Nick Phillips

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Ok. And who will be standing on behalf of 'the people'?

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My guess? Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize and Putin wants Alaska.

Let's see who gets their way.

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I'd hide my face if I were ever unfortunate enough to be caught at a Coldplay gig too.

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The building costs at Bad Wolf must be enormous considering the number of fourth walls they break.

Just brilliant.

#DoctorWho

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With the release of the great new song by Seth Lakeman which features Ian Anderson, it makes wonder if it's time for a folk-prog supergroup:

Anderson Bruford Lakeman and Lau

anyone? Anyone?

Thank you, I'm here all week.

Merry Christmas

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In the budget statement the Chancellor states they are going to crack down on the organised gangs who are running tax avoidance schemes, benefit fraud and shoplifting rings.

If they're so organised and so effective maybe we should ask them to form a government instead.

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Of the four sporting finals taking place today which involved either Brits or Spaniards it ended two wins each. I call that a good result.

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Those England football fans dressed as St George are looking increasingly like Don Quixote.

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A footballer kicks another footballer and the one who is kicked gets a yellow card, while the one who did the kicking rolls on the floor in agony until they are awarded a penalty at which point they get up and score a goal. I will never understand this game.

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This is the problem the Green Party has. Reading their manifesto I found it a bit uninspired, but doing a blind survey where policies from all five main parties are compared it shows there is a lot of their manifesto with which I agree.

Try it yourself at https://t.co/OT7dCJaFsc

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Batman singing Let It Go is the most genius #BGT performance ever.

Batman and Elsa, both orphans whose main superpower is really their inherited wealth.

Batman to Clark: "You can keep your Fortress of Solitude, I have a Kingdom of Isolation."

Oh, and no Batman musical? Really?

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Hackers threaten to sell Ticketmaster data for $500,000, though anyone wanting to buy the data needs to be aware that by the time they've added transaction fees the total cost will be nearly a million.

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So, I'm on the Aktuality site reading about what happened today in Slovakia when this translated story pops up.

My only question is, pistols or swords?

I really hope it's swords.

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Pretty sure pirates used to share their I’ll-gotten gains with their crews

P&O Ferries boss asked if he is ‘modern-day pirate’ for paying staff £4.87 an hour https://t.co/hl4rpwDXzW

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@christinabohons @i_iratus Definitely agree about a new flag. It's amazing how something which for centuries was a simple national logo, providing a useful way to identify teammates on battle and sports fields had recently become such a culture war rallying point.

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@christinabohons @i_iratus Do we need a national patron saint in England? The idea of a single unifying figure for such a varied nation has always struck me as strange. What about regional saints instead? Cuthbert or Hilda in the north, Dunstan in the west, Edward in the south and Becket in the east.

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@McR1B69 Django, Hateful, Basterds, Reservoir, Fiction, Kill and Bill are all one long film that the studio forced Tarantino to split into seven separate movies in order to make them more m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ palatable to audiences.

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At the next #PMQs Mr Starmer should simply say "You know what? I can't think of a single thing I want to ask you" before ceding the floor to Angela Rayner who proceeds to ask the prime minister what is his favourite cheese.

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RINO (Republican In Name Only) sort of works as it does sound like a real word but just appropriating this for CINO (Conservative In Name Only) doesn't make any sense when Conservative Only In Name is available as a far better phrase to coin, as it were.

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What, trigger warnings like

"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their lives" ?

‘Don’t come if you are worried’: former RSC boss says he hates trigger warnings for plays

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