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Clement Attlee in a dodgem car
(along with Aina & Tage Erlanger and Olaf Palme at Malmö Folkets Park)
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Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first Jewish winner of the VC, and an officer of the British Indian Army. ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieute…
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“The 14-year-old complainant is now 20… you’re asking someone to give evidence about something that happened eight years ago, more than half her life.”
This case is from 2020 and, with 11 trials listed in just 4 courtrooms at Northampton Crown Court on Monday, it’s had to be delayed again.
The victim, then 14, is now 20. Recorder Davis has intervened to try to avoid a further two year wait for justice northantstelegraph.co.uk/new…
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Fact checking the London Cycling Campaign. It is well researched that 74% of cycle fatalities and 79% of serious injuries occur at intersections. Cyclist injuries are not associated with bus stops. This is tosh! lcc.org.uk/news/floating-bus…
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Listening to the names read out from the parish war memorial this morning, I thought of the gap each of these men left here for the better part of a century.
Him? He's the nonagenarian you didn't offer your seat on the bus in 1990, because he didn't make it past 19. And so on.
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New Video! German defense company Helsing has unveiled Contra, an AI-run air-defense system that launches 60 interceptors from two standard shipping containers and aims to bring each hit under €100,000, potentially less than the Russian jet-powered Geran drones it’s designed to hunt.
YouTube link in the comments:
#Germany #Ukraine #UkraineWar
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No, this is wrong. The overwhelming majority of Sikhs are law abiding and good people, and Sikhs have fought in the British Army with worthy praise all over the world.
The criminality of one reprobate shouldn't undo all that good work, or even be seen to.
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This is so wrong
The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months
Here’s how: a thread (1/x)
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Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping day to all who celebrate
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On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.
I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
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“If you just add 8,400 votes to Sen. Sullivan’s total from people who didn’t vote for him, Dan Sullivan would be ahead.”
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Someone explain to Gunther he's free to be whatever religion he wants. Poor thing hasn't read our constitution
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People really don’t understand what the role of an appeal court is.
This isn’t going to mum because dad said no to a biscuit.
