Community Leader. Non-tertiary but a joyful Catholic, also an English 'Gammon'. Thee and thine. #winning
Joined May 2008
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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Told my 14 year old daughter about this. She just laughed and said “yeah good luck with that” and then asked for a screenshot so her friends could laugh at it too.
NEW - Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus."
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Starmer seeks British carve-out from Trump’s Anthropic AI ban
We can give them that if they exempt American companies from the Online Safety Act.
I’d say that’s a fair trade telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Our schizophrenic government is giving the vote to people it doesn’t trust to be on social media in the evening.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban
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The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire retweeted
Given what has been going on this week at defence, the timing looks somewhat suspicious.
#Spin
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A year after the Strategic Defence Review was agreed, the UK government has decided not to fund its own review. In doing so, it is not merely failing to move forward — it is actively going backwards. chathamhouse.org/2026/06/joh…
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Except your policies continue to channel money into Putin’s coffers via Russian oil and gas imports. Praising the courage and commitment of our armed forces today rings hollow when government policy helps fund the regime responsible for the aggression they are standing against.
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Without doubt, Birmingham New Street is the most confusing station in the country. Whoever designed it should consider another, entirely different, career.
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Exclusive: Sturgeon donated £290 shoes to SNP fundraiser…and watched Murrell buy them back for £4,000 dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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We need to get out of this mindset that wars are won by soldiers alone. They're won by supply chains, factories and the country behind them.
That's the conversation we need to have.
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A politician who mentions the Supply Chain! Be still my beating heart. #Brilliant
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We need to get out of this mindset that wars are won by soldiers alone. They're won by supply chains, factories and the country behind them.
That's the conversation we need to have.
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Congratulations to my former boss, @LNER chairman and DfT Operator CEO Robin Gisby OBE on his well-deserved recognition in today’s King’s Birthday Honours.
From the start of LNER in 2018 through to the end of 2025, Robin encouraged us to ‘Be Bold’, he was consistently supportive of our vision and ambition to create a better railway. He has also been a notable supporter of the important work of @RBF1858 and other railway charities.
Thank you and congratulations Robin!
ALT Robin Gisby OBE on an Azuma train in 2019
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Good luck to Scotland ahead of their Group C World Cup opener against Haiti. Sending musical greetings to the Tartan Army.
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Queen Elizabeth rode her horse for the last time at Trooping the Color in 1986. She was 60 at that time, and she decided to ride in an open carriage after that.
Her horse, Burmese, retired that year due to her age, so the Queen decided she'd "retire" also.
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Sadly that is quite usual for a by election
For many the initial curiosity or excitement quickly fades as the tsunami of leaflets and letters arrive
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I’ve been knocked on twice by labour and once by reform and I’ve never had as many leaflets through my door (3 labour, 2 reform) and addressed letters from restore and one from Carol Vorderman. Nothing from any other party. Sick of the whole thing now and want it over.
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W.B. Yeats, pictured with G.K. Chesterton, James Stephens, Lennox Robinson, Compton Mackenzie, Augustus John, and Sir Edwin Lutyens [1924]
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Whether they knew or not
Goldsmith and Burke, Swift and the Bishop of Cloyne
All hated Whiggery; but what is Whiggery?
A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
That never looked out of the eye of a saint
Or out of drunkard's eye.
W.B. Yeats, born 13th June 1865
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Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔
If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.
Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚
For You. For Grace. For Ian.
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Strong Ceaușescu vibes.
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You’d at least think he’d try to enjoy his last Trooping the Colour as Prime Minister.
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BREAKING: Alibaba Chinese AI, blacklisted by Western governments including the White House, is being routinely used by Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and the Ministry of Justice which he runs (via @Telegraph) telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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