Secretary McMahon wants Harvard to 'come back to the table' to negotiate with Trump admin "We will continue talking if they want to talk,” McMahon told ABC News. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sec...

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Why do Donald Trump and Mike Johnson want to enslave us?

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Why is TACO 🌮 trying to rename Navy ships named after Harriet Tubman and Harvey Milk? To distract his base from a new report that his big budget bill will force 11 MILLION AMERICANS to lose their health insurance and add $2.4 TRILLION to the national debt.

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He'll try to get them rescinded on grounds of "Non est factum".

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Republicans have become much more likely to affiliate with Trump over the actual Republican Party www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Anyone remember a TV Sitcom called "The Noems of Dulwich"?

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Remember “pioneering Americans who’ve…pursued justice and sought to create a better life for us all. They remind us what we’re fighting for in the face of Trump cultists who imagine white nationalist rule won’t make us poorer, uglier and increasingly irrelevant.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Who could have seen this coming?

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In Germany they'd be locked up for it.

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James Comer announces he has subpoenaed Joe Biden’s doctor to testify before Congress.

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