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There have been magicians at court for a lot longer than you’d think. Including one who told Elizabeth I when to hold her coronation, & coined the phrase ‘British Empire.’
Here’s a pod with
@DrFrancisYoung
all about Merlin, magic & the occult
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Endurance has been found.
Discovered at 3000 metres on 5 March 2022
100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried
#Endurance22
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Freddie Oversteegen died today in 2018. As a girl she used to seduce SS men in Holland, take them into the woods and shoot them.
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The wreck is coherent, in an astonishing state of preservation. The Antarctic seabed does not have any wood eating micro organisms, the water has the clarity of distilled water. We were able to film the wreck in super high definition. The results are magical
#Endurance22
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If you've been watching Fox you may have been told that London is defeated and demoralised.
So I walked to work and filmed it.
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Now in 1966, to the minute, 116 children & 28 adults were buried alive in a primary school in Aberfan, S Wales as a collapsing colliery slag heap caused a massive landslide. The teacher David Beynon was found, braced against his blackboard, with five little children in his arms
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HE CAME FROM A RELATIVELY PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND.
HE CONQUERED AROUND 2% OF THE EARTH'S LAND MASS.
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I'm waiting at customs in Heathrow, having paid £700 to get our equipment in & out of the country. We are off to Italy. Before Brexit there was no charge & no customs delay
A real world example of Brexit making things more expensive, inefficient, difficult & less enjoyable
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Like my dad, the King’s dad, the Prime Minister’s dad, the England football captain’s dad and Churchill’s mum.
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So criticism before the crisis is scaremongering, during the crisis is unpatriotic and after the crisis is all-very-well-with-hindsight.
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Profumo didn't resign because he had an affair. He resigned because he lied to Parliament.
If our leaders with their nuclear arsenal, their power to imprison, tax & regulate us are lying to us- then that is no democracy
It's not about cake or sex. It's about law & power
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Today in 1653 Cromwell burst into Parliament and roared, "Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?... In the name of God, go!"
Relatable
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Well, the Emperor Valerian was captured in battle, enslaved, used as a foot-stool, forced to drink molten gold and then skinned and stuffed.
Donald Trump says: "No politician in history… has been treated worse or more unfairly"
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My friend just took an elderly relative for a Covid shot. In Salisbury Cathedral. The organist was playing, taking requests. So they walked up the aisle of this gigantic 800 year old national treasure, metres away from Magna Carta, to the booming sounds of "Beside the Seaside"
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In 1814 the British Army broke into the White House, ate the President's dinner, emptied his wine cellar and then torched the building.
Sadiq Khan has allowed an inflatable “Trump baby” blimp to fly in London. This is the biggest insult to a sitting US President ever.
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As a taxpayer I cannot think of anything at all that I would rather my money goes to than food for hungry children.
I hope the government listen to the excellent
@MarcusRashford
's campaign.
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That was the worst provincial campaign of any of our leaders since autumn 1216 when King John marched about dealing with a rebellion & two invasions, caught dysentery in Norfolk, lost the Crown Jewels in The Wash and died in Nottinghamshire
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This is what happens when you are forced to hire exclusively from a talent pool of people who insist that Brexit is brilliant.
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They promised control of the border and they scrapped import checks.
They promised us renewed democracy and they seized control of the Electoral Commission.
They promised us global opportunity and our trade with the rest of the world has declined.
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A senior British minister was found to have lied to Parliament and therefore resigned today in 1963.
John Profumo.
(Within days he started volunteering at a poverty charity where he spent the rest of his career.)
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Like Johnson I owe my career to the BBC. Like him, I now have much to gain from its demise. Unlike him I believe that undermining the BBC worsens a global crisis of fact based news on which democracy depends
It is a deeply unpatriotic assault on a great British institution
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In honour of my wonderful dad's 84th birthday here is a glimpse of what it is like to visit any and all foreign cities with him.
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The left have moved so far left that they wish to see the richest people pay as much income tax as they would have under Eisenhower and Churchill.
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Today my wife visited a family friend. A former Gurkha, he adopted a baby girl found abandoned in the Nepalese jungle.
17yrs later they live here & his daughter is heading for straight As & a medical degree.
It should be a source of huge national pride that this happens in the UK
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Today in 1381 the Peasants’ Revolt kicked off in Essex as an angry mob confronted an out of touch government enforcing a deeply unpopular policy.
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80 years ago today Yugoslav resistance fighter Lepa Radić was killed by the Nazis. Unbroken after days of torture she was given a final chance on the gallows to give up her comrades.
She said "I'm no traitor. You'll know them when they come for you, to the last man."
She was 17
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Today in 1919 Maurice Hilleman was born. His twin sister died that day & his mother, 2 days later. He would become the most successful vaccinologist ever, developing vaccines for mumps, Hep A, chickenpox, measles & others. He's saved more lives than any other person in history.
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Around a quarter of Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar were born outside Britain.
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The Luftwaffe set fire to the London Stock Exchange in 1940 and then blasted it with the shockwave of a supersonic missile in 1945 and still did less damage to it than we did.
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I don't know why simply having gigantic offshore bank accounts in the first place isn't disqualifying
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Today in 1938 at the Munich Conference, Britain & France agreed to Hitler's annexation of around 20% of Czechoslovakia.
The annexed territory lay along the German-Czech border which Hitler insisted had been historically part of Greater Germany.
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The Roman Empire reached its maximum territorial extent under an Emperor who had sex with men.
Mike Johnson: “The fall of Rome” happened because they “condoned” gay people
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Just as with the original tapestry, this anonymous craftsperson deserves eternal fame.
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Probably the oldest door in Britain, in
@wabbey
. Made from wood from the Confessor's abbey, which was consecrated today in 1065, it is just under 1000yrs old. Hewn from mature oak... so the trees that produced these planks could have been saplings when the Romans left Britain
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We have super high definition film of the wreck, multi beam sonar and a hugely accurate laser model. Nothing has been touched or retrieved.
#Endurance22
is coming home.
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She was appointed by a hereditary monarch without recourse to a general election.
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110yrs ago today Titanic sank.
A stoker, Arthur John Priest, survived. He swam through icy water to a lifeboat.
He had already survived a collision aboard its sister ship, Olympic.
He went on to survive the WW1 sinkings of Alcantara, Britannic (Titanic's other sister) & Donegal
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Last 6 years have crushed the "we must pay more & get the very best people into politics" critique
Kwartang, Johnson, Cameron, May, Truss, Redwood, Rees Mogg went to the best universities, worked in blue chip companies, are awash with accolades
And they've crashed the country
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My daughter had a 'medieval feast' at school yesterday. Mostly, the boys went as knights, the girls as princesses.
She went as the Viking fleet commander, 'The Red Girl' briefly referred to in the 12th C 'The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.'
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It's overwhelming but remember that York Minster and Hampton Court burned in the 80s, Windsor Castle in the 90s and Cutty Sark in the 00s. Dresden's Frauenkirche, the Catherine Palace.... What we build, we can rebuild. Their essence endures.
#NotreDame
will rise again.
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This is intolerable.
You know which country owes its existence to aid? The USA
Who was one of the biggest aid hounds in recent history? That darling of the American right, Winston Churchill.
Aid has always been a vital and often efficient tool of statecraft.
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It is profoundly unpatriotic to encourage voters to overlook law breaking by their elected leaders.
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Maybe the generation who matured after the monstrous destruction of WW2 do not appreciate the fragility of democracy. Or its importance.
Taking a wrecking ball to the institutions that guard our rights as citizens to advance your own cause is dangerous & historically illiterate.
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Freddie Oversteegen died today in 2018. As a teenager in the Dutch Resistance she used to seduce SS men, take them into the woods and shoot them.
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I suspect that the arrest of peaceful protestors will prove not only wrong, but a mistake.
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Now in 1966, to the minute, 116 children & 28 adults were buried alive in a primary school in Aberfan, South Wales as a collapsing colliery slag heap caused a massive landslide
The teacher David Beynon was found, braced against his blackboard, with 5 little children in his arms
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Winston Churchill famously wore a ‘siren suit’- an all in one utility outfit designed for air raids- when he visited the White House in 1941.
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"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
George Washington
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
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Happy 100th Birthday to Jan Stangryciuk, a Pole who volunteered to join the RAF. He was terribly burned in a crash and had his face extensively rebuilt by Archibald McIndoe. One of the last of the Guinea Pig Club.
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75yrs ago, after history's bloodiest war, with its genocide & unimaginable brutality, a generation of survivors tried to prevent future war by building institutions to curb assertions of national sovereignty
The UK forged that. Now we help to dismantle it
Brexit is a tragedy
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It is deeply unpatriotic to make knowingly false accusations that undermine our parliamentary democracy
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The oldest door in Britain, in
@wabbey
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Made from wood from the original Anglo-Saxon abbey, consecrated today in 1065, it is just under 1000yrs old. Hewn from mature oak, that means the trees that produced these planks could have been saplings when the Romans evacuated Britain.
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By-election day in Uxbridge: I will bear voters on my back to the polling station from dawn to dusk while serving hot and cold beverages and a selection of snacks.
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Waking up to discover that despite setting up a business that now employs 40 people, with a majority US customer base, that I am part of the
#antigrowthcoalition
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98 year old Tom Rice, 101st Airborne veteran, touches down in Holland. 75 years since he jumped during Operation Market Garden.
I asked him if it was his last jump. He said, 'No. I've got lots more in me.'
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The oldest door in Britain. Hidden away in
@wabbey
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Made from timber from the original Anglo-Saxon abbey, it is just under a thousand years old. Made from mature oak, that means the trees that produced these planks could have been saplings when the Romans evacuated Britain.
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Constantly slagging off your country while convincing your supporters that you are a true patriot is a miraculous thing.
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Betty Webb turned 100 today. One of the last of the
@bletchleypark
veterans.
She ran away from school at age 17 to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service against her mother's wishes.
She is well. She still sparkles. She insists she did nothing special.
Happy Birthday
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Feeling so sad and helpless about the
@jessphillips
assault discourse. It should obviously be instantly disqualifying. That it isn't shows there is evil in our politics.
I would never have believed it of my country.
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That was the worst provincial campaign of any of our leaders since autumn 1216 when King John, marching about dealing with a rebellion & two invasions, caught dysentery in Norfolk, lost the Crown Jewels in The Wash and died in Nottinghamshire
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The brutal winter of 1916-7 was known as ‘The Turnip Winter’ in Germany as harvests failed & they couldnt access global food & fertiliser supplies thanks to the British naval blockade
The govt replaced potatoes and cereals with turnips
There was unrest
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Today in 1945 US Army Sgt Edward Allen Carter was shot 5 times assaulting a German position.
They tried to capture him but he killed 6 enemy & took 2 back to friendly lines where he interrogated them in German. He was black so he did not receive the Medal of Honor. Until 1997
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Like literally everyone else who has ever had anything to do with Johnson I realised that he was a perpetual motion generator of lies.
Unusually though, I have a photo of that exact moment of clarity.
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My 8 yr old is making a Great Women from History Top Trumps which she wants to sell for Christmas and raise money for charity.
But she's having doubts. She doesn't think they're good enough. Please would you 'like' this post if you think she should keep going. Thanks!
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The East India Company was born today in 1600. Few corporations in history have had a greater impact. Profits trumped all else. It became a monopolistic, rent seeking conqueror. Politicians were bought, shareholders enjoyed the upside while taxpayers carried the losses.
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This is the most hopeless political comeback since Charles II invaded England in 1651, miscalculated everything, did a bit of shagging, got spanked at Worcester and spent six weeks in hiding.
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Today in 1963 the first Beeching Report was published. The Minister for Transport was Ernest Marples. Before taking office he sold a big stake in a road building company to his wife
He closed 1000s of miles of railways & built lots of motorway
He fled to Monte Carlo in early 1975
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James Barry died today in 1865.
A general in the British Army. A surgeon. A pioneer. And, after he died, it turned out he was biologically, a woman.
He was born as raised as a female, Margaret Anne, but it seems took on a male identity to get into medical school.
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Today in 1707 Bahadur Shah was crowned Emperor in Delhi. He had killed his brothers and rebelled against his father Aurangzeb, who had killed his brothers and rebelled against his father Shah Jahan who had killed his brothers and rebelled against his father Jahangir.
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And so we look forward to welcoming our 10th Justice Secretary in 10 years.
If that degree of leadership churn took place in any school, company, warship, charity, any organisation at all it would be a symptom of profound crisis.
It's simply not OK.
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Changing PMs in a crisis:
-Churchill replaced Chamberlain the day Hitler invaded W Europe
-Lloyd George replaced Asquith weeks after the Somme, 3 months before the Russian Rev
-Palmerston replaced Aberdeen at nadir of Crimean War, 3 months after the Charge of the Light Brigade
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In 2014 UK was one of the world's largest economies with an outsize cultural, academic & security influence, a key player in the world's largest economic block. Scotland voted to stay. An 850yr old territorial dispute in Ireland was satisfactorily settled.
Why are we doing this?
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By 1917 a hopeless Russian ruler had stripped his capital of his most loyal, elite Imperial Guard units, to send them to bolster a failing military effort in Ukraine which meant that when the revolution came, his regime was swept away.
Just saying
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'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'
British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933
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It's odd. When I tweet about violence towards women I get told to stop virtue signalling. When I tweet in support of Armed Forces charities, I don't.
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Just imagine for second that all the focus and energy of all these politicians and civil servants, and all the billions that we have spent, had been redirected over the last six years on education. Or carbon transition, housing, hospitals.
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For those who get enraged by those of us foreigners obsessed with US politics. This is why. If Trump was in power NATO would be dead. He welcomed this invasion. The voters of Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania determined our fate.
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They watched this.
And then they gave her a nuclear arsenal.
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If Dianne Abbot said things that were as stupid and constitutionally illiterate as Rees-Mogg she would be driven out of public life.
It's astonishing where testicles, white skin and a posh voice get you. Take it from one who knows. 😉
Jacob Rees-Mogg says on
@BBCNewsnight
that "a change of leader requires a general election".
Says UK is now effectively a "presidential system" and "the mandate is personal rather than entirely party"
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An unsere deutschen Brüder und Schwestern: diese Extremisten und Fanatiker sprechen nicht für uns. Was auch immer mit Brexit passiert, bitte wissen Sie, dass Sie für Millionen von uns Freunde, Verbündete, Kollegen und Partner bleiben.
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Lottie Dod won Wimbledon today in 1887 at age 15. She still has the record as youngest woman to do so.
She won four more.
Then won the British ladies golf championship, played hockey for England and won a silver in the Olympics at archery.
She served as a nurse in WW1.
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More Russian generals have been killed. Historically, dead senior officers are a really bad sign.
Here's a thread.
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Today in 1940 Churchill gave an electrifying speech. It remains the English language's greatest expression of defiance and determination.
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This door in Westminster Abbey dates from around the time of its consecration, nearly 1000 yrs ago. That means the oak could have been a sapling when the Romans marched out of Britain.
Is it the oldest working door in the UK?
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This isn't hard. If you're frustrated by two deeply flawed parties, there is a proper alternative. A party led by a young, internationalist, progressive woman who will stop Brexit and take action on the climate crisis. I'll be voting for
@joswinson
and the
@LibDems
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75 years ago today British bombers attacked German ships in Nordgulenfjord, Norway, and leaving us some of the most extraordinary footage of ww2. Via
@rgpoulussen
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Sad news.
Just been informed of the death of one of the greatest Britons, Dr Bill Frankland. He died at age 108. He was the oldest living survivor of the Japanese POW camps. He was a scientist who published his most recent paper in September 2019.
I'll never forget our meeting
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People without direct experience of charismatic populists blaming foreigners, internal enemies & ineffectual establishments while offering fantasy solutions cannot be expected to know how dangerous they are
Which is why we ask again, everyone, please:
Teach Some Fucking History.
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Sure. We can force Israel back to its pre-67 borders, reunify Ireland and abolish NATO but preventing something that doesn't exist yet? Too much.
For a guy who has spent his career enthusiastically campaigning for the spectacularly unlikely this is pathetic.
Interview with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn: 'We Can't Stop Brexit'
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Not as tense as in my house.
"[TV historian] sex tape" has appeared in our family shared Google history, and I have no idea whether it was my wife, my 9yo son, or me while I was drunk. Things are tense.
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It is profoundly unpatriotic to make it harder for our fellow Britons to vote.
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