Mark Hoyle
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Mark Hoyle
@markjwhoyle
Drink tea, do crosswords, tinker with maths, howl into the void, back to drinking tea.
شامل ہوئے Eylül 2012
1.3K فالونگ84 فالوورز
@MusicJim2 Greatest Christmas song, no doubt. Some very bad covers over on Amazon music.
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In the old days this would have been a resigning matter. Even in the Brown days the idea you’d put out market-moving information early would be anathema.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive: * Rachel Reeves will use her Budget to freeze fuel duty, cut energy bills and increase the minimum wage in a bid to reduce the cost of living and win over Labour MPs, our political podcast The State of It reveals * The Chancellor will confirm that she is retaining the 5p cut in fuel duty and will also ensure it does not rise in line with inflation. Extending combined reliefs for a year would cost £3bn * Reeves also expected to confirm previous report by The Times that more than 1million low-paid workers will see the national living wage rise by around 3% from £12.21 to around £12.70 * The move will be paid for by employers, which has led to warnings that Reeves risks “pricing jobs out of existence” in the wake of the rise in employers’ national insurance in last year’s Budget * Reeves is also expected to announce a significant cut in household energy paid for by removing a number of green levies currently placed on bills. This will be funded by reducing the government’s £13billion budget for energy efficiency measures known as the Warm Homes Fund * Downing Street said it wanted to see bills fall by £170 by the end of the decade - however the energy secretary Ed Miliband has been fighting a rear-guard action to protect his budget while the Treasury argued that the government could only afford to reduce bills by £70. Not clear where they have landed * In other moves designed to appeal to Labour MPs the Chancellor will also confirm that she is scrapping the two-child benefit cap, a move which will cost £3billion a year, and uprating benefits in line with inflation in a move that will cost £6billion * Reeves told Labour MPs that they would be happy with 95% of Budget. She says it is a Budget they can go out and sell on the doorstep * But it comes with big tax rises - told around a dozen. Freeze on income tax thresholds, tax raid on pension contributions, pay-per-mile charge on electric cars, a high-value property tax, gambling tax, cycle to work tax, tourism tax... these are just the ones we know about * There is a world in which this Budget goes down well with Labour MPs but badly with voters * There is a genuine question of whether Labour is still party of working-class voters. Polling suggests Labour is in denial about core vote, which has become increasingly young middle-class professionals in cities - the kind of voters who will be hit hardest by these tax rises thetimes.com/article/af6030…
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You can travel back in time to stop one turn-of-the-century cultural phenomenon. Which will it be?
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We’ve forgotten what the best episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is, can you remind us?
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@DamCou Like a "Champion the wonder horse" for the 21st century.
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@DamCou Would there be a dog? Or a cute kid tagging along for vague non-sensical reasons, whose child like wisdom cracks the case right open.
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*AWOL President* would be the greatest reality TV show of all time. Just Trump in a truck with a renegade Secret Service guy radicalised by the attempt on his boss's life, travelling across the US, bickering with each other, bantering with Americans, solving small-town mysteries.
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Mark Hoyle ری ٹویٹ کیا
Grieving the loss of one of my best friends, Jim Lovell. His extraordinary legacy is cemented by many space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
Our mutual respect had no limits. The Gemini XII mission we flew together paved the way for the Apollo missions.
Heartfelt condolences to Jim’s family.
Farewell Jim. You will be missed, my friend. Godspeed!
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We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran.
Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq
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@DamCou @JournoStephen I thought they'd all decamped to blue-smug
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@JournoStephen These aren't The People. These are People On Twitter. The people who were surprised when Jeremy Corbyn lost.
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Chloe Kelly telling the BBC that she's "so proud to be English" and Hannah Hampton saying "We've got English blood in us" are probably going to be arrested when they touch down back home.
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@francesweetman In fairness, Makka Pakka would be an improvement on the current crop - national face washing campaigns. Alas the tombliboo's would get booted out after the first trousers dripping scandal.
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@ariaclast I'd have got "ship of Theseus", but the "Trigger's broom" reference passed me by.
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BBC reporter just now covering commemoration of Dunkirk. Out on the water. Remarking that some of the ships are very old and have had basically all their parts replaced. Reaching for a turn of phrase to describe this phenomenon he plumps for… Trigger’s Broom.
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@Tom1Powell84 @WarMovieTheatre I find the whole "helicopter in the channel tunnel" and "apple Mac compatible with alien operating system" stretch credulity too far, whereas "The Rock" is so grounded in reality, it could practically be a documentary.
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@WarMovieTheatre Greatest action movie!? 🤣
In the same year Mission Impossible kicked off and Independence Day came out.
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Trump's two weekend thoughts - "why aren't Hollywood films like they used to be?" and "re-open Alcatraz!" - can only have been prompted by watching 1996's greatest action movie, The Rock.
This features Marines and SEALs and is thus a War Movie. 👨⚖️
EMERGENCY REWATCH PODCAST?
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@WarMovieTheatre Half way through this with 15 yo daughter, still as good as ever. Don't think you need an emergency to justify a rewatch. And the number of people in military uniform surely qualifies it as a war movie.
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@WarMovieTheatre Oh my, I've not seen a film that bad in a long time.
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Ok @WarMovieTheatre before listening to the latest episode, I'm watching "Red Dawn" for the first time. 10 minutes in and it's already really really stupid. I fear it's not going to improve.
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