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@MacTuffOCR taking part in MacTuff Kids this weekend but seem to have missed the email with wave time; Can you resend please?

An Ask: If you support #NHS NURSES striking for a fair wage please tweet this picture from your account Flood twitter with the image RT to spread like wild🔥 #FairPayforNursing

@RussInCheshire but they also produced Adam. Swings and roundabouts innit

@danielgoyal @theAliceRoberts surely there is a _certain_ amount of benefit to being able to interview potential doctors and choose one that you feel you gel with

Fact: there is absolutely no advantage to the patient of a private healthcare system.

@DavidHenigUK @Troyella5 or orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…

@DavidHenigUK @Troyella5 is it "Writers and Leviathan"? orwellsociety.com/orwell-on-writ…

Wondering if anyone has ever attempted ranking famous musicians by their basic human qualities? Thought sparked by listening to Van Morrison, who pops up behaving badly in a number of music books. Contrast to George Michael and Elton John, the opposite. Who else is good or bad?

@ProfTimBale @RoryStewartUK I thought that it was the identity cards issue that finally sunk Labour's 2010 General Election hopes. The politics has changed but can understand why they might be hesitant to repeat the exercise

I wonder what's stopping Labour pledging to bring them in? a) Heartfelt liberalism; b) Fear of offending socially-liberal members and voters; c) It was Tony's idea; or d) all of the above? thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…

@RoshanaMN add a big bushy joke shop moustache and some vampire fangs ?

I have sourced a furry bear suit for £7 that I need to turn into a walrus 😩

watching Tutankhamun's Secrets with the wonderful @DrJaninaRamirez. Love it ! Wish you were on the telly more often.

@peteflick I would do that to block out streetlight or else if there is something reflecting sunlight in the house opposite

Just found this perfectly square bit of black sticky tape on the window right about head height, how bizarre 😆

@PeteWishart @snp but this seems more like a food technology story: Peruvian farmers change variety of Blueberry so they can grow during more of the season, eroding Perthshire farmers competitive advantage

This is where cheap food imports takes us, and more of this will be coming in the race to the bottom to secure further post Brexit deals. I will be leading for the @SNP on a debate on food security in the Commons today. You can bet this will feature. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

@LifeAfloat the weather inside as changeable as the weather outside...

I’m pretty low at the moment. This has been coming. I felt it growing within me over the last few days. It doesn’t help to have tough decisions about forward progress. The forecast is for strong winds for a considerable period of time. I think I’m hunkering down in all senses.

@warmatters @chrisgreybrexit Did it really start with the referendum though? Or did it start with Osbourne austerity? Which started as reaction to the financial crisis. Which itself was a result of millennial euphoria at eliminating boom and bust...

A great long read over your coffee this morning from @chrisgreybrexit "This is not just any old political & economic crisis...It is centrally & unavoidably the latest instalment of the rolling political & economic crisis that started with the referendum" chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/total-…

@jessphillips I fear for how much more damage they can do to the country in the time between now and the General Election

I'm not lying, I'm rattled for sure at the state of the country. I don't fear Johnson, he would make the conservatives a far greater laughing stock than they already are which is hard to imagine. He is the one I fear the least. He's deeply unpopular

@robertiansteele @RussInCheshire @Wulf_Helm @colken16 maybe skip to Episode 6. Things seem to get going

@RussInCheshire @Wulf_Helm @colken16 I got 30 minutes through the first episode. I wanted it to be better. Will have another go at some point

Third attempt at the Rings of Power. I really, really wanted this to be good, but. If you gave an infinite number of Americans an infinite number of typewriters and a copy of Henry V in simplified English you still wouldn't come up with anything quite this shit. CC @colken16

@EwenDCameron About 1993 Walkers started advertising on telly. I'd not heard of them until then

QUESTION: At what point did Walkers become the crisps of choice ahead of Golden Wonder? When I was a kid, in the 80s, Golden Wonder was King or have I got that wrong? Have Walkers always been top dog?

@grmpyprogrammer @Crell sadly, zero day exploits are very much a thing though. would hate to be caught out by a publicised vulnerability

@trishgreenhalgh @drcotovelo Ignoring the antibiotics nonsense, wouldn't it be valuable to give pharmacists greater powers to diagnose and prescibe for minor ailments? Taking some pressure off GPs

@burridge_d @JolyonMaugham @neiljeffares Er is that date wrong? Today is Sat 15th Oct The day after tomorrow will be Mon 17th Oct

@paulwaugh Why did she keep looking at the lecturn (and not at the camera)? Could they not find a teleprompt?