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henry

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back on boogie street

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hey man!!! does on here or on twitter work? certainly very happy to take a look

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Back in as children's minister I'm hoping

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thinking about this again

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Lammy was announced as SoS for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs so yes

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Dodds was at cabinet yesterday, most assuming as she's got it (but not confirmed)

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Don't rate your chances of getting in but the Porterhouse and the Maple Leaf are all screens

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Utterly bemused by their choices to just .... not show a ton of really interesting declarations

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LK: I know this is horribly boring so im going to take it slowly. So a spending review is the jargon we use for when the government reviews its spending. stop me if you can't understand or care Literally anyone: Yeah no that does sound quite important yeah

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what is the imagined audience which clicks on a "BBC InDepth" article headlined "After the impotence of opposition, Keir Starmer prepares to wield power" but can't grasp the concept of a spending review without constant reassurance

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Rather delightful that Keir Starmer is about to become direct successor to a 12th century Anglo Norman bishop called Nigel

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Pickford a big problem for this England side imho - distribution not good enough, can't handle one-on-ones (like that)

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England getting two yellow cards before seven minutes.......little bit Chekhov's gun

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do you think the people who made/make ITVX feel bad about what they've done

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I mean that's not on VAR to be fair, that's the handball law

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Tyldesley and McCoist getting a rain delay in their final ever commentary together......what a beautiful thing

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liking this because there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents etc etc

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People love tweeting about how ooooh an American intern would show the British how to campaign oooh, but if Jackie Healy-Rae had stayed in the US he would have won 538 electoral votes

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so Skellig Michael is kinda cool

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we spent decades refining the model of “the computer gives the right answer” and I remain unconvinced people wish to replace this with “the computer gives the wrong answer, but in plausible-sounding words”

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In retrospect (/if he was looking like this in training) quite foolish not to rest him and play Palmer or Gordon on the left instead

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Bellingham looks dead on his feet jeez

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what an embarrassing penalty lol

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Yeah but (a) I prefer not to use my phone (b) I don't trust them to do the "if you're properly interested in X" well and (c) it robs me of a decent indicator about whether the guidebook writer is being fair & objective

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In the one I've been flicking through at the moment (Ireland) there's also not a single "this isn't worth it" or "only do this if you're really interested in X", which is the single most useful thing a guidebook can do. just hype

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Yeah - and the text is now just short, unrelated paragraphs about random Top Sights. I want my guidebook to give me something of the sense of going through a place. And also have opening hours and prices

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the new Lonely Planet books are godawful

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Rainy Night House .... all time masterpiece??? yes for me

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I find the standing offside for no reason thing really aesthetically displeasing so im in favour of that decision

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The best song of last year was Nothing's Free by Angel Olsen. Few knows this.

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we've got the goalscorers anyway up front so I think we can manage with him maybe reducing that a little bit

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In international football Bellingham's best quality is his ability to pop up anywhere and get out of tight spaces - for me that's best used right in the middle of the pitch, where he has the most ability to draw people in and get the ball out

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I know how good he's been further forward for Madrid but I said it before the tournament and I really stand by it: Bellingham should play alongside Rice, Foden at 10, Palmer/Gordon on the left

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Inspired by "I steer clear of graveyards, they are cliche in my death-obsessed generation" (what?) but the all time low is "every conversation just ends with you screaming, not even words just aaa-aaa-AAAA"

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the joy of Car Seat Headrest is that their lyrics are 60% pretty good, 20% very very good, 20% some of the worst emo shite you've ever heard

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"leading progressive political and cultural magazine in the UK and around the world" there

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quick update on the editorial standards over at the New Statesman rn:

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Czechia ready to pull off one of the great smash and grabs here

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Rafael Leão looks terrifying but I struggle to trust a Roberto Martinez outfit

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the Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian Campaign derby

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This is v fair but I was too law abiding to explore such things :(((

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look I can't prove this but I'm going to argue that any given Fitzcarraldo book now would have been too obscure to pirate back then lol, the boom in English translation has been crazy

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I promise if you were interested in translated fiction in the UK before about 2015 then you were extremely familiar with media scarcity

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