Peter Costello

UK. The public are firmly behind UKr in spirit. I’m concerned we haven’t moved to a war economy/industrial set up. We’ve let you down. Lack of general mobilisation puzzles people. We see ourselves in 1940.

Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

London today.

Thank you for standing with #Ukraine!

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The community note 🤌😘

00-13 initial numbers on the UNI product code corresponds with the US

What a freaking year

I’m sensing Floor to Ceiling mirror with a webcam behind it. There is cash in kink.

[December 20th, 1944] Fritz Pfeffer, German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family and the Van Pels family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, died from enterocolitis in the Neuengamme concentration camp at the age of 55.

#history #OTD #WWII #1940s

For many, watching The Great Escape (1963) over the #Christmas period has become an annual tradition.

But, with real wartime experiences to draw on, for some of those involved in the film, the production inspired more than memories of seasonal cinema...

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One of my favourite WW2 photographs is this group photo of some British Airborne at Oosterbeek.
They look like a great bunch of characters. 👍

Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself | Marina Hyde

They are. Problem is, it’s the newer patients who often don’t turn up and have the highest needs on a broken system that doesn’t remunerate to fix them.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

25 November 1900 | A Pole, Antoni Wieczorkiewicz, was born in Żychlin. An art historian, curator of Historical Museum of Warsaw).

In Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 21943
He perished in the camp on 22 March 1942.

I do have this ready to roll. Not done it since a kid. I’m going to do a little spitfire kit first to get my hand back in.

a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' . ALT: a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .

That feeling waking to only light snow and I have to head in to work

Getting ready to move house and it's really dawning on me how many books I have... 📚

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

Usage limited to Kursk it seems unfortunately

Very good read from a remarkable woman

Tory pair backed ‘rushed and misjudged’ asylum site purchase, watchdog says Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden were on committee that supported paying £15m for asbestos-ridden former prison

No Surprise

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