Gawain Towler @Towler Twitter profile

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3 years

Telling that this was the image the young champion chose to tweet to celebrate her astonishing victory.

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The Churchill Arms. #pubsoflondon

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Love him or loathe him, it is clear that Coutts briefed the BBC a tissue of lies about Farage's bank account closure, and the BBC gullibly accepted those untruths. There has to be a reckoning at both institutions or this political approach to private finance will become a norm.

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I now have evidence Coutts LIED to me.. In an explosive 40 page memo, “Brexit” is mentioned 86 times, “Russia” 144 & “PEP” 10. Support for Trump + views on immigration, net zero & the vaccine are listed as reasons to exit me. They say my account is commercially viable!

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@RichRaho Why isn't he calling for Russia to do this?

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My favourite thing this morning is watching Rejoiniacs complaining about the use of executive authority to repeal EU law, when most of it came into our statute book without Parliamentary scrutiny in the first place.

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Today is the 7th Anniversary #LestWeForget

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@PinkNews Something tells me @PinkNews should read the room. What would an Olympic medal winner, who transitioned later, know about fairness in sport?

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The bridge chapel, Wakefield, one of only four bridge chantries left in England.

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Young people in Britain can’t stand Farage.

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Go to protest, find the extremists, talk about them rather than the majority. Pigeon hole the protest into its extreme edge, discount the serious message. Job done. Peak BBC. Move on to talk about how climate change will require massive sacrifices from all but the elite.

Marianna Spring

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Anti-lockdown protesters - predominantly organised in Telegram channels promoting conspiracy theories about vaccines and pandemic are marching in Central London. There are placards claiming covid is a hoax, “the experimental vaccine kills” and the QAnon “Save Our Children”.

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Why does the Residentiary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Head of Worship (what actually is that?) think it's so necessary to make her tatts the most important thing about her, and in some way, her job?

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@RichardWLewis For context, you are a policeman. Your job is to fight crime, not art. This is absolutely outside your remit

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Bermondsey, right now.

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How can the death threat against @reformparty_uk candidate, @SimonDanczuk in the Rochdale by-election barely merit a mention in today's papers or news bulletins? Imagine if it had been a @UKLabour or @Conservatives candidate. There would be wall-to-wall coverage.

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While we all get angry about the hypocrisy of No 10 over Covid rule breaking. Isn't the key takeaway that they knew the rules were wrong? And if wrong then, how much more wrong now?

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If a fully funded Farage political vehicle was built, I wonder how many Tory MPs looking at the state of Tory polling would consider defecting to it before a general election?

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Ann Widdecombe, Devon County Show. Need I say more?

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Veterans of the last great sea battle fought in British waters will, today, raise a bumper to absent friends. What days they were, such dash, such vim, such derring do.

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2 years

Dammit, I'm forced to admire Macron.

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Good morning from sunny Clacton. Maybe, just maybe, history will be written in your church halls and primary schools today.

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On a train, stops at Southampton Airport, people get on. Leave platform. Announcer "Those of you who just got on this train, who have come here from Ukraine, welcome on board this train, welcome to our country, have a safe trip". Carriage applauds. Tears.

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Never dress in the dark.

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3 years

Please don't say you were not warned. @reformparty_uk

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Good morning Rochdale. Polls are opening at the #RochdaleByElection . Do something special. Stop Galloway and his politics of division. Vote @SimonDanczuk and @reformparty_uk for #RochdaleNotGaza

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6 months

It is insidious, and universal. Yeah it's fiction, but it is also attempting to portray a false consciousness of the past to justify policies of the present.

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BBC One currently showing its adaptation of The Famous Five: 'The Curse of Kirrin Island', which is set in 1940s Cornwall. So naturally the main character, George, is mixed-race. #RelentlessMoralLecture

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Husband and wife, 1740's, Faversham, #momentomorimonday

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Surely all this needs is a legal challenge?

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The speaker of the Senedd wouldn’t allow a Conservative Member to vote tonight on the knife edge vote to approve #VaccinePassports Vaccine passports were approved by ONE vote. It’s a disgrace.

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If you only give up the Alsace, then Germany will not trouble you again.

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Interviewed by Italian TV Rai1, Zelensky confirmed that Macron has proposed for Ukraine to give up some territory to Russia in order to present a face-saving option for Putin. Zelensky said it’s out of the question. Macron is the one who needs to save his face after this.

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Walking in Deptford. If told only this about Drake, you'd wonder why his statue stands on the Old Town Hall? Cadiz, the Armada, the circumnavigation, lost in a short deeply partial and ahistorical piece of propaganda. The old pirate was no angel, but this? @_SaveOurStatues

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How about a general and backdated amnesty for all convicted of breaching Covid regulations, with fines repaid, and compensation as an apology?

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Manchester's new Police Chief, Stephen Watson, "I would probably kneel before the Queen, God and Mrs Watson, that’s it... The public are getting a little bit fed up of virtue-signalling police officers when they’d really rather we just locked up burglars"

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Q. How do you know the Government realises that its own EU/Northern Ireland deal is a betrayal of Ulster? A. When Sunak sacks his own MPs from the committee scrutinising the deal. Frit, failing and fatuous, this Government to a T.

Sunak unleashes chaos Brexit revolt by 'sacking' Tory MPs from crucial committee

EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak is facing a major backlash in the Commons after his whips saw off a potentially humiliating rebellion by "sacking" five Conservative MPs on a crucial committee in an unpreced...

www.express.co.uk

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Remember when the soon to be canonised Katie Bingham said this? “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.”

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2 years

No word of apology for causing the crash and injury to a policeman. These people are vile. Truly vile. All politicians and public figures who have voiced support for them should be apologising to those drivers, that officer, their colleagues and friends.

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When did it become the job of government to feed chldren? That is the job of parents.

Magic Breakfast

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We won’t stand by while the government fails to feed a generation of kids. Sign now to demand more free school breakfasts

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'The people of Gaza don't have a vote' No, because they live in Gaza and not in Rochdale. When they do vote, they vote for the terrorist group Hamas. Galloway cares nothing for Rochdale, only for the platform Rochdale could give him.

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Is there such a thing as achimptomatic Monkeypox?

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The Tories are Sunk

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3 years

My local Pret has even taken down its screens, almost feeling human. Some still wearing masks, some not, and that is fine.

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This chap is the curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum. I am now terrified for its future. It is an ecletic, smogasboard of fascination, an absolute wonderland for enquiring minds of all generations. Old fashioned, oh yes, but brilliant, even more so.

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"UK needs to see Israeli plan for Rafah offensive, Lord Cameron says" Why on earth would the Israelis show Dave their attack plan?

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On a scale of one to miserable, that this is dead is deeply miserable.

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On days like these we remember those we have lost.

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3 years

Looks like I have a new twitter bio option.

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@BBCLondonNews Was there nothing else about Drake that was worth comment? Nothing?

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@aliceperryuk Who are you protecting?

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I need this as a poster, or t-shirt

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Stuff of nightmares.

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The Saxon founded church of St Peter, Heysham. First recorded in 907. In 1080, the Norman's talked of an old church here, which they incorporated into their new one.

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Weymouth Harbour.

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On arriving at a cafe in Sittingbourne having walked from Faversham, a group of teenage girls crowd around my table, "Are you in fancy dress?" "No I always dress like this" "Then you must be a time traveller. It has to be one or the other".

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@kelvmackenzie The problem is not that J RM isn't a good constituency MP, I'm sure he is. It is that whenever there is a conflict between his conscience or his country and his party, his party always wins. He is as bad as the rest of his party, fatally flawed, thus @reformparty_uk must stand.

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Owner of major North Yorkshire tourist attraction throws weight behind @reformparty_uk

Owner of major North Yorkshire tourist attraction throws weight behind Reform UK

The owner of a major North Yorkshire tourist attraction and former Tory Party donor is throwing his weight behind Reform UK on July 4.

www.gazetteherald.co.uk

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9 months

Breakfast win. #regencycafe

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3 years

@Lord_Sugar Why don't you go to those who insist on medical apartheid, and the rest of us go to those that don't? Allow the publicans, cafe owners and restaurants to make their own decisions. Why demand compulsion?

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The coming Tory wipeout is nobody's fault but their own me @brusselssignal

Britain’s Conservative Party is heading for a historic defeat – and it is gradually waking up to...

“Don’t vote for Reform UK,” senior Conservatives say, “If you do, you will let the Labour Party in through the back door”. This amounts to the entire campaign strategy that Rishi Sunak’s Conservative…

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In WWII the Government encouraged beer-drinking: Lord Woolton, Minister of Food in 1940 said ‘it is the business of the Government not only to maintain life but also to maintain the morale of the people of the country’. @EssexPR

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Yes, the Taliban are flown into Afghanistan by the Qatar Air Force. Remind me where the World Cup is taking place next.

Botin Kurdistani

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VIDEO: The Leader of Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived at #Kandahar airport from Qatar along with other senior members of #Taliban political office. #Pakistan , #Turkey , #Qatar , al Qaeda & Muslim brotherhood are main supporter of Taliban terrorist organisation

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The pride of work, Wimborne street cleaner, doing an extra special clean this morning, he's got a few days off. The temporary replacements, 'don't have pride in their work, so superficial. so I've got to do it particularly well today, so I don't return to a complete mess'.

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@DanielaNadj I have a sneaky suspicion that many people who voted remain have just enough foriegn languages to give instructions to their maid, gardener and driver.

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@PoliticsForAlI Burn thhis, burn it hard, and throw the ashes in the sea

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St George's day done well. The Boar's Head, Blackpool.

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This is in fact really good news. Rehabilitation must be real, work is an essential part of that, or else we just have constant recidivism.

Daily Mail Online

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McDonald's customers served food by PRISONERS

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We may flip, but we do not flop. With @benhabib6 in Wellingborough. Credit @martinpopephoto

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@BarryGardiner How's your Chinese donor Mr Gardiner? Are you enjoying that, because the country is certainly not happy with being spied upon by the CCP.

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Eight years ago today

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The Old Cheshire Chese, Fleet St, #londonpub #publife

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Gentle gothik townhouse decoration, Wimborne about 1820.

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The problem with the electoral system in one chart. Lib/Democrat 9% = 49 seats Reform 15% = 0 seats.

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Think I'm going to disinherit my daughter.

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Matt shoots, he scores.

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The cruelty of this. People who come up to London once a year or less to take in a show, hotel, transport costs, having their evening destroyed by entitled wannabees, who can afford to go to the theatre whenever they want. They still think they are the good guys.

Just Stop Oil

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🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil interrupt Les Mis. 🦺 4 people are locked to the stage of the French-revolution-themed show. 💬 “Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal? 🌡 The fossil fuel show can't go on:

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How about an apology for the eve of poll raid of the Brexit Party offices on the advice of Gordon Brown?

Christopher Hope📝

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Finally, an apology from the Electoral Commission to Brexiteer ⁦ @darrengrimes_ ⁩ in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph👇 By ⁦ @edwardmalnick ⁩

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Is not this case more important in the UK, than that of George Floyd? So where are the marches, the condemnations?

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I’m still staggered that the death of a woman who was set on fire in a street in England isn’t the biggest story in the country.

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Woken by the ticket inspector, and out the window is Arundel, one of England's best views from a train.

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The choice in Rochdale is now between an extremist, who cares only for sectional, factional and frankly dangerous views, and @SimonDanczuk of @reformparty_uk who is standing for the interests of the ordinary, decent people of Rochdale who have been forgotten for far too long.

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@Otto_English The purpose of small talk is generally to show interest and find out if there is any common ground, discerning where somebody is from is part of that. So why would you say that

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A key mistake of the US intervention in Afghanistan was its refusal to support the idea of a reintroduction of the Afghan monarchy. When Zahir Shah returned in 2002, he had support across Afghan ethnicities, but the US's anti-monarchist State rejected him. Some loyalties matter.

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@GBNEWS He just doesn't understand, does he. It is nobody's duty to celebrate the Jubillee. It is our choice to do so. It cannot, should not and must not be seen as a chore.

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Imagine any PM since Thatcher having the gumption to completely reject the advice of a US President.

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May 31st 1982: Following on from the resounding victory at Goose Green, President Reagan phones Thatcher and urges her to consider a ceasefire and returning to negotiations, saying that "As the UK has the upper hand militarily, it should strike a deal now"... (continues)

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If taking the knee isn't a political act, why do people get so upset at those who rebel against it?

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Given the massive funding of Barry Gardiner's research team, one would have thought the output from his office would be spectacular. Can anybody point to it?

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Hatchmentastic, Breamore, St Mary's.

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Rootling in the kitchen I discovered mother's '18 sloe gin. An unexpected birthday present. Cheers all!

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Just took a little walk, and started here. What appears to be a milestone, at King's Cross. Festooned with detritus and limed with verdigris. Not listed, but sonehow still here. In 1844 the omnibus stop here was called Milestone, so mute though it is, it stands, unnoticed by life

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@campbellclaret To think this fellow used to terrify politicians and journalists alike. Today he merely makes them cringe with embarrasment.

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The people just dont want to be told what they should think about. Very low grade of them, don't you think, Carruthers? The lack of self-awareness from Robinson goes some way to explain his own dilemma.

Nick Robinson blames ‘news avoiders’ for Today programme’s ratings slump

Presenter claims decline is not down to listener dissatisfaction, but insiders suggest show has 'lost its mojo'

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@guardian Christianity is bad because, checks notes, it opposes the introduction of a MAID style Canadian euthenasia system whereby we can save the NHS money by killing of the poor, the sad, the weak, the sick.

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Something for youblarks. C18th lettering, picked out by moss, picked out by the early morning sun at Southwell Minster.

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@BBCSimonJack So you no longer trust this seniotlr source, because they lied and dissembled, shattering your reputation and damaging Mr Farage's. Do you feel responsibility for publishing the story because you wanted to believe it, so felt no need to check?

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Worst case when 50-70% population vaccinated, is worse than when 0% vaccinated. Go figure.

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@labourpress Please inform us of the dangerous misinformation? That he was suggestion that Labour should provide an opposition, and hasn't?

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@CWP_Weir @bbclaurak Doesn’t that admit in clear slight that you don’t prompt for @reformparty_uk You hide Reform behind ‘other.’. It’s like only having Lab/Con/Lib on the ballot paper, then saying, ‘There was another ballot paper that you have to request, what are complaining about?’

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@theAliceRoberts Was he Turkish? The Seljuk Turks only arrived in Anatolia in the 11th Century, whereas Asia minor was then occupied by people who would likely have described themselves as Greek. That would be like saying the people who lived in pre-roman Britain were English.

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Good morning, and here is a pretty little pillarbox painted, ogee bricked, C18th doorway.

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If Rishi is crowned without contest, @reformparty_uk better upgrade its server. via @MailOnline

Boris Johnson QUITS leadership contest stressing need to 'unite' party

The former Chancellor, who officially launched his campaign this morning, had more than double the number of publicly-declared supporters than Mr Johnson.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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I dont recall ever going to a Remembrance Service that didn't involve or even highlight the sacrifice of empire or Commonwealth service personnel in 45 years. Also, "I am so grateful to the Royal Armed Forces for even thinking of me." What?

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Reckon Compare the Market will be looking for some new stars, having a cuddly pet Russian oligarch as your symbol just sticks in the craw right now.

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