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@BBCr4today @amolrajan @Amolrajan grandstanding again. Can't he leave it to us to decide whether it's a ridiculous thing to say or not? @BBCtoday used to consider its audience intelligent enough to make up their own minds. Nowadays the presenters try to tell us what to think.

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@BishopsgateCopy @waitrose Steve. Mate. You should be ashamed of yourself for that one. 😂

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@BBCr4today @annaefoster Why are you reporting this? Reform have small handful of MPs and no prospect of power any time soon. It just isn't "news". It's Reform Party PR click bait and you are falling for it every time.

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@LindaRossi7 @lippyent It wasn't a concentration camp, it was a prisoner of war camp. Generally speaking the pow camps were run by the Wehrmacht, not the nazis, and pretty much stuck to the Geneva convention for western inmates (US, UK, Canada, Australia etc.). It was another story in the east.

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#BBCWato Since when has it been 'bragging' to say you're reading a book?

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@MitchBenn @leecollins54 Of course - I thought I could manage without any irony indicators here. And yes, a great ending to a magnificent film.

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@leecollins54 @MitchBenn No he wasn't. Rocky turned yellow. Fact.

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@MitchBenn What a film that is! "Whaddya hear, Whaddya say?" Cagney finest work in my opinion.

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@markgurman It will take me a long time to get over. the Apple Watch ultra betrayal.

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@thatginamiller @DanNeidle You have to be a bit clearer on what you mean by "tax avoidance schemes". And do you have the same opinion if you call it "tax-efficiency"? The concept is subjective, which is why we need laws to decide what is and isn't allowed. If it's legal, it's enough. There is no "moral".

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@jonhoneyball @SnazzyLabs Still use mine virtually every day. Still blown away by what the thing does. Apple are way ahead on spatial.

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@happygeek Well said.

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@happygeek Davey, will you be opining on the rogue OpenAI model that went walkies outside its sandbox? I'd be interested in your expert take on it. With best wishes...

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@campbellclaret Yes, fake. Ignore and delete.

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@Yakkubkk It was astonishing brilliance, and it's being totally overlooked by the "it's all Tuchel's fault" ignoramuses. Argentina beat us by playing much better than us from the moment we scored until the end. Fact.

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@Eintrachtrob @PaulEmbery This. The team wilted under the Argentine onslaught long before the subs were made, and they showed no sign whatever of scoring again. Argentina stepped up and played much better than we did. All Tuchel did was try to help the team do what they were already doing...

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@BBCMOTD No. England were on the back foot long before the substitutions. It wasn't an instruction from the bench to sit back, it was an involuntary response to the Argentine siege, which was impressive. The English habit of blaming the manager for everything is ancient and sad.

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@nabiscocoon I think they were pushed back into defending when Argentina decided to play proper football after Gordon's goal. When Argentina decided to play they were better than us. Nuff said.

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@Patrick82558993 @campbellclaret This is the real point. We are nearly good enough, but not quite. It's not Tuchel who's to blame for this, nor was it Southgate actually.

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@derekscottsfoot @campbellclaret 72 minutes. Not 60. A full quarter of an hour after the goal. The team had 17% possession after the goal up to that point, really because Argentina decided to play football and we couldn't cope. Tuchel saw what was happening and bolstered the defence. It wasn't enough.