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@PulpLibrarian Love the suggestion that you have to wear full evening dress and gloves to operate it.

The 1966/67 RCA TR-70 quadraplex video recorder.

@uk_sf_writer Which aspect: the 25% inflation, the waiting list for a telephone, The filthy, unreliable railways?

What a load of codswallop from Peter Hitchens. The 1970s, to which he so fondly refers, was the time when trades unions destroyed vast swathes of the British manufacturing base with unrealistic wage and conditions demands that broke the back of all but the service industries. newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/8137/read…

@uk_sf_writer It was quite impoverished for many people. Inflation stripped the value of wages. Food was disproportionately expensive and became more so after cheap imports from outside Europe were cut off by the EEC

@WilliamClouston Will the whole cabinet move back and forth with him? Will they also have offices in Manchester staffed with advisors and civil servants? What will happen in an emergency? How will they answer emergency questions in Parliament when they are in Manchester? It's a gimmick.

No. 10 North is reminiscent of shipping the European Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg 12 times a year - costly, inefficient, unnecessary and wasteful.

@PolitlcsUK Really! Is that what we are getting?

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham gives a tour of his No 10 North office

@JACKIE1PLANET @DioceseWrexham There should be demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy. China produces more CO2 than the rest of the world put together. The Church should not be a foil for these left wing activists. In the UK they should be more concerned about fuel poverty caused by net zero ideologues.

Last Sunday we held a Prayer Vigil o/s St Mary's cathedral in Wrexham 2 pray that @DioceseWrexham will divest from #FossilFuel investments. Thankyou to the congregation for standing with us. We must do more 2 help those suffering from the #climatecrisis. Wrecsam #Wrexham #Wrecsam

Actor Dame Maureen Lipman says that she is thinking of voting for the Conservatives for the first time ever. She tells @CathyNewman that she thinks Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is "amazing" and a "truthful politician". trib.al/tlw0hAS 📺 Sky 501

@Shaunmb1 @BBCBreakfast Angela herself benefitted by buying her council house. The problem was that not enough new houses were built and restrictive planning rules created a shortage. Labour hypocrisy as usual.

@BBCBreakfast In an interview that discussed the housing crisis, created btw by Thatcher flogging off council housing and not allowing the revenues the remain with councils to build new ones, You OUR BBC chose this issue, terrible biased reporting

'Why should people in Birmingham, in Bristol, in Exeter, in Bournemouth, in Cambridge, why should they be celebrating Number 10 in the North?' Housing Secretary Angela Rayner was asked on #BBCBreakfast as new Prime Minister Andy Burnham held his first meeting at the new No 10 North in Manchester bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Rainmaker1973 The only thing we can do for the dead is pray for God's mercy for their souls. How does this help?

In Peru, a growing trend is transforming traditional funerals into festive celebrations through "dancing undertakers" (los portadores bailarini), offering a cheerful alternative to solemn mourning.

@poperespecter1 Mercy without repentance.. hmmm. Doesn't sound very mainstream Catholic.. attacking 'disgusting trads' that doesn't sound very Catholic either..

It is now popular for disgusting schismatic "trad" Catholics to deny Divine Mercy and St. Faustina. Here is a complete response to their lies. Three videos debunking everything. 🧵

@historyinmemes And yet China is the world's largest producer of CO2

Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees in an effort to slow the expansion of two major deserts, making it the country with the largest tree-planting effort in history. China has carried out the world’s largest afforestation program, planting tens of billions of trees to combat desertification and restore damaged ecosystems. After decades of deforestation, overgrazing, and expanding deserts, China launched the Three North Shelterbelt Program in 1978 to slow the growth of the Gobi Desert and protect farmland and cities from dust storms. The effort later expanded to areas surrounding the Taklamakan Desert, where trees were planted along highways, rivers, and desert borders to stabilize shifting sands. These programs helped increase China’s forest coverage from around 12% in the early 1980s to more than 24% today, with NASA satellite data showing China contributed about 25% of the world’s increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.

@spectator And yet it is unlikely that she would be able to work as a teacher, nurse, doctor, police officer or social worker. For ordinary people, this would debarr them from most professional careers. Labour's intentions are pure, so that trumps all other considerations.

Now I earn my living writing and speaking about prisons, crime, migration, justice and corruption. Perhaps, I have become a gamekeeper. My sentence will become spent on 6 November, but even then I will still, as a matter of fact, be a 'convicted fraudster'. And that is okay. To pretend otherwise would be to return to the habit of dishonesty. ✍️ David Shipley Article | spectator.com/article/louise… | @ShipleyWrites

@RorateCaeli Where are the altar, crucifix, corporal, candles? Does this meet the barest minimum? Is this worthy? Does this priest need to reflect on what he is doing?

Stuck in the 70s. Ecuador Jesuit Haro Rivas and the novus ordo mass of Paul VI, “the only” form of the Roman Rite.

Fathers Michele Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzałkowski, two Catholic priests serving in Peru, were shot and killed in 1991 by the communist terrorist group Shining Path because they opposed its violent communist revolution and continued their Christian mission among the poor.

@simongerman600 I am afraid many Europeans are aware of the Pacific Theatre. Unlike the U.S. the United Kingdom fought from 1939 to 1945: the very beginning of WW2 to the very end.

This map is a vivid reminder of the magnitude of WWII. Shipwrecks around the world during the Second World War. Many Europeans are unaware of the Pacific theatre. Source: buff.ly/2HkBpkc

@kelvmackenzie It is the same as Neil Kinnock ditching Militant: a good move. Sadly for Labour, they didn't benefit enough from it immediately.

Delighted to see Kemi is taking a page out of the successful Thatcher playbook ( she dumped soaking wet Francis Pym as Foreign Sec in ‘83) by removing the whip from the treacherous Lord Barnwell - May’s ex chief of staff. Enough said. Every time she kicks out a lefty Tory ( that’s hopeless Ben Spencer round my way) her chances of winning a General Election increases.

In an unprecedented move, Labour have scrapped the Conservative vote to force Andy Burnham to come to Parliament to answer questions when he becomes PM on Monday. Labour are running scared because they know the honeymoon will be over the minute he has to tell us his plans.

@anglochog It really isn't.

Anglicans are Catholic and Protestant

This nasty posturing little creep helped destroy the lives of our postmasters. He can get stuffed.

@clarasingsart @MissSarahWise It's Thermogene wadding.

@MissSarahWise The pink padding. She made them a bed. That got me.

The object I found most moving in today’s visit to the National Funeral Museum is this, made by an East London woman in 1904 for her neighbour who'd given birth to stillborn twins. In a world that didn't like to discuss such things openly, this was to memorialise the woman's loss