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swimmer of several widths | occasional finder of lost items | no longer eating dishcloths

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@JulesPowis
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4 months
At first I thought Graham Linehan had gone crazy, I felt sorry for him. With an avalanche of negative media and social coverage, Graham became one of the most cancelled people alive. But he didn't stop. I learned more about the subject and quickly realised that #GlinnerWasRight
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Another pointless interview with another pointless candidate in another pointless leadership election. #BBCLauraK
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
A plant breathing through its stoma (Greek for 'mouth'), captured by biologists at the University of California
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
The most accurate commentary we've had so far: "After 12 years of Tories we are at the dregs of what they have to offer and Liz Truss is like the backwash of the dregs." - Joe Lycett #BBCLauraK
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
They don't really care about the environment. My MP Andrew Griffith ( @griffitha ) is COP26's net-zero business champion. He just voted for more raw sewage to be dumped by water companies. #Marr
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@JulesPowis
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'Five days before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered on June 12, 1994, she called a battered women’s shelter in terror that her ex-husband was going to kill her. The jury was not told this ... evidence of beating and stalking, from 1977 to May 1994, was also excluded.'
@jenvanlaar
Jennifer Van Laar
4 months
The reaction from at least one person to me sharing a small snippet of my experience with domestic violence the other day - "No way, not Jen," questioning my honesty - was eye-opening and goes along w/this You Know At Least One Nicole Brown…, by @yashar
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Thank god Ian Blackford is nowhere near power. He'd have the UK on it's knees and surrendering to any passing army within weeks. #SundayMorning
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
The UK is without leadership. Government is on holiday, playing Thatcher dress-up or making juvenile videos. We need a general election. #r4today
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
@Steampunk_T Analogue version of browser tabs
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Why is Today campaigning for Johnson? Enough of the circus, general election now. #r4today
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Oh dear. This really doesn't work. #pointless
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@JulesPowis
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11 months
Another tabloid exposé, yawn. Why don't the BBC investigate things that actually matter, maybe even in this country? Water companies and political corruption, Chinese political interference, MPs second jobs, etc. There's not exactly a shortage of options. #Panorama
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
John Lewis the rescue calf with his teddy bear. (Gentle Barn)
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@JulesPowis
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My MP Andrew Griffith is COP26's net-zero business champion. He voted for more of this. #Marr
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@JulesPowis
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11 months
The BBC #Panorama team has successfully kept the lid on tonight's special episode, an impressive achievement in itself. We don't need any more exposés on celebs tho, Britain is facing urgent problems. What about some dirt-digging around water utility corruption, for example?
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@JulesPowis
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@mrwtffacts The story is true but the second photograph isn't real.
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@JulesPowis
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Police Scotland has committed to investigating every single complaint it receives under new hate crime laws. Meanwhile, major changes to policing in Scotland that mean some crimes will no longer be investigated due to budget cuts. #TruthIsNotAHateCrime
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@JulesPowis
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@domdyer70 @ClarenceHouse @peta @BornFreeFDN @RoyalFamily Amazed to find out that bearskin hats are still made from real bears, it's like something from another century. Not remotely necessary!
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@JulesPowis
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@spikedonline Always thought Yousaf would be more at home ruling Iran with an iron fist than pretending to do democracy in Scotland.
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@JulesPowis
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"Future historians may see this as a clash between postmodernism and facts." In her well-reasoned piece from 2018, @DebbieHayton (a trans teacher) argues that self-identification protects neither trans individuals nor women and girls.
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@JulesPowis
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@RepublicStaff Seriously? With all the problems the world has at the moment, this is the thing you want to "fix"?
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@JulesPowis
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@flaminhaystacks Thank you for posting that story, you're doing good work.
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@JulesPowis
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@MAstronomers They expected to get maximum 30 minutes of data from the surface of Titan but Huygens continued to send data for about 90 minutes after touchdown.
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@JulesPowis
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@fesshole Did something very similar as a school kid. The guilty repayment got me on a 'major donor' list and I was called regularly to donate more for years, each phone call a reminder of my original sin.
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
Lil' hedgie in the garden #Springwatch
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Graham Linehan is a beautiful soul, standing up for what's right whilst others cower in fear of the mob.
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@JulesPowis
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@OptimoPrincipi Tent pegs..?
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@JulesPowis
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@en_germany Germany is "all about" selling-out Ukraine to prop up a few GDP percentage points.
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@JulesPowis
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@AdamBienkov Correct. "EU law does not prevent markings from being placed on products, so long as it does not overlap or be confused with the CE mark." - EU spokesperson to BBC News
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@JulesPowis
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@mrjamesob @scobie @GlobalPlayer @YouTube He's a creepy little weirdo and I hope the royals sue his arse off.
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@JulesPowis
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@_TheFigen It's an excellent bit of CGI I'm afraid
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@JulesPowis
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"The Russian garrison in Lyman is outnumbered, increasingly isolated—and on its own." #Ukraine
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
@Fact Shouldn't be stepping on spiders anyway, they're just trying to live their lives like everything else
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
I've seen my share of poor journalism, but the going by BBC's Holly Honderich's coverage you'd think that Amber Heard had won the defamation case against Johnny Depp. Comically biased, bizarre.
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@JulesPowis
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An unusual outbreak of lucidity in the UK. Shock, perhaps it wasn't a good idea to give lots of children puberty blockers that will affect their entire lives. Should influence global policy.
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Dockers at two ports now refusing to unload Boris Johnson's sneaky, sanction-busting oil deliveries. “[We will] under no circumstances unload any Russian oil regardless of the nationality of the vessel which delivers it”. #JohnsonOut41 #Ukraine
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@JulesPowis
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2 months
Really sad to hear about Michael Mosley, a person dedicated to making us all healthier. Sending love to his wife, Clare.
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@JulesPowis
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Oh fucking fantastic, Miriam Margolyes! #r4today
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Nobody cares about your exclusive with Novak, please bin it. #r4Today
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@JulesPowis
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Happy #LesbianVisibilityWeek to all gay women! Point of fact, a 'male lesbian' is something schoolboys joke about because it is a joke. Adult. Human. Female. #IStandWithAllisonBailey
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@JulesPowis
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@SouthernWater You're a shabby, criminal outfit and your management should be in jail.
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Dead horses aren't worth it. #GrandNational2022
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Ukraine’s armed forces have advanced 50 km in Kharkiv region in a few days. Kupyansk is a key rail hub for most of Russia's supplies to the eastern front. It's also the only way for Russian troops in Izyum to escape and now it's burning. #Ukraine
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@JulesPowis
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Morten Morland’s Times cartoon (Thursday August 11, 2022) #r4today
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Don't we have BBC Five Live for tedious football talk? #R4Today
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@BBCNews "If I knew there was a 1% chance that I could keep the kids in Belgium or France or Sweden or Finland I would keep them there. All I wanted was for my kids to go to school. I didn't want any assistance. My wife and I can work. I just wanted to protect them." - Ahmed Alhashimi
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@alfiemoore It must be so frustrating for officers to put in all that work to get a prosecution only for the courts to let victims down, seems to happen a lot.
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@JulesPowis
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@Ofcom Have you seen the Channel 4 lineup? They may as well have the Labour front bench presenting it.
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@JulesPowis
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1 year
Walking home that evening, I remember the silence. Regent's Park was filled with hundreds of others also walking home, everybody in silence. #LondonBombings
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@JulesPowis
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No more sports/commentator clips please, it's just shouting and you've got 5 Live for all that. #r4today
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
@amnestypress Don't care what you have to say about Ukraine, any collateral Amnesty had is now gone.
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Jupiter's Aurora, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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"On paper, the laws are perfectly acceptable and regularly updated. The problem is that they are rarely, if ever, enforced."
@gdnlongread
The Guardian Long Read
2 years
"I could see pumps were failing, sewage was going into the river and the [environment] agency hadn’t noticed. As I dug into it, there was more and more horror.” The sleuths who raised the alarm about our dying rivers. By @OliverBullough
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@JulesPowis
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Gender extremists are dangerous and shouldn't be given air time. Four year olds are not 'trans'. #jeremyvine
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The Welsh didn't vote for Vaughan Gething, he is a corrupt politician imposed upon Wales by Labour. #r4today
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@Baddiel If you're referring to Heard v Depp with this silly tweet, a mountain of evidence led to the verdict, not Twitter.
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I was today years old when I realised that Shaun the Sheep is a pun.
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Nick Robinson has the patience of a saint. If that idiot-woman tried to "Nick" me, I'd end the interview and throw her out of the studio. #r4today
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@AfricanHub_ Not true, Barkhad Abdi continues to work as an actor. Follow him here on Twitter, he's quite active.
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@DreyfusJames Wrongthink... sinister.
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@watsoncomedian I'm sorry to hear this, I've never understood the reasons. It's your radio show and you have plenty of telly experience, where's the problem? Like last year when Mark Steel had his entire format stolen for TV, it would've been much better for everyone if they'd been honest.
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@JulesPowis
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2 years
Just what is the point of this interview when Hunt simply replies, "I can't talk about that until Thursday"? #bbclaurak
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2 years
That Tom Tugendhat logo deffo spells TIT
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BBC News appears to think that a writers strike in the US is the most important news story in the world, it leads every bulletin. Utterly bizarre news agenda. #r4today
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@JulesPowis
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The Conservatives are keeping £2m in Russian "donations". Not a good start is it? #PMQs
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the longer you look, the more Snoop Doggs appear
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@wonderofscience @landru79 If I recall correctly, this incredible video was made a few years ago by combining the photos taken by the Rosetta probe - not by ESA but a random guy on Reddit.
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@JulesPowis
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@Itsrenovation I preferred the sandy floor and sunshine, personally
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If Miriam Margolyes was going to swear about Jeremy Hunt, at least she didn't choose the obvious one. #r4today
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Seriously, enough already. #r4today
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1 year
@Gerashchenko_en All empires crumble, let's hope these incredibly brave people are just the beginning.
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Gillian's visual demo of the Gulf stream was excellent #SpringWatch
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@JulesPowis
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Merry Crimbo 🎄 Doggo gets new friend, brings gift.
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@JulesPowis
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A demon trapped inside glass after an exorcism in 17th century Germany. By 1720, it was in the Vienna Treasury described as “a spiritus familiaris in a glass that was driven out of one possessed and banned to this glass”. Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.
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@JulesPowis
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It's the duty of every Western nation to help Ukraine stop warmongering Russian orcs, forever. #Ukraine
@visegrad24
Visegrád 24
2 years
On April 13th, 1943, it was revealed to the world that mass graves had been found in the Katyn Forrest in Russia. After exhumations, it turned out that Moscow had ordered 22 000 Polish officers to be murdered by a shot to the head. The Soviets thought nobody would ever find out
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Excited rescue dogs, and possibly the best ever use of a GoPro. The Man Who Rescues Dogs, Thailand
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@tomaburque Tsk, Russia is always littering
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The Conservatives are keeping £2m in Russian "donations". Not a good start is it, Truss? #R4Today
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Breakfast was exhausting, best take a nap in the nearest armpit. #Caturday #AdoptDontShop
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Sea cucumber skin magnified 100x looks like a background from SpongeBob SquarePants. Credit: Christian Gautier, polarised light, Biosphoto, Le Mans, France
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@JulesPowis
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3 years
Go Gen Z! Also, TIL "Shrek porn"
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New favourite news headline of the year: 'Tesco recalls Christmas stuffing mix because it may contain moths'
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@MarcDavenant Had an online meeting with Home Office people on Friday, they seem like nice people trying to do their best.
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2,000 year-old fingerprints in some Roman cosmetic cream. The sealed container was unearthed during excavations at a Roman temple complex in London in 2003.
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@Wimbledon Wimbledon has led the way with the correct decision. Just like Eurovision, avoid more opportunities for Russian propaganda.
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The Conservatives are obviously running the NHS into the ground in order to privatise it. #BBCLauraK
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@TimesRadio @MelJStride @StigAbell It appears Kier Starmer was entirely correct to call Rishi Sunak a liar.
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TIL the French government is tackling fast fashion by subsidising clothing and shoe repairs, what a fantastic idea.
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I'm afraid we need better interviews than that. #r4today
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@gdavies Really enjoyed you on Desert Island Discs today. Thanks for being honest, it was all rather heartwarming. Think I'll steer clear of isolation tanks for now, the sudden release of cumulative repression would probably pop something.
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@JulesPowis
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We need a decent, heavyweight journalist to hold the Government to account, not this easy, softball nonsense. #SundayMorning
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The UK rolls back on carbon reduction plans; Germany puts her coal-fired power stations back online; the US, China and India burn bigger mountains of coal. With Russian aggression pulling focus and draining economies, this is all starting to get out of control and a bit scary.
@ed_hawkins
Ed Hawkins
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Surprising. Astounding. Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering. Flabbergasting. Disquieting. Gobsmacking. Shocking. Mind boggling.
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Fern reproduction, fern sperm amazing! #Winterwatch
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British politics = sewer British waters = sewer British workers = shat on Thanks, Tories. #r4today
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