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I teach Strategy. Fellow of the CIPD. Used to work in HR but went further in life. I buy stuff for Brightlingsea Regent.

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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
9 months
@MarkSeddon1962 On the other hand, in 1982 when Argentina did invade British territory and took the inhabitants hostage we sent a massive military task force, sank various ships, bombed the airport at Stanley and conducted a full scale military invasion.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
9 months
@MarkSeddon1962 Remind me how many hostages were taken on October 7th that haven't been heard of since. If you were serious you would be saying release the hostages (those who are still alive) but unsurprisingly you don't.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 months
@LizKershawDJ Perhaps read the letter that came in full. You'll find you can defer claiming the pension and it accumulates so that you can either increase your pension at some future date or claim a lump sum. The interest rate was very generous so I deferred it until I was 70.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 months
@ScarthLloyd The state pension has always been a benefit and our National Insurance contributions have always been a tax. End of story?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@wellscoates1934 Didn't realise that the Arc de Triomphe had been relocated to London. The French will be asking for it back once the Greeks have got the #ElginMarbles
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@simonplewis @GaryLineker Speculation (wild alarmist speculation) is not actual fact. It will be nowhere near 40C. No sensible person would suggest that it would be.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@SirBasilBrush Following on from her appearance as a panellist on Question Time where she'll be described as a "terrorist sympathiser, activist and blogger"
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 months
@jude5456 I think if someone wrote me a business letter starting like that I would certainly remember what I did as a result. Somebody once did and I kept it in a carefully chosen place so when the poo hit the fan I was able to produce it and substantiate what I did as a result.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@herculeanstable @lukemcgee Unfortunately the Labour front bench , Yvette Cooper excepted, is a pretty uninspiring bunch. Andy Burnham might change that, of course.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@didoh @BBCBreaking Why do you think we have an right to know what happened. It's entirely her business. Clearly she has not been kidnapped.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@CupolaP @ArchRose90 I used to go into various prisons quite often for work purposes. I was there for a couple of hours. Every time I walked out and walked back to the car park I counted my blessings. Remand prisons are not pleasant places.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@Hepworthclare @thedunterns In that case there would be a fair number of other people to pay for - maybe a call centre taking bookings. I just had my car serviced and MOT'd. It was in for 2 hours and cost £180. The person who did the work didn't get £90 an hour.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 month
@SHD_Backup @YTFC Using someone else's logo to suggest it is their view
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@Dr_BellaR Such a hardship not having a radiator in the kitchen. I was brought up in a house like that. Come to think of it, we don't have a radiator in our kitchen today.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@cutteroo @Baddiel Behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. I suspect the Police may have a better understanding of what constitute an offence than you do.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 months
@ScarthLloyd The 1908 Old Age Pensions Act which is where is came from, regarded it as welfare provision - i.e. a benefit.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@vmedleen I didn't apply to Oxbridge but someone I went to school with did, and hated it. I went to Bath instead and loved every minute of it. I spent a term in Manchester as part of my sandwich course and realised that was not for me either.
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@PaulKetchley
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4 months
@BBGRichie At age 13 I was perfectly competent to go to the GP or a dentist without being mollycoddled by a parent.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@philweb11 @afneil Pfizer is an American company with its European HQ in Tadworth in Surrey. It has manufacturing sites all over the world operating on a global basis. It happens to create the Covid vaccine in a plant in Belgium.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@TJGilb93 @BBCBreaking It was their annual lads trip to the tallest spire around
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@KnittedKittie This was decided 30 years ago, when you were 32.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@fluteannie @BNNUK Polio vaccines have been inactivated (i.e. not "live") since the 1960's.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@JujuliaGrace I can't imagine why anyone would unfollow you and miss all the offers for pens, masks and carrier bags.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@David__Osland Obviously you never travelled much on British Rail! If punctuality was roughly the same it's only because journey times were significantly slower. Rolling stock was out of the ark and it was often impossible to get a seat.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@eamonnbutler That isn't true based on their income though. It's simply a meaningless statement based on theoretical house prices. Of course these people will have paid tax and NI throughout their lives on the basis that it would provide these benefits.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@JujuliaGrace Paramedics drive ambulances
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@Madz_Grant I know. I have the same problem with my son (35) to keep all this in proportion. I grew up in the 1950's when killer diseases were common place. Basic hygiene kept us safe then. My gran survived Spanish flu in 1918. A bit of common sense would help a lot.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@GaryLineker The alternative is to not release it into the sea and it comes back up into the streets and backs up through the toilet into your bathroom. Which would you prefer to happen?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@stugoo17 She resigned from the PO without a job to go to. She was put on "gardening leave". Obviously not one of the "in crowd".
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@TalkTV @nickwallis I've never known an organisation where money didn't go missing, otherwise why would everyone employ auditors? The problem in the Post Office is that they started from the assumption that everyone was on the fiddle and so they found that everyone who had an issue was.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@AllisonPearson The evidence bases of middle class chit chat in provincial coffee shops surfaces again.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
6 months
@elisled2 I thought planes landed at airports and only trains stopped in stations?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@addicted2newz How can it have been a good plan if the execution, timing and communication (which are all essential elements of a decent plan) were terrible? In fact, it was a bonkers plan which was unworkable in the real world, as events proved.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@UnityNewsNet He is the President of the FA and has always made clear his support for Aston Villa so he would be criticised for not attending too wouldn't he?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
6 months
@LouisHenwood Gosh, so there is African swine fever infected meat sloshing around in EU countries. And you keep telling us that their food standards are so superior to ours? No doubt you'll advocate the need for more checks in the future?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@grantshapps 230 per 100,000 population? Surely this underlines the value of mandatory border tests and checks to prevent transmission of the virus between countries?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@alexwickham The Queen demonstrates in one simple decision that a monarchy can outdo a President (or a Prime Minister).
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@AllisonPearson There are next to no "poor areas" in north-west London. Suella Braverman went to Uxendon Manor Primary School in Kenton. I know it extremely well. It's most definitely not "poor" and first BBC-TV nativity play was broadcast from there.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 month
@BatCavePhil @ukmedicx You are not allowed to take photographs inside a polling station
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@ggsax @ClaudiaWebbe England, of course, was colonised by Romans, Danes and various others. Any town with a name ending "by" (Grimsby, Selby etc) was a Danish colony. So was York (Jorvik). Presumably you're proposing the same from Denmark and other northern European countries?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@RupertMyers Russia. Go to Moscow and the monuments are everywhere (the "hero city" monuments and the tank traps still left in place to remind people).
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 months
@ScarthLloyd So you say, but you never say what you imagine it was described as in this imaginary "discourse" of yours?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@Life_Disrupted @Cardwell_PJ For the same reason that someone still allows you to post on Twitter
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@czeburashka @InnaSovsun Perhaps the point was that the inhabitants of those "few rocks" were 100% for being British rather than Argentinian. The Government had failed to get them to have any interest in being more reliant on Argentina
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 month
@KonovMaureen @SimonCalder Heathrow is in London (Hillingdon) whereas Gatwick is in West Sussex. No way is it 10 minutes "down the road".
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@CharenteMec @SirSocks @vonderleyen France hasn't exported any vaccines has it? Mainly because it proved incapable of producing either an effective or even a quasi-effective one.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@BrennenKay @RMTunion I heard someone was on a station when the Apocalypse happened and horsemen charged down the platform. Fortunately the ticket office staff observed this on the CCTV and came out to slay the horsemen and save the world in the process. Thank you @RMTunion
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@Socialist_Doggy @lloyd_rm @UKLabour @SDLPlive It seems to me that Labour "activists" are trying to lose everyone's vote. We ought to be trying to win people back rather than driving more people away.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@tobyvogel The F-35 is American-led but is actually a massive multi-national project which includes Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and others
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 months
@Fedup098123 @LizKershawDJ Well, that's because I read the letter and worked things out in advance. Maybe something to start doing?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 year
@jamesrbuk Your "analysis" overlooks the fact that people did pay income tax at a much higher rate in the 1970's than they do now. The State Pension is simply a welfare benefit and people on pensions do pay income tax.. I pay far more in tax than I get back in the form of a state pension.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@JudyAbel2 @BBCJonSopel @melindaelson Just doing to the French what they've been doing to others for years
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 months
@stugoo17 I thought it amazing that she dismissed important issues because "they were only there for noting". There was no need to actually do anything about them.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@VarchasPatel It is quite amazing that people can think it is OK to say I signed this but I didn't read it. It happens in so many places. I used to personally sign lots of stuff where others would sign a general letter and then run off 500 copies. People said I was eccentric.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@tnewtondunn This is a ridiculous self deluding narrative. The problem is that the EU failed to work with AZ's production partners to ramp up production. They just sat back and assumed all would be well. The UK Govt worked to support the local AZ production in the UK. That's the difference.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@gorstewart @RMTunion They weren't furloughed. They kept working because the trains were kept running (even though there were hardly any passengers). It was an essential service.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@jdevans141 @gsoh31 Exactly. Go home and sign up with the Open University for a year
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@MHcheshire There isn't. It's perfectly proper to take photographs or film people in public places.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@yuanyi_z Oh - guess what - Glasgow University runs courses in Chengdu
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 month
@GrahamSmith_ I'm sure she would have had similar opinions about you
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@WarwickHunt4 Why don't the journo's ask this at the Press conference rather than those rambling questions about subjects they clearly don't understand in the first place?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@Neelio2019 @Joel_Hughes I'm a Grimsby Town supporter. I remember how your goalkeeper wasn't sent off in the 2015 playoff final and then you brought on our ex-keeper Steve Mildenhall to save the pennos. I deserve a 50% slice of your £30K. Please forward it in used twenties
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@HerrGoldFinger @PippaCrerar @SimonMcDonaldUK @TimesRadio I used to do trade union negotiations for a living. Various things were said on both sides. As I recall nobody ever took offence. A TU officer once told me he was "disappointed" in what I had said. I replied that, as a Celtic supporter, he would be used to that. He laughed!
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@KevinASchofield @DPJHodges On the other hand "PM does everything he can to protect a large number of British steelworkers jobs and livelihoods" might go down well with voters in Redcar, Scunthorpe and Motherwell?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@Stevecathutch @bbcquestiontime 'Cos New Zealand is a thousand miles away from its nearest neighbour and was able to cut itself off from the rest of the world. We aren't and by the time we realised it, Covid was here via the ski resorts in Italy and Austria.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@micktwomey6 @IAPonomarenko Ukraine is not a NATO member. That's the point. We have no duty of care towards them. They are on their own.
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@PaulKetchley
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4 months
@Talpessa @BBGRichie It's not. And at 18 I went away to University and had to cope all by myself anyway.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@ollysmithtravel They? You mean "it"! The virus did that, not "them" (whoever they are)
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@MarkJLittlewood You got it! As an over-70 I am staying home in order to free up one existing ventilator in the next few weeks. I am working from home via our on-line working platform. I am reducing demand for service. Mr Dyson is doing nothing for actual supply. He is simply posturing.
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@PaulKetchley
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4 years
@gsoh31 So all these kids who are allegedly so intelligent that they got A* grades by the score can't even manage to understand basic good hygiene practices to avoid mass infection? Hopefully they aren't studying medicine.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 months
@simonmacmichael Don't feel the need to return eh?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
11 months
@EmergMedDr @ShaunLintern Everything is a conspiracy to these people Mike
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@MLevitt_NP2013 The number of people who are completely unvaxxed is miniscule and most don't test and don't care. The green line - the most vulnerable and most elderly are a very large group who are most likely to die if they get Covid - but the vaccine has prevented that.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@hellyarrj @petemorristwit Most of the "critical thinking" though is post-modernist Foucaultian nonsense. It's entirely useless. Universities are full of people spouting such tripe.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@Watsonmrk @nickgutteridge Which is exactly what it says
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@mozzamaura @itvfootball I thought it was a great response to a stupid question. Denmark have actually won the European tournament (so have Greece come to that) so the question got what it deserved.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 year
Time up at WGC as Regent close things down for a 2-1 win.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 years
@maclariz @SamualCotes @DavidLammy @allisonpearson We go from a seat at the table where we pay through the nose to have decisions imposed on us regardless of our views and opinions to a position where we can make our own decisions and not have to pay a tribute to some unelected colonisers. Tell the truth.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@Marie33Rowan There wasn't a "war" in Northern Ireland. The Kosovo and Bosnian issues was all about the break-up of Yugoslavia post-Tito and the decision not to let it dissolve into chaos. The Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus might qualify (just).
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 months
@steve_d24 How did he expect to be treated? Did he think they would have a Mariachi band on hand to accompany him?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@yuanyi_z @simonpegg just underlines the problem then. When people with blue ticks are "stumped" by the practical problem outlined below it should be obvious that something needs to be done. And the answer is........
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
5 years
@jessphillips My train at 5.04pm from Norwich to London was cancelled on Saturday due to a fault on the train. I was late home. Why are you so special?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
7 months
@tractorgirly @lisareality1 It doesn't matter. You and I are covering those costs and the increased cost of repairing electric cars. The Luton Airport fire must have cost car insurers a lot too.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@VLChesh @TonyWhitehead43 @KateEMcCann Friendship bubbles? No, never heard of them. Currently not allowed in the UK. Visiting friends isn't allowed under the lockdown measures.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
8 months
@JohnWRees Presumably someone hired the conference rooms. The staff don't get to decide who gets to have a meeting and who doesn't do they?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@gabrielmilland @TomMcTague I remember Grimsby Town playing Prague Dynamo in the 1950's and their goalkeeper scoring direct from a clearance. Prague Dynamo are now Slavia Prague.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 month
@JohnHyde1982 I thought it was no different today when Beer asked Tim Martin if he realised that the briefing sent by Paula Vennells had actually been written by the Comms Director. Did anyone actually write what went out under their name?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 years
@DelMody @TIME Yawn. What have these two ever influenced except themselves. Why would anyone listen to what they have to say?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@usatodaysports @cbrennansports Very disappointing for the people of Japan but the right decision
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@freegg123 @tnewtondunn @ZacGoldsmith It's more complex than that. The EU took it over and caused a 3 month delay.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
2 years
@PogoSkyBlues42 @JonBergdahl They won’t. Pre-decimalisation it was entirely normal to have coins with several monarchs heads on them.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
1 year
@AllisonPearson None of the Russian or Belarussian competitors at Wimbledon are getting national recognition they are competing as independents. It's Wimbledon's decision rather than hers and follows a fine and protests by the ATP and the WTA against last year's ban.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@LPerrins More to the point surely we don't want all these small horticultural businesses, who grow all this stuff, to go bust and lose their livelihoods?
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@zenity_st @clairebubblepop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 months
@bellmary_ That was the budget over two years. Only £27,000,000 actually got spent. I think £7,000,000 was spent on all those free lateral flow test kits we all had. A lot went into the wages of people processing the swab tests, whatever they were called.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
3 months
@EvanDxle No wonder the Inquiry Chair didn't want to hear another minute of this come twenty past four in the afternoon.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@Lesleyveronica @campbellclaret In a few weeks time those 125 students are going to have more to freak out about than their "A" levels and the use of predicted grades (sadly). Schools do need to close and something has to be put in place.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
8 months
@AllisonPearson @afneil Don't think most of these people in the audience, who seem to be mainly teachers, social workers, librarians and care assistants, have any idea that Hamas deals with its people by throwing them of the tops of tall buildings if they don't toe the line.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@jmacca1878 "Horrified" woman needs to get a sense of proportion and not be so voyeuristic in future.
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@PaulKetchley
Paul Ketchley
4 years
@UoL_UGrad_LSE The @OpenUniversity has only been doing this for the last 25 years so welcome to the party!
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