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Out of hours: masters swimmer, pond tenderer, step-grandad, and words. Occasionally, planes. In hours: freelance charity governance & operations, https://www.cranfieldtrust.org/ volunteer, facilitator. Staffordshire, UK.

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This is a really cool thing to know.

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❤️ #Canada

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❤️ #Canada

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Amazing chart from the Canada election

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Morning

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Glorious

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#Canada

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Occasional posts of small businesses I’d be delighted to favour with my custom:

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Just coming to the end of Max Hastings' "The Korean War". Brilliant history, very well told, as with all his books. But what I really admire about him is his deep humanity and his equally deep disdain for poor military leadership. Essential reading.

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God, I really hate minced oaths. Either give a full-on swear or don't swear. But if you just sit on the fence then you sound like you've got a sharp edge of wood up your arse.

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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

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Christ alive. We’re all doomed.

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The only way the UK becomes self-sufficient in gas is if it allows itself to be reconquered by Norway

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To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations.

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BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

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That’s one hell of an exit line.

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JD Vance is in India, a country which doesn't have an extradition treaty with Italy #makesuthink

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Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases — cases backed by Jonathan Mitchell (think, Texas's S.B. 8), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (think, Hobby Lobby), and Alliance Defending Freedom (think, 303 Creative and mifepristone). Do not sleep on these cases.

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Reads very much like Harvard played an effective rope a dope strategy here.

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"America’s entire economic policy depended on one advisor being out of the room for a few minutes. It’s like The Death of Stalin if the main character had not in fact died." Thanks Ben. Really appreciate academics sharing their thinking in public like this, especially in these Essential Times.

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Greetings from Bonn, birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven. This morning I visited his house (today a museum), and bought this postcard with a quote from a letter he wrote to a friend. "When will be that time When all will just be human beings“ A moment to hope for still. Happy Easter to you all.

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I think we should admit the US into the Commonwealth so that we can expel them.

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This is a great post that even I, a lay person from another country, can follow.

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This is such a good opinion piece. My dream: that the USA will emerge from this long-gestated disaster with stronger democratic institutions, and a more common cause between its South and North, between its Coast and Centre. Godspeed.

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Our next FREE charity webinar is during #CharityManagementMonth and is now open for bookings! 🙌 💻 Leading successful hybrid & remote teams in the charity & non-profit sector 🗓️ Thur 15/5 12-1pm 💡 Places are FREE 🔗 Register now: ow.ly/WYJW50V6OM4

This is a really cool thing to know.

❤️ #Canada

❤️ #Canada

Amazing chart from the Canada election

Morning

Glorious

#Canada

Occasional posts of small businesses I’d be delighted to favour with my custom:

Just coming to the end of Max Hastings' "The Korean War". Brilliant history, very well told, as with all his books. But what I really admire about him is his deep humanity and his equally deep disdain for poor military leadership. Essential reading.

God, I really hate minced oaths. Either give a full-on swear or don't swear. But if you just sit on the fence then you sound like you've got a sharp edge of wood up your arse.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

With alt text

Christ alive. We’re all doomed.

The only way the UK becomes self-sufficient in gas is if it allows itself to be reconquered by Norway

To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations.

BBC muzzling one of its best presenters from making an excellent, wholly factual programme because heat pumps are “controversial”. An organisation badly in need of new leadership.

That’s one hell of an exit line.

JD Vance is in India, a country which doesn't have an extradition treaty with Italy #makesuthink

Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases — cases backed by Jonathan Mitchell (think, Texas's S.B. 8), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (think, Hobby Lobby), and Alliance Defending Freedom (think, 303 Creative and mifepristone). Do not sleep on these cases.

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Reads very much like Harvard played an effective rope a dope strategy here.

"America’s entire economic policy depended on one advisor being out of the room for a few minutes. It’s like The Death of Stalin if the main character had not in fact died." Thanks Ben. Really appreciate academics sharing their thinking in public like this, especially in these Essential Times.

Greetings from Bonn, birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven. This morning I visited his house (today a museum), and bought this postcard with a quote from a letter he wrote to a friend. "When will be that time When all will just be human beings“ A moment to hope for still. Happy Easter to you all.

I think we should admit the US into the Commonwealth so that we can expel them.

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz345bs

This is a great post that even I, a lay person from another country, can follow.

This is such a good opinion piece. My dream: that the USA will emerge from this long-gestated disaster with stronger democratic institutions, and a more common cause between its South and North, between its Coast and Centre. Godspeed.

the China tariffs were a large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air

Henry Farrell is a Must Follow.

“Pray tell. The Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

This is incredible stuff. Furious reaction from the Fourth Circuit

It's real! ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...