barney farmer
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Yūgen appreciation society. Writes Drunken bakers etc for Viz. Wrote this https://t.co/EkFvmRP7kD this https://t.co/wh1hmG5V8R and that https://t.co/K4H7zE1TgG so…
Joined January 2011
Given the economic crime-spree unsure how many of my potential readers remain in the market for a big-ticket purchase like a book, but this might be right up your street. Or down your way. Or let’s be avenue. Don’t die in ignorance, unless that’s your bag. https://t.co/vdeDXZG0SM
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📈 Just over a week until the Budget, and energy debt is at an all time high with 3.1 million households unable to keep their homes adequately warm. Energy bills are £600 higher on average than before the 2021/22 energy affordability crisis. 🧵
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Always important to point out, the rehabilitation of Campbell and his casting as sensible, political sage is one of the most profound indictments of the British public sphere
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Citizens are subjects.
Great Britain PLC. The board are the aristocratic families, billionaires, big business owners and bankers, management is the party of the day. Citizens are the employees. The board instructs, management delegates.
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“Europe’s last peaceful summer.” Russia may attack NATO sooner than expected German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the past summer may have been “the last peaceful one” for Europe. “We always assumed that a Russian attack on NATO could happen in 2029. But now we’re
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Don’t think of your vote as a taxi taking you exactly where you want to go or anywhere even remotely in that vicinity.
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Rory Stewart served 7 years as a spy for MI6 before he became an MP in 2010. From 2013-14 he was chair of Le Cercle, a secret ‘CIA-funded’ group that was a key supporter of apartheid South Africa. He never declared it to parliament. Don’t get played.👇 https://t.co/CDxmDEleN3
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RIP Stanley Kubrick
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Hey, everybody likes feet.
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@barneyfarmer Lots of people who were 10 in 75 saying how wonderful life was? 'I had an action man and a toy Evel Knievel motorbike. There were no Muslims.' 🙄
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When a Wagon Wheel covered my whole hand and proper bin-men roved the land.
In our latest @Ipsos_in_the_UK survey, we asked people questions around a simple theme: is life getting better? When we asked people to look back to 1975 (the year that Ipsos was founded!), they perceive a nation that was happier and more secure. https://t.co/RomnTMXiVF
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Sometimes, when I’m gazing at the tiny sliver of star strewn infinity visible from this corner of the unfolding event, I wonder how many intelligent beings are out there gazing straight back at me and, more importantly, whether they have crisps.
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Crisps.
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer admits he DID sign off the appointment of David Kogan as chairman of the football regulator - despite taking donations from him. PM has written to the No10 ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus saying: "This was an unfortunate error for which I express my
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White shirt, blue suit, black shoes, blue views, sweet New Labour
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Mandelson’s revenge monkey.
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