Paul Tomlinson
@PaulTomlinsonn
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Art. Photography. Birds. Aston Villa
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Joined September 2016
@SaulStaniforth It goes without saying that nobody should be taking history lessons from Richard Madeley.
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@PeterStefanovi2 When this country recovers from the grip of Johnson and his clique of liars and charlatans, it will be in part because of the relentless efforts of people like @doctor_oxford @JolyonMaugham and yourself Peter. Thanks again for your tenacity.
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@jonlis1 Agree 100% but no one was listening. All we heard was Things Can Only Get Better as the soundtrack to a bloke getting drenched without an umbrella. Genuinely hilarious.
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@campbellclaret This is an absolute no brainer. Labour and Green voters need to get behind the Lib Dem to get rid of deadwood Redwood. Long, long overdue.
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Latest from me: a #sketch using pen & ink of a view within the interior of the awe-inspiring Agia Sophia, #İstanbul #Turkiye during my visit to that amazing city last wk. #art #artist #drawing #penandink #sketchbook #Turkey #urbanscape #byzantine #byzantium #Constantinople
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@AndySmi50387849 If you think it’s people like @ArgyleLoz who are responsible for the decline of the U.K. wait until you find out who’s been in charge for the last 13 years.
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@PollingReportUK @michaelgove A text book example of the need for tactical voting. Labour needs to step aside here and give the Lib Dem a clear run at Gove.
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A New Holland Honey Eater in glorious winter sunshine at Mt Compass Nature Reserve, South Australia. August 2017 #birding #Australia #aves
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@CarolineLucas Abysmal from Marr. No killer questions, no incisive follow ups, no genuine challenges. Johnson dominated him. Waffled, ran down the clock, said nothing. And all the time allowed a smirk to float around his face. A truly wretched interview.
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@ElectionMapsUK @Savanta_UK It still saddens me that 34% of the electorate would even now consider voting for the Tories/Reform. That’s a sizeable chunk of the electorate still cheering on national decline.
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@ArgyleLoz @HeatherWheeler Occasionally the mask slips and they say what they really think. I trust the opposition parties will prompt her electors in South Derbyshire ahead of the next GE.
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@GeorgeMonbiot My Covid-denying, anti-Vax niece recommended that I should take ivermectin when I caught Covid last month. Having a close family member urging you to harm yourself by ingesting what is in fact a worming tablet for horses is a very unsettling and upsetting thing.
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@PeterStefanovi2 @BBCNews @BBCBreakfast Thank you for your steadfast efforts Peter. So many of us genuinely appreciate your commitment in trying to hold this crooked PM to account.
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@davidschneider @alexillustrator Meanwhile the BBC World At One gives airtime to the discredited Priti Patel, the bribed Edward Leigh and May mouthpiece Kwasi Kwarteng. All Tory Leavers. And no one else. It's like no one else exists. Piss poor, biased #BBC coverage.
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@Geraint2019 @amongstwits @PickardJE He’s earnest, honest and straightforward: the polar opposite to Boris Johnson and a credit to Wales.
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It was 50 years ago today. Dad took me to Villa Park for the first time for Villa v Rotherham in the old Division Three. We lost. I was hooked. #astonvilla #villapark
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@PeterStefanovi2 This is shameful and shocking. If you want to encapsulate the true nature of the Johnson government in one image - this is it.
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@PaulDesproperty @bbclaurak ‘Boris is doing fine’ is quite possibly the stupidest post of the day.
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@JonathanLCFC Yep. Villa recently had a couple of good back-to-back Prem wins v Norwich and Brighton. By last Tuesday lunchtime Talksport were busy selling Grealish, McGinn and Mings to Manchester United. Tiresome, lazy broadcasting.
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Here’s my sketch of the superb Reginald’s Tower in #Waterford, originally built as a timber construction by Reggie the Viking and subsequently rebuilt in stone by the Normans in 1170. #art #artistsontwitter #artist #sketch #draw #drawing #Ireland
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Red Kite swooping to pluck a young coot (I think) from the water @ #RSPB #Otmoor, #Oxfordshire in morning sunshine yesterday. #aves #birding
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@jessphillips It is unthinkable that any Labour MP could vote to support Theresa May. Any Labour MP doing so should be instantly de-selected in my view.
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@Andrew_Adonis Groucho Marx: ‘These are my principles, and if you don’t like them. well, I have others’.
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Merry Christmas from #RSPB #Otmoor. Here's a fab #fieldfare guarding a bush full of berries. Pic taken last wk. #birding #aves
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For any Villa fans that follow me on here: I went to Villa Park on Saturday and tested positive for Covid today. I thought being double jabbed would keep me safe. I was wrong. I’m now quarantining. If anyone would like my ticket for the Brentford game, DM me.
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@BillyVacant Corruption. or worse. Johnson’s actions re the Lebedevs, without clear explanation, look close to treason imo.
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@PeterStefanovi2 It’s all there: the shamelessness, the corruption, the profiteering, the condescension, the contempt for the poor. It cuts through the weasel words of every government minister ever.
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@PeterStefanovi2 Thank you Peter for your resolute refusal to accept Johnson’s lies without challenge.
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I've waited years to see an #otter at #RSPB Otmoor, nr #Oxford and, would you believe it, it happened early this morning. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #Oxfordshire #Mammals
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@NickCohen4 Nothing to see here: just Suella Braverman demeaning her post as the UK’s chief Legal Officer with cheap insults and inaccuracies. It’s pathetic to watch.
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A privilege to watch these beautiful Musk Lorikeets on their nest on a hot sunny day at Scott Conservation Park in South #Australia . A wonderful sight. #parrot #naturephotography #aves #vogel #birdwatching #bird #birding #wildlife #nature #ornithology #wildlifephotography
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Recently bought a new lens and went to try it out today down at Farmer Reservoir nr #Oxford. Got rewarded with this #Kingfisher . #birds #BirdsOfTwitter #RSPB #birding #birdphotography #bird #oxfordshire
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@13sarahmurphy The bloke who repeatedly used visits to Zelensky to boost his popularity now backs the bloke whose re-election as POTUS would seriously undermine the security of Europe and the very existence of Ukraine. He is beneath contempt.
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@footballontnt I'm a Villa fan but I don't think you can pick and choose what to ignore. We lost to Everton in the League Cup.
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@HarryYorke1 Unless you’re prepared to go after others who look equally culpable with the same determination and energy then this just looks like pro-Tory Client journalism. Throw mud at Davey, but go after Gillian Keegan’s husband etc as well and I might take you seriously.
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Just for old time's sake: a pic of the beautiful original Trinity Road Stand at #VillaPark from the early 60s (I think).
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First of the New Year from me: a view of Worcester (including, obvs, the Cathedral) from Fort Royal Park along London Rd. #art #artwork #artist #ArtistOnTwitter #artweeks #Draw #drawing #Sketching #sketchbook #Watercolour #penandink #aquerelle #kunst #Worcester #cathedral #worcs
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@wengerthought @HLTCO Villa 1 Arsenal 0 and Arsenal 0 Villa 2 cost you the title pal. Show some humility.
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A beautiful long tailed #meadowlark, peninsula #valdes, #patagonia #Argentina Oct 2015. A frequent sight in Patagonia #aves #birds #birding
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@JamesEFoster @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @UKLabour Precisely this. Standing still and declaring he's not Johnson or Corbyn was never going to be enough, and now he's being swept aside by events. We're left with the likes of Mick Lynch & Martyn Lewis to speak the home truths that he should be describing.
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@Yorkshireman11 @DavidLammy Congratulations. You win the award for Most Absurd Tweet Of The Day.
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@SaulStaniforth This is where the BBC lets itself - and the country - down badly. Blatantly inaccurate reporting.
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A beautiful Golden Rumped Euphonia (I think) #costanerasur, #BuenosAires, #Argentina Oct 2015. A fabulous place for #birding. #aves
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@AVFCTheReligion Shocking? Get a grip man. We went up against a strong physical opponent at a place where we have a dismal record, recovered from a goal down and despite a below par performance, took a point. Whatever that is isn’t shocking.
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A bus trip into #Oxford on a mild November afternoon to draw #Magdalen Tower from the Botanic Gardens. #art #ArtistOnTwitter #artist #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #artweeks #penandink #eynshamartwindow #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #Watercolour #painting #kunst
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Crested #Caracara, #Andes, nr #Bariloche #patagonia #Argentina Oct 2015. A common sight across #southamerica. #raptor #birds #birding #aves
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A beautiful male Spectacled #Warbler, #capegreko, #Cyprus, April 2016. Let's hope it's survived the illegal nets and lime sticks.
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Took a trip through the mist down to the Vale to see this Great Bustard in a field outside Wantage - one of the birds bred on Salisbury Plain. Red deer chilling out in the background #Oxfordshire #aves #birding #birds #birdphotography #vogel #birdwatching #ornithology #bird
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@BBCDavidCowan Seb Coe once stole a Milky Way off me. He ran off and I couldn’t catch him. (I was 8 and he was 10. We were at the same primary school).
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@Becks_Wolfe And that’s fine, but actions (or in this case - inactions) have consequences. By not voting Labour, under FPTP you are helping to enable the Tories.
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@SMTHFC1 @melissaeweiss @mrjamesob @EylonALevy I listen to James O'Brien from time to time. I have no idea how you could reach that view.
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Two-banded #plover at one of the #saltlakes at Peninsula #valdes #Patagonia #Argentina, Oct 2015. One of the lowest points on earth. #aves
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@TomLondon6 They would vote to keep it by a large majority. That doesn’t mean it would be the right thing to do but I’ve no doubt at all that it would be retained. The Brexit vote tells us everything we need to know about the state of the nation.
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During last week's heatwave I sat in the shade of the Museum of the History of Science in #Oxford & drew the building opposite: Blackwell's, the greatest #bookshop in the world. #art #kunst #artistsontwitter #artist #drawing #painting #penandink #Watercolour #Oxfordshire #sketch
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@MartinKeyworths Because having had a right wing government for 14 yrs which has overseen and been responsible for catastrophic national decline we’ve decided to try to reverse the slide.
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@ElectionMapsUK @YouGov It's a sobering thought that even now, approximately 1 in 4 of the British electorate would still go out and vote Tory.
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@greg26011979 Scratch the surface in this country and there is so much tight-arsed, thin-lipped meanness.
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@ianincornwall @Life_Disrupted If you live in Cornwall and voted Leave this is precisely what you voted for. Don’t blame others for pointing out what would happen. Take ownership and responsibility for your own choice.
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My #drawing of a street scene in the old walled city of #Famagusta featuring St Nicholas' Cathedral, which I started some weeks ago but only finished recently. Hope you like it. #sketch #watercolor #art #Cyprus #kibris #Ammochostos #gazimağusa
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