Christopher Guyver

The Fifth Republic is having a government burp.

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Heath was epically rude.

One up on Heath, who'd each his lunch while staff had nothing

So farewell then Jilly Cooper...

Cobb liked it

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Maybe the Home Secretary should just arrest everyone.

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Just checking: you do want enough irrelevant detail to fill the river Scheldt in my Leopold biography, don't you?

Yes I remember Addlestone

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if you don't believe me go to Google then & look up Bernard Manning's niece

Patricia Routledge was Bernard Manning's niece.

sorry to read that the Archbishop of Canterbury has died aged 96.

oh crumbs the CoE has a former NHS manager in charge

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dossit threw me

Colleague said something like dossit box in meeting - turns out he meant dosette box. Now I know.

I think the NHS should diagnose every newborn baby with ADHD.

Magic floating leaf

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Waiting for my haircut & I can tell you, Pete Hegseth would after, that narcissistic, time-consuming hairstyles should be banned.

I didn't think at the time, oh the End of History.

Even historians can get it...

One may (very often rightly) mock nostalgia but I think more of us are prone to it that would like to admit.

In my late teens in the mid-90s I assumed that nostalgia would end once the generation who'd been adult in the 1950s had died off.

I was wrong, obv.

The Second French Republic 1848-1852 This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.

My book is currently on sale (until 3 October) for £39.75 as an e-book and £49.99 as hardcover.

link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

that's why they're banned from here.

My Devonian compatriots are borderline, because of the persistent rhoticism.

ta (as we don't say darn sarf)