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  If you're posting about Sam Smith at the #BBCproms in relation to anything other than his extraordinary voice, what's the matter with you?

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  When #bbcwato asked Labour for a minister to appear on the programme they declined and offered Jonathan Ashworth instead…..?

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  Listening to Starmer today I was reminded of the old Joe Hill song: “Work all day Live on hay You’ll get pie in the sky When you die”

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  Tory insanity: 1. Liz Truss wanted to cancel #NHS cancer care to balance the books after she crashed the economy 2. Rees-Mogg suggested taking a nuclear sub off operational patrol and plugging its reactors into the National Grid Mad Swivel-eyed madness https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-kwasi-kwarteng-at-10-nhs-cancer-economy-b2601932.html

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  As Liz Truss is trending, a timely reminder of how delusional she can be. Her book Ten Years to Save The West sold just 2,228 copies in the first week and entered the "bestseller" list at 70th. That's "bestselling" Lol.

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  In the three years to Match 2023, Thames Water paid out £99m in dividends. Privatisation since 1990 has drained £7.2bn dividends from its coffers - and it is currently £15.6bn in debt. Let them go bust. @cpb

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  Sad metaphor for what happened to the industry I grew up working in: a newspaper office turned into a museum.

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  Last year, overlooking Lake Garda. This year, overlooking Loch Long. Scotland’s cheaper, but with fewer boats.

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  If Lucy Connolly's post inciting racial hatred did not break X's rules but did break the law I assume @ElonMusk would say the law is at fault, not his platform. By that Orwellian logic, hate speech is freedom of speech on X, and Musk is Big Brother. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8ljjjmpg5o

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  About 1,400 years of the English language and the best Tugendhat can come up with is something that sounds like the motto of the RADA tennis club.

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  Nadhim Zahawi spots a rough sleeper in one of the poshest parts of London. Did he check on this person or try to help them? No. He "just walked 'passed' " - but not before pausing to take a picture. This, from the millionaire who charged the taxpayers to keep his horses warm.

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  My grandchildren’s gift from Paris is a pair of socks bearing a picture of Donald Trump

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  Viewed from #SouthShields in the evening sunshine, #NorthShields has a distinctly Baltic look about it (apologies for the slightly cock-eyed horizon)

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  The most misplaced apostrophe in the entire history of misplaced apostrophes

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  I had a question to ask Lemn Sissay tonight in Newcastle about his poetry, but couldn’t because others in the audience got there first with 1. How do you keep your Lancashire accent? 2. What do you do when you’re not writing? 3. If relationships were a recipe, what’s the best ingredient?

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  I’m standing a close to the point on the clifftop grasslands in South Shields where the Great North Run ends. There are dozens of people around me in the dark staring at the sky. Cars line the Coast Road like the ending in Field of Dreams. All looking at #northernlights #aurora

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  It was depressing to visit my local hospital and see notices signifying private healthcare involvement with the #NHS. This was on a diagnostic centre. I was on my way to give blood for a test also c/o private healthcare. And there’ll be more to come thanks to Wes Streeting

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  Welby said he had considered resigning but was “persuaded” by others to stay. Since when did it become acceptable to subcontract your conscience for others to decide your moral standpoint for you?