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[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

The Odyssey. Quite disappointing. Like a bumper episode of Doctor Who set in antiquity. I kept waiting for some profound, inspiring, intelligent, virtuous or subtle bits but they never came. No changes of pace or mood or emotion - just interminable loud violence. #Odyssey

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

“is” or “are”?

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

@MbarkCherguia Cattle food!

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

Your turn! If you succeed, post a video and tag me in it! Good luck!

[Giles Coren @gilescoren]

With the paywall down, I thought I’d reshare this one from last week about Ash Wednesday and my unexpected midlife enthusiasm for churchgoing…

https://t.co/29B7GobGvz

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

Beware of Bacon, Ham and Sausages! They cause cancer. And we should eat less of them. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have both classified processed meats as carcinogens.

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

How embarrassing to be American!

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

Yellow fever vaccination for over 60s - any experiences (good or bad) or tips?

[Sarah #NeverBurnham @timetoshine1234]

A working person is someone who relies on their income from working, not through savings and wealth.

Why is this so difficult to understand.
What am I missing??

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

Chris Kaba’s killer was guilty of manslaughter. There was never any chance that a murder charge would stick.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why aren’t young people working? https://t.co/xlJxqmQWE8 Thirty-eight per cent of young people who could work are not doing so. They’re not lazy, or indifferent. Nor have they dropped out. They just can’t fit into the machinery of conformism that modern employers demand of them. As a result, vast numbers of talented young people aren’t delivering of their best for this country.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Two facts re winter fuel allowance:

1) At £200 it's same in cash terms as in 2000 - a real terms cut of 45%. Slow drift into irrelevance.

2) Pensioners much better off than they were then - poverty rate down from 26% to 16%, median income up 38% (only up 19% for non-pensioners)

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

@RichardJMurphy Evidence that @RichardJMurphy has lost the plot!

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Today’s deaths in the channel are a tragedy, as everyone is saying. But it was also entirely avoidable. If those wishing to apply for asylum here were given ferry tickets the deaths would end, the criminal gangs would have no market and a fortune in costs would be saved. So, why not do this when we know nothing is going to stop the boats?

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

So, Noel and Liam Gallagher, what first attracted you to the estimated £400 million reunion tour?

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

It was changed to the weekend of the last Saturday in August; with the result that in 1968 and 1969 August Bank Holiday was in September! In 1971 a law was passed which resulted in August Bank Holiday always being in August.

[Love Surbiton @SurbitonLove]

Prior to 1964 the UK’s August Bank Holiday was held on the first Monday of August. The date was changed - initially on an experimental basis - due to pressure from the holiday industry to extend the season (but not in Scotland).

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Whatever else is claimed about it, crypto is not a currency https://t.co/FN9tahs9MF Cryptocurrencies are nothing of that sort because almost none are ever used to facilitate trade – for which they are wholly unsuited because of their uncertain values. They might just be highly volatile assets. But they might best be seen as mechanisms to undermine the state.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Until we have political and corporate leadership that serves the community and not powerful individuals, nothing will prevent another Post Office scandal https://t.co/aw4Piz1EHF The real story of the Post Office is all about the abuse of power. Those in charge put their interests above those of all others - because they believed that they were the most important people in the organisation.

Their status, income, and the right to demand loyalty and to impose control all confirmed that in their own minds.

It was not possible in that case that they might have made a mistake, in their opinion. A mistake, if there was one, must have been by those they commanded, and not by them. Nothing else was possible, in their opinion. And so abuse happened.

[Reuters @Reuters]

London's India Club, a historic curry house with links to India's freedom struggle, to serve its last meal after more than 70 years https://t.co/zZsqJ5j1gA