Tom Shanks

Unreconstructed Cakeist. Doubting Thomas. Chocolate Taster. VSOP.
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👆🏻Malcolm McLaren’s grave.👇🏼 John “Mad Jack” Mytton ❤️‍

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@SpillTheMemes

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@vonderleyen You can't even spell independence.

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@IntEngineering Is Europe dead already?

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@spectator @katyballs @JAHeale Contravercial!

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@allencarr @mrlozmoore To my mind it's not as complicated as that, which is why it works. It's an appeal to reason, logic & clear thinking. Getting you to effectively admit that you've been strung along. Believing your own (and everyone else's) bullshit. Realising what's actually good and bad for you.

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@doris_from So many humourless, perpetually offended halfwits commenting negatively about this. You're just taking the piss, that's all. He spent his life taking the piss. He'd have loved the devil may care irreverence and "no fucks given" approach. He was a fucking comedian after all.

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@KathleenWinche3 It's a bit easier when you live this side of the pond!

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@RandomTheGuy_ @TheFigen_ We remember the Brownlee brothers. No one remembers the guy who "won."

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@BenMacintyre1 @Waterstones A vivid and brilliantly written account. Factual, insightful, human and even humorous in all the right places. So good in fact, I had to diplomatically expel friends and family from the house between Christmas and New Year so that I could get on with the next chapter! Great stuff

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@RupertLowe10 Amen to that! (As they say).

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@babybirdrip Saw this and thought of you. Great gig in Brum in the autumn by the way. Actually, forget "great," it was fucking brilliant X

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@mrmarkdolan The Liberal Party died. Parties die. Nothing is forever. No reason why The Conservative Party could not, will not and should not die. If it doesn't do that which it is supposed to do it will die. It must do, and deservedly so.

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@LD_Sceptics He's not perfect, but I love him.

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@Edwina_Currie Both of my parents (who were smokers) are dead too. But they, like your husband, had free will and exercised it. Encouraging over zealous governments which attempt to protect people from themselves are considerably more dangerous than any dir/indirectly self inflicted harm.

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@PintsBeauty

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@babybirdrip Aluminum Beach. Compelled to listen to it. It popped into my head while I was doing something ordinary. It's extraordinary. Otherworldly. Sorry to sound like a wanker. But it is. I've said it before and I'll say it again. SJ is like VvG. Only after death will the wor

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@RealCandaceO The philosophy of America and the original vision laid out by the founding fathers is / was more than admirable. It was magnificent. But, and sadly there's always a but, people corrupt ideals because temptation is apparently irresistible. We're only human. Greed and vanity...

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@KonstantinKisin Poachers become gamekeepers but can't admit it to themselves as the truth is just too uncomfortable to acknowledge.

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@amasad The excellent "Evolution of Everything" by @mattwridley explains a good proportion of the answer with great perspective, wisdom and clarity.