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Crazy
https://www.newsflare.com/video/371810/unseen-footage-shows-moment-of-beirut-explosion-in-4k-slow-motion

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By black woman do they just mean not white? Hopefully it’ll represent a step in the right direction anyway.

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You’re probably right there, certainly in the political world she’ll surely just be the first one and that’s the gimmick many will be encouraged not to look past.

Morning all

https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1293455913873965057?s=20

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I blame us remoaners.

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Gotta love Ben & Jerry’s and their track record:

Our gov have been abysmal though, I don’t see them being in a position criticise anyone too loudly at this point.

Terrible stuff. Watch now as Nicola Sturgeon does whatever it takes to constantly talk about this, to distract from the SNP’s monumental fuck up of giving kids in poorer areas worse exam results.

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i mean, she did the thing that politicians literally never do and apologised for the cock up. it’s more than you’d ever get out of our lot

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A few weeks ago it was @Cmac I think who posted about the PPE contracts debacle which doesn’t to be going away.

The government awarded contracts of ÂŁ108 million to various companies, one which made confectionary and one fishing netting. One was a hedge fund called Ayanda Capital which was given ÂŁ160 million to produce masks to a low spec. It looks like it was able to sell at the height of the pandemic and then there were no sanctions for late delivery.

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1293422687424065536

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And the headlines in the majority of the papers? ‘Hooray for Boris.’

Strange times. Less than 150 days before end of transition period with EU after which we may be living with consequences of no-deal. This winter will be interesting then: recession, Brexit, covid 2nd wave. But the weather’s nice right now let’s not worry about it …

Just started raining and banging with thunder.
Nice though.

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I think that’s just a taster of what will be found from his writing, I love that bitter description of Blair as well.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/12/901756223/florida-sheriff-orders-deputies-and-staff-not-to-wear-face-masks

The Johnsons have got terrible writing form:

He done learned it from papa:

It’s all just a jolly old game, what?

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