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Richard Hornby

@NyesDad

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 Sussex, England
Joined June 2009
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In a world full of Gallagher brothers, be more Paul Heaton.
BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) profile pictureBBC Breakfast
@BBCBreakfast10 Oct 2024
'If you want control of that you have to be at the meetings that decide ticket prices' Singer songwriter Paul Heaton told #BBCBreakfast musicians need to be actively involved to stop fans being hit by expensive concert tickets and dynamic pricing bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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The Cabinet Office is at the heart of the UK government. Meet the Ministerial team that is delivering the national missions, strengthening UK resilience, reforming our constitution and standards and resetting UK-EU relations. 📸: Our Cabinet Office Ministers
The Cabinet office ministerial team lined up in two rows for a family-style portrait. In the front row from left to right is Nick Thomas-Symonds, Pat McFadden, and Ellie Reeves. Behind them from left to right is Abena Oppong-Asare, Lucy Powell, Angela Smith, and Georgia Gould.

ALT The Cabinet office ministerial team lined up in two rows for a family-style portrait. In the front row from left to right is Nick Thomas-Symonds, Pat McFadden, and Ellie Reeves. Behind them from left to right is Abena Oppong-Asare, Lucy Powell, Angela Smith, and Georgia Gould.

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Setting up all 650 Members in their offices takes time.
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Gibson’s Law “For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”
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Shoreham Airport 1936 Stavers Tiltman bit.ly/49y2SvM
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If the person you are meeting for 8.30 coffee isn’t there by 8.35, does the probability of them arriving increase or decrease with time?
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Jack Cornish@cornish_jack2 Feb 2024
This is a clapper stile. Isn't it magnificent? #FootpathFriday – at Hungerford, England
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@Rainmaker197318 Jan 2024
The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999
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'Notting Hill Gate' by Denys G. Wells (1881–1973) (Private collection)
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Should we squander our current circumstances then the gate Of science will be closed to us, our efforts turned away We came from monkeys, and to monkeys hence we shall return
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Emma Thompson's advice to her younger self.
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Police Autism UK@npaa_uk7 Sep 2023
Job applicants should be treated according to their needs to allow them to come across at their best & demonstrate that they can do the job - fairness is NOT treating everyone the same disabilitynewsservice.com/au…
Autistic man to receive £20,000 from NHS after refusal of job interview adjustments

Autistic man to receive £20,000 from NHS after refusal of job interview adjustments

An autistic man will receive £20,000 compensation after a “discriminatory” refusal to make the reasonable adjustments he requested for a job interview with the government agency responsible for NHS…

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Dizzy Gillespie meets a young fan more hip than him! 😎 #SMLPDF sheetmusiclibrary.website/
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Ryan Haecker
@RyanHaecker18 May 2023
90 years ago, in 1933, Alfonso Bialetti invented the Moka Express and changed the image of domestic coffee in Italy and perhaps worldwide.
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"a genius is the one most like himself" "you've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Ben Wendel (@benwendel) profile pictureBen Wendel@benwendel1 Feb 2023
Always important to revisit these Thelonious Monk quotes written down by saxophonist Steve Lacy. You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?
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Tom Read@thommeread21 Feb 2023
A pleasure to meet with Vice Prime Minister @FedorovMykhailo today to learn more about how the war has catalysed Ukraine’s mission to digitise public services. Quite extraordinary👏🏻🇺🇦 🇬🇧
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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
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