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Christopher Hodder-Williams - my Dad - was a pianist, songwriter and author. I've put together a mini website together with a few articles on Medium. I've added samples from 3 previously unpublished novels. Links in following tweet. 1/2
It seems that every budget is preceded by a nonsense story. Here is this year’s.
🚨 NEW: John Healey is considering introducing income tax on parents who pass their business down to their children in the Budget
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How sad. Limiting musical choice by political border.
I’ll choose variety thank you. Music from these islands as well as the wider world.
GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-…
So Farage seeks to damage the UK economically and Lowe to foment ‘unrest and rioting’.
Choosing these men means choosing decline.
Farage has no idea who the suspects are or what were their motives, but he chooses to use an attempted terrorist attack to make a political point.
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Dear @AnglianWater appears one of your customers needs your help. Larvae in the drinking water?
The Somme, the night of 15 September 1916. Two men of the PPCLI, the ‘Patricia’s’, made their way carefully back through no man’s land to the Allied lines. One, Ralph, had been shot twice during the day’s assault on the German trenches at Courcelette and was badly wounded. 1/3
The other, Private Sidney Dobbs, stayed with the wounded man, sometimes dragging him as they moved from shell-hole to shell-hole. It took 9 hours but eventually they reached a Field Dressing Station and safety. 2/3
Dobbs returned to the regiment, was wounded the following year at Vimy Ridge, and invalided home to Canada. Ralph eventually recovered from his injuries and returned home. Ralph was my grandfather. 3/3 #Somme #Courcelette #PPCLI
In unrelated news watch Farage Ltd push crypto.
Since 2010, the established parties have taken nearly £1 billion in donations, and handed out dozens of peerages in return.
In their first year, Labour handed out £138 million of government contracts to their donors. The Tories are just as bad.
You know what Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne want?
Nothing. Just a government that will fix Britain.
And that's what Reform UK will deliver.
I'm proud to have the support of some of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs.
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You don't really get the full picture of the walking stick incident until you watch both angles at the same time... (Left via @climate_resist, right via Franceinfo on TikTok)
First full speed, then slo-mo and annotated.
Hilarious. Jenrick who pretends he’s the Shadow Chancellor resigning from a job he also doesn’t have.
Clearly Farage should also step down, pending the investigation of course.
Two senior Reform UK officials step down after Channel 4 report bbc.in/4gU6uNz
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.