Charles Arthur
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Journalist, speaker, moderator. Latest book: Social Warming, on social media's inherent, unavoidable effects. Ex-Guardian, Independent. Never paid for Twitter.
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I keep expecting an African TV station to do a segment standing in a Kent field saying “the rains have failed in this breakway country where the deposed ruler still clings to power, and people are worrying about soaring costs and how they will feed their children”. It’d be karma.
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Me: how was your Spanish test?
Son: (confident) I think I did pretty well.
Me: oh?
Son: yup, it was multiple choice in Google Forms and Google offered to translate the page for me.
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@HoneyBadger3743
@EM_RESUS
how about: not something that is easily controlled by legislation? Perhaps something over which we have no control, such as congenital problems - as happens in the UK? (See "cause of death")
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Because I am dim, this took me the LONGEST time. Brilliant.
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Can’t figure out if we’re living in Contagion, 28 Days Later or Planet of the Apes now.
Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant
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Toby Young on why lockdown sceptics (such as himself) lost the argument seems to boil down to “because we were wrong on the facts, and also everything else”.
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I understand you wanted to know how urban legends are promulgated
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@lisa_fletch
@ABC7News
why is this relevant to his treatment? The police and air crew didn’t know it. This is cruel and unfair.
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I’d hoped the BBC social media review would cover ill-advised tweets like this, but I guess not.
Analysis:
- Is this so urgent it merits its very own tweet? No. It’s a quote in a bigger story.
- Does it advance understanding of the topic? No.
- Should the source be named? Yes.
Senior govt source responds to Starmer -
'Keir Starmer is a shameless opportunist playing political games in the middle of a global pandemic.
‘He says he wants a national lockdown but he’s refusing to vote for targeted restrictions in areas that need them most.’
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Tfw you realise that the Americans who designed Facebook's cryptocurrency live in a world where contactless payments basically aren't a thing
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“It’s time for us to come home” is a powerful rallying cry for a political party, especially when yoked to those accomplishments.
@Ocasio2018
is by far the most interesting thing happening in US politics right now.
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Christmas morning begins with the traditional exchange of photos of negative LFTs
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I don’t get how displacing women from women’s teams by allowing males who "identify" as women to compete against them makes a sport more inclusive. It means you have fewer females competing. The opposite of what you’d want.
Senior figures from England’s three LGBTQ+ cricket clubs joined
@SkySportsNews
to urge more people to follow their lead as cricket continues its journey to become the most inclusive sport in the country.
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I’m always impressed by
@BBCSteveR
’s reports from Russia: easy to forget that he’s being watched by Russia and if he puts a foot wrong, eg calling Ukraine war a “war”, he’d be in serious trouble.
Yet never gives them that chance, while explaining what’s going on. Top-notch work.
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“People like you are the reason your generation is so entitled”
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Unconfirmed reports suggest this will be done by putting more water into sea at Dover so route from France is uphill all the way.
The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has appointed former National Crime Agency executive Dan O'Mahoney as the UK's Clandestine Channel Threat Commander. He will work to make the Channel route 'unviable' for small boat crossings.
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Carrie upstairs in No.10 desperately steaming the gold wallpaper off and rolling it up to keep
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I guess the high-life leakers are at the Mar-a-Lago. Probably dressed as waiters.
The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers! They will be caught!
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“We want to see green energy being produced, but not now and for god’s sake not here in this rather bleak field with no obvious value which its owner was happy to give over to solar panels but which we have overruled because NIMBY.”
🚨 BREAKING - WEST BURTON 4 SOLAR PROPOSALS DROPPED!
 I am delighted that the beautiful surroundings between Clayworth and Gringley will now be staying beautiful. 1/4
@WGUNews
@LincsLive
@nottslive
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@danbri
"Endless venom"? Have you seen some of the stuff aimed at Rowling? You want to see venom, try that.
And don’t you think people can distinguish one issue from another? Graham Linehan campaigned for abortion in Ireland in 2015. You’re conflating issues which others don’t.
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@TrevorH38250934
@HoneyBadger3743
1) do you have any idea of how many laws and regulations there are around motor vehicles?
2) motor vehicles' primary purpose is to carry people and objects, not to harm people and objects
3) hardly any deaths by cars are intentional. Cf guns.
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I am SO SICK of BBC vox pops asking Leave voters who have never organised anything more complex than a mortgage what they think of taking a country out of millions of supply chains and international treaties.
And one on now isn’t even satisfied. “They lie.”
Pointless, stupid.
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2004 music industry: "stop taking music for free!"
Internet: "haha!"
2014 music industry: "have this music for free!"
Internet: "nooo!"
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@MissLauraMarcus
Not sure precisely who that was aimed at, but Walsh's point was that women are the group who, as a group, have the capability to become pregnant. Infertility in a woman doesn't make her not a woman. Just as being born with one leg, or losing a leg, doesn't make you not human.
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I just published “Charlie Gard: facts, medicine, and right-wing fictions”
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@christopherhope
If the story about insect dieoff didn’t worry you very deeply, then you should listen to people - scientists - whom it did. And then realise that criticising children who are concerned about the biggest threat to our and their way of life is irredeemably foolish and shortsighted.
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@KateAndrs
@mrjamesob
Who funds the IEA, Kate? Where can we find a list of donors? Why don’t you disclose funding sources for reports?
If you’re not a lobbying group, but an educational charity, could you explain what outreach you do to schools and universities?
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When you’re a coder, you code things to happen automatically so you don’t have to do them again and again manually.
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Not sure who it is at SciAm who hasn’t had the memo and keeps pushing this, but sex in humans is, yes, binary. DSDs (differences in sexual development), as here, don’t change that; they just show that going from fertilised egg to embryo to newborn to adult is really complex.
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This has, so far, 55K RTs and nearly a quarter of a million (yes million) likes.
Oh no! They discovered our vast conspiracy to take care of children and save the planet 😂
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Impressive grifting. I need an M1 Mac mini and a 5K display to read Twitter, please.
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This is wonderful and amazing. Builds and builds.
'I don't care what your understanding is - I deal in the facts!'
James O'Brien educates caller who falsely claims refugees will be able to return to Britain if their asylum applications are approved in Rwanda.
@mrjamesob
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@Twiverpool
If you don’t know who Omar is, why are you saying that Lammy’s tweet is bad taste? I can’t follow how you’d say “I’ve no idea what this is a reference to, but it’s in terrible taste!”
I’m not trying to preen. I’m trying to find out what our shared knowledge is.
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@HWarlow
@jo_bartosch
nobody captured it. It’s AI-generated. Look at how the rightmost chick doesn’t actually have a head. Inconsistent number of claws on feet. Inconsistent number of feet. Inconsistent feet. Surface of "tree" has grain running in wrong way. If it looks too good to be true..
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@oneunderscore__
It's not very cave-y though is it. "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people" is the only part of the whole thing that even vaguely addresses the topic. Might not have been the intention but was certainly the effect. Have these people not met the internet?
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This is golden
Italian Chef loses it on English daytime show when they try to change traditional bolognese 😂
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@JuliaHB1
@ianbirrell
Every adjective you chose to put in your original tweet was intended to be offensive or insulting or demeaning. Be honest with yourself, even if not with us. Try to raise the quality of discourse, rather than lowering it.
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The extremist mind works differently from yours or mine. Fascinating insight via (non-extremist)
@iyad_elbaghdadi
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Apple posts "answers to your questions" on That iPhone, Apple, the FBI, and whether it has unlocked in the past
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This thread gets more and more amazing. All info in the public domain.
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@DPJHodges
It’s more subtle than that: I think Maitlis’s point is that if only 1 in 100 experts on a topic think X is good, putting that 1 pro-X up against 1 anti-X is false context.
As with climate change: if you need to scrabble for someone on the other side, maybe the other side’s wrong
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“The airport bomber from last week you never heard about”.
@shaunking
on nail bomb attempt in North Carolina
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To check whether this is true, I tried. It spots previously-used email addresses, even if you use a different postcode and name. Sorry,
@juliahb1
, they thought of this. Nice to know you want to revoke A50, though.
Oh, this is going to be a fun afternoon. You can sign any name you want to the Revoke Article 50 petition and use the same email address repeatedly. Let the games begin!
#RemoanerMcRemoanface
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Follow the money; rely on sourcing; don’t trust spokespeoples’ denials. Your new ground rules (same as the old ones, but higher stakes.)
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Monday: iPads updates
Tuesday: iMacs updates
Wednesday: Airpods update: better sync, wireless charging case, longer talk time. Same price.
Thursday: AirPo…w….e…r…..?
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At the same time it’s the perfect Silicon Valley metaphor/example: a highly technological solution requiring huge investment, which turned up too late and was anyway redundant because human flexibility could do the job better and cheaper and sooner.
I think it's nice that Elon Musk tried to help with the Thai cave rescue, even if his little submarine didn't wind up being used. Don't @ me
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Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my own NIMBYism
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Namecheck for
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Ted talk from Tim Berners-Lee in his Dimbleby lecture. (I’d recommend watching her talk.)
And now we get the head of MI6 asking a question. Blimey.
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Tis the season to analyse ‘It’s a Wonderful Life', and this is one of the best I've read: about the overlooked yet central character.
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Wow, Facebook *really* doesn’t like the idea of these people (who include an early-stage investor in Facebook, and someone who worked there and tried to get it to take election interference seriously) Having Public Opinions About Facebook.
Facebook is a weapon. A private company, controlled by one man, being used to undermine democracy. We urgently need to hold it to account. Before it’s too late.
Today we launch the Real Facebook Oversight Board
@FBoversight
to try & do just that. Join us
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@joshuamcclure
@erinbiba
no, just don’t expect Vitamin C to stop you getting a cold, or to shorten a cold. That’s all.
There are things you can eat and things you can do that will maintain your immune system at its natural level. But "boost"? Mm, don’t think so.
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There was a time when there weren’t “trends” and you just had to figure it out for yourself. But that’s not sufficient to get people scrolling and looking at ads.
Coverage of Portland is a perfect example of an information vacuum—a huge hole for reporting on a breaking event that gets filled with guesses by bad actors.
The top post on Twitter’s No. 1 trend is by a pro-Trump guy who’s never been to the US and constantly spreads disinfo.
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Beautifully put by
@seatrout
in this op-ed for the Boston Globe wish BBC had sought truth.
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Also: two journalists working on a joint byline story
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What could have contributed to Diana’s “paranoia”? Perhaps the stories appearing in tabloids that were hacking her, and friends’, phones.
Should we look forward to that judicial investigation?
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@GoodwinMJ
Strange world where £3.2bn *every year* isn’t worth picking up. Fuel duty rise next year? Adds about £5.7bn. Hardly worth doing! This isn’t really a credible argument, Matt, and if the PM’s wife is a beneficiary the unfairness really sticks out and gives Labour an easy attack.
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She’s utterly, utterly bonkers. (On her definition, Liz Truss was one of the opposition.)
Never seen anything like this.
Braverman, asked by
@YvetteCooperMP
about her own multiple security breaches, claims "what is really going on here" is that this is a full-on conspiracy by opposition to prevent her from "stopping the invasion" and "scourge" of immigration. ~AA
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“Genuinely tough interviewers are rare on American TV, as are strong progressive voices;
@mehdirHasan
is both”. Really good profile of a tough Brit TV interviewer making waves on US TV by being, well, a tough Brit TV interviewer.
"Like, you could pay me a million dollars—I’m never going to interview Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why? What would be the point?"
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Certainly can't accuse Octopus Energy of going for the hard sell
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Worth keeping tabs on this topic: the stone has been unturned by Johnson’s testimony to the Liaison Committee, and there are lots of worms underneath.
Yvette Cooper absolutely rips into the government for covering up Boris Johnson’s security breach when Foreign Secretary.
This is serious. This kind of lax behaviour is very dangerous.
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@jim_ej
I think she felt the need to get involved because she’s a biological woman, and there are some elements of proposed reforms that she thinks infringe her rights as such. So she spoke up.
As to why a man would attack (verbally) her - well, that’s sort of the point, isn’t it.
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@drewharwell
Minor style point, Drew, but “child porn” really gives the wrong impression. It’s “child abuse imagery”, because it is abuse, and that’s the primary and overwhelming problem. “Pornography” can be consensual; that content never can be.
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The Swedish advertising watchdog is the one on the right, yeah?
Swedish advertising watchdog has ruled that the ‘distracted boyfriend’ meme is sexist - stereotyping men, and making women appear ‘interchangeable’.
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@ErrataRob
Anyway, I don’t know about you, but I’ve learnt a great deal about T1D, US drug pricing, and more. This thread is quite an eye-opener. It’s enough to make one demand a national healthcare system free at the point of use and funded from taxation.
There's a serious misunderstanding of the details here.
1) Walmart insulin (Regular/NPH) does not work the same as prescription insulin (Humalog/Novolog). It cannot be used in insulin pumps and takes careful planning (like eating on a set schedule) to work well.
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Blade Runner 2049 is surely the best sequel ever. Using the same actor, decades on, to tell a solid followup to the original. Plus Ryan Gosling is perfect casting.
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As I pointed out yesterday, this poll is from January, and it’s an online self-selecting poll. Anyone who would retweet this clearly doesn’t understand statistics, and possibly doesn’t know how time works.
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@bbclaurak
in the name of all sanity, Laura, let No.10 tell the story. They have a Twitter account, they have web pages, they have all the apparatus they need. You’re not their conduit, they do not pay you, it is not your job to do this.
You’re the BBC Political Editor. Get the truth.
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Heard today about some people - parents - who are planning a “coronavirus party”, like a chickenpox party, because “they want it over and done with”. 175 people going 😳
This is a bad idea.
1) It might be YOU who is “over and done with”
2) hospitals don’t want a surge of cases.
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Powerful thread with a single message
1. I've never had a hard time sleeping. But the past three nights I have slept a total of 3 hours. I'm writing this so I can sleep.
I am very angry. And I've realized during that having the space to be angry is a privilege because many people are too busy being terrified.
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Do we often get vox pops asking how nuclear fusion reactors should be made more effective? No. Or how archaeologists should do their work? It’s not politics; it’s unbelievably complex business supply chains.
It’s the abdication of expertise. Maddening.
I am SO SICK of BBC vox pops asking Leave voters who have never organised anything more complex than a mortgage what they think of taking a country out of millions of supply chains and international treaties.
And one on now isn’t even satisfied. “They lie.”
Pointless, stupid.
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Always check exactly where those motivating foreign words for your tattoo come from. Today: the Chinese restaurant menu.
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Oh, nothing much, just
@bellingcat
with a database of names, passport and mobile phone numbers for 305 of Russia’s GRU staffers. As they say, if valid, it’s “one of the largest mass breaches of personal data of an intelligence service”.
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@pandemona
Knowing when someone is online will have much bigger negative effects than positive ones. Pile-ons, targeted attacks, all that sort of stuff. Twitter works best because it’s asynchronous. It’s not your “friends” like Messenger.
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This town does *not* have an elderly population who might forget where they parked their car, no sirree
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@jim_ej
Those changes *don’t* infringe our rights, though. What changes for us? Is there a single thing that we lose from it? I’ve thought about this a lot, and can’t come up with anything.
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That this happened at all is utterly disgraceful, but the people in the replies shrugging off an unlawful arrest on the basis that "they said they had intelligence" are just ridiculous. You really want to be arrested because someone made up a story about something you might do?
The Met arrested members of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team. They are volunteers. They were pulled last night at 2am and have been held for 14 hours. One of them came out of the station in tears. Police didn’t apologise.
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“I take Covid very seriously” says the guy who organised a tournament during the height of Covid and lockdown at which he and other players predictably got infected. I think that statement was worth challenging,
@amolrajan
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@jim_ej
But this is the thing. There are areas (some physical, some philosophical) where JKR and other women insist their rights are being trampled, and who’s standing up for them? So they stand up for themselves, and get blitzed. As the original article says.
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Rosie is so slightly too good at this that it can’t be long before she gets a recruiting call from GB News, which should lead to a conversation I’d love to hear.
Woman who thinks Meghan is a monster for hurting the Queen & cancelling Piers Morgan:
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*Reporter points to pub* “Here, the Wadabout tribe gather to use the ancient sherrypickling method to distract from problems at home by suggesting things are bad elsewhere too. Wadabout this, they say, and wadabout that?”
@doktorb
@charlesarthur
The roads here in France are blocked with holiday traffic.
Many small towns have no GP anymore.
Youth unemployment is far bigger than the UK.
Macron has become a lame President after the elections.
There are ongoing riots in central Lyon cause by immigrants.
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Congratulations to the… European Union’s negotiators, who sorted this out as part of an EU-wide bilateral negotiation. They seem like really useful people to have on your side, eh?
And £50m over 5 years isn’t nothing, but would like to see in context of agricultural exports.
BREAKING NEWS: following ongoing UK government effort, Taiwan is preparing to open its market to British pork for the first time. The agreement is expected to be worth more than £50m to 🇬🇧 farmers over the next 5 years
#FreeTradeUK
#FoodisGREAT
@UKinTaiwan
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22 years ago I sent an anonymous Valentine’s Card to the most fabulous woman working in The Independent newsroom. We’ve now been married nearly 20 years and she’s even funnier, smarter and more beautiful. 😘
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*American stadiums
Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need
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Email is a to-do list created by other people who don’t care about your time and don’t know about your priorities.
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