Dan Bratton 🇺🇦
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Dad, scientist, cyclist, works in biotech. Fan of anything that flies. Cambridge UK
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Will he? Won’t he? Do the King of the North’s antics remind you of anyone? | Marina Hyde
As Andy Burnham heads to Liverpool, think back to the Tory conferences of 2017 and 2018. We all know how that panned out, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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![[Scene is a 1960s suburban sitting room, with a grand piano in it. The religious songwriter ESTELLE WHITE is sat at the piano, with a rotary phone sat on top of the lid. She is on the phone to her music publisher, someone I've made up called JERRY]
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ESTELLE WHITE:
OK Jerry
I’ve got another banger for you
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ESTELLE WHITE:
Listen to this!
[She slams the receiver on the top of the piano].
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ESTELLE WHITE [hammering on the piano]:
AUTUMN DAYS WHEN THE GRASS IS JEWELLED
AND THE SILK INSIDE A CHESTNUT SHELL!
JET PLANES MEETING IN THE AIR TO BE REFUELLED, ALL THESE -
JERRY [voice from the phone handset]:
Eh?
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JERRY:
What was that last bit, Estelle?
ESTELLE WHITE:
“Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled”…
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JERRY:
Is that a thing you often see in autumn?
ESTELLE WHITE [Smoking from a long cigarette holder]:
All the time, Jerry. Aaaaall the time....
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JERRY:
Nothing to do with it being the only thing that rhymes with ‘jewelled’?
ESTELLE WHITE:
No!
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ESTELLE WHITE:
It’s one of the high-speed, high-altitude feats of military aviation one often sees in autumn time.
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JERRY:
What about leaves and squirrels and -
ESTELLE WHITE:
Now listen, Jerry.
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ESTELLE WHITE:
Do you want a crap hymn about conkers…
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ESTELLE WHITE:
Or do you want an all-time earworm banger that everyone who hears it will sing in their heads, every single time they see a fallen leaf, until the day they die?
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JERRY:
OK… sorry… carry on…
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ESTELLE WHITE:
FROS-TY WINDOWS ON HARR-IER JUMPJETS AND THE SMELL OF NUCLEAR SUB-MAR-INES…
JERRY:
How about acorns?
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