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Posts by Pam Treanor UK

I'm finding this #BBC #Stoppard radio season excruciating. Great ideas, but condescending to characters esp women.
Please @BBC4 can we show Professional Foul to remember #tomstoppard properly

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‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

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It's so discombobulating when you find yourself agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene

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The car in London is growing moss!

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love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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Traitor
From John Crace:

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So there is a depressing symmetry in homicide: just as protecting very-young children is almost always a question of protecting them from their own parents, protecting older people is often a question of protecting then from being killed by their own adult children.

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How the pensions triple lock will end State pension indexation is very important to retirees — but almost certainly too expensive to survive

The thing to remind yourself is that the triple lock is only a small transfer from today's young to today's old; it is a much bigger transfer *to* today's young (in their capacity as tomorrow's old) from tomorrow's young.
www.ft.com/content/9bae...

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Wait, wait. Like Microsoft Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Palantir...
The US reaction could strangle us all

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The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce Ofcom’s investigation into X is not just a regulatory issue. It will define our future relationship with America

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Yipes. You can't say we weren't warned

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Maybe Greenland = Sudetenland?

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Yes, protect our physical borders. But also protect our technological borders. Unlicensed gambling should not be accessible. #itvnews

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London is a great city

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Campaign to keep two south west London police stations open ends in victory Wimbledon and Mitcham Police Stations saved from closure after Merton Labour campaign. Mayor of London confirms sites to stay open, boosting local…

www.london-now.co.uk/news/2573599...
Campaigns can work!

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Excellent

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Hold on to optimism in 2026!

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A Risk of Cognitive Convenience What ChatGPT and GPS have in common

A Risk of Cognitive Convenience
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Taxi drivers vs bus drivers

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Shameful ad hominem attack on the BMA rep today by #NickRobinson #bbcr4today

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Thank goodness your name isn't Fiona Millar

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(By United Press) Washington D.C., Feb. 13—Movie Czar Will Hays has banned the filming of a picture based on Sinclair Lewis' novel "It Can't Happen Here," Lewis said. The author said Hays was afraid the film might offend Adolpf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, or the Republican Party "which might win the next elections."

(By United Press) Washington D.C., Feb. 13—Movie Czar Will Hays has banned the filming of a picture based on Sinclair Lewis' novel "It Can't Happen Here," Lewis said. The author said Hays was afraid the film might offend Adolpf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, or the Republican Party "which might win the next elections."

Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.

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BBC spine recently spotted in… #nakedweek ?
Satire? Yes please
#BBC

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I love this site www.bbc.com/pidgin

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BREXIT!

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Is it just me or is this a very spidery autumn?

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Graphomane | Neal Stephenson | Substack Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financ...

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I've had enough of this #brokenbritain talk. UK is a great country with great people and great resources.
Yes there are problems. Let's fix them

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And doing it more

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Leadership
@london.gov.uk

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Is it different in the southern hemisphere?

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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