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NEW I’m taking legal action over school VAT for my daughter’s sake - first legal action against government’s plan to charge 20% VAT on private schools @thetimes
thetimes.com/article/4ac9166…
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174 years ago there was a huge storm in northern Scotland, and it uncovered something strange.
From beneath the soil emerged a perfectly preserved village older than the Pyramids, and it even had furniture.
This is the 5,000 year old story of Skara Brae...
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Lovely weekend so far. Kent Garden show, listening to BAE Systems brass band (debut performance by my boy Barney), listening out for Nightingales with the RSPB at Northward Hill, we had success (thank you David Saunders) and today at the Annual Dragon Boat Challenge organised by
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Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the holocaust.
Some of the survivors surprised him 50 years later.
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Mosquitoes kill six people for every one killed by every and any other animal on earth combined.
(I'm excluding humans in all this)
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Milan’s airport, Malpensa, started testing passengers from Beijing and Shanghai on Monday.
The first flight from China brought 35 of 62 passengers who were @Covid positive, while on the second 62 were positive out of 120.
Why is the UK, again, not testing flights from China?
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Alexander Lukashenko held a televised meeting with his minister of sport to decry the state of football in Belarus
It's difficult to believe that this isn't satire
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Reminder that in 2008 the British Medical Association voted to cap the intakes of medical students and ban opening new medical schools.
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I’m willing to believe Meghan might not belittle our national institutions and customs deliberately. It may be subconscious bias, reflecting the prejudices and power structures of the wealthier and more potent imperial state in which she grew up. But I hope she educates herself.
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It’s the height of the British apple season and without doubt one of the best harvests in years. So why does the @marksandspencer food concession in Bristol Temple Meads station only sell apples from New Zealand and South Africa?
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This is fabulous!
How Presidents Walk.
Credit: Stefan Leonhardsberger
Via: michaelschulteshow /IG
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High winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400-foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park
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Electorally, politically, organisationally the best way forward for the Conservative Party is a Boris Johnson-Rishi Sunak joint ticket.
Discuss.
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Peel claim they can't build the affordable housing element of Chatham Waters unless Medway waives £440,000 of financial contributions.
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‘May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest.’
In loving memory of Her Majesty The Queen.
1926 - 2022
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Russian mercenary Igor Mangushev from Moscow (call sign Bereg) spoke to his colleagues with the skull of a Ukrainian soldier who died in Mariupol.
This is worse than Nazism. This video, for example, would be good to show at the UN. And also ask the Pope what he thinks about it😡
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The stunningly brilliant voice of Michael Winslow doing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”.
You will never hear music the same again.
