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@KevinASchofield @PippaCrerar Or…

3) Cameron wanted to Leave all along hence the disastrous lacklustre campaign to Remain

4) If UK is doing so ‘well’ post Brexit, despite his projections as Remain, then clearly his judgement is so flawed that he cant get it right either way

He is an utter disaster

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@dave43law @colchlondoner @DailyMail Injunctions should not be possible for cases such as these, they endanger many innocents from reprisals by theorist pitchforkers

Internet services are awash with theories, its only a matter of time before either victims or innocent suspects are harmed through suspicion

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@Lewisiom @BBCNews There will he thousands of children younger than he that will never be published in a national magazine

He is there, not on merit, but who his parents are

Its a nice picture but unexceptional - it would be nice to see picture of that age group on merit

[Imperial War Museums @I_W_M]

'One minute after the hour. All guns silent.'

At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. This document from IWM's collections visualises the silence, showing artillery activity for one minute before and one minute after the Armistice.

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Absolutely

All lives mattered and continue to matter

[British Future @britishfuture]

More than 2.5 million soldiers from what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka fought for Britain in WW2 – the largest volunteer army in history.
Yet only half the UK public (52%) are aware of their service.
It's important we remember and honour all who served.

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@Lynchy_RL @JMR953 @SamCoatesSky Reform is stuffed full of failed Tories

Councillors, MPs, Commentators, were mostly Tories, sometimes UKiP, sometimes Brexit Party, always back to being Tories when convenient

Farage uses voters emotional vulnerability against their actual needs, to further his own ambitions

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A new petition is here

https://t.co/soPCobBB0d

[Kate Ferguson @kateferguson4]

Tom Holland calls for a national celebration to mark England’s 1,100th birthday next year.

King Athelstan was declared the first ‘King of the English’ on July 12, 927.

Let’s get this campaign going!

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@LuxMeaMundiAM @Lionesses Fuck yes!!

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@mjarbo Cavill and Afleck are their greatest assets - they have a natural affinity for the characters, Cavill IS Superman

Yet, DC chose to handicap their franchise

Wake the fuck up!! Celebrate the strengths

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Pah

Hound and i do this every day to keep our steps up

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

No other traveler has ever journeyed so far from home.

Voyager 1 is about to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth, or about 16 billion miles. ½

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@LuxMeaMundiAM @Lionesses He is lucky to be next to such an exceptional person

I hope he feels elevated by the experience

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@chuckthomasuk …maybe they may mean ‘full of evidence’…

[Kent Police Thanet @KentPoliceThan]

Elliot Cocks is wanted on recall to prison.

He has links to #Margate, #Ramsgate and #Medway.

If you see him, or know of his whereabouts, call 999 quoting 46/183925/26.

You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or complete their online form.

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@SeanOhhhh Who?

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Heroes, although they would say not

Fantastic generation

[Damien Lewis @authordlewis]

Sadly, the last known surviving WW2 veteran of the SAS, Matthew "Matt/Jock" Mackinnon-Pattison died on Thursday 5th November aged 102years. We remember Matthew. Here is a summary of Matthew's wartime service. Please share widely: Matt MacKinnon Pattison was among hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who fought Germans in Italy in the spring of 1944.
Sometimes remembered as the "D-Day Dodgers", in reference to their role away from Normandy, men in Italy faced brutal conditions as they battled to take Monte Cassino and dislodge enemy soldiers.
"We came back from Italy having flogged ourselves to pieces, nervous wrecks, and people say 'where were you on D-Day?'" said Matt, from Penrith, Cumbria.
"We just say we were busy bloody well fighting."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill thought of Italy as the "soft underbelly" of Nazi-dominated Europe, but the campaign there proved difficult and costly.
With perhaps typical military irony, the men in Italy adopted the "D-Day Dodgers" moniker, even creating a song to the tune of Lili Marleen, a famous wartime melody.
"We are the D-Day Dodgers in sunny Italy," rang the chorus.
But this was no sojourn in the sun and the Allied forces knew it.
Enemy soldiers were dug in on defensive lines across the country, and at Monte Cassino it took four separate attacks from US, British, Polish and Commonwealth forces to destroy and take the hilltop monastery.
Matt still has razor-sharp memories of the battles he fought, and the comrades he lost.
He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.
Advancing up the slopes amid the fog of deadly artillery bomb blasts and the continual crackle of gunfire, the soldier saw many of his comrades fall.
But, he said, there was no time to be frightened.
"You don’t look upon it as bravery, you just look at it as part of your life," he told the BBC.
"When the officers told you to advance, that was what you had to do.
"Every battle is the same. You get pounded to death, whether it was Normandy, Burma or anywhere."
Matt was recruited for the SAS after being injured and taken to a Naples hospital to recover.
From 100 candidates, he was just one of 10 that made it. He was dropped behind enemy lines near Genoa, tasked with finding Italian dictator Mussolini who by then had been captured by partisans.
Once the war was over, he was sent to Germany as part of the War Crimes Unit to find Nazi suspects who had executed captured members of the SAS.
There, he said, he saw a broken nation, but people "just like us".
Eight decades on, he can clearly recall the claustrophobic horror of war, from German soldiers playing dead to entice Allied soldiers into shooting range, to landmines and enormous loss.
"I lost a lot of my mates, especially one called Ginger," he said.
"And when he died he was sitting in a trench with his head down. There was a smile on his face."
"Still a smile on his face that marked the place where he and his maker met.
"And that was Ginger. He was a good lad."
Dodging D-Day was no pass, and so many thousands paid the ultimate price in Italy.
In his flat, Matt still has his SAS beret, his medals and his memories.
He also has his nation’s thanks.
(Source: https://t.co/DJA1rW5gra)

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@Gammage2025 @paullewismoney I have more than that but havent won anything for over 30 years

Reading the article, i could have expected something every 10 years

Makes me question the whole premise

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@bbcPoV Riveted, watched all 3 on the bounce

British cultural history, societal history, arts history, from 80’s to early 00’s

Utterly compelling

Could have watched a 4th Episode perhaps (Making Of?) but wow, so thrilling to watch

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@ElsbethMedea Not at all

Riveted, watched all 3 on the bounce

British cultural history, societal history, arts history, from 80’s to early 00’s

Utterly compelling

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@GMFinX @Danhybridfit You dont then add in the single people earning less than 50k per annum yet pays for that £11.4k Nursery costs for both the Couple and the Single high earner (£101k)

A system helps balance for all

There will always be oddities

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@DAaronovitch Wasnt he one of the good guys once?

Sounds a loon now