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Posts by Matthew Parkinson-Bennett

Scrolling social media is pretty addictive but it has nothing to compare to seeing something really cool on Vinted, putting your phone down for 20 minutes to deal with the real world, seeing that it has just sold, and then scrolling to find something comparable as compensation

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If we don’t allow that in his position the boundary of decent behaviour is differently positioned than for you and me, then I think we have to accept that there has never been and never could be a “decent” PM

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Scared to arousal

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Get in!

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I don't normally like to fuel this kind of speculation but the photos are too good not to share

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You mean in 1926 not today right? Yeah it’s interesting how non-nuclear the households are. Lot of lodgers around too.

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For collusion though I think you need somebody on the ground to have known what was coming – highly plausible – and to have passed that info upwards to somebody who decided to do nothing – less likely but still entirely possible.

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Yeah. I am influenced in my thinking on this by the fact many very sober minded, non conspiracy theorist, non-republican, knowledgeable-about-these-things Irish people of an older generation that I know are of them same view

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I don’t think they were ordered or carried out by anyone but NI loyalists but I think there was a leave of collusion which, as they say, stank to high heaven

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Dublin and Monaghan bombings

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Yes and see also: everything we do with computers

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Also my friend met one of the Congos sitting outside a pub in Dublin and said it was an extremely awkward encounter and he regretted approaching him 😄 Nevertheless I am still jealous that he got to meet him

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Unreal album, never gets old

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In summary: a 3-point lead in the hand is worth more than a game in hand in the bush

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Stop, you’re ruining Ed

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Fair

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Did you thank him for all he does or were you ungrateful towards Ed?

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The closest I’ve come to getting a selfie with Ed is cycling past his brother one day. Not really the same

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Time for Ed

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😍

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I feel like the time is finally right to share my shameful secret love of Ed

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I love Ed

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The question then is whether this is just a sort of interregnum before that sort of talent emerges again, or is talent now being directed elsewhere than politics.

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Yikes… I often wonder did people just get inured to grief or did they feel every loss as hard as we do even though tragic deaths were so much more common. Both possibilities are are hard to imagine.

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From our vantage the people of the 1920s having lots of children seems sort of heroic given their difficult material circumstances, but I suppose if your grandparents lived through the Famine you might think you’re the lucky ones living in modern luxury

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Ministers face curbs on spending amid global uncertainty Despite expected growth, future spending increases and pledges may come under review

It would be a lot easier to accept this as good prudent management of the economy if we weren’t sitting on a big pile of cash while the place is springing leaks all over the place

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Yes that is my point!

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There must have been a lot of heartbroken couples who finally got the chance to start a family but it was too late. God bless IVF!

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Getting to the point where KS can frame his resignation in terms of restoring faith in the system and allowing government to get on with its job without the distraction

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True

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