Helen
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And they are so sure of themselves. I envy their confidence, I'm all too aware of the gaps in my knowledge on most subjects to be that confident...
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Mojo
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin.
Wudang
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I remember Lawrence Fox complaining about seeing Sikh troops in the trenches in the movie "1917" - "Now I have to know that!"
Helen
Implicitly explicit
And then there's that "a little learning", and many overly confident people haven't even been close to the Pierian spring, let alone drunk from it.
Looking at the rest of his X posts I'm thinking this might be intended as satire.
Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
To me, that says: With Reform at the helm, the UK will go back 250 years to use miserable, cold, leaky, wooden transport that often failed to weather the storms.
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ITV has said it is in "preliminary" discussions to sell its broadcasting business to Sky for £1.6bn, a move that could reshape the UK's television landscape.
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which includes its free-to-air TV channels as well as the ITV X streaming service.
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The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which includes its free-to-air TV channels as well as the ITV X streaming service.
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
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Wudang
BOFH
And knocking weevils out of our biscuits, fun for the whole family.
Helen
Implicitly explicit
Best to not knock them out, a little extra protein will come in handy!
jeremyp
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That's a bit of a worry. Everybody else has submarines and aircraft carriers now.
Andy_Ross
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Only a small amount so far but ...
The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
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The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
Government recovers £74m from asylum hotel firms - BBC News
The amount recouped remains a small percentage of the overall cost of asylum accommodation.
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Andy_Ross
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Today's Gammon hero.
WWII veteran declares winning the war ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK
An emotional 100-year-old war veteran heartbreakingly declared that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the country at the moment.
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WWII veteran declares winning the war ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK
An emotional 100-year-old war veteran heartbreakingly declared that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the country at the moment.
WWII veteran declares winning the war ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK | LBC
An emotional 100-year-old war veteran heartbreakingly declared that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the country at the moment.
www.lbc.co.uk
Andy_Ross
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My uncle Martin was on Malta Convoys and at the River Plate on Exeter. He finished his service in the 50s as a Fleet Chief.
He is the reason I joined the Navy.
He would have despised those using this poor old so and everyone like them
He would have thought this poor old guy was a delusional idiot.
He is the reason I joined the Navy.
He would have despised those using this poor old so and everyone like them
He would have thought this poor old guy was a delusional idiot.
leaving aside the possible abuse of an elderly man its a nonsensical statement given that we were fighting actual Nazis and all those little things like the NHS, the welfare state, workers rights, minimum wage etc that people in the 1930s and 40s would have dismissed as pure fantasy.Today's Gammon hero.
WWII veteran declares winning the war ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK
An emotional 100-year-old war veteran heartbreakingly declared that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the country at the moment.
WWII veteran declares winning the war ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the UK | LBC
An emotional 100-year-old war veteran heartbreakingly declared that winning World War II ‘wasn’t worth it’ due to the state of the country at the moment.
Mojo
Mostly harmless
And that the right want to dismiss again.
P.J. Denyer
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Reform Ltd's track record suggest that easy egress for rats as the water floods in is top priority.
P.J. Denyer
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Only a small amount so far but ...
The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
Government recovers £74m from asylum hotel firms - BBC News
The amount recouped remains a small percentage of the overall cost of asylum accommodation.
It's a good start and more fruitful than any performative DOGE bollocks.
LDE1976
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Nige may come to regret his comments on the RNLI.
P.J. Denyer
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If the Reform Ltd parliamentary party were on a sinking dingy and all you had available was a canoe with only two seats.
Who would you take with you to watch until the bubbles stop and what brand of champagne would you toast it with?
LDE1976
Muse
Well, I never much liked champagne and alcohol isn't recommended with the medication I'm on at the moment, so I cant really answer the second part.
Regarding the first question, I reckon I'd probably take Brian Braidwood or a German expert.