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Appalling guitar player, Arsenal season ticket holder and dog owner.Unconservative by nature.
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Perfectly captured.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

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The difference between equality and equity. Excellent. Sometimes you have to treat people differently in order to treat them equally.

My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️

"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐

Hello Edinburgh...a Black Five has just rocked up...😍

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Now this is an interesting story via Reuters. Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist. Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.

Starmer cannot survive this

Ian Hislop, "Farmers didn't pay inheritance tax at all, and now they're going to pay half of what everybody else pays.. Jeremy Clarkson who originally bought his farm in order to avoid paying any tax on it" HIGNFY play the clip where Jeremy Clarkson denies buying his farm to avoid paying IT

It’s all in the telling.

Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

Yesterday Northvolt, the great hope of European battery manufacturing, filed for bankruptcy. Today the CEO resigned. Yet more evidence that a) making batteries is hard b) competing with China is hard and c) Europe has a real challenge in the coming years www.reuters.com/technology/n...

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Deep guitar nerd humor.

A Lego Orange guitar amplifier

'This sentiment certainly chimed with my own teenage self as I marvelled at rows of highly polished yet sadly unattainable Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker and Gretsch models propped up in the window...' #guitars #DenmarkStreet #London www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068530812

Classic Neon (Denmark Street, London, September 2023) #photography #landscapephotography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #shopfront #guitars #neon #neonsign #HanksGuitars #DenmarkStreet #DenmarkStreetLondon #London