Tom Aram

Itinerant, shambolic bookmonger. Neither as nautical nor rugged as my pic would suggest.

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@DG68020 @MichaelLCrick You could always donate 15% of your salary to a cancer charity?

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@samueljenkinson But Thames Water has been such a success!

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@adamboxer1 ‘Polite reminders’ I find even worse - I’ll decide if I find your tone polite, thanks (and the fact you’ve felt the need to say it probably means I won’t take it politely).

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@TinyWriterLaura Although it is a fiction table so he has that right at least

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@lukerobertblack No, it is much, much more than that. Population of Grimsby is 90k - approx 45k homes. 180k homes would mean half of the whole of the Lincolnshire county council area.

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@Goldxn_Violin ‘A couple x’ instead of ‘a couple of x’ drives me disproportionately mad

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@TamdhuL @David__Osland @Possum_PictBot The 1992 social security contributions and benefits act would like to have a word

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@SandyofSuffolk @HugoTHFC The fastest train from Plymouth to London takes 3 hrs each way so I seriously doubt your s-i-l is spending 6 hours a day three days a week commuting.

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@frogingreysuit @JAHeale That isn’t what the tripartite system was

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@_blain123 @thomasforth It’s isn’t that surprising that this is the status quo, given the two sets of infrastructure. The disparity is surprising. It should be as easy to live/ work in Leeds/ Manchester as it is Edinburgh/ Glasgow. And yet.

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@Treazyblaq @Culture_Crit Lapland is not a city. Beautiful, but in a rural and entirely different way

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@DavidTreasure9 @PinsonRing @s8mb @jburnmurdoch Standing charge is 1/3 of my bill. That is not a small fraction.

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@richardrcubitt @JamesDAustin West Midlands mayoralty covering the former West Midlands local govt area makes total sense. The tag ‘East Midlands’ for the new Notts/Derbys mayoralty is indeed the aberration here - this is the inaccuracy, not Greater Lincs.

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@richardrcubitt @JamesDAustin Needs differentiating from Lincolnshire County Council area, which covers the post-1974 Lincolnshire - N and NE Lincolnshire are not part of *that* Lincolnshire but will be part of Greater Lincolnshire.

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@rec777777 @Jenny_1884 @LibDems I’d be interested to know where the 40 year old solar farm is?

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@Metal_Rebel @chug3345 @anon_opin Which is why I said *most* people in *most* locations. Clearly rural places with poor/ non-existent public transport exist. But 84% of the UK and 60% of the global population lives in urban areas: a clear majority.

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@ron_dickinson But they were kings of Scotland before they were of England?

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@anon_opin Now be a raven

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@chug3345 @anon_opin Also it was *you* who expanded the chat out to ‘on the planet’, so choose your argument 🙄🙄🙄

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@chug3345 @anon_opin No. Read your source. The majority of *people* do not have a car. A home is not a person.