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Alastair Cowan

@alharrogate1

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Alastair is married to Hot100 commercial lawyer Amanda and lives in Georgian splendour in Staffordshire and Westmoreland with son Patrick and cockapoo Charlie.

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Joined May 2010
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Alastair Cowan
11 months
@Keir_Starmer You just lost my vote.
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1 year
@bbctms One hand one bounce
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1 year
@LeeAndersonMP_ @GBNEWS Lee-they’re asking so they can avoid it 🤣🤣🤣
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@bbctms Hey-one hand one bounce!
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1 year
@campbellclaret Hey-no invading Marseilles!!!
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@jimmy_wales Just vote Tory if you want to-no need to make up some excuse.
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
@bbctms Harry is rapidly becoming some sort of Marcus Aurelius/Don Bradman/Bill Gates figure.
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1 year
@5liveSport @bbctms @bbc5live @BBCSounds “Beyond England??!!” As far as I am concerned (and The Team) we have won this series 5-0!
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
Just now R1 @LaidbackGooner defeats @alharrogate1 in a Winawer tacticsfest #TwitterChessTournament
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1 year
@StigAbell @notDcfcBoss He probably feels the same about Brexit.
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1 year
@mrjamesob Also Ray’s hips have locked together-a favourite term in solicitors offices.
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5 years
@1987Maximus @TvvitterChess @jminkler @blackatlantic @NTWH140 @peternewhall @adeaoi @logiticox Hi there-some time zone issues (UK and New Zealand) but we should get there next day or so.
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
@thetimes Can we pull the plug on Giles Coren please?
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
Criticism of G Williams is v unfair-he grew up in an extremely deprived and challenging area (also battered by North Sea winds) and has had to carry this stigma for all of his life.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
Jennifer Shahade St Louis YouTube video. White to play and win.
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4 years
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2 years
This cheered me up!
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
MIPIM 2019 NEWS 4 via @issuu
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@bbclaurak Is that you? 😂
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
@LydiaJane13 @DAustinRoses Looks lovely. Also David Austin The Pilgrim (sort of literary) does well on a sunny wall.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@ChrisMasonBBC Someone says it’s raining, someone says it isn’t. It is not your job to report this. Your job is to stick your head out of the fucking window and find out which one is right.
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5 years
@bbclaurak You never use the expression “Corbyn’s opponents”-why is that?
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2 years
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1 year
@novaramedia This Paul Weller-style crap is going to be the death of the Left. There is no such thing as a progressive patriot.
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8 months
@campbellclaret Hey!! No invading Cumbria!!
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4 years
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
The ups and downs of blitz.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@ProfBrianCox A fennel/funnel through time and space, best served spaghettified with a singularity on the side.
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4 years
@IanJamesPoulter @TheMasters Yes we’re all celebrating over here.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Unlike Sir Keith, who “overachieved” by going to Leeds.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
This chap is genuinely very funny.
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Conservative party advisor catching up with Blojo about the #ALevelsResults debacle.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
FLOTUS and POTUS, but what about Duns SCOTUS?
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@Backpainandwine I just paid £11.50 in Notting Hill for a “Three Emperors” hot chocolate-Silly me.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@Peston @annietrev @NimkoAli @carrielbjohnson @BorisJohnson You don’t read people’s comments on this do you?
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4 years
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3 years
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@TvvitterChess @NTWH140 Hi-I would mind playing a training game or two if anyone has the time as I was due to play @NTWH140 . Maybe at the weekend or next week?
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
Such a popular holiday spot as well.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Ah-Haaaaa!!
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@ColinBrazierTV Do Private Eye still award The Order of the Brown Nose?
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
One for Quinton to have a think about.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@bbcnickrobinson This isn’t helping her, you know.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
Rapport-Ding mayhem. 🇭🇺 Richard Rapport - 🇨🇳 Liren Ding @watch_chess
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Philately will get you nowhere.
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5 years
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5 years
@Shivamnimzo @TvvitterChess Hi-I have one game left R6
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
Congratulations to @someitsi who was much too strong for @alharrogate1 in the knockout stage 1 and advances to the QFs! #TwitterChessTournament
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@TelegraphLife When burning wood the lower air source should be closed-this is clearly open.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 They issue fines if books are not burned.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 The Spanish Armada.
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@1987Maximus @TvvitterChess @NTWH140 Hi there-sorry for being slow. I have had to go away for a few days but will be back soon and will get in touch then if that’s OK.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@LeahButlerSmith Good job the Government is building some new jails.
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
@AlisonMitchell @bbctms @BBCTwo @BBCiPlayer Has anyone else noticed Stokes sounding a lot posher over recent weeks?
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
If Adam and the Ants can have two drummers, we can easily revert to the Buttler/Bairstow/Foakes 3 wicketkeepers ploy so confusingly deployed previously.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 I regularly visit his shop.
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Alastair Cowan
9 months
@DepartureJay The Bellow-marvellous book
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@alharrogate1 v @jminkler is now tomorrow Monday 12.00 EST, 17.00 GMT. #twitterchesstournament
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@fabulucy That and boiling boiling water taps aargh.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@GMB @piersmorgan @susannareid100 There is something deeply wrong with this country when we elect such a person.
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@IanJamesPoulter Oh no!! Millions of rich golfer who live in Florida turn against Labour. We are screwed.
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4 years
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5 years
@alharrogate1 v @jminkler is 12.00 today EST, 5.00pm GMT (Lichess AlastairUK v jminkler) #twitterchesstournament
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@1987Maximus @TvvitterChess @jminkler @blackatlantic @NTWH140 @peternewhall @adeaoi @logiticox Hi there-thanks for that. Am I right pairings published 2 October, which would give a round 1 end date of 16 October. Obvs we would want to play earlier than up against the deadline.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Gav - I am 9 and lockdown is ace, I have won 23,472 Fortnite battle passes. Do not allow schools to open they are shit.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@Peston Err…that is the idea.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@johnredwood There’s something fishy going on.
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
If you loved Paul and hate JC you’re just a bit thick.
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1 year
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2 years
@bbctms Crawley averages 31 FC and 25 in Tests. Woakes averages 33 FC and 28 in Tests, and he’s a bowler.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@kitmalthouse How do you accumulate something for yourself whilst at the same time sharing it widely? Also, you are not a capitalist.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
Barbados WCC
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
What a very stark contrast.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@davidschneider Why doesn’t she marry someone who earns more money? £150k pa does not put him in the top 10% of central London males.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
Remind me again, what is Boris Johnson?
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Elvis has died.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@Backpainandwine You can track them if misplaced with the “Find My” app.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Howay lad-hast tha nivver heard o’t Northern Poorhouse like.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 Butcher Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@SergeyKaryakin @Anna_Shafran Revolting man and a disgrace to chess.
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
Yikes! 🇨🇳 Liren Ding 1 - 0 🏳 Ian Nepomniachtchi @watch_chess
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Alastair Cowan
1 year
@NottheRtHonGav1 @bbctms Gav we are looking forward to you being our new Stone EmPee
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@ScanlanWithAnA This photo was taken at Birmingham University tennis courts. I played there several times as a student-very good value for money.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 This is a fantastic post.
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Alastair Cowan
4 years
@IvankaTrump How common.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@wmiltti @blackatlantic @NTWH140 @TvvitterChess @neofight78 @journeyChess @Geo_Physical @DownPawn @FrankDonoghue1 @MariaRusanova88 @purefan_chess @Jimmystiltskin @LimewoodChess @Clivekonstantin @alessioparteno1 @ChrisAmburgy @adeaoi Hi there @adeaoi -hope you get this. Yes I am available at any reasonable time time differences allowing-maybe send me a couple of times and days that suit you and we can schedule. I have turned off private on my account now. Thanks.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@bbctms “Historical”?! “Hanging like Gary Speed”?? Why has this person even been considered for a county, let alone England?
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@TvvitterChess The long-awaited clash of the time zones @alharrogate v @logiticox due to start at 8.15 GMT today.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@NottheRtHonGav1 You asthmatic octogenarian you.
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Alastair Cowan
2 years
@strategywoman Hello from Staffordshire, England where Charlie has her colours on and we are hoping everything goes well for you.
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Alastair Cowan
5 years
@TeaPainUSA My dog Charlie likes impeachment and it’s nothing even to do with us already as we are safely thousands of miles away in sleepy England.
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Alastair Cowan
3 years
@CharlesDagnall Obviously not out.
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