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Corporate lawyer, Yorkshireman in London, married to an Aussie.
Cycling, skiing, scuba, rowing, computing, fast cars, wine, travel, trying to understand teenagers.
Please don’t DM after I follow you. I won’t respond.
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“starry”?
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Me too! He ended up blocking me.
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It’s the same old starry: he gives them others to blame for their perceived unfair misfortune.
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OK, I wasn’t going to admit that!
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You're probably reeling, like me, from Trump's onslaught on Ukraine & from the horrifying spectacle of two superpowers trying to carve up a sovereign country.
Please, I beg you, use your voice. Write to your MP. Express your views on social media. Share this piece. Act.
Thank you.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
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These are the makeshift memorials to some of the children who died.
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This is my dear friend Andrii, a neurosurgeon from Kyiv.
We're standing outside a block of flats in Izium hit by a Russian missile. All five storeys collapsed onto the basement below, where hundreds of residents had sought shelter. 54 people, including children, were killed.
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This is Jenya, the anaesthetist who helped stabilise Mykola.
In Bakhmut last year, he treated between 6,000 & 7000 casualties, including children.
“Something died inside me. Too much horror. I stopped being able to feel,” he said.
"It is hard to keep on, but we will because we have no choice."
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This is Mykola, trapped on the battlefield by drones for 3 days with a tourniquet on his leg. The necrotic limb was impossible to save.
After emergency stabilisation surgery, he told me all he wanted was to come back to fight for his country, his land, his home, his people.
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This is Viktoriia Kovach, a 31-year-old former obstetrician, now Chief Medical Officer of the Third Assault Brigade.
She told me how Russian troops violate the Geneva Conventions by targeting doctors & patients:
"If a medical team tries to evacuate them, they will be hunted and killed, too.”
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And these are the mass graves, in a forest outside Izium, where occupying Russian forces dumped the bodies of the civilians they murdered.
445 bodies were retrieved by the Ukrainian troops who liberated Izium.
To witness this scene, in a European country in 2025, shook me to my core.
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That column is a guilty pleasure that my wife and I share. We’re always hoping for a positive outcome.
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You should reply in the manner of the famous reply in the English case of Arkell vs Pressdram.
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It should say “I own Nigel”.
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$1 spent on Trump: value $ ♾️
$1 spent on anyone else: value $0
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My profile says not to DM me, but if I make the mistake of following one, they DM immediately.
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How is Trump qualified to have an opinion on the law? This order means that he is King and the law is what he declares it to be.
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It’s sickening.
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I’m no expert either, but I’m sure we have strategists who know how to avoid that.
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We have modern air forces. It would be very different.
As ever though, the problem
is Putin’s ability to use the nuclear threat.
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I’ve never for a moment thought again about anyone who blocked me in that other place, other than the well-known ones like Goodwin and Hannan.