Doug Major

1.8 Human beings and King of the 'One Day'.

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@hughlaurie #HasTuchelBeenSackedYet? If not, why not?

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@TomP1Bellingham #HasTuchelBeenSackedYet? If not, why not?

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@campbellclaret #HasTuchelBeenSackedYet? If not, why not?

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@piersmorgan #HasTuchelBeenSackedYet? If not, why not?

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@F1 Safety car was ridiculous. You still can't organise this. Again the conversation is about tiny details around the rules. People arrange their weekends to watch this stuff, save up all year for tickets, and you lot faff about making races boring.

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@F1 Pathetic. Always looking at rule books. Rubbish. Utter waste of an afternoon

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@F1 @MercedesAMG You people are useless

[Danielle Proto @protodanielle]

🚨 The depravity.

Lewis Bates and Mark Wilson — the Hartlepool sex beasts who abducted a 13-year-old schoolgirl, took her to a remote track and took turns raping her — have been released.

These monsters enticed the girl into a car, drove her to an isolated spot, and subjected her to a half-hour nightmare.

They left her bleeding profusely, barely able to walk. She was physically sick when she got home and had to be taken to hospital.

Sam Hunter helped lure her in and got a lighter sentence.

15 years for gang-raping a child. And now they’re back on the streets.

How many more victims before these monsters are kept locked up for good?

Our girls are not safe while the system keeps letting animals like this out early.

Name them. Shame them. Never forget what they did.

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@hicasamadim 72

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Cadbury was founded in Birmingham in 1824.

In 2010, it was acquired by an American company.

Today, much of the profit from one of England's best-known chocolate brands flows to overseas shareholders.

The UK chocolate market is worth over £8 billion a year. If just 10% shifted to English-made producers, that's £800 million supporting businesses, jobs and investment here.

We're building https://t.co/eWD8weWXHH to make it easy to find them.

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

How mad is this?

A tiny, brilliant restaurant in Bedale, run single handedly by Ruth Hanson, being threatened by @northyorksc bureaucracy because her husband occasionally gives diners a lift home.

No trains. No Uber. Just making do with common sense and hard graft.

Then along comes a licensing officer saying it is basically an illegal taxi firm.

This is exactly why people are fed up with petty officialdom.

Instead, councils should be saying to businesses “how can we help?”

Thank you to @gilescoren and @kelvmackenzie

I’ll buy you both dinner there next time you’re up.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Grateful to Times columnist Giles Coren for putting to the sword a local council pipsqueak for trying to put out of business a restaurant in the middle of nowhere where owner Ruth Hanson does all the kitchen prep herself, the washing up, the bookings, the till, payroll and then cooks it.
The restaurant is called Hansom in Bedale, North Yorkshire. To give you an idea of its remoteness it’s 7 miles from Northallerton and 31 miles from York.
So, on occasions, her husband Mark, who had a job of his own, gives up his evenings to chauffeur some guests to and from their homes.
Coren points out when he reviewed the place last year ( he gave it a glowing recommendation) he had to hitchhike from Northallerton station.
No Bedale train, no metro, no Uber hanging around at the corner.
Enter Chris Doyle, licensing enforcement officer for N Yorkshire council, who has written to Ruth saying in his view Mark was operating a taxi service and that would require a raft of expensive and time consuming licences.
Ruth responded that Mark was her husband, he was unpaid and there was no separate charge for the journey.
Doyle said he didn’t care as there was deemed to be a commercial benefit and warned without a licence the council may take legal action.
Coren has a great last paragraph; “ Yeah, you sue her, you absolute local heroes.
“ You teach Ruth and Mark a lesson for being great at their jobs, for treasuring their customers, for trying to create a little joy and make ends meet in a collapsing world.”
PS Thought you’d like to see what a Ruth menus looks like. This is called the Sunday Sharing Feast.
Starters.
Smoked Leek and Pickled Croque
Monsieur
Whitby Crab Crumpet Pickled cucumber, Garden herbs.
Heritage beetroot, whipped goat’s Curd, Wild Garlic emulsion.
Main Course
Wensleydale chicken, Apricot and sage Wellington.
Honey and mustard mash, buttered spring , cider sauce.
Dessert
Yorkshire rhubarb and ginger trifle.
Cost; £55.
With publicity thanks to Coren’s column and this tweet I suspect the queue will be out the door and Mark can have his evenings off again.

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@Ed_Miliband Why state a number that's so wildly simple to disagree with. Are you just going to ride the noise so that once it's over, the thing you really wanted to get over the line will stick?

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@GBNEWS How many shares does he have in BP?

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@rhipratchett What a guy.

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@rebeccaperrotto I'm so sorry for your loss. 💔

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@MothinAli Daft

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@zarahsultana Give them an apple 🍏. They'll be fine.

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@MichaelARothman @Nigel_Farage If we do a deal with China for beef, and in time they decide to change their regulations, would you expect us to comply, or walk away from the deal?

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@MuslimCouncil @MusDabbagh I want you to be this motivated to stand against acts of terrorism in this country.