charlie maguire
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charlie maguire
@muffmasterh
late boomer with mixture of views. Pronouns : " it/its " interested in current affairs, arts & entertainment, history & used vinyl records.


UK and Western Europe being brutalized by a "heat dome" fueled by dry African desert air, and "contorted" jet stream. Climate change is the main culprit causing this nearly-unprecedented heat event, otherwise impossible without fossil fuels.

By next month, Brexit will have cost the UK £500 BILLION. In GDP foregone since 2016.

Back in the day, a nice pastel orange at 30 degrees. Now we get the armageddon black scorched maps of doom.






@accountingetc @MungoJerryLTD Revolver does it for me. I love mid sixties psychedelia. The riff on Taxman is Paul not George. Paul played lead on that, believe it or not.

#OTD 1995. Death of Harold Wilson aged 79. The Times says “he held his party together and won four election victories through charm, energy and an unequalled mastery of the black political arts in which he far outstripped his opponents”.


Temperatures have peaked today at 30.5°C in Frittenden, Kent 🌡️ This marks the first time in 2026 that the UK has passed the 30°C threshold It is very rare for the UK to record 30°C in May, with the last time being over a decade ago on 25 May 2012



@MungoJerryLTD Beach boys had better harmonies




EU could fast-track Britain’s membership if UK decided to reverse Brexit Exclusive: Rejoining the EU could take place much more quickly for the UK than it typically would for other candidate countries, as a result of pre-existing alignment with the bloc independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…


✅ David Miliband is spot on. Starmer’s current UK-EU reset is doomed to fail! We need a much bolder approach, starting with a single market for goods and building from there. Brexit has cost us economically and the government must now find ways to fix it without pretending otherwise. Time for realism on need for Europe🇪🇺 theguardian.com/politics/2026/…












