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What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.
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@JohnRentoul @SVunny52957 @pghoskin Lord Robert was reluctant to leave the Commons. He even contemplated ignoring the Writ of Summons.
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Great chart by @pghoskin on how long ex-PMs stayed in the Commons conservativehome.com/to-the-point/2…
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I think we're now able to build a pretty clear picture of the most likely mechanism of the train crash at Adamuz in Spain.
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Just copying in my theory of why Mr. Brightside is more popular in the UK than America from a group chat
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“President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.”
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For a few years I would get mailed these oddball North Korean magazines by their UN representative. In 2019, they printed this absolutely real, 100% indisputable quotation from Jimmy Carter:
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@Bloopie98598925 @guineagibbs @SCP_Hughes Mid-80s: the precinct was completed in 1988. It mostly replaced Jones & Higgins' department store. (The bus garage was replaced by the open-air station in 1995. The car park was largely a result of enemy action during the War; the surviving buildings were gradually levelled.)
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Proposed replacement of a large retail site in Peckham with a mixed use development including 877 homes. This is not a perfect proposal, but it seems like an obviously better use of land by a high street and a railway station in a city with an acute housing shortage.
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@100YearsAgoLive He was the son, son-in-law and father of past and future Governors/Governors-General of New Zealand, and also a grandfather of a High Commissioner of New Zealand.
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@SarkerNotParker @LogicalVaxxer @CoKeynesian @MasterVril In British terms, the traditional Palace view is that the existence of a Deputy PM should not be seen as limiting the Monarch's prerogative to summon anyone suitable to form a gov't in circs such as these.
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@LogicalVaxxer @CoKeynesian @MasterVril wasn't he Deputy PM? Maybe British legal/political norms for Chain of Succession are different from American ones but that hardly seems like an unreasonable pick for an interim PM in the event of a sudden loss, no?
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@CoKeynesian @MasterVril Disagree strongly. Willie would have ended up in charge in the interim, but the "continuity candidate" would have been whoever looked best out of Howe or Lawson. Heseltine might have struck, but would have been unlikely to win.
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A lot to say about the figuring of class & gender in this from a man who was, pre-fame, let’s remember, a petty bourgeois grocer, and the venom in "a handful of middle class women of a certain age".
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Gregg Wallace releases new video responding to complaints. trib.al/2oJASyu
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One of my ghost notions is that all sense experience in literature that does not depend on the subject's prior categories results in a disordered subject, constantly trying to file the sensation so as to restore that sense of order.
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Since there is some confusion about the nature of my research, here is the abstract for my PhD thesis, which I hope will provide more context for anyone interested in learning more about my work!
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@robpalkwriter Disraeli did spend a great deal of time in his final premiership writing long love letters to Lady Bradford.
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@metaboatchris @bouledenerfs_ In 2007, an ARD documentary exposed a lot of the Quandt family's activities in the Nazi era. In response, the family commissioned an independent historian to study the issue. The study backed up the doc, and the family & BMW accepted the response.
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@bouledenerfs_ When I was at the BMW museum during the summer I was surprised by how frank, open and apologetic about what they did during the War Period. Looked like a recent addition to the museum, mind.
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@DenisMacShane @MichaelLCrick Tony Benn replaced Cousins in Cabinet, building the stature he needed to become the leader of the anti-consensus left. Oh - and a certain Mrs. Thatcher made the best Commons speech of her career to date attacking the P&I Act.
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@DenisMacShane @MichaelLCrick Part of the government's reaction was the P&I Act 1966, with its wage/price freeze, which caused Frank Cousins to resign; & we embarked on the road which led to In Place of Strife, Heath's IR Act, the Social Contract and the WoD.
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For all the nice words about John Prescott from Keir Starmer and other leading Labour figures yesterday, he almost certainly wouldn't be allowed to be a Labour candidate these days - as a left-wing, trouble-making trade-unionist.
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@Random832 @yesterdaysprint That's Bank. London buses going to or stopping at the Bank of England would simply refer to the location as "Bank"; the underground station there is still known as Bank.
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Illustrated Police News, England, November 21, 1896
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So little of what made John Prescott makes any sense now — ocean liners, failing the eleven-plus, union membership, working class autodidactism — that it’s unsurprising he is being eulogised as a light entertainment star by so much of Westminster.
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