Mark L

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@Peston @ONS Careful now Robert, sit down and check that you’re ok.

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@JimGamble_INEQE @csbuckler @BBCgmu Not just sometimes Jim. We stopped shooting each other but we haven’t moved on, eating ourselves from within with our mutual suspicion, even hatred, living by the mantra of “fill your boots with their money” and “its the Brits fault”. A generation lost through paralysis.

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@jni_1972 @McIlroyRory When I read this I hark back to our greatest moment in golf being Eamonn D’Arcy holing a putt at the Ryder Cup! Seriously, is there a more begrudging and bitter nation?

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@Globalstats11 Just picturing how this works! So, a guy walks up to me on the street, asks me “excuse me sir, which country do you respect the most?”. So I will be, like everyone else, either consciously or unconsciously biased, and my answer will be in line with my prejudice. Totally pointless

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@areyoflight I have a man crush on this woman!

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@ianjamesparsley @post_liberal I believe that the Top 14 attracts more viewers in France than football.

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@magyarpeterMP The reaction in the (much larger) Poland is not reassuring however. Rather than reflect on the news from Budapest, the populist leader there now ratchets up the rhetoric, saying the Hungarians have lost their minds and spouting unfounded accusations that Magyar boiled animals!!

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@_OrbanAnita Yet in Poland the madness of the populists only ratchets up, PiS’s leader Kaczynski claiming the Hungarians have lost their minds, spouting unfounded accusations from Magyar’s former wife about him boiling animals. This is a positive week but we must keep fighting for freedom!

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@_OrbanAnita Meanwhile, in Poland, Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of the populist PiS party, an Orban supporter, and brother of the late President, states on state TV, I kid you not, that Magyar “boiled a dog”. The bitterness bears zero resemblance to his much vaunted claim to be a Christian.

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@SophyRidgeSky A truly shocking statistic (for me at least) is that, in the construction sector alone, in the last recorded year, 2022, there were 700 deaths by suicide in the Uk, two per day, 99% male. I worked in this sector for 35 years and had no idea.

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@vicderbyshire Vic, you did brillliantly as usual but Sir Bernard badly needed a bung stuck in his gob, not for what he has every right to say, but for consistently interrupting your other (equally entitled to voice their views) guests. It was appalling.

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@spotrac I often think back to when McIlroy paid (I think) £20m to extract himself from the contract with his then manager, c 15 years ago. It gave the then manager 10% of his winnings. Surely the best spent £20m, given that he is now heading towards billionairdom, and still only 36!

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@MLAsAndTheLike Gold Coast, old chap, its the Gold Coast.

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@SportsPaulH @TheMasters He was surely best friends with those trees lining the fairways, bosom buddies.

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@White_Rabbit_OG There really are no words to describe the people who post such stuff.

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@skydavidblevins Casement………..

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@sara_utv Where to start? Pointless.

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@AlanGreenwood_ I find him similar to Brian O’Driscoll in his punditry. Both are unquestionably masters of their art, both have encyclopaedic knowledge, to a freakish degree, of the minutiae of their sports, both crack funny jokes and smile a lot, yet I find it hard to warm to them.

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@jonsopel Plus Ulster rugby making a European Semi-Final John, justsaying - quite the weekend!

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@anneapplebaum @mpolachowska Plus Nawrocki and Kaczynski, a good day for Poland as well!