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Jul 9 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#Wallabies
England forwards are almost always large and devastating when on their game … Wallabies seem to have inexplicably underestimated them from a simple line out move #Wallabies
#Wallabies need to keep it simple …somehow England pilfer at the line out and now give away the penalties … shades of bad old days #AUSvsENG
In an ever changing world, there are still some sure things - the Wallaby scrum being reliably terrible is one of them

#AUSvENG
Wallabies not making the advantage line again and again … this is not good … #AUSvENG
Australia has 26m people - and yet not 8 guys who can reliably pack an internationally competitive scrum

#AUSvENG
This is just absurdly technical refereeing … this is also why Rugby has never been a consistently major Australian sport … do not complain when union is always a long way behind league when this is the standard of officiating

#AUSvENG
Wallabies with it all to do but not out of it … the referee may as well be in an England jersey

#AUSvENG
Wallabies fighting back against a 16 man England team … gripping stuff
…. Oh this referee does have two arms

#AUSvENG

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Jul 10
Somehow, in less than 2 years, Joe Biden's advanced age, obvious fragility & diminished mental sharpness, went from something no media could discuss to front page news .... there is a liberal media game afoot here ... and even so, he is better than Harris
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Not even waiting for a Democratic mid term disaster to push Biden into not running and going into the political equivalent of “managed care”
The memo has clearly gone out among the blue chekists - who boosted ‘Biden hiding in the basement’ only 2 years ago - to cut him adrift now
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Jul 9
Having watched a few Poirots this winter, it seems your chances of surviving inter-war Britain went up markedly if you, generally, avoided weekends at country houses but, if you must escape to the country, you avoided walking at night in the grounds without your service revolver.
Also, Poirot, a Belgian Catholic, has a habit of running into very observant and very helpful CofE ministers, who noted crucial aspects of the murderer (or his/her relevant whore, hiding evidence), which I put down to the easy familiarity born of the Malines Conversations.
One feels for Captain Hastings when watching Poirot. Hastings is a literal archetype that did exist, along with Bulldog Drummond etal. If you are an Anglo, you very likely had someone in your family for whom WW1 was a good war & everything after, something of a disappointment.
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Jul 7
To quell bad takes: what Gough Whitlam and Boris Johnson may have in common is that they were/are both trying to hold on to the premiership, which is in the gift of the Crown. The monarch is always entitled to a prime minister who has Parliament’s confidence & can obtain Supply.
The monarchy in a Parliamentary system always retains the power to choose/dismiss a prime minister and to dissolve the parliament for fresh elections, to appeal to the country & allow the people to decide. Prime Ministers come and go – the Crown endures forever
One of many reasons that republics have regular crises that monarchies simply do not is that monarchies have reserve powers to swiftly and finally resolve parliamentary crises and to let the people decide what happens next at an election, free of political & legal chicanery
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Jul 4
Good @CroweDM⁩ piece on just how much Australia is doing to support, militarily, Ukraine. Australia is doing much more – from the other side of the world – than many NATO members. The Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, are doing so little here is a disgrace smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Like many here, I have long lamented here the European free riding on the Western military alliance – which increases the unit cost of buying weapon systems and platforms for us all – for years now. But this *in a major war in Europe* is an absolute joke. Image
It is in the nature of Australians to sympathise with underdogs and also to get involved where someone needs a helping hand, but this is a war in Europe – and Europeans should be doing far more. What a farcical situation & esp all the Finns & Baltics who go on here about Ukraine
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Jul 1
There is no power in the Constitution for any executive body created by the Parliament to then “sack” MPs. That anyone could see this as other than stark raving mad idiocy is an example of the Teals as the “Green Karens” who wants to see everyone’s manager theguardian.com/australia-news…
There is no point complaining about a lack of staff for cross benchers when they are clearly too stupid to have read the Constitution and to know the difference between the legislative, executive & judicial branches. Some of the cross benchers are lawyers, which is terrifying
If you are too stupid to know what the different parts of the executive government do, and what parliament does, and what the courts do, then you have no business standing for any elected office. This is high school level civics. Every functional adult should know this.
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Good morning all & OTD in 1916, the Battle of the Somme commenced, in which the British Empire armies would suffer approximately 20,000 KIA on this first day alone. Prime Minister HH Asquith's own son would be killed & (future PM) Harold Macmillan would be wounded in the campaign Image
At the time of the Somme, my great uncles were in the Honourable Artillery Company and the Royal Garrison Artillery. At least one older uncle had served in the Boer War as well. Hello to all the Gunners here btw, always necessary, if difficult and obsessive by nature, people. ImageImage
"But still a hope I kept that were we there going over, I, in the line, I should not fail, but take recover, From others’ courage, and not as coward be known" ~ Ivor Gurmey, poet, soldier, Gloucestershire Regiment Image
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