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Thank you for the messages and #EidMubarak to everyone of course...
A particular #eidmubarak to my Dad who at nearly 80 seems to have had the most incredible one with some very hospitable Russians & Uzbeks in St Petersburg before going to World Cup match, being treated like royalty at the ballet and heading to the Hermitage!
First World Cup since 1994 I won’t be attending - but this is potentially rather good news for England because I am a curse - in the stadium when we were knocked out in 2002 vs Brazil, 2010 vs Germany & 2014 v Uruguay (plus 04 euros vs Portugal)... we now have a chance. ⚽️
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Interesting - maybe too late. Labour MPs astonished No 10 failed to consult with unions too. Also one told her directly that her talking up of No Deal as a viable option was making things difficult. Ie they need her to say publicly that No Deal is a disastrous non option...tricky
Labour sources briefing against: “We will look at any proposal that is put forward to improve T May’s bad deal.

“However, amendment would mean MPs supporting deal based on promises that are not legally binding. also doesn’t guarantee UK won’t fall behind on important rights”
“Protection of rights is also one element of this deal. The government has still refused to listen to Labour’s demands for a permanent customs union and a strong single market deal.” Says Labour source...
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Another ticking No Deal time bomb -Lords Grand committee supposed to take 4 hours to deal with 10 Brexit Statutory instruments - Got through just 3 on stem cells, embryology etc, all referred up to full House of Lords.

Hundreds more required to be passed to correct statute book
Some Govt sources suggesting there is a filibustering game going on here - Lords strenuously deny - todays committee included Lord Winston, Warner, Foulkes, Adonis etc, say it is scrutiny legislated for in Withdrawal Bill.

In any event, cant see how they get through all the SIs
Here’s the committee taking on the minister who was trying to get 10 SIs through today... parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8a…
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Very good story about Brexit consultancy contracts from @AdamParsons1 and @TomBoadle

My understanding was BCG and Mckinseys ones were to work up rejected plans for New Customs Partnership and Max Fac to test them with very sceptical manufacturers (under gagging clauses ofc)...
Essentially, the Government paying many millions to external consultants to tell them it was going to take years to prepare customs etc, but also trying to square circle of its own red lines on Brexit with keeping frictionless trade.
Plenty of people were telling the Government, often under NDA, for free, that such plans were unworkable...
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incredible

One of the things that's always fascinated me is this exact thing: farmers that do something that deviates from the local norm get ostracized by their neighbors.
I'd like fewer fluff pieces about This Community Pulls Together By Golly and more about the realness where Ed- you know Ed, down by Bob's over on 241? Oh he's doing some frou-frou ass thing where he ain't gonna spray for 3 years but "it's gonna be fine." Yeah, we'll see bout that
There's this huge pressure for conformity in a lot of farm areas. If you farm a little bit differently from the rest of the neighbors, they can take it as a slap in the face. It costs real social capital.
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Everyone conflating Trump with Hitler and Trump supporters with Nazis;

please allow me to share the experience of a late family friend very familiar with the a actual Hitler and real Nazis.
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Dr Ben David Lew was born in Poland in the later 1920s. To a family of all boys, five in total. His parents were orthodox Jewish, no alcohol or tobacco was allowed in the home. Not even playing cards. He and his father played chess.
1939 the German army marched into Poland. Then into the neighborhoods, taking Ben and others from his orthodox School.
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Thank God: Nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union - which was perilously close - was averted on this day in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis ended peacefully. Historians estimate nearly half the U.S. population - nearly 100 million people - could have been killed
One American life was lost during the Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, whose U-2 was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile. Here: a draft of a letter President Kennedy wrote to Mrs. Anderson /1
Kennedy - a war hero himself - personally wrote to the family of every American servicemember who died serving their country; whenever a family member wrote back, the presdent invited them to visit the White House
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One of my favourite legends, from one of my very favourite cities, is the legend of the Golem. It has everything I love - magic, fighting injustice, real historical figures & mystery. As the nights draw longer, I think it’s a good time to have a go at telling it. THREAD 1/
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Eid-ul-Azah begins with a sacrifice.

Bullet ridden body of BJP District President Pulwama (South Kashmir) Shabir Ahmad Bhat who was kidnapped last evening, was found from Rakh Litter in Pulwama.
Eid Mubarak
JKP constable Fayaz Ahmed Shah, 34, a resident of Zazripora Kulgam was shot dead by terrorist as he was returning from Eid prayers...
He is survived by two minor daughters aged 5 and 2 years wife & an aged mother.
Eid means happiness & joy but this time it means destruction & displacement to a part of humanity, let us set an example of Kashmiriyat
Said Kashmiris & killed a young constable & a BJP leader.

Eid Mubarak
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Meaning: Mueller has RECEIPTS‼️😀 2/

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