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Retired real life 🇪🇺superhero. Full-time desk jockey in the Brussels machine. Eclectic tweets on public policy, travel, the environment and life in general.
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Watch this space.
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It does involve shouting that. Or rather, being yelled at by an armed man to show the contents of your device on pain of being deported to a prison in El Salvador.
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I once went straight from a public appearance as Captain European to a meeting of my church’s board of elders. No time to change properly, so full superhero costume under my clothes it was.
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Aha, interesting.
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Ooh. Thanks for the education.
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Given the US federal government’s enormous debt, I have long been curious as to the market value of all its assets. 🤔
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Not that they would want to.
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Hahahaha.
I used to travel with a friend and get picked out for random searches. He asked me ‘Why do you always get [frisked by] the cute ones?’ 🤣
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So has Michael Fabricant.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQam...
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Just as secretary generals are senior Army officers with typewriters, and director generals are senior Army officers with clapperboards.
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You always are.
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Refreshes the parts of the dictionary other beers cannot reach.
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#Jahrhundertereignis
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Unfortunately not only in America. See Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, etc.
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Sure – my tongue was slightly in my cheek. We shall see what emerges.
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Are they sure they are not North Koreans masquerading as Chinese, like Americans masquerade as Canadians when abroad?
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Back in 1989, Mad magazine wondered what would happen if various firms did advertising jingles to Beatles tunes:
*to the tune of Yesterday*
Chevrolet
Though they break down and get towed away
You’ll still be loyal to the USA
And save the day at Chevrolet…
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Detroit dustbins, as I call them.
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I have been saying this for weeks.
There are what? 70 million pensioners in the US? A substantial proportion of them will have guns. If just 1% of those people turn up at the White House, good luck to the few dozen secret service agents fighting them off.
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All together now:
Nana
Na na na na
*shot rings out*