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“‘Are you still willing to help me?’ ‘I am,’ said Mr. Butterbur. ‘More than ever. Though I don’t know what the likes of me can do against, against—’ he faltered. ‘Against the Shadow in the East,’ said Strider quietly. ‘Not much, Barliman, but every little helps.’” JRR Tolkien, LotR I.10.

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Could she be asking that because the person who asked the same question on Friday is currently dating checks notes Marjorie Taylor Greene?

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Not the main point, but has anyone told Dan Hodges that this is an awful lot of books and his claim to have read almost all of them is clearly nonsense?!

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What I love about John Dean is that he is pretty much the only person who can say ‘this is worse than Nixon’ and everyone has to believe him:

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This is possibly the most unnecessary update in the history of ever.

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Zelensky not punching him right in the face is perhaps the greatest act of self-restraint I have ever witnessed.

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Quite what a man who took pictures for the US airforce and a Vietnam draft dodger have to tell Zelensky about military courage and strength is beyond me.

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Not saying this aged badly but it has aged badly.

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Rubio’s face says it all. And yet the spineless goons will stick with him because they haven’t got a shred of morality or integrity.

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I would like to apologise to all the people I almost drove into on the way home, I was listening to the Trump-Zelensky exchange. Bloody hell…

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Sorry, has Trump turned into the dwarves from Snow White?

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“Wouldn’t dare have caught cholera, me” A Y10’s novel way to avoid catching a disease in the Industrial Revolution right there. #HistoryTeacher #TeacherProblems

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Today I realised my auto-reply going to parents and external agencies last week wished them a Happy Christmas…

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"Writes Andrew Adonis" somewhat balances out the "Don't be too alarmed" bit

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Elections in Germany today, hope more than those seven will show up for the vote

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Pulk pulling, snowshoeing, and winter hut staying in the Icelandic Highlands. There really aren’t any words for how good it was #HalfTerm #Iceland🇮🇸

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Another backstop, that’s our best idea?

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Góðan daginn 🇮🇸 #HalfTerm #Iceland #SecretlyAGeographer

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Just saying I’m not all that convinced leaving the EU just as the guarantor of our security imploded was the smartest move, that’s all. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Nothing says international travel/half term like spending ages waiting around reading… 🇮🇸

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Good to see the manuscript-destroying Ashburnham House fire of 1731 now has a partner for ‘place most likely to catch fire’

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America is facing a ferocious, feet-to-the-fire moral test, of the kind Europe faced in the 1930s and 40s. The cowards, drunks and quislings are already revealing themselves. The heroines and heroes too. This will pass, and when it does, we'll all remember who was who.

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Peak end of term energy is getting a 'men's grooming kit' advert on Youtube. Twice. On the same video. While teaching Y8.

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I spent all of my patrol P1 dealing with refusal to borrow grip socks in Y8 PE, which some reason they don’t show on those ‘Train to Teach’ adverts #TeacherProblems

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in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.

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I’m sorry but there is not a cat’s chance in hell that 21% of people have an opinion on Henry III, someone this medievalist forgets the mere existence of.

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I see what you did there. (Am doing German, if that helps)

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Actual scenes from my Y11 lesson when they found cockfighting in the revision guide #HistoryTeacher #TeacherProblems

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Greenland, Gaza… I’m just saying that Guatemala, Greece and Germany had better be extra careful…

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If we survive the next few years, we should probably have a larger cultural reckoning about how the cult of STEM above all else convinced people who should know better that tech and private equity guys are not just the best at building apps and managing money, but at every field of human endeavor.

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