Rail operations specialist. Editor of Outre-Manche blog. Very rarely here now. Find me instead on Bluesky as @vernonbaseley.bsky.social
Joined May 2010
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2 Jan 2022
What we're up against:
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1 Jan 2025
Happy Meldrew Point Day, Missy Elliott! You have reached 19,537 days old and have hit your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!
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20 Nov 2024
BREAKING:
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
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13 Nov 2024
RFK Jr saying he never knew anybody who was autistic as a kid is particularly galling considering his aunt Eunice founded a day camp for kids with autism in 1962 and founded the Special Olympics in 1968
Just a completely dishonest POS
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14 Nov 2024
Speaking of news, here's the BBC sounding all surprised that it's finally dawned on the Bank of England Governor (who, we hear, has been "shy" of mentioning Brexit🤡) that putting up trade barriers with your biggest trade partner means you do less trade with it
Fancy that !🤡
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14 Nov 2024
🇷🇺Russian "research vessel' / spy ship Yantar currently loitering over underwater infrastructure in the Irish Sea off the Isle of Man. (Monitored by P-8A aircraft and possibly HMS Iron Duke)
The vessel switched on AIS briefly this afternoon.
Great OSINT work by @auonsson
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14 Nov 2024
RT @DenisMacShane: Assume price of bleach shares now rocketing
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14 Nov 2024
Yulia Navalnaya receiving the Magnitsky Courage Under Fire Award from Vladimir Kara-Murza at the Magnitsky Human Rights Awards in London tonight.
A bittersweet hurrah @yulia_navalnaya
#magnitskyawards
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13 Nov 2024
Brilliant piece by @DAaronovitch for @_TheLondoner about his family, the nostalgia for poverty and how a highly influential study has distorted our view of the 'close knit' communities of old London.
the-londoner.co.uk/would-you…
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Palestinian Americans that voted for Trump because they didn’t like the Biden administration’s stance on Palestine will have a rude awakening very soon.
“There is no such thing as the West Bank” - Trump’s new Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee
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13 Nov 2024
It appears that Nigel Farage and Richard Tice are now paid up MPs for Donald Trump
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13 Nov 2024
Every time I hear bad news about crime in Europe I remember that America has it a million times worse
Not one EU country would make the US top 20
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13 Nov 2024
When my mother was in hospital shortly before she died, three doctors filled out DNR forms without speaking to her or any member of the family. No one tried to ascertain her wishes or mine. Why would assisted suicide work any better.
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12 Nov 2024
Perhaps some of the people so certain that Trump’s victory is a victory for common sense would care to explain this man to whom Trump promised “control of public health agencies”
12 Nov 2024
Robert F Kennedy Jr. claims COVID-19 was genetically engineered to spare “Jews and Chinese people”. (2023)
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12 Nov 2024
Fantastic answer @tomhanks to @TheRestHistory … it could be called “friend of Bill” (look it up if unaware)… AA is one of the greatest examples of two people - Bill and Bob - starting something and it becoming a remarkable global life saving movement which outlived founders
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13 Nov 2024
Something people are missing. The one constant about Donald Trump is that he eventually falls out with and dispenses with every senior ally. In four years time Elon Musk will not be in his camp. It's simply a matter of time.
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13 Nov 2024
From the incredible blog Chinese DoomScroll:
If you ever see a disaster in China where exactly 35 people die, it's because 36 means the mayor gets fired. It's fascinating in a horrifying way how authoritarian systems always develop their own unique post-truth quirks.
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13 Nov 2024
Waltz won’t decide. In a Trump administration, only one person decides…
12 Nov 2024
Ten days before the election, Michael Waltz launched a scathing critique of Biden’s weak foreign policy, exposing his hardline stance on China, Russia, and Ukraine. Now set to become Trump’s national security advisor, Waltz is likely to push further than Biden ever dared. 1/
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13 Nov 2024
The same in Brussels, if it's rush hour...
12 Nov 2024
You can drive for 149 hours across Russia and still be in Russia
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13 Nov 2024
What are today thinking Arab-Americans who have voted for Trump?
13 Nov 2024
Kristi Noem, Trump's pick for the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has proposed a bill to penalize criticism of Israel, entitled “Ensuring the Security of God's Chosen People”.
In her statement, Noem reflected on her upbringing, where she was taught to pray for Israel and recognize Jews as "God's chosen people."
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