Hugo Ford

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Hugo Ford

Hugo Ford

@HugoFord

Oncologist, rather poor cricketer and trailing spouse

Beigetreten Ekim 2009
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Hugo Ford
Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@AriFleischer @KHostages @JonahDispatch The USA has been very happy for Europeans to run down their defence spending. Ever since Suez the US has wanted Europe to be a market for American goods but without the wherewithal to threaten US global hegemony. The European nations to their shame went along with it.
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Ari Fleischer
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer·
Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.
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Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
I agree with some of this directionally, but my God the refusal to acknowledge that Trump has worked assiduously to poison the alliance and heap all the blame on Europe is just water-carrying hackery. Saying "NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause" is like writing a movie review when you missed the first half of the movie.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer

When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.

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Hugo Ford
Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@timothy_stanley Substituting Sy Hit Swa for Amen would be a cracking innovation. Or perhaps “Make it so”. Bringing Star Trek to Common Worship
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
I have to say this is the sort of warship I would doodle in my exercise books when I was 10.
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@DanJBray @CricketopiaCom Actually there is Bradman, then there is daylight, then another week of light, then there is Temdulkar and Lara!
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Dan Bray
Dan Bray@DanJBray·
@CricketopiaCom There is Bradman, then daylight, then Tendulkar and Lara 😁
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Cricketopia@CricketopiaCom·
Class, elegance, stroke play. There is Tendulkar, then there is daylight and then there is the rest.
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Hugo Ford
Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@tomhfh Not at all. Sash windows are fine as long as they are “guarded” by vertical iron bars. Thank heavens for that
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@KP24 Your bowlers were active over a period of 1984(?) to 2015, so ~ 30 years. If you take bowlers active going back to say 2010 and in the 15 years to come then leaving yours out you can have Starc. Anderson Broad Lyon Ashwin Steyn Morkel Cummins Bumrah, Hazlewood
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Kevin Pietersen🦏
Kevin Pietersen🦏@KP24·
Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago! Probably twice as hard back then! Waqar, Shoaib, Akram, Mushtaq, Kumble, Srinath, Harbhajan, Donald, Pollock, Klusener, Gough, McGrath, Lee, Warne, Gillespie, Bond, Vettori, Cairns, Vaas, Murali, Curtley, Courtney and the list could go on and on… I’ve named 22 above. Please name me 10 modern day bowlers that can compare to the names above?
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Hugo Ford
Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@RealCounties I’m in Cambridgeshire. Bit disappointed you do not include the Isle of Ely and Soke of Peterborough as historic administrative divisions (independent of the county) from the Anglo Saxon period up until arguably 1965
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Real Counties | UK Geography
Real Counties | UK Geography@RealCounties·
Out of the 14.8k accounts following us, we often wonder which county (or country!) each of you is from... Respond with your home county/country if you see this? 👀
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
Surely a no-ball..?
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@rcolvile Not to mention all the hospitals in the New Hospitals Programme…
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Robert Colvile
Robert Colvile@rcolvile·
PS Belatedly, it is seven storeys/18m AND containing more than one residential unit, not or. But still captures a huge proportion of housing.
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Robert Colvile
Robert Colvile@rcolvile·
Something deeply alarming is happening in London: it's the only part of the country that's building less, not more. And while I'd love to blame @MayorofLondon, there's another culprit that urgently needs addressing. (1/?)
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Hugo Ford
Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@RoryStewartUK Indeed. If members of the public have to hand in their phones when watching from the public gallery then MPs should do so as well
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Rory Stewart@RoryStewartUK·
Yes - mobile phones should be banned in the chamber! MPs spend far too much time scrolling phones and not listening - and I should know - I was an offender!
Zara(5)@Zara5539415

I want a petition to ban mobile phones from the House of Commons chamber. Seeing MPs scrolling and tweeting their way through sessions demonstrates a distinct lack of interest and care in the proceedings and their constituents. Think @RoryStewartUK would agree.

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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@thinkdefence If they fitted cats and traps, full load of 36 F35C, E2 and C2 for COD combat power would be pretty formidable
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Think Defence@thinkdefence·
The combat power is of course, not comparable, but the one on the left has a crew of less than 700, and the one on the right, about 3,500. One took 6 years to build, the other, 8. One is about £4b, the other £9b. Is this heretical, but should the USN jump on the CVF bandwagon?
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Lucy Pollock
Lucy Pollock@lucypgeridoc·
Waterloo station magnificently full of blokes in chinos and chore jackets who have clearly spent the whole day at Lords and are now heading home for a bit of light football. Happy days…
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(((Dan Hodges)))
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
Question arising from my fearless pursuit of Angela Rayner. And h/t to @NeilLamputt. Who on here has ever actually drunk in a Dog and Duck.
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@GylesB1 He identifies as a bear so he’s a bear obviously
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Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth@GylesB1·
Irritating turns of phrase of our time - #1 "deep dive" (Feel free to contribute.)
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𝘿𝙖𝙣@danjadz_·
Reply with the image that made you fall in love with cricket...
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Hugo Ford@HugoFord·
@ACarpenDigital EA are objecting to every development because of this issue. While they are right that it is a major issue which needs to be addressed, I’m not sure this is the best way to do it!
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