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Allen F Saunders
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Sometime Met Observer (Base F) & then Seismic Observer. Now in software implementation. Former river rower, became a cyclist.
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Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #FWW #GWR

Cpl Edward Thompson 2nd Yorkshire Regt. (Fitter Loco Dept Old Oak Common)
Killed 22 Oct 1914 east of Gheluvelt during bitter & ruthless fighting.
Commemorated on Menin Gate Ypres
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The one thing the useless incompetent Boris Johnson clung on to for his failed premiership was the UK’s Covid response. Turns out he killed 20,000 people.
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.

Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
First time ride in a while. Not raining, no wind, sunny; took the afternoon off to get Far From the Madding Crowd.
A little brisk. Fortunately I had winter gloves back up.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Becky looked after her mum 24 hours a day by the end. After she had died, Becky put the house on the market for £300,000.

So why did Andrew Milne - who had bought the freehold for £400 - try to take it for nothing?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I can’t quite work it out…

White school boy stabs another - silence from Lowe et al ditto teacher paedophiles.

But if there is a hint of a crime by a brown or black skin person they want the Death Penalty 🤔

It’s almost as if they might just be racists
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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So ask yourself...

Why the concern for women only when the perpetrator is a migrant?
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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There are times when i just want to tell my company to go fuck themselves due to it’s utterly painful IT

Need to download a file from customer’s transfer server. Security Blocked
Raised a case
Case closed “raise a generic one”
Raise a generic one

“ upload a screenshot”
Screenshot upload blocked 🤬
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Just f**k off you drug addled spunk monkey. You’re not from here, you don’t live here, you and your ignorant ramblings are not wanted here. The sooner someone shoots you into space, and you bob around like one of those Russian dogs in the 50s till the air runs out, the better off humanity will be.
October 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Wind power has saved a collective £104 billion of energy bills over the last 15 years.
That's great news and shows that renewables are the future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Sometimes you have to just gasp in horror.

It's not that she just ignores her own family history. It's that she understands it, has discussed it with her actual refugee grandfather, & still thinks he's not just wrong, but "nuts", & her vile exclusionary racism is good.

Completely conscious evil.
October 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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So how long until "if they don't want to get hit, pedestrians should wear hi viz and lights, carry a flag, and walk on stilts?"
4'11, almost 12 years old, still not big enough to "be seen"

#TruckBloat
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Cargo bikes are everywhere you look in Paris. Offering a convenient, affordable, & family friendly transportation option.

#paris #cargobike #bike #15minutecity #transportation #urbanism #veligo #gaya #bakfiets #btwin #douzecycles
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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In latest Nick Robinson pod, Claire Coutinho sets out why her love of maths and data convinced her to call for abandoning climate change act, net zero targets and chase more fossil fuels extraction.

Curious, I’ve been using AI to examine these claims …

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Net Zero has become a religion: Claire Coutinho on climate, identity and cooking
Podcast Episode · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 17/10/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM