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By chance, I've found myself in the vicinity of RAF Fersfield on holiday whilst finishing the incredible MOSQUITO by @RowlandWhite Once again he captivatingly weaves accounts of heroism, tragedy, bravery & wonder into a climactic masterpiece. Historical storytelling at it's best.

@PaulChuckle2 To you

Happy birthday .. to me 🎂

@MattDNLane Still save my Teku glass for only the best beers. Good times, miss #beerbods and the community it created. Thursday evenings aren't quite the same!

I grew up watching flag-waving little Englanders parading their nationality around Rochester like Dickensian caricatures, puffing their chests out in pride over an imperial history carefully reimagined to paint over barbaric cruelty with Constable landscapes and Churchillian swagger… As if the accident of where they were born had been an achievement… These folk were everywhere… with their arrogant smiles and entitled condescension. They were the National Front-supporting parents of school friends, avoiding eye contact if I dared visit their house via their sons, asking me transparent questions about my ethnicity and explaining how mixed race marriages never work, in case I propositioned one of their vulnerable teenage daughters… I was taught to consider myself both lucky to be here and self-evidently inferior by virtue of my heritage. So when I see those same superior, colluding, patronising smiles on the over-rehearsed faces of attention-seeking rabble-rousers like Farage and Tice, I have to remember… We can’t change the past but we can make damn sure those who belong in the past don’t destroy our future… Farage is a disease, a malicious vessel of hate… A gleeful provocateur. Everything he touches becomes a toxic wasteland of hopeless misery. He is a cancer waiting to destroy the same host over and over again. I said this about him in a Channel 4 News interview back in 2014. I’m saying it again now.

Three hours in minor injuries unit with an actual broken bone sticking out the shoulder. Still haven't been seen, and they have no slings. #nhs #VoteTheToriesOut

@oscarwarman @TicketmasterCS @davidgilmour Tried again today. Had four circle tickets ready to go for the Thursday, went to pay and boom, it crashed out. Now sold out, of course. Absolutely ridiculous @TicketmasterUK

@ChrisJBroad @TicketmasterCS @davidgilmour Had the exact same thing

@TicketmasterCS had four tickets in my basket this morning for @davidgilmour pre sale, but the CVV field was greyed out and wouldn't let me complete purchase before time ran out. Then, all sold out. Why?!

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

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Hey @airtattoo is it possible to get additional car park passes last minute for tomorrow's Saturday show?

@agoodfireburns Good to have you back!

I’m totally with @GaryLineker both for his right to express his own views but more importantly on the sentiment. How @SuellaBraverman can claim these plans are either legal or compassionate is totally beyond me. And sending any of them to Rwanda is absolutely despicable.

@BeavertownBeer Tory brexit mind cleanse.

Caption this...🫧 (The best ones get some beer 🍺)

Paging @WeHaveWaysPod @James1940 @almurray

@trussliz @Telegraph PORK MARKETS.

I have written for the Sunday @Telegraph about what happened during my time in Downing Street and the lessons I have learned… 👇🏻 ‘I assumed upon entering Downing Street my mandate would be respected. How wrong I was’ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…

@UberFacts Surely @RichardEGrant in Withnail and I. Especially being a teetotaller.

Remember to recycle your pizza boxes It’s for the Greta good

#notbeerbods #beerbods had to travel to Bruges to get it, completing the set. Floral, spicy and floral. Decent session Belgian blonde - Drinking a Chouffe 40th Birthday Edition by Brasserie d'Achouffe @ Untappd at Home — untp.beer/s/c1236187080

@AlanPearse @CliveBGS Totally agree. Felt a little glum this evening about it all.

@CliveBGS Because #beerbods was more than just a subscription. It felt like being part of something special. Part of a nationwide community. A mutual learning experience. A social club. Fun. Something to look forward to and back on. Making new friends. A talking point. Many things.

You know what #BeerBods #NotBeerBods there is plenty of choice out there in pubs, craft bars, brewery taps, bottle shops that serve too, micropubs, and tbh of course supermarkets - why am I fretting over a subscription (I even brew it myself) so just enjoy it! #CheersToBeer