Bamsey
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Port Talbot lad, Wiltshire resident, Director of Rugby @DorsetWiltsRFU , Sapper; views are mostly my own.....🤔🏴
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This is quite something to witness. HMS Active, the second of the Inspiration Class Type 31 Frigates, ventures out to meet the public for the first time from Babcock's Rosyth facility. It's the pinnacle of Scottish shipbuilding, marine engineering and craftsmanship
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Political humor does not get better than Jon Stewart's latest: STEWART: “So just to be clear - Trump is on the brink of war with Iran to either obliterate the nuclear program he previously ‘obliterated’, or to force them into signing a deal like the one HE PULLED OUT OF — it’s
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Before Parliament. 🏴🇬🇧 Before Magna Carta. Before any of it. England had a room where men could say no to a king. They called it the Witan. The meeting of wise men. Earls. Bishops. Thegns. The most powerful men in England. When the king arrived, he sat with them. Not
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In 1943, Black American soldiers arrived in Lancashire.🇬🇧🇺🇸 Back home, they couldn't eat in the same restaurants as white people. Couldn't drink in the same bars. The locals didn't care about any of that. They said come in. Same pubs. Same pints. Same welcome as everyone
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"She did the movie and it has become the biggest selling documentary in 20 years, can you believe it? The theaters are all packed. Women especially they go back and they see it 2 or 3 times." For your reading pleasure, here’s the top reviews of documentary "Melania":🧵
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For all of this century it’s always been easier for young folks to find work in the UK than in the EU, where youth unemployment rates were consistently higher than UK. It explains why so many young, educated, ambitious Europeans flocked to the UK to work, much to our mutual
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@zarahsultana This is a masterclass in sounding righteous while saying nothing that survives contact with arithmetic. Let’s start with the £4 billion figure you’re throwing around. That’s not an annual tax bill Ratcliffe dodged. It’s a one-off estimated saving on a capital restructuring — the
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"We can't deport the potential terrorist because he's a terrorist" is a bold national security strategy.
🚨NEW: A Bangladeshi migrant has successfully won his asylum case after the court found that, if deported to his country of origin, he would likely face up to 20 years’ imprisonment on bomb-related charges
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The CELTS were here for A THOUSAND YEARS before Rome even looked at this island 🇬🇧⚔️🏴 We told you about Alfred. The king who hid in a swamp and saved a civilisation. But before Alfred. Before the Saxons. Before Rome ever set foot here. Someone was already here. The Celts.
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The MOST IMPORTANT piece of ground in HUMAN HISTORY is a park by the Thames. 🇬🇧 Before what happened here…. Any king, anywhere, could do whatever he wanted. Take your land. Take your family. Kill you. No trial. No charge. No limit. No law on earth could touch him. Then in
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Countries have been at war with Britain for a decade. We’ve contained the danger, but that’s becoming harder, and the reality of what we face still isn’t widely understood.
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🇬🇧British warships🇬🇧 attacked 🇪🇸Spain’s navy. Because Spain broke a promise. 1817. Spain signed a treaty to end its slave trade. Spain kept trading. Britain warned them. Again. And again. Still trading. So Britain sent the Navy. Ships seized. Crews arrested. Cargo freed.
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🇬🇧Britain sent warships into Brazilian harbours. Without permission. Seized ships at anchor. In their waters. Under their flag. Brazil refused to stop the slave trade. So Parliament passed the Aberdeen Act. It authorised the Royal Navy to treat Brazilian slave ships as pirates.
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OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥
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Sadly tomorrow’s women’s open training session is cancelled due to the pitches being underwater! We now look forward to our 1st trial day on 28th
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🔵⚫⚪ U17 Academy Trial Opportunity Thursday 19th February 2026 Newbury RFC | 09:30 - 12:30 Further details: https://t.co/PxBepCPtDK Sign-up via Spond: https://t.co/ITTmzOO1dN *Sign-ups extended to the 15th February
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🇬🇧Britain's shortest war: 38 minutes.🇬🇧 Zanzibar. 1896. New Sultan wanted slavery restored. Britain said no. Ultimatum at 9 AM. He refused. 9:38 AM. Palace destroyed. Sultan fled. Slavery ended. 38 minutes to end an evil. Be proud of us.🇬🇧
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