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I note he's wearing both. Zack's becoming quite adept at riding two horses at once.

Talming like bigots is going to lose them the next election.

Imagine

Eleven years after the fall of Troy, We, the old men - some of us nearly forty Met and talked on the sunny rampart Over our wine, while the lizards scuttled In dusty grass, and the crickets chirred. Some bared their wounds; Some spoke of the thirst, dry in the throat, And the heart-beat, in the din of battle; Some spoke of intolerable sufferings. The brightness gone from their eyes And the grey already thick in their hair. And I sat a little apart from the garrulous talk and old memories, And I heard a boy of twenty Say petulantly to a girl, seizing her arm: "Oh, come away, why do you stand there Listening open-mouthed to the talk of old men? Haven't you heard enough of Troy and Achilles? Why should they bore us for ever With an old quarrel and the names of dead men We never knew, and dull forgotten battles?"

And he drew her away, And she looked back and laughed As he spoke more contempt of us, Being now out of hearing, And I thought of the graves by desolate Troy And the beauty of many young men now dust, And the long agony, and how useless it all was. And the talk still clashed about me Like the meeting of blade and blade. And as they two moved further away He put an arm about her, and kissed her; And afterwards I heard their gay distant laughter. And I looked at the hollow cheeks And the weary eyes and the grey- streaked heads of the old men -nearly forty- about me; And I too walked away In an agony of helpless grief and pity. (Richard Aldington, 1929)

Richard Aldington's Epilogue to Death of a Hero.

Always worth revisiting on Remembrance Sunday.

Fox has clearly had enough of experts.

#morons

John Maynard Keynes famously said, “When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” This principle emphasises adapting decisions to new information rather than clinging to outdated views. Perhaps instead of bickering about the manifesto the media could learn and share the lesson.

It's the fools who vote for them you want to worry about...

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

This is fun to look back on.

Why doctors fear this winter's flu crisis will be the worst in years An aggressive strain of flu causing record-breaking cases in Australia has been an early warning sign for the UK

The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity

If you haven’t had your flu vax get it

Covid as well if possible

inews.co.uk/news/doctors...

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Still, it'll make it easier to find and prosecute them when the time comes.

The entire scene looks like Norman Rockwell painted The Death of Empathy, directed by Jeffrey Dahmer and executive produced by Satan. Hang this next to The Scream and the painting would lean over and whisper, Is that guy okay.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan with colleague stood in front of C40 cities info board.

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.

Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.

In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier.
No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

😂

Probably blaming the English.

Bring it on.

Without googling it, name a red city with a population greater than 250K.

Latinos for Trump was always Turkeys for Christmas.

LoL

"We'll find him, OK?" And then the problem will be eliminated...

Here's hoping that ICE are pelted with bread rolls wherever they appear.

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Permanently refusing to raise income tax isn't sensible, either.

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Maybe my memory's getting faulty, but I don't recall any of these people concentrating so much vitriol, so relentlessly, on 'Boris' Johnson.