Mike Robbins
@MikeRobbins19
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Former journalist, aid worker and climate researcher. Blogger. Writer. Bike nut. #FBPE #WritingCommunity #climate #books #bikes https://t.co/nnvB0W9EgU
Norwich
Joined March 2013
Short fiction: Leaving Home A short story for this week in November. https://t.co/HWD44pr9lG
#RemembranceDay #ShortFiction #WritingCommunity
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Very short fiction, for this week in November. https://t.co/RwV7KRPFtE
#RemembranceDay #FlashFiction #History
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A clue perhaps to the UK's own workforce and mental health problems? https://t.co/QsDnYPfuK9
theconversation.com
Two economists found links between the adoption of right-to-work laws and the opioid overdoses of working-age male teens and men.
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For the third consecutive month, wind was Great Britain’s primary source of electricity generation, providing 34.1% of our supply. ⚡ Zero carbon sources made up 61% of our electricity and 55% of our gas was transported to homes and businesses. Read more: https://t.co/nBH7mbAJU8
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“This time next year Rodders we will be building cheap Nuclear and SMR”
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I love this from @derickijohnson. Superheroes also face the perils of getting old! https://t.co/dy0MB980r0
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Please be advised that if you intend to travel back in time to 1912, the adornment of enormous feathery hats in the front parlour is absolutely mandatory, as evidenced in this autochrome by Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Lutz, which I have enhanced for you. It is not colourised.
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Following our story Nigel Farage is under investigation by the parliamentary authorities. Reform leader failed to declare who paid for his trip to Florida for a $500-a-head fundraiser for Trump . H/t LBC: https://t.co/YVGM2nGiId
EXCL: Nigel Farage appears to have broken parliamentary rules by failing to register a visit to the US where he headlined a $500-a-head fundraiser for President Trump Reform leader skipped PMQs to attend Florida event in March
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.@BBCSounds Both eps of my dramatisation #AManySplendouredThing now online: Ep 1 https://t.co/wA2FJ27nJF, Ep 2 https://t.co/Gf6YK2akQ0.
#HanSuyin's love story set amid revolution in #1940s #China & dying days of #colonialism in #HongKong with echoes today. #mixedheritage #ESEA
bbc.co.uk
A new dramatisation of Han Suyin’s landmark novel of passion and revolution in Hong Kong
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Very short fiction, for this week in November. https://t.co/RwV7KRPFtE
#RemembranceDay #FlashFiction #History
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Economy under @Conservatives from 2010-24 📈Inflation peak 11.5%. 4.6% annualised 2019-2024 ⬇️Brexit loss 4% GDP and devalued £ 2️⃣Two recessions 🤡Truss collapsing market ♻️Six chancellors in five years 💷Debt rising 70 to 94% GDP / £1.1tn to £2.4tn 💼Unemployment 8.1.% peak
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There is something increasingly depraved about the desperation of elements on the Right for every serious attack in the UK to be classified a terror incident. Just wait for the facts and due process.
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The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. I have cleaned-up this wonderful autochrome plate, which was taken less than a century later, near Baltimore, Maryland, at the railroad's commemoration in 1927. It
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Flash fiction as it should be! Eight very short pieces. #flashfiction #shortfiction #WritingCommunity
https://t.co/Kw0gOIF85s
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