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Richard Long
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Full time dad and part time railway author. Winner of Third Prize Non-Fiction at the 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards for “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway”. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rclong
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Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that
Presumably the original was inspired by the Crystal Palace?
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The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course.

www.london.edu/executive-ed...
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BREAKING NEWS - NO PAYWALL: Eurostar orders 30 double-deck Eurostar Celestia trains from Alstom with options for 20 more and service entry from 2031. www.modernrailways.com/article/euro...
Eurostar orders 30 double-deck ‘Celestia’ trains
New Alstom trains to replace e300s and expand capacity
www.modernrailways.com
To be fair, you do seem to have seen *all* the celebrities in that panto.
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Countries where a woman’s testimony is not equal to a man’s
This is rapidly turning into a Craig David song.
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I guess it saves us coming back and burning it again.
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
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Close the coal house door lad,
There's bairns inside.
Bairns upon the mountain side,
Bairns who saw the blackness slide,
Bairns who had no time to hide.
Close the coalhouse door lad, there's bairns inside.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: A mine rescue worker silently contemplates the Aberfan Disaster (1966). 📷 Getty images
She makes a right song and dance about it.
Tuesday we do the Hokey Cokey.
Exactly, because it was originally meant to go on the solebar. Classes that didn’t have a solebar didn’t need it and looked better with just a red buffer beam.
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Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
Well yes, surely this is aimed squarely at the Doctor Who fan audience?
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.