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Hee is a better physician that keepes diseases off us, than hee that cures them being on us; preuention is so much better than healing because it saues the labor of being sicke. THOS ADAMS, 17th C preacher

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/5jnFcCt

@Leica_Archers @TheCiderShedPod @steve07820991 I started using "they" instead of "he / she" and "them" instead of "him / her" when I was a teenager, back in the 80s. It riled me immensely that the male was always considered the priority, and still does. Interestingly, my teachers (both sexes) never pushed back.

@TheCiderShedPod @steve07820991 Might be an age thing and a school grammar thing but I always glitch when I hear a plural used as a singular. I know the project is to completely de-sex language, but old-woman POV - I would rather it happened after I'm dead and gone. 🤷‍♀️#TheArchers

Helen: You can’t be everywhere at once. Only God can. Have you heard of them? Alan: #TheArchers

@MsMigot I'd rather not. #TheArchers

Hear me out... imagine if Justin and Lyndy-Pops were a couple... #TheArchers

@gjmarklew @MsMigot Tom & Natasha, even. Wrong annoying son. I've been listening too long. #TheArchers

@gjmarklew @MsMigot Yes, it's blatant property shuffling IMHO. I started vaguely looking for an online list of property owner in the village (can't remember who owns where Helen lived with Rob, nor where she currently lives with John & Natasha), but didn't get around to finding one. #TheArchers

Hellion and SausageBoy leave, Carol develops some unforeseen side effect and carks it, then Anna sues the two of them for gross negligence. #TheArchers

@FrankieForber @gjmarklew @MsMigot Indeed. And where did Helen & Rob live / was it hers & it's rented out coz understandably she wouldn't want to live there?

@EBGBeee @gjmarklew @MsMigot Helen currently lives with Tom and Natasha in the house that they bought off Kirsty which Helen had been renting from Kirsty. So, you know, normal housing arrangements. #TheArchers

Belgian aristocrat to face charges over murder of Congo’s first premier ft.trib.al/EnMaEnK

@Lynne_Murray007 @campbellclaret @BBCr4today @patmcfaddenmp What's intriguing about Evan is that when he was presenting Today for a while, he became AWFUL, in exactly the same way as many of the others. Now he's back on PM, he's relaxed back into the brilliant style he had before.

@campbellclaret @BBCr4today @patmcfaddenmp I too find it hard to listen to R4 Today these days. Just about the only BBC interviewer I rate is Evan Davies who is unfailingly courteous but gets to the heart of things. I can listen to his interviews without wanting to shout at the radio. Much better for my BP!

The competition between some (not all) of the @BBCr4today presenters to see who can be rudest and smart-arsest with government ministers (though rarely Farage and Co) might be one of the reasons they are losing so many listeners. @patmcfaddenmp did well there not to say “if it’s so f-ing easy why don’t you give it a go one day Amol?” Also wonder whether the “morning ministerial round” has had its day. Pat better than most at covering all issues but often such a waste of time to have Minister for X answering Qs on issues ABCD and E (usually what’s big in the right wing rags) followed by one Q on the thing they actually know about.

@campbellclaret @BBCr4today @patmcfaddenmp Amol made some godawful creepy comment a few months ago about how he wished he was better at interviewing the way that Nick Robinson does in terms of breaking in / directing the interviewee, or something like that. I can safely say that's not the way to go.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

Studies have shown that SUVs are approximately 44% more likely to cause fatal injuries to pedestrians compared to smaller, conventional passenger cars. If you choose to drive one, you are clearly callous and self-centred.

@nme1980s @SoundsClips @ZoundsAbound @DefLeppard Def Spice.

Def Leppard make the front page. Pic by Ross Halfin. Sounds music paper, 6 August 1983. @SoundsClips @ZoundsAbound

If you’ve spent years abroad paying little or no UK tax, it’s reasonable to pay Capital Gains Tax when you return. You’re coming back to the roads, hospitals and schools the rest of us have been funding. standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

We absolutely need more Kate & Jakub scenes. #TheArchers

Brian managing Spiritual Home is the most remarkably batshit idea in quite some time. #TheArchers

@portraitinflesh Maybe he's trying to tidy things up (in his opinion) before getting banged up for (not) bottling George. #TheArchers

Is Brian losing it? They haven't done a dementia storyline in quite a long time. #thearchers

George, if it gets as far as being born, your baby - YOUR baby - is destined to be a weirdo. It's genetics. #TheArchers

@MsMigot I hooted. #TheArchers

River-Poisoning Dinosaur is the name of my new turbopolka band. #TheArchers

Passive aggressive smithing FTW. #TheArchers