@ShumBaloo @Telegraph Also:
1) Either is correct. Saying only one is correct is incorrect.
2) Jam
3) Sc-on. No cone.
4) Different hats. Foot Guard have bearskins, (some) cavalry have busbies.
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Mr Chipping
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Mr Chipping
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Fictional Headmaster. All views expressed are those of my Chair of Governors.
Derbyshire Beigetreten Haziran 2019
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@ShumBaloo @Telegraph It's Twitter...
Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
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This is wholly incorrect, contravened by Admiralty Instructions in the early 1900s, by usage in Act of Parliament, and by a basic understanding of what a Jack is.
@Telegraph should be deeply ashamed.
Rob Crilly@robcrilly
This from my copy of The Telegraph's style guide... for anyone who might need it
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Mr Chipping retweetet
2022 Starmer would’ve thought 2026 Starmer should face an inquiry.
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His Majesty should join him for a cigar. If we are going to get our American friends back, we need to show some humanity.
K Tully-McManus@ktullymcmanus
Rep. Tom Cole, a PhD in British history, is thrilled about the king’s visit, despite personal sacrifice: “I'm not allowed to smoke in my office either today or tomorrow,”, he said Mon. “It's out of respect for the king. Not by order of the king. It’s by order of the speaker.”
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@StuffForSisters They are letting you play as a Theocrat character in the next Crusader Kings patch.
They are also recognising Rites, so you can sweep them all away if you reckon a Church Council made you (it also means Christendom will be united at the early start date!!)
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🇻🇦🗺️ A Paradox SIM PAPACY game where you are elected pope, choose your name, & begin leading the Catholic Church. Plan papal trips, pick bishops & cardinals, & emphasize different doctrines. Heretical policies would be options but game events would keep thwarting their enactment.
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The majority are sometimes wrong about things.
PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK
Turns out Hannah Spencer has the popular opinion on this one..
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@lukei4655 I am very happy to confirm that Charles III is not King of England (nor has ever laid claim to be).
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I mean, we pretend a lot of things are real that aren’t for political expediency. Just as we call Sarah an Anglican Archbishop so too we call Charles an English King. This is neither controversial nor unexpected.
Diane Montagna@dianemontagna
JUST IN: Vatican releases photos of Pope Leo XIV’s meeting today with Sarah Mullally. In his address to her, the Pope noted that: “While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern.” Of course, chief among these new problems is the fact that a woman dressed in liturgical attire is now being passed off — and celebrated by the Vatican and even by the Pope — as someone who seemingly has valid Orders when she doesn’t — first because she’s a woman and second because she’s an Anglican. So much so that, during her visit to St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, a Vatican official (Archbishop Flavio Pace, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity) bowed before her in the Clementine Chapel — one of the most sacred places in the Vatican grottoes, located just next to the tomb of St. Peter — and made the Sign of the Cross as though receiving a real blessing from her. Absolutely absurd. More photos and full address here: vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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Pfft. Nothing special about an independence day. More than one a week. I wonder if they all get balloons from the same wholesaler?
Thanos@abadojack
Brit: I’ll schedule the meeting for Monday, June 1st Me: That’s a public holiday in Kenya. I won’t be working. Brit: Really? What’s the holiday about? …
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@tc1415 Right, it is 1836, and HMG is taking immediate action to prevent the spread of the American Republic.
It is going well.
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@tc1415 I am sure if the first, and somewhat confident of the second. Certainly, it would be no bad thing to learn the second!
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In Pax Historia I've now accidentally had the King elected as President of France.
This AI game is not good for my ego 😂
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Roger Lewis on drinking at work:
“ever since sparkling water came in and boozy publishers' lunches got the heave-ho there has been no actual improvement in English literature.”
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@FaringForwards @TonyDowson5 Dammatio memoriae, there can be no other response.
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Lord Neuberger famously visited the Old Bailey, was shocked to see wine being served in the judges’ mess, and stopped it. I wonder whether he reflects on that now he’s a consultant, giving bad advice (eg to the Post Office on Horizon) for £2500 + VAT per hour?
James 🇬🇧 👑@TypeForVictory
The City has professionalised significantly, and wine or beers at lunch have declined markedly. Everyone's more serious, more stressed. But I'm not sure anyone believes that client outcomes actually improved as a consequence. Would political outcomes improve?
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Once the immediate drama is over, assassination is not a spectrum. "Almost just got assassinated" means 'is safer than ever while the entire Federal apparatus swings into protecting him.'
He's fine, and these guys have the right priorities.
Matt Wallace@MattWallace888
The President almost just got assassinated and members of the media are using the opportunity to steal bottles of wine. You don’t hate them enough!
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Erm, no.
Most MPs would shake apart before you got them anywhere near 125mph.
Ewan 🐙@EwanBen
If a train driver drinks on the job they go to prison. MPs can kill a lot more people
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@TypeForVictory @ZoeJardiniere Yes, it's the effect of no rent, significant buying, etc.
It's also a technical subsidy - the House tries to recoup the budget spent on catering each year by selling their event spaces and packages. The "subsidy" is just the shortfall.
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@ZoeJardiniere Don't parliamentary bars just not face rent charges and pay the staff out of a central budget?
I don't think the booze is actually subsidised, they're just not operating commercially with massive overheads.
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Look, even if there is a case, a REAL case, for allowing MPs to drink in their work breaks before returning to vote, it is utterly indefensible that they drink at a rate subsidised by you & me.
All the fancy food is one thing, but tax payer funded booze is just a joke.
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It should be a case-by-case basis.
Some MPs are much more of an public ornament when quietly drunk and voting the way they were always going to, without trying to justify it.
Stella Tsantekidou@Stsantek
Well yes. We need to be precise about what behaviour we are criticising. Getting visibly drunk should, and I believe is, criticised in Parliament. But saying having a pint at 9pm on a Wednesday evening with a colleague while you both wait to vote (which just requires you to walk through the right lobby, and nobody decides how to vote on the spot) is just so ridiculously innocent. I am assuming people outraged at this also do not understand what the voting process looks like late at night. MPs are not in the chamber for most debates (that would be literally impossible and undesirable). Not all votes are particularly controversial or important either, many are just procedural. We should explain these things those who know better than jump on the opportunity to make people think of all MPs as subhuman.
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Mr Chipping retweetet
I remember being deeply moved by an Australian friend who had been brought up being taught about the special bond between 🇬🇧 & 🇦🇺
When she arrived at Heathrow for the first time she was greeted by the 'UK and EU Citizens Only'.
She said to herself: 'What about Gallipoli?'
Sam@Discoplomacy
On this day 111 years ago, thousands of young Australian and New Zealand men many thousands of miles away from their home attempted to land on a series of beaches in Turkey. They had crossed the known world to fight for their countries. For many of them, this was their last day on Earth. At least 2,000 of them passed on the shores on foreign lands they had never visited before, leaving mothers, fathers, wives, brothers, sisters, friends to mourn for them when the news arrived. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
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Ah ok, as we were when it comes to recognising Somaliland. Leave them to it.
REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND@RepOfSomaliland
The Republic of Somaliland reaffirms its support for Argentina’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity over the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
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