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Interests from The Archers to Archaeoastronomy and multiple crafts. The history of science shows healthy scepticism is vital - don't stomp on it please.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…

Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)

Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.

It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.

It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!

The poppy isn’t for you!

It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.

The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.

And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.

The poppy is about love and loss. For you!

So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!

Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.

So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.

So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.

Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.

Best
The ordinary people.

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Happy Trafalgar Day.

Nelson, in his dying moments, could say with confidence 'Thank God I have done my duty'.

Let us hope we can all say the same in our last minutes.

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@JuliaLeeAuthor @jenniwdog @Nelliefarmhouse Not as bad as the American preacher at Harry and Meghan's wedding who kept shouting, "fire", while in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, in front of the late Queen.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The original sin of Brexit was not allowing Vote Leave to own the project after victory.

In wrestling power from the people who won the referendum, insane internal machinations within the Parliamentary Conservative Party prevented those who campaigned for the outcome from delivering that outcome.

From the start the whole project was decapitated.

And so here we are now, ten years on, having repealed precious little EU law, pursuing no supply side reform, indeed still building a £125m bat tunnel in order that HS2 abide by the retained EU Habitats Directive.

For the best part of a decade the political class stole the victory from the people.

And now they have the temerity to say their own failure is actually the fault of the people for wanting an independent country.

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@Kernow27 Unfortunately the 🦇🦇 🦇 are already sitting tenants, so I hope nobody on that list minds sharing.

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@dcabcdef @RachelSargeant3 I'm pretty sure that Carol made a large donation to Alan when she was paying him back for ordering the flowers for Anna. It happened moments after he'd been talking about struggling to raise funds for the replacement church bell.
#TheArchers

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@point0fentry Wasn't it mostly Cathy's men?

[Sir Liam Fox @LiamFox]

Changing the law retrospectively is a very dangerous path for any government to follow. To criminalise what an individual believed to be legal behaviour at the time undermines the whole principle of the rule of law.

If the law is not clear, accessible and known in advance of any actions we take then we enter the realm of arbitrary justice which is the hallmark of dictators and tyrants.

The huge donations given to Reform UK raise genuine questions about whether we want to have a complete laissez faire approach to political fundraising or whether we want some restrictions at an individual, constituency or party level.

Do we want an American system where money is the dominant political influence or a nanny state which restricts our freedom to do what we want with our own money, or do we seek some equilibrium between the two?

This is a massively important debate for our democracy but knee jerk reactions designed to punish individual actions or parties create not only dangerous precedents but represent a frightening view of our potential future.

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@mgordonwalker Are you also from Lancashire, like Harrison? I am and I'm about the same age as you and would definitely have heard it a lot when I was younger.

I did some linguistics at college and oddly the various words for fizzy drinks do vary hugely by region, both in the UK and the US.

[солнцецвет @arthurdarlin]

сэкономьте себе 4к на уроке со мной и послушайте, как эта роскошная леди за две минутки раскидывает, как так вышло, что у англичан colour, а у американцев color

[Neil Bailey @NeilBai60020290]

I've always looked on the tweetalong at #TheArchers as a way of escaping the doom and gloom of 'real life' by gently taking the mick out the characters and SLs. I personally think we can do without disparaging snide remarks about politicians of whatever colour. Don't you?

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@CarinthiaHart @pevenseyjayne @annysqu @algingersmith I'm sure that George's alcohol tag came off quite some time ago, but he seems to be staying off the drink in solidarity with Amber.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

A slow news day has the BBC reaching for an El Niño apocalypse story – full of dire warnings and little actual evidence. Guy de la Bédoyère takes aim at the latest climate doomfest.
https://t.co/Q7iQpynE6g

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@soniasodha I have just spent 10 minutes in my conservatory watching it rain, too fascinated to move.

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@FrankieForber Lily, is the actual, if more boring, answer.

There was a time when if a daughter inherited and later married then her husband would have been expected to take her surname in order to preserve the Pargetter name into future generations.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

[Sir Lefty Farr-Wright, Far-Right Parody Account @GiveUsAQuid]

Climate change is indeed real, which is why we no longer live in an Ice Age—thank heavens.

What has yet to be established, however, is how much of this natural change is augmented by human activity. To put it mildly, the evidence is weak and does not withstand serious scrutiny.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

This is genuinely sad to see.

The Government can find the money to increase foreign aid from 0.2% to 0.7%, while we already send Pakistan £133 million a year.

Yet we can't find a few million to keep Britain's largest space telescope open.

It helped support the Apollo missions, tracked Soviet rockets during the Cold War, and inspired generations of scientists.

Our priorities are completely backwards.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Heatwave anxiety can make you feel 'incredibly helpless' - here's how to manage it - BBC News

So the BBC pushes nonstop nonsense doomsayer climate hysteria in every "news" story and on every show. Then people like this daft woman get anxious about the looming end of the world and then the BBC write a story about it offering to help manage it. 🤪

Here's how the BBC can help "manage" it: Stop pushing the end-of-the-world climate hysteria and start reporting FACTS.
https://t.co/IihV3122tP

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@thesundaysport Make Mercia Great Again.