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Co-editor of Head In The Clouds: The Best Stories From 50 Years of Free Flying. Get it from xcmag.com or your local bookshop. Paraglider pilot, cyclist. Krypton Factor champion 1992, twice Mastermind semifinalist, winner on The Chase. Former BBC journalist

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Someone's shot up a McDonald's?

08.12.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When a picture is worth a thousand words...😐

08.12.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Easy for us fans of Oxford United - it's Robert Maxwell! Until he stopped supporting us, even though he owned us, and sold all our best players to Derby, who he also owned.

08.12.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need a Writing About Russian Emperors Tsar.

08.12.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The usual argument is that you use less for things that you measure and fewer for things that you count. Whether a number is in the phrase doesn't matter. You can definitely count pounds, but you'd never say "I've got fewer pounds than him."

08.12.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Would you say: "I've been working here longer than him but I'm paid a thousand fewer pounds a year"?

08.12.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No. Four hundred pounds is less than five hundred pounds. And 1800 calories is less than 2000 calories.

08.12.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope so, I'm currently trying to sell my house!

08.12.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stockbridge in Hampshire. Under a thousand people. Much smaller than my village (Pewsey).

08.12.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah... I think the A43 junction (where I was dropped off) was in a different place then.

08.12.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies. Incidentally, I've stayed in the smallest town in England - can you guess which it is?

08.12.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bloody hell, there's a Northampton Services now!

08.12.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking at Google Maps, I think it must have been Colllingtree Park Golf Club, assuming it extends as far as the Towcester Road. Of course, things may have changed a bit since 1980. I camped on one of the tees, and was gone by six in the morning.

08.12.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I once camped on a golf course on the edge of Northampton, during a failed attempt to hitchhike from the Peak District to Oxford. Never been to the city itself.

08.12.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, one's American and one's British.

08.12.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We have arseholes on this side of the Atlantic, not assholes.

08.12.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Your poor son, Rick!

08.12.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I watched a few episodes of Banshee. At the end of each one, I was left with the thought: "How has he got any teeth left?"

07.12.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Sky post was about racism allegations against Nigel Farage.

The BBC article that I posted was about racism allegations against Nigel Farage.

06.12.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They are female? Then what's trans about them?

06.12.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You said the BBC was completely ignoring it! I never mentioned "adequate coverage". You've been caught tweeting bollocks.

06.12.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage must explain reports of racist comments, says PM - BBC News The Reform leader denies making any of the comments attributed to him by former pupils at his London school in the 1970s.

Here's another example of the BBC "completely ignoring the story". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.12.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You said: "Why are the BBC completely ignoring this story?"

06.12.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's in my post!

06.12.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage accuses BBC of double standards after racism allegations The Reform UK leader turns fire on the BBC as he faces further questions about allegations of teenage racism.

The BBC is not ignoring this story. In fact, Mr Farage has objected to the BBC's questioning of him: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.12.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I realised as I posted that that it was a disgraceful tweet; nothing could be more interesting than The Bewlay Brothers itself.

06.12.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Bewlay Brothers In Arms.

06.12.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing | Dani Garavelli The Reform leader is exploiting growing resentment towards migrants and hosting a sold-out event - something unimaginable just a few years ago, says freelance columnist Dani Garavelli

A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.12.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9
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β€˜Even Dickens would be lost for words’: inside the supported housing scandal | The Observer

'The whole system is near-criminal in its ability to harvest public money so that exploitative providers can provide inadequate housing and support to vulnerable people'

Observer story on supported exempt accommodation in Birmingham

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

06.12.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Male women?

06.12.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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