Davidhp99
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Davidhp99
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It depends
Is it really interesting and different.
This is a genuinely piss poor match right now & that Blackburn corner sums it up.
December 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Insipid 45 minutes. Our left hand side of Target & Hamilton is extremely poor.

Case for a couple of HT substitutes.
#Boro #MFC #UTB
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Now let’s see what all the fuss has been about then😀
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This feels quite personal - very sad indeed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Singer Chris Rea dies age 74
Rea was known for a string of hits including Driving Home For Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.
Engineers working on the HS2 project have slid a 4,600t viaduct section across the M6 without a full carriageway closure, in what contractors say is a UK first that will reduce disruption for drivers

Full story:
HS2 completes final slide of 4,600t viaduct across M6 without closing motorway | New Civil Engineer
The 17‑hour operation carried out over the weekend of 13-14 December completed the three‑stage assembly and installation of the 315m long East deck of the
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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If you call asylum seekers an ‘invasion’ but won’t lift a finger to deter Russia, you’re not a patriot. New article from me: www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/who-would-...
Who would fight for Britain?
Britain’s culture warriors posture as patriots. Yet when faced with real war they flinch.
www.forthedeskdrawer.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Me reading this story: eh, non-violent protest, good on them, I support their right to do this.

Me getting to the bit where they call for a citizens assembly: OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Get in, the neighbour had no idea the precious they took in for me today @quantick.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I did a podcast episode seemingly. About the North South divide and its interaction with transport. With @freewheeling.info. So what better way for me to listen to it for the first time than on a slow train back to Leeds from Rotherham. Which is what I'll do right now.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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⚡️The Saratov Refinery, JSC “Morskoy Neftyanoy Terminal” in Feodosia and a number of facilities in the Donetsk region were hit, - General Staff

🔥 Saratov Refinery. The enterprise produces more than 20 types of petroleum products - gasoline, fuel oil, diesel fuel, vacuum gas oil, technical sulfur.
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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BBC News all over Reform, reporting on what Farage had for breakfast, until something like this happens
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
🐢💨
October 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants

TLAM - land attack

TSAM - anti-ship

GLCM - ground launched

TACTOM - improved “tactical” version

TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine
October 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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No-one is surprised, Matthew. Absolutely no-one.
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The govt should find 100 small things that piss people off & fix em, such as…

Ta to Politico for the vid, at its Labour fringe event, I explained that as big changes take time, govts should also have a team focused on small winnable change.

What little fixes'd you want?
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Labourites seem to have gone from "ha ha hypnotits" to "oh fuck Polanski will make Farage PM, is that what you want???" very quickly.

But lads, if you want people's votes, win them. You're the government ffs.
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas

0/n 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM