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[michael @michael78620491]

@JeffStelling @kelvmackenzie Not all of them have made a fortune especially players who stopped pre 2000's. Even for those after few have managed to keep that fortune post retirement. Kelvin is right, would be plenty of ex players chomping at the bit to get back in the public eye on a show like that.

[michael @michael78620491]

@RichardHigson My favourite bond film, the most fun, best song, exotic location and the most suited bond girl in the Moore series

[michael @michael78620491]

@ewan31500487 @ClarkeMicah Yes but it wasn't quite as simple as that, the state of the economy Gorbochev inherited from Breznev and the others that followed him was dire. Had the management in the 70s been more compotent he would have avoided the course he took to liberalise quite as quickly

[michael @michael78620491]

@ClarkeMicah Is this the lesson the Chinese pretty much learned from? Any inch given results in an end to the control

[michael @michael78620491]

@PetronellaWyatt One of the few he really clashed with on a film was John Wayne, shows even the greats can have differences!

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

“That’s not a coincidence - that’s a consequence” is a blatantly obvious example of AI writing. We have an Education Secretary, who is personally committed to lowering standards, who can’t even write a coherent op-ed without contracting it out to a chatbot. Dismal stuff!

[michael @michael78620491]

@AllisonPearson It looks rubbish and wouldn't be worth a discussion 20 years ago, not any other film options to speak of and barely anything that is made these days is even half decent so this garbage gets more attention than it deserves

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is very worth reading because it beautifully lays out the faulty thinking that has given us suicidal economic policy that has also made no impact on climate change whatsoever.

Characteristically, it pretends that those who oppose Net Zero do so because they deny that the climate is changing (no one sensible does), that outsourcing our emissions to poor countries, an accounting trick, is somehow green (it's not) and, most importantly, challenges the argument that the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions produced in the world today are emitted by countries that care about economic growth way more than they care about "saving the planet" (China, India etc) by citing Kenya whose entire annual emissions are roughly equivalent to what China emits in about 8 hours.

The hoax is not climate change. The hoax is that we can stop it by making ourselves poorer.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Er....2026 is the quietest year for wild fires in Europe by some distance.

[michael @michael78620491]

@ClarkeMicah @YouTube Greag listen, particularly depressing to hear just how WW1 was so damaging for us a country. Out of interest, are there any foreign interventions in recent times that you approve of?

[michael @michael78620491]

@SirSimonClarke Reactive:

Covid
Ukraine
Scottish election

Reluctantly followed through:

EU referendum, PM resigned due to opposition

The other two.. universal credit really??

Free schools was a positive yes, that is the one decent truly forward thinking policy in a 14 year term.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

“Don’t speculate!” means

“shut up and accept the establishment narrative!”.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

How can you taunt someone about a war that you LOST

[michael @michael78620491]

@StanCollymore Are two defensive midfielders really necessary against Congo? So negative

[michael @michael78620491]

@Madz_Grant @johngconnolly Astonishing but not suprising, there isn't a public institution which hasn't lost its way in the past 10 years doing stupid things like this

[michael @michael78620491]

@Emma_A_Webb Gone With The Wind, it's their War and Peace and the book is even better than the wonderful film.

[michael @michael78620491]

@EssexPR That's not the worst, church near me had the pride flag up today, bonkers!

[michael @michael78620491]

@emmakennytv Outrageous and should be getting far more attention than it is, our govt agencies have lost their minds across the board it is appalling!

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Today a group of Muslims prayed next to the Ministry of Defence, facing the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial.

As I have said before, choosing to pray in this way in public is a political act. It is a social statement and, yes, it is an act of domination.

Anybody who understands Islamism understands that the domination of public spaces is part of the modus operandi. It is done so Islamists can show who is in charge - and to show other Muslims and the wider public that the authorities will bend to their will.

There is quite obviously no need to pray here. The decision to do so is symbolic and pointed.

It is not welcome. We have freedom of religion in this country, which is why there are mosques. But we are not a Muslim country and this is not welcome. It should be stopped.