@tortillauk family served inedible gone off guac in our takeaway tonight from Islington Upper Street, clearly not kept at safe temperature. Spent ages filling out your contact form on the website answering irrelevant qq only to get a message saying error submitting. What now?
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Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!
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Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.
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May Day give-away! We've dug out a book from 1774, precisely a quarter-millennium ago: it's the triumvirate of love poets, Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius (+bonus Sulpicia!). Just RT this message, follow our account, and we'll draw out a winner at midday on May Day (1st) Gd luck!
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.@Shell made £33bn profit in 2022.
That could pay for the energy bills of HALF of all UK households.
Instead? Shell paid just £15m in tax to the UK. That's just 22p per Brit!
My new film with @Global_Witness
They're richer because you're poorer!
#ShellAGM #WRBYP
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Tweet makes a comparison of UK taxes against global profits, which is misleading.
Shell made $39.9bn (£32.2bn) of global profits in 2022.
news.sky.com/story/shell-an…
On this, Shell paid $13.4bn in global corporation taxes.
shell.com/sustainability…
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Thank you everyone for sending this to a million views! If UK news shows won’t report it let’s do it ourselves
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Johnson doesn't like this shared, now FSB agent Nalobin is safely back home in Russia. Please don't share this.
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Exclusive: NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm bit.ly/3YYk874
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This video from 2018 is on the BBC's website and says,
"Gary is not involved in any news or political output for the BBC, and as such, any expression of his personal political views, does not affect the BBC's impartiality."
What changed in 2023? #IStandWithGaryLineker
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We all know that if Gary Lineker had put out a tweet praising the government's 'small boats' policy, Match of the Day would still have a host tomorrow.
We all know it.
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Ultimately it is this imbalance in its coverage, rather than the views of any one particular individual, which represents the real crisis of impartiality at the BBC. @AdamBienkov
bylinetimes.com/2023/03/09/g…
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This is a thread of new / slang words, from different languages, that were coined for the modern world. I’ll start with this one…
Egérmozi (Hungarian) = watching films or shows on a phone (literally ‘mouse cinema’)
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🚨 NEW: the names of those who referred Covid testing firms into the “VIP” lane have been revealed... and there's some familiar faces involved.
glplive.org/l08
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How can a coalmine be neutral for climate? 🤔 By ignoring the effect of burning the coal 👇 Just like cigarettes have no health effect if you ignore the smoking of them…
Absurd, indefensible and outrageous.
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Striking fr Tory MP @timloughton on lack of legal asylum routes.
“I’m a 16yo orphan from an African country escaping a war zone & religious persecution. I have a sibling legally in UK at moment. What is the safe & legal route for me to come to the UK?"
xitter.cf/BestForBritain/status/…