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Engineer, entrepreneur, footballer?, treehugger, beekeeper, music-lover, internationalist, optimist - at heart, a happy curious bairn - pronouns Reilly/Dalglish

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3 years
Love thy neighbour. So utterly proud of Glasgow today. ❤ BBC News - Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street
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... how on earth did we get to this point?
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This animation is being broadcast on the screens of German trains. Definitely one of the iconic images of the finals. 💙 #TartanArmy @TartanArmyGroup
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Michelle Mone - free Piers Morgan - free Phillip Green - free Prince Andrew - free Rupert Murdoch - free Post Office - jail postmasters Grenfell - convict fire brigade Hillsborough - nothing UK justice system isn't for us. It protects the establishment & wealthy. #BrokenBritain
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I'm getting a lot of photos appearing on my Twitter feed of naked young women who apparently live less than 1km from me & want to meet me. Now, I'm no detective, but these girls don't look like Fifers & are definitely not dressed for the weather. 🤔
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Whoever, whatever did this ... we salute you! Mon then!! 🐵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊️🤣 #Scotland #ScottishMonkeyBusiness
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💚 Leith 💚
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I'm at the bus terminus in Kirkcaldy. It's Scotland. It's Christmas. The winter solstice is tonight. Fifers are wearing shorts! Scotland will survive the nuclear holocaust. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊️ #ChooseLifeChooseFife
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2 years
Comic poet warrior genius! 👏👏👏😂🇺🇦✊ #SlavaUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar
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This is the law if you are Scottish! 🤣
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The gaze of an evil beast that digs up over 200 crocus bulbs, meticulously planted by the hands that feed him. He's dead to me ... #NotMansBestFriend
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Scotland, you big, brooding, sexy beast! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙😎
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If Starmer & his henchmen were willing to do that to the speaker & pervert the mother of parliaments, (just to avoid calling out genocide & asking for a ceasefire), how do you think Labour will treat Scottish democracy & the Scottish Parliament after they win the election? 🤔
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Lots of legacy chat. For what it's worth,I think @NicolaSturgeon real legacy will be felt in 30yrs, when @ScotGov early yrs learning comes to fruition. Hi-impact time to better lives. Long-term program, no short-term gain, generational transformation. Thank you & well done!👩‍🎓👏✊
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Blue tents... where are the blue tents?
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Probably the most important life-skill I ever learned at school! Yeeeeeucht! 🕺😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland
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Scottish Banter
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Every Scottish PE class in December
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At what point do we start calling the Israeli regime evil? #ApartheidIsrael #FreePalestine
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BREAKING: Israel just bombed a water distribution truck in Gaza, killing 13 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children, who were in desperate need of water. Innocent, thirsty civilians.
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Genius!! 🤣👏👏👏
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5 months
At what point do we start torching banks and burning palaces? 👷‍♀️⚒️🔥
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10 months
For completeness. More and more Scots now see through this. #SinisterBBC
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10 months
An intriguing graphic. Contrast this with the BBC weather maps. 🤔 #SinisterBBC
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6 months
Still my favourite Tweet of 2023! ❤️✊️
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I was set upon by a group of immigrants in Dublin yesterday. They gave me a triple heart bypass and saved my life 🫀😊
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35 years ago today. I still remember the moment I heard the news on Cairnsmore Drive, Stonehouse. To this day, I still get the same sinking feeling in my stomach when I think about it. Like many Scots, Lockerbie & Dunblane will be forever seared in our conscience. 😥 #Lockerbie
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10 months
It's legal tender!! 😎 #SCOENG #Scotland
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4 months
Here's a superb photo of die-hard Scots! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙😎
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Gaza by Banksy #CeasefireNOW
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We sometimes struggle to define the characteristics that make us Scottish. However, we instinctively know the traits that we loathe as a nation. Douglas Ross combines many of these, personifies them & has become the antithesis of everything we admire & aspire to. #TheAntiJock
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Alexa, can you give me an exemplar of the British establishment's ignorance of and snobbery towards Scotland? 🤣🤣🤣🙄
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Good Morning Britain
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Nominations have opened for the next leader of the SNP after the resignation of the First Minister Humza Yousaf. @susannareid100 asks @Kevin_Maguire and @toryboypierce about what this means for Scottish independence.
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Ladies & gentlemen, please let me introduce you to Jock, the newest member of the Forrest family. He's a wee stoater!! 😍 #Scotland #Scottie #JocksRUs
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Love thy neighbour. So utterly proud (yet again) of our Glasgow. 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊ #Gaza #FreePalestine #NotInMyName
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A message to the world, from Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." George Orwell #BrokenBritain
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Tweet of the day!! 💚 Best wishes and all the best for a full recovery @Davis27271307 ✊️
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I was set upon by a group of immigrants in Dublin yesterday. They gave me a triple heart bypass and saved my life 🫀😊
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German humour is underrated...
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7 months
This made me laugh. Have you ever tried telling a Scot who they are, and are not, allowed to speak with. 🤣 #ScottishDemocracy #Scotland
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11 months
If passed, devolution is dead. Wales: UKGov need consent Northern Ireland: UKGov need consent Scotland: UKGov need only consult 25yrs of devolution wiped out in a sentence. For most people, democracy trumps both yoon & nat. In the long term this kills the UK. #ScottishDemocracy
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With so much terrible stuff going on, we need more of this... 💙
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Betty 🕊️
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Oh my god 😍 I hope this fills you with warmth and makes you smile like it did me! Life is so precious 💫 Happy Wednesday 🤍
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1 year
Just for a minute, imagine that this was written about the Irish, or Israelis or Africans... 🤔 #SuperiorityComplex #Bigotry
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High St Kirkcaldy Saturday before Christmas It's not just run down It's poor. 50yrs of oil & gas - nothing to show. This was UK Chancellor & PM's constituency. Decades of decline. This spot is where "The Wealth of Nations" was written. Things are gonna change. #ScottishDemocracy
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Wise words ... I still miss David Bowie. #DavidBowie
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4 months
... and polyester, you can b*gger off as well.
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4 months
Snapped quickly whilst trying desperately not to get run down. Gotta love Glasgow!! 💚
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First, they came for the Scottish nationalists, and I said... 🤔...actually, I think they have a point. They just want to live in a democracy, build a better nation for their kids & shed the chains of a classist, feudal, genocidal-loving, right-wing establishment. #BrokenBritain
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Rishi Sunak lists Scottish nationalism among 'dangers' ahead of general election.
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1 year
Happy Burns Day from Scotland! .... wherever you are on our beautiful, fragile, lovely wee planet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃💃🌍 #Burns #BurnsNight #Scotland #Ceilidh
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This is the Scotland I want to see. Scotland at its best. Thank you.🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScottishDemocracy #Scotland @HumzaYousaf
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A very informative info-graphic, illustrating the diverging political cultures in the UK. I worry for our NHS. Is our greatest achievement as the UK next for the free market treatment? #NHS #NHSPrivatisation (p.s. well done Scotland. 👏👏👏✊)
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... it had to be done. Well done that editor! 🤣 #RishiSunak #MetPolice #BennyHill
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Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian child... 'child' is the word you are looking for. #SinisterBBC
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Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off firework
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Women. Hated. Again. 😥 #RoeVsWade
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4 months
BBC Scotland has lost the trust of much of the nation. It does not reflect the nation, mood or our times. It has become sad and sinister.
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MSM Monitor
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Sally Magnusson introduced Reporting Scotland tonight by giving a summary of HoyleGate. However, she failed to mention Keir Starmer's private meeting with Hoyle or the claims that Hoyle was blackmailed. Just as Hoyle's decision helped Labour, so too did Magnusson's censorship.
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This is important. Are our elected representatives being financially supported by a foreign, genocidal regime? Let the implications of that sink in. 🤔 #ApartheidIsrael
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After robustly supporting genocide, I see Labour are going for the abattoir-chic look. Who advised Rachel Reeves that this was a good idea? 🙄
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Everyone in Scotland be like 👇 ... as the rest of the world realises how biased and sinister the BBC can be. #BBCBias
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Thank you, @jasonleitch , for the professional, informative, and exceptionally accessible way you helped us through Covid. You did your profession and country proud. BBC News - Jason Leitch to step down as national clinical director
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Papua New Guinea's correspondent in London is brutal. Funny, but brutal.
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Wise words ... 🤔
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If you listen to only one thing today, listen to this. Andrew Neil's remote preaching, ill-informed opinions, and clichéd hack ass being handed to him on a plate. 🔥✊️😎
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'What a load of absolute rubbish' 🔥 Broadcaster @LesleyRiddoch was on fire as she took down Andrew Neil and Nick Ferrari's claims about 'basket case' Scotland this morning.
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I've been playing catch up on the day's events before bed & came across this masterpiece. Glorious, savage & poetic, all delivered with the timing & impact of a bullet train. Exquisitely done @MhairiBlack ! 👏👏👏 Take a bow! 😎 #Scotland #ScottishCoronation #ScottishDemocracy
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Nothing to see here. Just the view from a train. As we head back to Fife. Having pumped England at rugby! #SCOvENG #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ChooseLifeChooseFife 😎
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Astonishingly poor decision for a sport in desperate need of outreach across the nation. How very 'Edinburgh' ... #Scotland #ScottishRugby #OldGirlsNetwork
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Scottish Rugby
1 year
Scottish Rugby has further strengthened its operational Board with the appointments of Ruth Davidson and Mike Soutar as Non-Executive Directors. Read more ➡
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It's actually quite difficult to be this offensive on so many different levels. I suspect that the author is only aware of a few of the levels, and ignorant to much of the offence. #ScottishDemocracy #BrokenBritain
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Imagine being in the trenches with this guy... would you trust him to have your back?
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STV News
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Douglas Ross denied the Conservatives had 'sacked a man on his sickbed' after he replaced David Duguid as a General Election candidate. Live updates:
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We're the famous Tartan Army, and we're off to Germany ... 🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 🕺 ... also praying for divine intervention. 🙏
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Ah, Banksy, we salute you. ✊✌😎 #Glasgow #Scotland #Banksy
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Liz Truss launches her own range of lingerie.
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Shimples. 😎
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A must read. The British establishment will malign, distort, and try to discredit anyone who is of an independent mind and disagrees with them... no matter how neutral, professional or upstanding they be. What is happening to Jason Leitch is an abomination.
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Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Great letter in the @pressjournal from Ken Gow.
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Solid advice.
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Nailed it.
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A bit too far ?
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This is worth seeing. Today, it's worth thinking.
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This is morally repugnant. Scotland has ~2.5m homes. EGL2 will power similar in England. We have high fuel poverty. Scots pay more for electricity. EGL2 extracts wealth, hope & aspiration of our children. It deposits prosperity in distant pockets. Coal, oil, renewables...no more.
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reNEWS
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Ofgem has given provisional approval to a funding package for the 2GW high voltage proposed Eastern Green Link 2 subsea and underground 500km electricity superhighway between Scotland and Yorkshire. #offshorewind #grid #UK
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After 50 yrs of one of the world's biggest ever natural resource finds, we have nothing to show for it - zero for the next generation except environmental catastrophe. Contrast with Norway, Dubai, etc. UK political & corporate feudalism must end. #BrokenBritain #ScottishDemocracy
@ScotNational
The National
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BREAKING: Hundreds of jobs are expected to be lost as Scotland's only oil refinery is to close. Grangemouth Refinery is set to close by spring 2025.
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Good grief!! 🤦‍♂️ It sometimes feels like we are only a few years away from Gaelic being outlawed, tartan banned & the Scottish accent being punishable by death. #Scotland #BrokenBritain #ScottishDemocracy
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If Labour and Keir Starmer can treat Diane Abbot like this after 40 plus yrs of service, how do you think they will treat our: Muslims? Scotland? Working class? ... if they don't think they need you any more. 🤔
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I thought it was all over, safe to go into the house & watch tele. Promptly found my wife now watching a royal concert. It's never ending. There's no escaping! I asked when Elton John was going to sing "Candle in the Wind". I'm banned again. 🙄 When will it finish? #Coronation
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4 months
👏👏👏 Sad & sinister BBC. They're not even trying to hide it now...
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MSM Monitor
4 months
We hope Martin Geissler has the decency to feel embarrassed by the decision not to cover the biggest story in UK politics bar none on The Sunday Show. How can a Scottish current affairs TV programme refuse to cover HoyleGate when it impacts Scotland's main party at Westminster?
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1 year
I'm with the lawyers on this. Juryless trials are a recipe for disaster, State control & miscarriages. Why are @theSNP making a habit of picking fights on dubious grounds, without broad support, that they will ultimately lose. Seems very ill thought out & has echoes of GRA. 🙄
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STV News
1 year
Justice secretary Angela Constance is 'disappointed' lawyers are set for an almost 'unanimous' boycott of a pilot scheme for juryless rape trials in Scotland.
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3 months
... there's nothing new under the sun.
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9 months
I miss George Michael. This is a cracker of an interview, where George has the measure of Tony Blair & doesn't pull any punches. He also refuses to be pushed around by the interviewer. I wonder what George would say about Keir Starmer? 🤔 #BrokenBritain
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My son started school this week. He was asked "What is the name of the king?" "ELVIS!" he shouted. So very, very proud! 🕺🎸⚒✊ #DadThingNailed ... the Peoples' Republic of Fife is in safe hands... 😉
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Larkhall, Stonehaven has shown you the way. The future's bright, and it's not orange! BBC News - Grand Orange Lodge loses appeal over Stonehaven parade ban
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9 months
For as long as I live, I will never understand this mentality. 😥 #BanTrophyHunting
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5 months
True dat.
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6 months
Hello darkness, my old friend...
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That's our Annie!! 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊️😎
@tynewrc
Oliver ✊🌏🔥 #ClimateAction #EcoSocialist
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"Scottish singer Annie Lennox has donated handwritten lyrics of the 1983 Eurythmics hit Sweet Dreams to a charity auction raising money for medical aid in Gaza" via The National Newspaper
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I will never, ever understand why. This is heartbreaking. #savetheplanet
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I wish every person across the UK countries could have heard @CarolineLucas speak this morning. Deep, thoughtful & forward-looking words. 👏👏👏 #BreakUpOfBritain
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2 months
Well said Gary!! 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✊️
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BladeoftheSun
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Gary Lineker on Gaza "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime."
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Tough year ...
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This little fella arrived back this evening.... all the way from Africa!! 😍 All of us dancing in the driveway when he swooped down, cheering him like pagan eejits. So utterly happy! Summer is here folks - Enjoy!! #SummerSwallows #TapsAff #HappyDays 😎🕺💙🌍🌞
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Banksy, I believe...
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