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Andrew Baynes
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Human, breathe air, etc.
Without any kind of Googling I’d assume much the same as it ever was (don’t remember any YOI being reported as being opened or closed) and around 50k?

This comes (as usual probably) from a position of great ignorance though.
January 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Yes... ish. Some of this, though, is just batshit funding arguments (in the context of defence, this is not a large amount of cash and would also reduce losses at British Steel).

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Royal Navy shipbuilder in limbo owing to cash shortage at Liberty Steel plant
Call for UK state to step in after Gupta-owned Dalzell works in Scotland unable to produce metal for three new warships
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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this particular anecdote from Boorman's Adventures of a Suburban Boy about Lee Marvin getting belligerently drunk at Jack's on the Beach never fails to make me laugh
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It's like watching the barnacles being scraped off a boat that, due to a series of poor decisions over recent years, turns out to be made entirely of barnacles.
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM
eau no you don’t go in the walls.
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
My Cycling Proficiency Badge is the Most Proficienciest Badge Ever if that helps?
January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Good. 👏👏👏 The Refukker was trying to use trick number 5 here – "Motte and Bailey" – but the journalist was having none of it. Never accept their narrative. Always break it!
#ReformOut
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It’s up there with my cat would still love me if I didn’t feed him.
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 11:33 AM