Dunc

Lover of beer, wine, Lord Byron, history, season ticket holder at Notts County. Currently reading The Pickwick Papers

[H🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @H_Ho11and]

@WazzaMayes Only used that terminology as 80% of NTFC fans have said he's pony.

[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@nottscountyfor Single flying magpie is the best, Munto the worst!

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@FXMC1957 And he built top quality housing for his workers, each one coming with an allotment and a pig.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

England's Greatest Test Win

#OnThisDay in 1981, England beat Australia after following on at Leeds by 18 runs.

After Botham's heroic 149* off 148, Bob Willis took 8 for 43.

This was only the 2nd time a team won a test after following-on.

[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@JedPumblechook He died in 1824 though

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@HistoriaJack Thanks

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@HistoriaJack Is this on display anywhere do you know

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@ronsterd89 1973

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨 Sign our petition to stop David Lammy’s assault on free speech!

@SpeechUnion is extremely concerned about David Lammy’s proposal to scrap the 800 year-old right to trial by jury.

Juries are a bulwark of English liberty, particularly the right to free speech. They are often the last line of defence against the authoritarian cancel-culture mob. 

We analysed Ministry of Justice data from 2017-25, comparing the acquittal rate for those charged with speech crimes in jury trials with non-jury trials and the results are quite startling.

For all offences, crown court juries acquitted 21.6 per cent of the time in the last eight years, whereas it's just 11.4 per cent in magistrates courts.

For speech-related cases, the acquittal rate in jury trials rises to 27.6 per cent, compared to 15.9 per cent in mags, and in the last three years juries have been even more likely to find defendants not guilty of speech crimes -- 32.1 per cent compared to 14.1 per cent.

It could not be clearer: if the right to trial by jury is scrapped, you'll be much more likely to find yourself banged up for exercising your right to free speech.

Sign below ✍️ 

https://t.co/xPotJM6DNO

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

When people claim that our country isn’t sliding into a Stasi state, ask yourself this:

For over 800 years (ever since Henry II replaced trial by ordeal with jury trial in 1166, and Magna Carta in 1215 nailed it down as the “lawful judgement of your peers”), the right to be judged by twelve ordinary citizens has been the single greatest protection against an over-mighty state. Eight centuries. Longer than Parliament itself has existed. Longer than the English language as we speak it!

And now they want to rip it away.

Why are they rushing through a compulsory digital ID system?

Why are they quietly removing the right to jury trials for almost all serious offences — keeping them only for murder, manslaughter and rape?

This is happening straight after the post-riot crackdown, where people were sent to prison for years for “hurty” words on social media sentences longer than many actual rapists received. Those sentences were handed down by the same politicised, woke judges who will now decide guilt or innocence alone, without a jury of ordinary citizens to keep them in check.

Eight hundred years of hard-won protection, ended with a shrug and the excuse “it’ll save money.”

No more impartial jury of your peers just a single judge, often the very same ones who’ve already shown where their sympathies lie.

Budget cuts apparently trump eight centuries of liberty, and almost nobody in the media or Parliament is kicking up a serious fight.

Where is the opposition? Where is the mass outrage?

This isn’t some minor procedural tweak it’s the deliberate dismantling of the oldest and most effective safeguard ordinary people have ever had against state tyranny!

If this goes through unchallenged, the country I grew up in is finished. Many of us who simply speak our minds online will end up as political prisoners, convicted in secret trials with no realistic way to appeal or defend ourselves.

[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@The_East_End Sadly, there is no context to the photo, could it have been a bet?

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@LadyJane761 @Granfalloon55 @Rob66Hammer @lukejcr Absolutely, it's on my bucket list! They wouldn't/ couldn't build something as beautiful as that today.

[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@LadyJane761 @Granfalloon55 @Rob66Hammer @lukejcr Ludwig II is a really interesting character, worth looking into, and his castles were developed more by scene designer's than architects. But what an achievement!

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@LadyJane761 @Granfalloon55 @Rob66Hammer @lukejcr It's Neuschwanstein Castle, in Bavaria, built by Ludwig II

[Matt Lorenzo @lorenzomatthew]

Sixteen years in the making, King of Lies premieres on Sky Documentaries, at 8 on Nov 16.

The story of a trillion dollar fraudster who took on Kim Jong Un, an F1 team, Notts County FC,  the Head of Military Intelligence, Sol Campbell and Sven Goran Eriksson. Oh, and me too.

[Matt Lorenzo @lorenzomatthew]

King of Lies, Sky Documentaries, Sunday 8pm.

The story of a trillion dollar fraudster who took on Kim Jong Un, the BMW F1 team, Notts County the former Head of Military Intelligence, Sol Campbell and Sven Goran Eriksson. Oh, and me too.
#dashpictures #louismyles #mattscott

[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@Keir_Starmer 'Show us your papers' used to regarded as tyranny!

[Notts County History @magpies_history]

In 1912 Swindon Town beat Notts County 2-0 in the Fa Cup & Issued these Death Postcards…..Hopefully nothing this drastic tonight.

Safe trip to all those travelling & COYP! 💪🏼

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[Dunc @GethingDuncan]

@Turkey_Twizzler Not what the police have said

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

1. In the 1400s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
Hence we have 'the rule of thumb.'
2. Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...
Ladies Forbidden'... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
3. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David,
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs -Alexander the Great,
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'
5. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
6. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts...
So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.'
It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'
7. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service.
'Wet your whistle' is the phrase inspired by this practice.
8. In 1696, William III of England introduced a property tax that required those living in houses with more than six windows to pay a levy. In order to avoid the tax, house owners would brick up all windows except six. (The Window Tax lasted until 1851, and older houses with bricked-up windows are still a common sight in the U.K.) As the bricked-up windows prevented some rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was referred to as “daylight robbery”!
Now, there you have the origin of these phrases.
Interesting isn’t it!! 😁