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Reluctant cyclist and runner. Enthusiastic golfer, surfer & dad. Equally bad at them all.

North West, England
Joined February 2009
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#APTA @AptamerGroup Have you scrapped the MOST outrageous share option package where the BOD have gifted themselves 25pct of the equity at All Time Lows yet ? If not why not ? 0.1p with NO hurdles ..? Why ? Cos the shares have fallen from 100p to 0.1p? 😡😡😡
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“The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing.” Jamie Raskin says as he performs Shakespearean democracy monologues while the GOP live-tweets Farage quotes.
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“Bohemian Trumpsody” By @MarshSongs. EPIC!
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This is Oscar, a cat that was adopted by an old folks home that correctly predicted the deaths of over 100 residents by spending time with them when he sensed they were in their last moments. He was adopted by the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He was adopted to be a therapy cat only for the people working there to realize that he didn’t spend much time with any of the residents and kept mostly to his self. But, one day he showed great interest in one resident specifically and showed great affection towards them. That resident soon died a few days later. The workers realized that Oscar only spent time with certain resident when he somehow knew they were in their last moments. One time, the workers tried to get him to spend time with a senior who they believed were going to die soon only for him to spend time with a seemly healthy senior. That seemly healthy senior soon died a few days later. Over the course of his life, Oscar correctly predicted over 100 people’s deaths and comforted them in their last moments. He died on February 22nd, 2022 at the age of 17.
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People often ask me how I keep hope when I spend most of my time in bad places where bad people are doing bad things - well it’s because of people like James Delaney trying to change the world one oark at a time … Nice to do a rare positive story thetimes.co.uk/article/b78c6…
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NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world
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The utter wastage of #BrexitDisaster & the danger of unchecked food imports & over reliance on one crossing. Nuts.
A brand new £24m border control post in Portsmouth may have to be demolished. Sky’s business correspondent @pkelso visited Portsmouth to find out why 👇 trib.al/931hMBy
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For a chance to win one of our limited edition 25% Manchester United scarves, just RT this post. We'll select some winners at random over the next few days. (18+ GambleAware)
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Spare a thought for the passengers on this #Ryanair flight from Manchester to Dublin.🤢 Took off at 5.30pm > circled near Dublin > diverted to Belfast > missed approach at international airport > now heading back to Manchester after spending 3hrs in the air. #StormIsha #RYR6333
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Paul McCarthy retweeted
Can people be fooled into thinking authoritarianism is better than democracy? Here is what award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood has to say:
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Investigative journalist Richard @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews Teesside Freeport and Tory Ben Houchen Have a guess ⏬️
While Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen pumps out endless PR, when it comes to disclosing information to which journalists have a statutory right, @privateeyenews has to resort to beginning judicial review proceedings to force his authority to comply. More in latest @PrivateEyeNews.
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Paul McCarthy retweeted
Amid the Teesside Freeport scandal @PrivateEyeNews reports Sunak/Gove have dropped annual audits of Freeports by HMRC/Border Force (as they’re a haven for tax evasion and other crime). Instead each Freeport operator will *audit itself* and report to a government “forum”. Corrupt.
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Let’s get #nolordelliott trending, by the way. There has to come a point in our public life where we scream back we’re as mad as hell and we aren’t going take this any more.
Isn’t this the sort of thing honours committees should at least take a vague interest in? #nolordelliott
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Paul McCarthy retweeted
Week 8 - Strike against sewage Merry Christmas from Save Windermere 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Message is still very simple. Stop dumping sewage into Windermere. Want to help ? Find out more on the link below ⬇️ savewindermere.com #savewindermere
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🚨BREAKING: The four WORST performing water companies paid their shareholders £1.4BN in dividends - despite soaring bills and SEWAGE dumps. Surfers Against Sewage are calling for a BAN on dividend payments if water companies fail to comply with environmental regulations.
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Covid Contract🧵 No 4 Accora Ltd are a bed, chair & mattress supplier to care homes & hospitals. Based in Cambridge they were awarded two Covid contracts. One is not unusual. The 2nd is however one of the stranger Covid contracts & was awarded via the VIP channel.
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Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement. They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent. But we think there is. Agree? Support us here: goodlaw.social/kgb
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