John Simpson

Exploring the combined limits of the Brompton bicycle and the middle-aged man.
Marmotte Pyrénées, Milan-Sanremo etc completed
Ötztaler Marathon the next target

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@tompeck I presume you're taking the piss.

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@ShakeelHashim The fact that anyone can join, simply by handing over £25, surely removes any legitimacy as a mouthpiece this society might claim ?

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@laflammerouge16 And he has a moustache

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@algorecrave Jenni, Has someone hacked your account ?

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@jameschappers The Jam
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Smiths
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Air
The Darkness
Marcus Miller
Buzzcocks
Gang of Four

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@magnusdrivenes @Presserom Thanks for this. Please could you give a link to the Norwegian Road Administration report ?

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@jameschappers Fair enough comment.
Streeting's move has forced him to trim on authenticity, and is upsetting (to me) for precisely that reason.
Had Sweeting genuinely put a priority on EU membership he would have kept his moth shut.

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@martynware @ArsenalN10 I wish there was some way of double or treble liking your post

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@devisridhar To be fair, Starmer is clearly not up to the job and destined to lose the next GE. If he had some wisdom, he'd organise his own succession.

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@palais_au C'est à un autre niveau de réflexion :
https://t.co/Sj6AWoxf7q

[Muse @xmuse_]

Banksy didn’t just blind the man with the flag. He gave him the confidence to stride anyway.

This isn’t the usual 'patriotism makes you stupid' jab everyone keeps repeating.

Look at the suit, the plinth, the imperial corridor of Waterloo Place... this is the modern power suit, the bureaucrat, CEO, politician, stepping off the very pedestal society built for him.

The flag doesn’t slow him.

It gives him momentum he never questions.

Banksy’s point is quieter: we don’t fall because we’re blind. We fall because we’ve convinced ourselves the flag is our eyes.

Every empire, every movement, every 'greater cause' started exactly like this with faceless momentum.

The sculpture isn’t mocking the marcher. It’s mourning the moment he mistook the wind for wisdom.

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@paulmasonnews This is disinformation. If you watch the full Q&A from this morning, you'll see it's obvious.
You're trashing your own reputation. For what ?

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@Matiullahjan919 Powerful statement. Is there a transcript available ?

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@NoContextBrits Looks like George Monbiot try to play Pacino

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@realBenBloch Now's not the time to be intimidated by shills

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@DrMatthewSweet @beverleyturner I can only feel sorry for her children.
If having James Cracknell as their dad wasn't bad enough...

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@bruno_amable Sérieusement, vous aimeriez avoir un Président Mélenchon ?

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@SVG__Collection I love her work with David Axelrod, especially his last, recorded in the early 70s but not released till 2001

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@janeansonwine A great guy. I fear that many people will know him only from Mondovino, in which he was nastily traduced.

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@DavidHenigUK Did you miss seeing Rubio declare that it was Israel's strike plan that triggered the US attack?
https://t.co/GPwD0f46RQ

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