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26 Feb, 12 tweets, 1 min read
Stained glass window smashed in church.
Suspicion turned to bishop.
Mitre done it.
it was a rood awakening.
Unless it was the nave.
Perhaps it was no one's vault.
Aisle believe it when I see it.
Mmmm, he said in a very Kenneth Williams voice. Well, he was an arch Bishop.
This sounds like it's been in front of the censer.
Bad behaviour. Is there a way to curate?
Evidence came out.
Got printed.
Cover up.
They decided to pulpit.
He was saved by a friend and he returned the favour. One lectern deserves another.
He'll be a grave man in the morning.
Oh...hang on...that's been done before somewhere.
There was a mass of evidence, a host of it.

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13 Jan
Here is 'main clause': 'I ate a bun.' If I put a) 'Happily', or b) 'In the morning' or c) 'When I got up' in front or before 'I ate a bun', it's a fronted adverbial. (a) is an adverb, b) is an adverbial phrase, c) is an adverbial clause.
1. Why has this feature of sentence structure been singled out for special mention? There is no answer to this question from grammarians. An 'adverbial' can come after a 'main clause'. Why not identify and name this? No answer.
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My tweet March 18:

Where? Where do you get tested?
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No simple answer to that yet Michael, it will still be largely hospital based. They are still very short of testing kits, but I would be surprised if testing doesn’t rise well above 25k a day in time
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2 Nov 20
Just in case there are people who want to make me into a lock down zealot, I'll just say that I don't know anymore than any other non-expert whether that's the right thing to do now, or whether it should have been better some time ago. That's for real experts.
What I am much more clear about is that if test, trace and isolate, along with masks, wash and social distance had all been in place in March and continued to be in place, we would have and could save lives and #longcovid
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At the time that 'Rule Britannia' was written, 'Britons never...will be slaves' was a triumphalist cry that 'we' were superior to those who were slaves - the peoples forcibly taken from Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas where they were bought and sold and forced to labour
There have been loud objections to the satirical use (or misuse) of the Nazi slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' as it was felt that it was an insult to the descendants of Nazi victims. Surely 'Rule Britannia' is as much if not worse an insult to the descendants of slaves.
Benjamin Zephaniah made clear on @BBCRadio4 #WorldAtOne that these kinds of words and statues that celebrate the perpetrators of slavery stand in triumph over him and are an insult to him @BZephaniah
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1/ The immunity principle works on the basis that a person produces enough antibodies to consume the virus and the body retains the capacity to produce these specific antibodies should more of that virus enter the body.
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3/ ...cut the 'success' of the polio virus down and in many countries 'out'. The vaccine works on the basis of creating a 'false infection' ie very mild, but the person produces the antibodies which then in most cases are there in the body should some polio virus turn up.
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1/ Hi John. You DM'd me in October with this:
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2/But I put everything in writing, so you will have the opportunity to assess.
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@LordJohnMann 3/You said that you wouldn't 'be giving a running commentary...' and yet, when I look at your timeline, it's full of retweets and comments. You've given the example of Rees-Mogg: not a thing. Why would that be? @LordJohnMann
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