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@RJ_Zenith @ThatchEffendi Rule on 3 button jackets, sometimes, always, never. On 2 button - drop the sometimes. Simple rule. Especially when one is wearing a waistcoat.

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@GenghisAFC @Nwankpa_A It started with Herbert Chapman.

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@legsidelizzy Yes but would be able to do it on a cloudy day at Old Trafford in April? (Probably…)

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@NicholasOShaug1 Healey (actually he’d have been awful - would have fallen out with his cabinet and told the voters they were all idiots)

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@bostonwriter Given he’s an Aussie/Kiwi his language is quite restrained.

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@20committee Alan Clarke and Peter Hitchens woke Marxists? Never heard that before, although agreed “Lions led by Donkeys” is simplistic. AJP Taylor (further to the left than both the aforementioned) pointed out 3 x proportion of junior officers were killed compared to enlisted men

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@MaryMarymcdee @portraitinflesh Double digit inflation, unemployment, three day week etc etc. yes it was fab! I had a great time but I was 13 in 1979. My parents were delighted to see the back of the 70’s.

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@lucyjaynewhite1 What did you read at Cambridge? Racism? In which case no doubt you got a double first.

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@residentadviser In what does that tweet look inauthentic? This sort of post undermines many of your more sensible ones.

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@jlakely It’s “the Open” not “the British Open”. Apologies for the pedantry.

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@chippy7476 @SnowmanMcK @Mid30sManhattan If you’d bothered to check with AI you’d have been informed that the Iliad/Odyssey were epic poems. The first novel was written some centuries later. If you truly had a daughter who studied Ancient Greek, she would know this.

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@Broonjunior @overlandertheb1 Attlee was one of the last men out of Gallipoli and was awarded an MC but don’t think that translates in his case. More so with Heath.

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@TomMcTague @benwansell This is true, the poverty in parts of Washington State eg I found startling as with eg Chicago. Whereas material wealth for a large part of the country is higher (including in both the above). US hospitals are exceptional. Large percentage of the population cannot access them

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@ProBrum @rcolvile I would endorse that except the alternative could be even worse.

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@rcolvile I have the misfortune to live in his constituency. He is conspicuous by his absence. I don’t subscribe to the view that MP’s should be glorified social workers but a bit of interest would be nice. Knowing where the constituency is would be a start.

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@willcarling I’d be slightly cautious re the author who is a Reform spokesman and Frage fanboy. Farage has only done what he thinks is good for Farage. Towler is fine with that

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@runthinkwrite @UniofOxford So I know who you are talking about (he taught at my college). His behaviour went far further than you describe and the compromise was every bit as bad as you set out. He still has a platform and he is feted as a valued voice of the left. Intrigued as to who your girlfriend was…

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@portraitinflesh @juliasuzanne76 Fine man - honed his skills at Radio Oxford where his show was Timmy on the Tranny. Different times…

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@dorantim @NoContextCounty Against Surrey it may have helped, although it was on a pitch prepared to yield a lot of runs. It’s perhaps more frustrating when he was carrying the drinks last summer when he could have played for Warwicks instead. Still don’t understand that.

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@MartinK35343252 @WG_RumblePants @tds122 No problem. But hardly gentlemanly.