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Fallowfield 10 minutes ago 2 All organisations tend towards cover-up because their structure is hierarchical. As Max Weber pointed out long ago, this is the true meaning of bureaucracy, information passes up, decisions pass down, a place for everyone and everyone in his place. The paperwork which we...

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Some stunning views of Lindisfarne castle from sunny Northumberland at the weekend. Sky -- that prompted me to fill another gap in my knowledge -- "What is the connection between Iona and Lindisfarne? In 635 the Northumbrian king, Oswald (reigned 634–42), summoned an Irish monk named Aidan fro...

frog222 · Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024

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MudMutinyAndMadness 22 minutes ago 26 " We stayed in the Jewish Quarter when in Paris not that long ago, wonderful holiday. Lots of armed police protecting Jewish schools and synagogues after the terrorist attacks. Quite a development when the same French state backs the ICC. Biden & Sunak ...

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frog222 wrote: ↑Tue 21 May, 2024 7:41 am Good morning
I switched off R4 after the "outrageous", so missed this --
https://x.com/davidyelland/status/1792805266058358904

OK, it was Nick Robinson being a tool, again --

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Good morning

I switched off R4 after the "outrageous", so missed this --

https://x.com/davidyelland/status/1792805266058358904

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Warrant out for Bibi Refit -- you remember Anastasiya ? Good that it was only a false alarm. Nice that she's keeping her sense of humour about it. You introduced me to her, via lonerbox . Not long after her dad had gone out on the balcony to watch the fireworks and a RU rocket landed in the garden ...

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refitman wrote: ↑Mon 20 May, 2024 7:02 pm Warrant out for Bibi

Refit -- you remember Anastasiya ?

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First trial in .... 1992 . Director of Blood Transfusion Service sentenced to four years inside . Second trial in 1999, three ministers accused , shamed, but not imprisoned . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIXO3H6isqo&ab_channel=INAPolitique https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/23180120010...

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Time for an early-day laugh ? Last week the journalist Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod reported anecdotes of infection after the four Taylor Swift concerts ending last weekend ... and so it came to pass - https://twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1792427942561169631 (A lot of the kidz think it was worth it ......

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Easily verifiable lying from Sleepy Joe --

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I checked , very detailed article at the Boston Review .

The well-organised campaign against the supposed antisemitism of the Left is the New McCarthyism . Its first notable victim was one Jeremy Corbyn ...

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Good morning !

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They've found that helicopter ...

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The most crowd-funded War so far in history ! Welsh farmers and many others have donated old pickups , the NAFO org has collecte 300+ decent ones more, and the vlogger Jake Broe celebrated his 40th birthday last Monday by raising a $ 1000,000 PLUS in four days to get even more ! Ukrainian soldiers,...

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One of my favourite Ukrainian Nazis -- Fee read ! In the book, he says that “in order to write it, I first had to survive. And in order to survive, I had to believe I would write it”. In his inscription for the pope’s copy, Aseyev quoted from the Gospel of St John: “And the truth will set you free”....

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Standard Russian procedure wherever the frontline is a bit porous is to infiltrate special forces whose remit is to blow away as many civilians as they can get away with . Much frontline reporting from Maxim Tucker , Wednesday 15th volunteers and police evacuating people -- Inside the town there is ...

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Sorry to hear about the back refit, that's a right bugger i When I was much younger, like 45, and working in Paris, I'd wake up with agonies which luckily went away , until the next morning ... May haver been partly stress because I was in a very hairy environment . Now it's just a bit of knee and h...

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refitman wrote: ↑Sat 18 May, 2024 8:41 am I fly home on 20th (but not back in work until 28th ).

Hope you're having a good rest then ! Does that mean you are sleeping in til back to work ?

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It’s staggering how senior Labour figures just keep going down in my estimation “David Lammy rejects call to label Trump racist” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyer0y1klwro I've got plenty of dislike for Lammy, to put it mildly , but agree with him on this defence of previous statements -- Mr La...

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Morning !

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NO safe and legal routes with SKS

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Ha ; in the two months since that vid Putin has completely shaken up the power groupings , arrests and 'corruption' charges !

Glad to see that Beevor finds Hollywood 'WW2 films' as unwatchable as me , better interview !

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Just stumbled across this, the Kievan Rus and all that ---

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Just hoping they have some Very Secret Plans , but .......................

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Following Roger's link last Thursday should Nattie Elphicke be suspended from Labour for her Far-Left views on housing? /quote] I mean, dunk on Starmer all you like but that just isn't true is it? Housing is virtually certain to be one area where an incoming Labour government *is* going to be very ...

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refitman wrote: ↑Fri 17 May, 2024 3:09 pm Rog & Frog - you need to change the ‘X’ to ‘twitter’ in the URLs. Then they will embed.

I wondered but hadn't got around to testing the hypothesis .. Thanks !

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I noticed this yesterday , NHS CV figures going U- P for the past three weeks, and 10000+ people have already forked out the c£80 for a vaccine ... https://www.twitter.com/theipaper/status/1791172466426937473 And Taylor Swift is ravaging the frogs -- https://www.twitter.com/nicolasberrod/status/1791...

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Following Roger's link last Thursday should Nattie Elphicke be suspended from Labour for her Far-Left views on housing?

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Gdn Letters -- Can we please start a campaign to ennoble, or perhaps beatify, Marina Hyde? Just when I thought I couldn’t love her any more, she produced this account of Russell Brand’s baptism, including the line “I know, it’s incredible: Thames Water is no longer responsible for the biggest piece ...

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I listened to WATO on Gaza -- much time on the US "pier" to deliver a handful of truckloads of stuff , while hundreds of trucks are held up at the border by different Israeli methods . One Sir somebody ( i missed his name ) pointed out that many Hamas fighters are orphans from earlier 'con...

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Lightning glimpse ONLY --

A glitch ?

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Much better than the waffle Starmer came out with ... :-) Once more into the minefield, "you go first ! " There appears to be a widespread belief that kidz are empty vessels into which teechers and others pour truths which the little dears then accept ? So they have bugger-all agency and ...

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Morning

Off for croissants

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Bon voyage Sky !

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Afternoon all , I recommend Bill Browder to anyone who has not met him ! ( His lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in 2009 ) Some excellent viewing at the Treasury Select Committee, ( what a change for so much in the HoC ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXOJFuGkAU&ab_channel=TimesRadio To sav...

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It's that day again !

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Good morning

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This is new to me ... ...

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I was wondering how long this would take !

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refitman wrote: ↑Wed 15 May, 2024 1:58 pm

LOL ! There are some mighty humourless people down the thread !

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I confess to enjoying Krembot-teasing on the Ukraine threads at the Times (quite a squad ganging up on those ! ) but instead there's a Zionist tinted one today , with 90+++% of comments agin the student and staff protesters at Columbia so am in a tiny minority !!!!!! " 76 years on today, google...

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