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@LibertyLydia Can you not read? It passed all the emissions tests. This ban is purely on the age of the car, which is beyond ridiculous!

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@Alexandr4Denman Should have just left them to it then charged the last man standing with murder. They’ll all be out in a couple of years. You think they won’t want revenge against each other?

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@evilvillain1231 I’ve just googled the life span of an octopus, poor things! I had no idea the majority of them lived such short lives, it’s made me really sad😢

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If you are old enough to have driven in Britain in the 1980s, you remember the windscreen.

By July you could barely see through it. A run from Leeds to London in August finished with a bumper that looked like it had been to war and a sheet of glass you scrubbed with a sponge at the services while the engine ticked as it cooled. Moths in the headlights. Flies in the wing mirrors. The grille packed solid. Nobody thought it remarkable. It was simply the price of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, heaving with flying things.

Drive that same road today. Stop at the same services. The windscreen is clean. Spotless. You could very nearly eat off it.

We have the numbers, for those who want them. The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, has had volunteers counting the splats on their number plates since 2004. Britain's flying insects are down by roughly four fifths in twenty years. Gone in a single human lifetime, while the rest of us noticed nothing at all.

The birds went down with them, because the birds lived on them. A child born this year can grow up in the English countryside and never once hear a turtle dove, for the simple reason that there is almost nothing left to do the calling.

And none of it, not one acre of it, happened on the grass.

It happened in the arable fields, where the hedges were torn out for bigger machines and a single crop was sprayed over and over to keep it upright. The herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle still hums. The beetles, the pollinators, the ground-nesting birds, all still there, just about, on the pasture our ancestors never stopped grazing.

So when someone tells you your steak is emptying the British countryside, ask them what grew on that field before it was drained and ploughed and sprayed to raise the oats for the carton in their fridge.

It was grass, and there were cattle on it, and back then the windscreen needed cleaning.

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@Artemisfornow They’ve been installing fake chimneys on new builds for many years, purely for aesthetic reasons.

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@petetho05730914 @SandyofSuffolk Because he thinks a particular high cabinet salary is just around the corner! A perfect example of “you’ve got to speculate to accumulate”
Oh! And a lovely pension!

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@WHLeavitt He’s not police! He’s just some random guy on a scooter! But they’re trying to kick him in the head anyway. Those guys are just thugs!

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@PetGoatAlfred @WHLeavitt He’s not police

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@MissD1131464 @WHLeavitt That’s not a policeman

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@boltedsage77 @KeruboSk They don’t. It’s clickbait/bots/whatever. It’s not real.

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@jk_rowling @suzanne_moore “It’s a sh1t plan, we all know it’s a sh1t plan, but the PM won’t budge and I’ve agreed to be the fall guy”

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@David35168 @NotFarLeftAtAll And the rest! Translators were on more than that when I left the NHS over 10 years ago! And we had to pay travel, some were 150+ miles!

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@thefarmersheep Are they boys? Stuey and Huey😁

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@thefarmersheep I thought this was meant to be about sheep, not rabbits!
Considering unfollowing🤔

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@SamaHoole Oh Doris how could you! She could have at least pretended to be bothered, just for a second😂 Poor Moss trying his hardest, bless him🥰

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@salwaykerry @DazMac91 So she was aiming for their heads? She was trying to kill them then, not just maim!

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@AndrewRoy70 @Alexandr4Denman So for every 100 people stabbed then, only 96.2 will be stabbed now.
That’s so reassuring!

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@MichaelHil14955 @HellRaz0r1776 That’s why I couldn’t work from home. Far too isolating.

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@Alexandr4Denman WTAF!!!! That poor man I can’t begin to imagine how scared he must have been😱

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@Absinthe_Nishi Similar story here. They got my tax wrong two years ago which I thought I’d paid back last tax year. Turns out they got that wrong too so now I’m paying even more back. I’m on just over minimum wage with two jobs. Broken boiler, windows need replacing. I’m surviving, not living!