Chris Allen

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@jamesrbuk Also, return fares were cancelled in wake of £2 cap. Eg what used to be £3.80 return fare in Lancaster became effectively £4 return fare (two singles) - will presumably now be £6 return fare…

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@Philip_Goff Brings to mind that tattoo of yours @Philip_Goff…

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@Philip_Goff Firmly fixed in my memory because for some time I doubted myself talking about hat-tricks. Philosophy’s gain is football’s loss. Durham (Chester-le-Street) is a lovely place to watch cricket…

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@Philip_Goff We once had a disagreement about whether you had scored a hat-trick or not. You insisted you had not, because a hat-trick needed to be three in a row. You were thinking about cricket, but I did not know that then. I suspect you would prefer the cricket; I’ll take you one day.

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@BacklistedPod Yes please

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@BacklistedPod Yes please

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@Philip_Goff 132/15 - hymn of thanksgiving of a convalescent to God!

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@DavidDeutschOxf Congratulations!

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@IanDunt 'this slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.'

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@tortoise Does Musk still own any shares in Paypal?

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@BBCNewsnight @ConorBurnsUK It doesn’t matter whether it was a ‘party’ or not - the law wasn’t to stop people having fun, it was about limiting non essential proximity to other people.

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@andrew_lilico Except that by the point he gave the answer in the commons it’s inconceivable given events that he and his advisors hadn’t given further thought/sought legal advice as to what might constitute a breach of the law. Did they or the Met misinterpret the law they made themselves?

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@feelinglistless @BBCInOurTime This is brilliant. Great stuff Stuart.

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@TheEconomist I think there is an error in this headline - isn’t the parent called Didymos?

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@DrPragyaAgarwal The Athenaeum, I don't think they are on Twitter

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@DrPragyaAgarwal You may be able to book something here https://t.co/WAS2AmbzLK

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@chrisshipitv @shawmind_ Just before it gets retweeted a lot, to note that the original tweet says 'a leading cause of death', not 'the world's leading cause of death'. No less important for that.

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@BylineTimes I remember hearing @billybragg asking this question in the Oxford Union of all places about 20 years ago - a really striking speech.

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@FloraEGill Just click the star button