Tony Kilner

Moved from London to Yorkshire via St Helena.

[Governor's Office - St Helena, Ascension & Tristan @GO_ASHT]

Dear David Attenborough,

Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!

Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.

Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!

With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise

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@BenGrahamUK Well Quakers like the Cadbury's were traditionally against celebrating Easter. It goes back a long way.

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@FionaSmall https://t.co/RXnIwAUjI4

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@FionaSmall Saint Helena.

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Animals on currency is elite

[John Paul Newman @johnpaul_newman]

Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit. 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

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@davidaxelrod @nytimes He's had his ready brek

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@Colin00007 @d5_rss Lord Davies is in the shadow cabinet as shadow SoS for Wales.

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@doktordunc @JoMicheII @AnnPettifor The other was seeming bland and safe so people who were never going to vote for them were happy to vote Reform etc rather than voting Tory to keep the scary Socialists out. That, thanks to Farage, worked better than they had any right to expect at the start of the campaign.

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@doktordunc @JoMicheII @AnnPettifor I think there were two things going on. One was very deliberate - going after Tory voters by sounding tough and patriotic, while realising that would come at a cost of some of the core vote protesting by voting Green Libdem or independent.

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@doktordunc @JoMicheII @AnnPettifor Winning votes from the Tories at the cost of loosing a similar number of votes to the Green, Libdems and independents is very efficient though, even if it's not targeted.

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@twlldun I seem to remember Tito's funeral getting covered live.

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"All parts of the Labour party think this is a terrible policy, and all parts of the Labour party will want to see it abolished".

Economist and Labour candidate @TorstenBell on Keir Starmer's plan to keep the two-child benefit cap.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The Tories want to cut stamp duty for first time buyers. Fair enough - stamp duty is a terrible tax. But the evidence shows that cutting stamp duty *increases* house prices. It's pointless.

There is a better way.

[Jack Hemingway @JackSHemingway]

At long last a chance to end the Tory chaos, vote Labour in Wakefield and Rothwell on July 4th, vote for change! 🗳️ 🌹 #generalelection

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@d5_rss @TerryC800 @benonwine The Lascelles principles don't require the King to have any reasons to authorise an early GE, they just say he'd have to have reasons to refuse. "no wise Sovereign ... would deny a dissolution to his Prime Minister unless he were satisfied that: ..."

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@NileGardiner The Duke was a traitor who sought French support for an invasion to topple the King.

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@BritishOverseas Good news!
Webpage says North West rather than North East.

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now Cameron is in charge of Britain’s aid budget, will he fight to reinstate the 0.7% commitment?