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Friend begs me not to retweet this photo ahead of French election
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This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long IT PLEASE
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Tomorrow’s budget is not a budget because the law would thereby require that the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), a Tory innovation, deliver a verdict. Instead we’re getting what Putin would call a Special Financial Operation
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In a typically elegant way Robert Harris's Sunday Times essay sums up the nation's plight
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This looks like becoming a new BJ scandal - and rightly so (Times)
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Not sure if Angela Rayner had tax liability on her ex council house sale. But I am sure that Lord Ashcroft, who first floated this “scandal,” is a major tax dodger, legal or not. Not alone either eg fellow non dom. Lord Rothermere. Sheer typical hypocrisy
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Ireland grapples with large budget surpluses. Are you thinking what I’m thinking ?
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Just listened to Gordon Brown on
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Boris has resigned but appointing a cabinet. Is he mad ?
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In recent days I have heard ex-cabinet veterans, Hague, Ken Clarke, Alistair Darling, Willetts, Ed Balls, Blair, Andy Burnham, all talking better on Covid-related strategy than any member of the Johnson team. A depressing thought
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What a stitch up ! Farage actually owns 53% of Reform / UKIP but insists he’s not a politician and is a director but insists he has no legal responsibility. Wrong both times. Wake up, Ofcom (FT) 1/3
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Reading and listening to today’s obits / tributes to Paddy Ashdown is to be transported back to a kinder, gentler time before Brexit populism & Trump mendacity, years where we could respect political differences without resort to abuse. Anti social media is much to blame
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A friend saw this ( cruel but fair) on Facebook :”Dear New Zealand, Please may we borrow your Prime Minister for a little while? Ours is broken, and we don’t have a spare. We promise we’ll look after her. Lots of love, the UK”
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Anti Brexit March poster: Here’s a coincidence I’d missed, mean but relevant. Decent people make bad choices for heart-felt reasons and often pay the price themselves
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Painful listening to Anglophile Dutch PM Mark Rutte talking through the realities that face post-Brexit Britain - sad, not angry. “ I have never understood why UK thinks it will get better trade deals with other countries than the EU.” Always a good point
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I have listened to PMQs during nine premierships. None has so transparently shown such a lack of grip and detail as Blustering Boris. Surely the only thing he has in common with Mrs T is that both have dyed their hair ?
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John Humphrys has just confirmed his own Brexit tendencies on R4 Today. Said demands for a second refo amounts to calling voters too “thick” to understand. Patronising. Ditto on Trump+NHS. Good to hear Lab’s Andy MacDonald thumping him back
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The German who caught Cummings tweaking his blog to make himself look smarter. I’m surprised more attention wasn’t paid to this deception. But it will be in due course
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Today’s Times has detailed briefing of who said what in cabinet - a bad sign, effective cabinets can only be frank in privacy. It says Mogg told BJ to trust “ the people” over scientists, citing a Fraser Nelson (editor) article in Spectator challenging Vallance data. Arghh !!
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Dear God, what a pompous outcry - second item on BBC. 6 pm TV news !! - over a very old woman engaged in a crass conversational discourtesy & the complainant point scoring at the old duck’s expense (who gets sacked). Everyone happy ?
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The Brexit Bonus: here’s another extra cost we were told wouldn’t happen
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Because whatever Rayner did wrong - if she did - was utterly trivial compared with the tax dodging millionaires & their media oligarchs + stooges have done. Sheer rank hypocrisy
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Didn’t Boris just duck/waffle Mirror’s excellent question asking why he relies on unreliable private contractors to handle T&T when using local NHS & council expertise would work better and pump long-term cash into NHS ? He did - and we all know why ! Cronies ! Donors! Ideology!
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Javid car crash: Important to remember that Johnson has never actually run anything, he’s just a cynical type of hack, he’s certainly not run the Spectator, the Leave campaign, the FCO (hollow laugh) etc. So he’s new to management and cocking it up even faster than expected
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I’ve just caught up with R4Today I/v with Grant Shapps (8.20): toe curling , cowardly, incoherent. He refused to say if HMG supports IDF to order 1 mn Gazans to move out of war zone TODAY. Cornered, this third rate hack then attacked BBC,but Mishal Husain stood up well to a bully
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@ZacGoldsmith
The same could be said about you, Zac, only more so. The last time I saw you,as London Mayoral candidate, you demeaned yourself by playing the Islamist card against Khan, doubtless on the advice of Dog Whistle Crosby, not because you believed it, any more than Boris does Brexit
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Resignation Dishonours List (cont): why on Earth would Boris give a peerage to a leggy blonde in her 20s who didn’t do much at No 10 - or for long. Nope, it’s a real mystery - though the gossip isn’t quite what you might imagine
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@Bergmann_Mat
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This thread is worth reading, coming from the German side it offers a grimmer and more liable version of WWII than the sanitised, armchair nostalgia cynically peddled by the Sunday Express and Sun.
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I try to avoid glib use of F word. But 'Crush the saboteurs' is the language of fascism. The Mail has form
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I’m sure we all wish the royal baby well, but it gets the first 23 pages of the Daily Mail, under royal groupie editor, Geordie Greig. UN report on humanity’s threat to 1 million species is on page 34
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I can’t believe that Princess Katie’s illness still soaks up page one at a time when a European war takes a dangerous, paranoid turn after Moscow IS bombing. Are we frivolously sleepwalking into a world war? Not that the galaxy will even notice, but surely we should concentrate
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It’s a bit pathetic for all these bodies to drop Starkey in a tizz now when everyone has known he’s been an obnoxious shit (& very second rate historian) for decades
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Here’s a (Times) column I would like to have written. The casual, persistent ignorant damage which England has done to Ireland - and continues to do so
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Only weeks after his burka “ letter box” jibe, Down Trousers Boris likens May to a Brexit suicide bomber, appalling, bad taste & hyperbolic nonsense that confirms he has no more control over his mouth than over his dick
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Deleting photos on my phone I cam across this useful reminder of glib Brexit promises. Best to save it, I think
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Private Eye has arrived, dripping justified malice at the fat boy’s Dishonours List
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Just listened to self styled victim of Met treatment. Gideon Falter, in (too) long I/v on R4 World This Weekend. My sympathy is with the Met as all sides - not least Falter- cash in ahead of London mayoral poll. Real victims are in Gaza & Israel, not here
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Boris’s ex, clever & decent KC, Marina, is to become Starmer’s sex harassment adviser. Chance for a smile on a grim day
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Johnson’s petulant war on BBC means that his vassal Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, isn’t allowed to discuss Corona precautions on
@BBCr4today
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Rayner tax probe : whatever the cops eventually decide here, this is a smear by an anti-tax party & dodgers, legal and not, orchestrated by this man
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Am listening to Gavin Williamson, who should never have been allowed back into cabinet, failing hopelessly to defend Boris/Cummings. Painful irony is that this feeble cabinet was picked for compliance, not competence - and most are useless as a Praetorian Guard
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Boris Johnson in new role as second hand car salesman keen to offload vehicle with dodgy mileage etc : “ no need to test drive it, Guv’ner, would I lie to you? Cash only if you don’t mind.”
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Farage complains that May has "no plan for Brexit." But Farage has been campaigning for Brexit for 25 years without a clue what to do next
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Gosh, who’d have guessed this one ? ( from today’s Times)
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Tragically predictable that chauvinistic Fleet St is still dining off EU’s vaccine gaffe, telling itself EU is in crisis, hopeless etc. No room - again - to mention UK’s pandemic failures and the highest per capita death rate. Even Gove recoils from it
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I don’t approve all Times campaigns - eg against BBC - but do its tenacious highlighting the increasingly illiberal sexual politics of Stonewall
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Let’s get this right. Tories knew Elphicke had intervened improperly but kept quiet about it until the MP defected to Labour. I’m sure voters can see she was more loyal to her ex than to the party, but desperate Tories think thus damages Labour. I had expected better of Buckland
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This claim is self evidently untrue, which means Moggster is either a fool, a liar or both. You decide
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I’ve noticed very little comment here on the disappearance of our friendly blue bird. Most recent changes are cosmetic & trivial, but I find the forbidding black x disconcerting and oddly negative . Yes/no ?
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That’s odd. The Mail thinks a 52% win by Melrose for GKN is “incredibly close” - and a scandal - but a 52% win for Brexit takeover scamsters is the “will of the British people”
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Puzzling paradox? 24 hours after distinguished BBC veteran - and Tory - gets extravagantly generous retirement send off ( from BBC) he savages its “liberal bias.” Where does he do this ? In the Daily Mail
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Mogg picks fight with Handel: it’s the lethal combination of lazy arrogance & ignorance that is so alarming. An Eton education is v expensive, yet their brains & much vaunted leadership skills rarely succeed in politics. Mediocre & over entitled
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What fun. Telegraph has been printing lies by Boris for 25 years. Now it defends his £275k a year column as “ not serious in depth analysis “
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The point about this chap is that, in addition to the burdens of having a high-achieving father, he’s instinctively nasty - but not bright enough to get away with it. Obviously a Boris kind of pal
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What an unpleasant and ignorant lout is Tory MP Lee Anderson
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Several readers have kindly asked if I’m ok. Not quite as ok as I’d like. After a 50 year run with no health drama I had two crashes in a week. Nasty but I’ve been lucky. Now resting sensibly in Twitter-free zone and on the mend. Festive greetings to you all
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Arron “Ronski” Banks, Farage’s bagman & friend of Trump/Putin buddies, was boasting here about damage he did to Carole Cadwalladr in his richman’s law suit: here’s what Ronski did to the rest of us
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Corbyn’s “I was present but don't think I was involved” could also be a fair summary of his leadership of the Labour Party since 2015
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Alas, “Brexit Bulldog” Davis is serial resigner & waste of political space. Has no answers (DexEU sec for two years !), but urges ex-cabinet colleagues still in the trenches to go over the top while he struts his stuff in safety at ERG’s chateau. Lazy sod
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Well done,privileges committee for slapping down riffraff Tory MPs & peers: a grim crew of vassal courtiers. And remember, they also rubbished Harman despite No 10 being expressly approving her chairmanship. Cynical & craven. I hope it’s tanked Mogg future
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Tell us, Mr Mayor, what was it about this 27-year-old blonde & fellow-American that first impressed you? Who forced you to take her on trade missions against you will and to give her our money ? Why, oh why!! We are all mystified
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Peter Brookes, Times cartoonist, appears to share my concern that the PM may not be up to the job he craved. Be careful what you wish for, Boris....
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This is what decent folk of all political persuasions are up against: rich US alt-right groups funding storm troopers like aka “Tommy” in other people’s “sovereign” jurisdiction. Putin does the same
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@Nigel_Farage
What Nigel knows about "American history " could safely be written on the back of an MEP's expenses claim. Doesn't know much about ours too
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Expected bottling out,but startling, Brexit isn’t done (Farage knows it), so having messed up UK Nigel who owns Ukip/Reform is prioritising helping (foreign interference?) Trump mess up US. It sounds like “follow the money, Nige” as usual. “Sovereignty”?
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Guardian has run a damning series on Boris’s career all week. But the FCO’s verdict - link here - is lethal. Lazy, short attention span, “wings it” and - worst ? - he “ likes to be liked.” Those who know him say he can’t do the job of PM
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Here’s why Labour so often loses especially when people expect Labour to win ……1970, 1992, 2015
@AyoCaesar
Because Labour's lead is so big we can vote with our consciences this time.
I certainly intend to.
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“ What’s the difference?” The difference is so great that to suggest otherwise makes you either a fool or a liar . You choose, but I’ve already made my choice
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Andrea Leadsom's Charity Is Bankrolled By Her patriotic Offshore Banker Brother-In-Law
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At 84 Heseltine on R4 shows more energy & coherence on tackling housing crisis than whole cabinet + shadow put together.
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Still disturbed by weaponisation is AS issue by cynical Tory media against Labour. Also by Labour Jewish activists demanding investigation of anyone present at Ali/Jones meeting who failed to challenge them. So now it’s a crime to listen? This is madness
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This farce gets worse, I fear. The MoS is now claiming that Rayner herself was the origin of the Sharon Stone tactic during PMQs. Oh dear
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I rare HoC visit to see Boris do PMQs, pretty third rate bluster & noisily vague defence of Patel. But why was Andrea Leadsom allowed a (vacuous) personal resignation statement when she was sacked? An abuse of procedure, one wasted on self-indulgent ingratiation. Sack her again!
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BBC World notes that. Bombardier Boeing tariff story is big in UK & Canada, but zilch in US. That's how trade deals with US work, Liam Fox
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Polished cynicism, Gove’s Sun Tel article shows he still takes us all for fools. Clue is pledge to create “world’s most effective border.” Most of us are happy to let North Korea win that prize. Govey’s words no longer have meaning
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Room in the Lords (Sun Times) for Lord Roubles and Lady Semtex, but not for Sentamu, a remarkable man of faith. Very Boris
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Just watched BBC’s Murdoch profile to see whether we get shafted more by the Russians, Chinese or by Rupert. What a grotesque gallery of creeps. But you can see why the “sovereignty” posse all hate the EU. It was our best bet for standing up to the circling monsters - all of them
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Hear the tape? No, should I bother? I am much more interested in who taped the session, how and why the Mail got hold of it and sat on this “ wicked remarks” for weeks before leaking it to damage Starmer and shield Sunak. Disappointed that few ask these questions
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Listening to modest Gareth Southgate I’m struck again that he is thoughtful, considerate, under promises & over delivers, a grounded team player who learns from experience. Does he ever use the boastful claim “world beating?” No, I don’t think he does
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@KateHoeyMP
No, Kate, your reading of Tusk which encourages others less educated and experienced that yourself to make the same mistake, is shameful & dishonest from a woman who grew up amid dangerous politics & should know better. Tusk was attacking bad leaders, not their voters
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@DavidDavisMP
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Did US trade officials indicate whether they see you as breakfast - or just a snack. Most people who know about FTAs say that tough US trade teams will want access to a) UK food markets b)UK health market. Given what we know of most US food & much US health care, not a good idea
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Warning : some readers should know that this article contains facts, some of which they may find disturbing, especially if they are UK beef voters - or Brexit voters
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BBC news is sometimes open to criticism for being flaccid. Decision to sell US Embassy site in London was taken by GW Bush administration. Neither James Landale nor John Humphrys pointed out Trump’s ( characteristically crass, vindictive) error
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Listening to Grant Shapps on
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When Michael Howard denounces Boris’s Outlaw fantasy you know he’s messed up again. But Howard has no excuse, despite sacking him for lying he was one of Boris’s enablers
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Just watching DUP’s Sammy Wilson giving spurious reasons for not backing May despite Geoffrey Cox’s advice to vote for it. Posterity will wonder how these self absorbed ninnies with no Ulster mandate & no Stormont held these islands to ransom. In way over his head, the humbug
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Ah,yes. That missing Private Eye cover : found it at last
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Boris Johnson gives a “ build, build, “ interview to new Times Radio, latest addition to shock jock market. Generous of Boris, the Times was the first employer to sack him for lying. I hope to survive Covid & be a small part of his next such dismissal
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Who promoted a UK/EU customs union after Brexit ? Why Liam Fox (2012, Mail on Sunday). Now he calls that “betrayal.” Some of these people are so shallow you couldn’t drown a kitten in them
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Who does this man think he is ? A lower middling ex ambassador who got over promoted & bottled out. Is he having a Craig Murray kind of midlife crisis after facing the futility of his career? He should keep it to himself like everyone else
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This is a pretty wounding verdict on Johnson’s new WA policy: he wasn’t misled about it, he just lied
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No one said EU was “ perfect”Jim. Remain just said membership was the better option, but was hopeless countering world class liar Boris who didn’t believe in Brexit either but saw it his way to become PM. Briefly
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Metric vs. Imperial shortages: Nice one ( Sunday Times)
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