@afneil Never understood why live forests shipped across the Atlantic is better than dead forests in the Selby coalfield next door.
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Anybody object if I don't treat biomass from US wood pellets as a zero carbon renewable?
Andrew Neil@afneil
Gas generating 65% of UK electricity this morning, wind under 0.5%.
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@sonofr Yes. Others include ( in my lifetime)
Heath calling election in 1974
Thatcher’s poll tax
Suez
Brown not calling election in 2006
Callaghan not calling election in 1978
Tories choosing Home in 1963
Iain Duncan Smith
Attlee not standing down in 1951
(@JohnRentoul might like this)
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Greatest political error of all time? Corbyn and Swinson gifting Johnson a general election.
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It does seem odd - at a time when people are going to beaches, visiting garden centres, and holding demonstrations - that we’re still not allowed to play cricket. Especially when the entire future of the game may be at stake...
thetimes.co.uk/article/cricke…
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@JohnRentoul The (missing) finger in the nose at traffic lights gag was a great favourite of my father’s.
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I got 3, 4, 5, 6 (it has three names), 10 and half a point for the surname of 2, which is definitely for the senior demographic
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@lisamarkwell @JohnRentoul @DavidMills73 @Simon_Kelner Or as Arnold Weinstock said on being made Chairman Emeritus of GEC after 33 years as Managing Director: "It's from the Latin, 'e' meaning 'without'..."
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@DavidMills73 @JohnRentoul As @Simon_Kelner once said to me, the only word you want on your business card next to Editor is ‘The’
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Editor-in-chief is one of those funny titles, where the last two words should make you more senior but in fact make you less. Is there a #TopTen in this, @JohnRentoul?
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Actually there’s an excellent book called “Cousins” which sees the English civil war, the American War of Indpendence and the American Civil War as all part of a continuum
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@afneil ...which makes the US Civil War another British Civil War?
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@afneil And was in many ways an extension of the English Civil War with its theme of opposition to arbitrary power which had driven much of the first half 17C emigration in the first place
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Most of the people on the Indepence side were also of British origin. The American War of Indepence was basically a British civil war. One of the key dividing lines was Ulster-Scotch Presbyertian (independence) and English Anglicans (pro-Crown). First ever identity war.
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Fine, everyone can assess their own risk. Problem is they are then moving the dial for everyone not just themselves.
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27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London bbc.in/37a7qsL
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@Peter_Warner @holland_tom The claim was formally dropped in 1801
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The UK lockdown is starting to feel like some sort of attenuated, ceremonial fiction, a bit like the English monarchy's claim to the throne of France up to 1801
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@AndrewCooper__ @Dannythefink “When I go, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did in his sleep, not yelling and screaming like his passengers” Bob Monkhouse
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@1Finches @RevRichardColes Ah my mistake it’s Run not Rum, in the Banda Sea.
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@Peter_Warner @RevRichardColes The Spice Islands? I'm guessing this isn't the Rum off Scotland?
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It’s not even like she’s actually interrogating him. It’s more like having an unpleasant relative at a family gathering who just sits there criticising everything and everybody #r4today
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Geoffrey Palmer is 93 today, Happy Birthday Geoffrey 🎁🎂
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@RugbyInsideLine High and late. Pretty much like his contribution to the World Cup.
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I’d like to report a murder...
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"I couldn't sit in the same room as Mike, I'd lost all respect for him" In this week's episode of House of Rugby, @samburgess8 reveals all about England's failed 2015 campaign, calls Mike Ford "a snake" and says that he tried to sabotage Stuart Lancaster.
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@sjamesjourno @BumbleCricket Senior Service was the Navy brand (obviously)
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Never smoked .... but who remembers Capstan Full Strength , Senior Service , Craven A , Star , Pashas , Sobranie Cocktails ?
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@NorthantsPolice Multiple helicopters flying at tree level for last two hours NN12, look military or police. Can you shed any light?
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@RobDotHutton @BethRigby I thought I remember it hanging between 4 and 3 at the time.
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