Brian J
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Consultant of some sort working in construction Usually somewhere in northern England
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No one is obliged by natural law to live according to someone else's temperament. On the contrary, every man is a defender of his own freedom.
#Spinoza
about 1 year ago
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Canât help but think that Stakeknife would have been torturing IRA men even if he hadnât been working for Mi5
about 1 hour ago
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Newcastle v Burnley that Guimaraes beautiful sweeping curve kick into goal from the corner flag has to be the PL goal of the season but there should be some appreciation for Dan Burn being an absolute aggro unit and making a nuisance of himself on the goal line â˝ď¸
1 day ago
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So I take it our latest episode of national self delusion is pretending Paddington Bear is some kind of real person. What I would like to know is what is inside that costume, I can only imagine some limbless horror like a Dalek
3 days ago
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On the Nigel Farage school stories, I can only imagine the media response if over 20 people had come forward to say Jeremy Corbyn had tormented them with anti-Semitic abuse when he was a school student (17/18 yrs old)
4 days ago
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I am Horrified, Horrified beyond belief at the hysterical melt-down by Rory Stewart during his interview with Zack Polanski. The greatest âyou are not in our clubâ moment I have seen since an american entered strike commandsâ officers mess and tried to buy a Jack Danielâs and Coke with cash
6 days ago
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The full on assault on Rachel Reeves just shows how many of our media talking heads live in multi million pound houses
8 days ago
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Celebrity Masterchef is without doubt always the least interesting of the series but there is an air of sadness about this one with John Torode without Greg and Grace Dent lovely but a little cautious so far
12 days ago
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Badenochs response to the budget speech yesterday in Parliament was preplanned before any of the details were announced and consisted of a viscous personal attack that does nothing to inform or address issues within the budget. Tories loved it tho so should keep her in place for the foreseeable
12 days ago
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I am the same age as Nigel Farage and I can empathise with trying to recall actions from so long ago but I do remember that aged 15 during the 79 election I was handing out communist party leaflets debating against the reintroduction of the death penalty and supporting rock against racism
14 days ago
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I am afraid I canât get excited by the Green Party rise in the polls. Apart from the excellent Zack Polanski what have they got? Here in Durham the Greens helped a Tory/Lib Dem admin in power for the last 5 years enacting disastrous policies that have led to a ÂŁ10m black hole and ushered in Reform
14 days ago
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I awake to beautiful thick snow and huge flakes falling softly. From the town centre I hear government speakers croaking âthe Russians are coming, the Russians are comingâ
20 days ago
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A weasels tale: radio drama Lovely listen on a winter afternoon A real Christmas treat for Willows fans
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Drama on 4 - The Wind in the Willows: A Weaselâs Tale - BBC Sounds
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m96p?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
21 days ago
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The tedious celebcasting of day time Radio 2 is bring balanced nicely with some beautifully curated evening shows from Bob Harris, Gary Davis, Cerys Matthews and Angela Griffin
about 1 month ago
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I think itâs possible to profoundly disagree with Andrew Marr on Kier Starmer being great and also disagree profoundly with Andrew Marr on Kier Starmer being hopeless
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Liverpools decision to buy Isak this summer seems to have been based purely on his goal scoring rate and not taking any notice on how he was being played. Newcastle focused their team around him for him to score Liverpool have put him up front and hope he will figure something out for himself.
2 months ago
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Heather Stewart
3 months ago
Here's this week's column: skills policy has been shunted around between departments yet again. Labour really needs to get this right if it wants to have a hope of tackling inactivity, and ultimately getting the benefits bill down.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Apprenticeships have collapsed in England â Labour needs to fine-tune the solution, fast | Heather Stewart
Responsibility for vocational training and skills has bounced around Whitehall for years, with enrolment rates down by a third. Can the latest tweaks work?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/14/apprenticeships-have-collapsed-in-england-labour-needs-to-fine-tune-the-solution-fast
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CBI boss calls for Reeves to tear up Labourâs pledge not to raise tax
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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CBI boss calls for Reeves to tear up Labourâs pledge not to raise tax
Rain Newton-Smith tells chancellor âthe time for tinkering is overâ and revisit promise not to raise taxes on working people
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/09/cbi-boss-calls-for-rachel-reeves-to-tear-up-labours-manifesto-pledge-on-tax?CMP=share_btn_url
3 months ago
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A shift in taxation from income to assets is hugely overdue and would be welcome. The north still needs major infrastructure projects to be green lighted by the government without this productivity will not rise
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Rachel Reeves is under immense pressure. She must not waste her chance to âgo bigâ | Heather Stewart
Chancellor needs to reform an out-of-kilter tax system without alienating voters or spooking financial markets
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/31/rachel-reeves-is-under-immense-pressure-she-must-not-waste-her-chance-to-go-big?CMP=share_btn_url
3 months ago
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Good morning!
#happysunday
#fullenglish
4 months ago
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The U.K. govt has a window of opportunity to rescue hundreds of desperately ill children from the
#Gaza
atrocity. This will be remembered as a small act of mercy in the face of unprecedented brutality. True not the 10k rescued by Wintons Kindertransport but something at least
4 months ago
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Once you get past the âwee timorous beastieâ nonsense Burns is a great romantic poet
5 months ago
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Offering to the Tweed St Boswells
#midsummer
6 months ago
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Good morning from a lovely sunny Newcastle
8 months ago
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I clearly have no clue how financial markets work. If I was a trader I would have sold stock last week when they were high and bought commodities when they were cheap. Seems I should have done the opposite
#tariffs
#gold
#markets
#bonds
#trump
8 months ago
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Happy St Cuthberts day Spent it in St Cuthbert parish where we are installing 2 otter holts 17km of hedgerow 10k trees numerous bird, bay and owl boxes hope he will approve
9 months ago
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Starmers current domestic priority is to neutralise the far right who are now the only opposition forcing tories and reform to the lunatic fringe and enabling decades of labour in power This does open the possibility of an effective new left party
9 months ago
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My I Ching reading today 47 - kâun oppression 6 - conflict đŚ
9 months ago
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I asked DeepSeek to make a gratitude prayer for me last night and actually itâs OK .
9 months ago
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Starmer is walking a tightrope We can only hope it plays out
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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Time to jump
10 months ago
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A question A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth R Frost
10 months ago
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The task facing Starmer today is to balance a reset with the European Union along with managing an antagonistic unpredictable US administration If he carries it off it will be the greatest political victory of our generation
10 months ago
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It is the evening of the day
10 months ago
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Very little from the government for the north so far apart from Old Trafford which southern people seem to know about for some reason
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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The mouth of Hell, York Minster
11 months ago
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Ignoring the broo-ha with some calm intelligent viewing. Go on enjoy
youtu.be/3_kdbJnCMwU?...
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Bryan Magee - The Great Philosophers
YouTube video by David Balcarras
https://youtu.be/3_kdbJnCMwU?si=kwYU7sWBVvyeBKir
11 months ago
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You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop Rumi
11 months ago
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..âit has long been their habit to steal away Christian men and women and make servants of them or force them to take part in their dreary pastimes their dances their feasts their long empty celebrations of dust and nothingnessâ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
11 months ago
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A brilliant and timely article from TJ Clark on Trump and spectacle
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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T.J. Clark ¡ A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. Heâs on the screen in our hands. We...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/t.j.-clark/a-brief-guide-to-trump-and-the-spectacle
11 months ago
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This is a brilliant initiative So pleased to support this woke organisation National Trust project to plant almost half a million trees this winter
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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National Trust project to plant almost half a million trees this winter
Schemes at 20 sites in England will create woodlands, wood pasture, hedgerows and orchards
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/17/national-trust-plant-almost-half-a-million-trees-winter?CMP=share_btn_url
11 months ago
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0.1% economic growth is small but shows government on right track. Rachel Reeves is going nowhere
11 months ago
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In the depths of our frozen winter the gulf stream has arrived bringing blessings of warm southern air to northern Britain
11 months ago
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www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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MP hits out at travel chaos after Gateshead Flyover debacle and Metro delays
Emma Lewell-Buck has called for a meeting with transport secretary Heidi Alexander after her constituents were hit with a string of transport problems over recent weeks
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mp-hits-out-travel-chaos-30773013?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
11 months ago
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Incredible arrogance if true A ministry appealing against a court ruling that a river should be repaired
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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Latest Pilgrim episode on BBC sounds before Christmas but only just caught up. Great series creepy but funny as well
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz - Belle Meadow Fayre (Part 1) - BBC Sounds
Pilgrim must track down the kidnapped Old Johnny John John or the winter won't come.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024f3j?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
11 months ago
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LA story
11 months ago
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âThey see it is livingâ: Durham professorâs mission to get more pupils into classics
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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âThey see it is livingâ: Durham professorâs mission to get more pupils into classics
Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/02/durham-professor-mission-classics-classical-education?CMP=share_btn_url
11 months ago
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All creatures are born through joy, sustained by joy and return to joy Upanishads
12 months ago
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