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Armchair history enthusiast, ex-soldier, hiker and European long distance rail traveller. Love trains, mountains and ancient sites. Work in plant based chemicals, career in O&G and renewables. Pau and Bath.

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Grumpy privileged old white man who went to Eton๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคก. The Torygraph used to employ real journalists. The outfit heโ€™s moaning about looks like a kilt to me - would he get in a froth if ScotRail staff wore kilts? I use Eurostar regularly; staff and service are great and the informs look good.

04.10.2025 09:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heโ€™s being advised by James Orr, a deeply misogynistic religious zealot who is helping him sanitise the messages so they can get funding from US religious groups and super PACs. Banning abortion rights, fertility treatments and opposing vaccines are on the Reform agenda.

03.10.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My favourite town and home for many years. Enjoy!

03.10.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways From โ€œtarget practiceโ€ on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.

Calling Reform racist isnโ€™t slander.

Itโ€™s maths.

20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

02.10.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 277    ๐Ÿ” 116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This is good news. Letโ€™s hope they can add more capacity. I use the service 3-4 times a year but have to trek from Somerset to London to use it. Birmingham would be much simpler.

01.10.2025 09:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So annoying - I use the Vienna service regularly๐Ÿ™„. Youโ€™d think such a popular route would be viewed as important.

29.09.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did the same last month, just couldnโ€™t bear being bombarded with the ugliest bile-filled and ignorant propaganda imaginable.

29.09.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Many years ago I was a mud engineer on drilling rigs.

27.09.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The irony of a once well written newspaper turned propaganda rag advising on great writing; I doubt they use sub-editors for most of their copy these days.

27.09.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Outstanding photo !!!!

25.09.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fontaine d'Eure near Uzรจs, the supply of water via the Pont du Gard to Nรฎmes. Slots for water level control and 2-3cm of opus signinum still visible in the rock cut channels that carried 40Km3 of water a day across 50 kms with a drop of 17m of Built 40-60AD. Astonishing #Roman #Provence. My photos.

23.09.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why do you assume heโ€™s bragging ? Heโ€™s simply making a comparative point. London is safer than the US.

23.09.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
US: homicide rate per million - 68 people
London - homicide rate per million - 9.8

Pics of Trump and Khan

US: homicide rate per million - 68 people London - homicide rate per million - 9.8 Pics of Trump and Khan

Sadiq Khan's team on Trump's comments about London crime

The homicide rate in the US is seven times that of London

23.09.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 545    ๐Ÿ” 235    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

The only people he quotes or refers to are rich, old and, with one exception, male. Each one of them moaning they canโ€™t use the abusive, racist and uncivilised language of the 1970s. As for Connolly, she broke the law by inciting violence, nothing to do with free speech; illegal since the 1980s.

23.09.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Farage is soon to get an EU pension of circa ยฃ75,000 a year for doing nothing, he rarely turned up for work in Brussels. The irony of this is the UK taxpayer is funding it under the Brexit deal. Hard working Brits paying a man who made them poorer.

21.09.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Nothing protects women better than getting drunk in a pub and then assaulting police officers. A good few of Farageโ€™s chums have convictions for rape, assaulting women and girls and trafficking minors for prostitution. Oh, and a few fraudsters to help fund the party.

20.09.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
REFORM UK
VOTED AGAINST LABOUR'S
EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL
"THEY SAID...
NO TO SCRAPPING EXPLOITATIVE
ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS
NO TO SICK LEAVE AND MATERNITY PAY
NO TO BANNING FIRE-AND-REHIRE
REFORM UK ARE NOT FOR BRITISH WORKERS

REFORM UK VOTED AGAINST LABOUR'S EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL "THEY SAID... NO TO SCRAPPING EXPLOITATIVE ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS NO TO SICK LEAVE AND MATERNITY PAY NO TO BANNING FIRE-AND-REHIRE REFORM UK ARE NOT FOR BRITISH WORKERS

Party of the people.

16.09.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 169    ๐Ÿ” 100    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

15.09.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1495    ๐Ÿ” 844    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 75

Priceless ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.

14.09.2025 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border. The Neolithic/Bronze age site was used 4th to 2nd millennium BC and built in phases. A view of the Kingโ€™s Men stone circle, one of three monuments at the site. What rituals took place here ? #StandingStonesSunday #Neolithic #BronzeAge

07.09.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh no

04.09.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 609    ๐Ÿ” 158    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Good stuff raising this. Perhaps you could regularly publish a list of corporate attendees and donors so we know who to boycott ?

04.09.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He had no problem taking Putinโ€™s money even after their invasion of Ukraine and in the full knowledge that it was betraying his country, democracy, free speech and the freedoms millions died to protect. Heโ€™s a traitor who loves taking and spending taxpayerโ€™s money.

03.09.2025 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most of the old fields are being sweated by small companies youโ€™ve never heard of. The majors have been leaving the UKCS for twenty years. Costs are too high compared with other places and there are no big fields left to drill anyway. Sheโ€™s talking nonsense. It wouldnโ€™t affect prices in any event.

03.09.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Take a look at James Orr too if you have time. A nasty nationalist and misogynist dressing up some very dangerous policies in pseudo academic language to impress the masses.

02.09.2025 07:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials Deaths take to at least 192 the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023

It's easy to forget how utterly inhuman this is. How unspeakable. How absolutely appalling.

Israeli forces deliberately fired missiles into a hospital.

A *fucking hospital*.

And - according to WHO - they've done it to at least 734 other healthcare facilities.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

25.08.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 350    ๐Ÿ” 144    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is.

The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.

25.08.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 851    ๐Ÿ” 308    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 72
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Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

25.08.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32943    ๐Ÿ” 8944    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 900    ๐Ÿ“Œ 690

Youโ€™re really missing the mark there๐Ÿ˜‚. I guess youโ€™re one of those far right Reform freedom of speech nut jobs.

25.08.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You have no idea how wrong you are on that score ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚.

25.08.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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