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John Thornton
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UK, NY, and Shanghai.
A lifetime irradiating people and things ☢️
Physicist, crystal surfaces, radiotherapy, linacs, synchrotrons, and cyclotrons.
Supporter of Claire House Children's Hospice.
www.clairehouse.org.uk/
They've been around a while now. Dickens wrote his character Josiah Bounderby in 1854.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Pandoro v.good for this.
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is surely s script from 'Yes PrimeMinister'?

“If Avanti operates the service as empty coaching stock, [it] can be run more flexibly – delayed or rerouted – than a booked passenger service. This can assist with performance management and service recovery during disruption.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There's also the related black shirt NF/EDL/Proud Boy outfit, but no, they're not Neo-Fascist racists, no, no, no no, nooo.
www.vice.com/en/article/h...
How a Fred Perry Polo Went From Fashion Item to Far-Right Symbol
Despite the British brand's strong cultural legacy, it continues to be picked up by facist groups who oppose the brand's inclusiveness.
www.vice.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Funny how politicians become so concerned when there's "political" violence. No-one seems to care about the other 45 people shot in the USA on the same day.
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Baker Agriculture is a contract farmer. No land so no worry about IHT anyway.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I knew this picture would come in handy one day.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Which one gobbles better?
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Most of the converted vehicles are more expensive than the Motability top limit, so the car users pay for the top-up, just as users of "premium" vehicles do. This policy is purely one to ram home the idea that disabled people should live as miserably as possible.
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Policy being made by clueless, poll-driven pols, and it shows.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The wheelchair accessible vehicles cost at least as much as many of these "premium" brands. Will they exclude them as well?
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Loud gurgling sound as we circle the plug-hole.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Which party?
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's hard to see how they think that this policy will win right-wing votes (it won't), or hold Labour votes (it won't). What are their advisors saying to convince them that political seppuku is the only possible choice?
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I want to be a front bencher,
Of a hit show on Whitehall,
I want to be a front bencher,
Though the party soon will fall...
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yet another victim of the river of evil slime running beneath the Home Office. Seriously, how does working there have this effect?
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
When That Man starts shilling for Worthington E and Double Diamond it's all over.
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM