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[RW @RWignall]

@SocialPolicy @fletcherr @JeremyClarkson Thanks for sharing. I think this is also in the context of the NICE 'approved' treatments which as I understand it don't include the focal type therapies available privately. The NHS treatment regime creates worse side effects/outcomes.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Every few months this map goes viral while it doesn’t represent reality at all.

In Meijer et al. 2021 we used a more detailed framework and a much larger dataset of measurements and found it’s actually ~1000 rivers that need to be tackled. If it’d be only 10 we’d be done ready!

[RW @RWignall]

@LancashirePics Walking days

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

I’ve unveiled a secret project today. One that we’ve been working on for the past year.

Something that can add a billion pounds a year to the economy of the north while making the environment better.

And we think we can deliver it at no cost to government.

Ambitious, right?

[RW @RWignall]

@toonaroonder @AaronBastani @KonstantinKisin But only for G&S fans!!

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

This ‘Proud of Us’ video on slavery is well worth your time.

They have many other videos telling historical truths that are often kept from us

This is not just for kids!

All of us should watch them! 👍

[RW @RWignall]

@alexmassie Wrong side of the Pennines (or border as we call it)

[RW @RWignall]

@ddhitchens @nmdacosta @PaulFosterMP as you did before, please put this bill out if its misery. It should be Government business to give it the focus and time it deserves. If the Bill passes un-amended and the Parliament Act then applies, it would truly be a travesty.

[RW @RWignall]

@kerstingfamily @StephenMorganMP My ex BR colleagues didn't call it the going nowhere symbol for nothing

[RW @RWignall]

@johnbawilliams @Lilly_jo_Cullen @darrenpjones And don't forget the Senior Manager of the other middle manager managining the Management Insight Department that's the measuring the oversight.

[RW @RWignall]

@IwanDoherty98 @PrestonsWomble @SimonMagus Does improved transport e.g. electrification of Blackpool Nth to Man help - far easier to get to Man now? Creating satellites to Man farther away? Preston isn't the city I knew in the 80s but much improved again.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta.

They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede.

They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty.

They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history.

They are not taught what came next.

They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern.

They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years.

They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year.

They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king.

They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords.

They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️

Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old.

If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago.

They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since.

Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe.
It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope.

✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England.

🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have.

This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇

Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[RW @RWignall]

@billwells_1 @RECNeil Thank you!

[RW @RWignall]

@billwells_1 @RobNoLastName Re self employed, is this the long term impact of IR35 and MTD? Plus, pure speculation, is/was self employment skewed to an age group now able to retire? A generational shift?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old.

They tested his DNA. 🧬

And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧

In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock.

He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids.

They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀

He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave.

For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque.

Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the

cheeks of twenty residents.

And ran the tests.

🧬 One matched.

Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave.

Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left.

He didn't know.

The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world.

Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave.

You are the reason we can tell these stories. https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[RW @RWignall]

@Jordan420y20245 @MoosesFelix @SusieM414141 In England, Heifer is an under 2 year old cow that hasn't yet given birth. It still works - in a different way.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 He called her the Enchantress of Number. 🧮

In 1843 a British woman wrote the world’s first computer programme. For a computer that didn’t exist yet. 💻

Her name was Ada Lovelace. Her father was Lord Byron. Her mother feared she would inherit his madness so she was taught mathematics instead. 📐

In 1833 she met Charles Babbage. He was building a machine that could calculate. Everyone else saw a calculator.

Ada saw something a century ahead of its time. That a machine could process not just numbers but anything expressed as symbols. Music. Language. Logic. Everything. ⚙️

She translated a French article about his engine into English. Then added her own notes. Three times as long as the original. ✍️

Note G. The world’s first computer programme. Written in 1843. For a machine that would not be built for another hundred years. 📜

Published under her initials only. A.A.L. Because she was a woman in 1843 and her name was not permitted on the page. 🔏

The computer was finally built a century later. Alan Turing referenced her work in his 1950 computing paper. The US Department of Defense named a programming language after her. 🖥️

Every computer programme ever written traces back to a note written by a British woman in a Victorian study by candlelight. 🕯️🇬🇧

Did they teach you her name?

If you want to see more stories like this, find us at https://t.co/wN9S2gRUuR

If you want to help us keep them alive: https://t.co/rih7iKwVkN

Be Part Of Us.

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[RW @RWignall]

@mwt2008 @DonaldPond6 Hi, are there a unit cost and industrial make up graphs too? Or assumptions about new technology that is required to enable businesses to continue operating during the transition? Thanks.

[PeggyStu @peggy_stu]

Best account on this platform bar none 👇💪

[RW @RWignall]

@Joanna__Hardy @Jebadoo2 @PaulFosterMP the real life potential impacts of the removal of right to jury trial - the impact on right to representation under Legal Aid too - a change littered with unintended consequences!