Mark J

Did they take much? Perhaps they didn't know it was to be saved for milling, it could have been a builder who knew no better.

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We're intervening in the fight to protect the UK’s rivers - Good Law Project GOODLAWPROJECT.ORG We have big news in the fight to keep the UK’s rivers and waterways safe from the dirty practices, and even dirtier...

Lisa Shaw's husband reveals she shared birthday with Boris Johnson - and spent final one following rules - Chronicle Live WWW.CHRONICLELIVE.CO.UK The BBC radio presenter passed away due to a complication from the Covid AstraZeneca vaccine Absolute bastards.

I like Ian Hislop:

Ha, evidently not! Fraudsters apparently and that's just this chunk from Bounce Back Loans. I think that the first line of this paragraph sums up the Gov's approach to this whole covid shenanigan:

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It's been a while in the making: The West, not Russia, is responsible for the war danger in Ukraine PEOPLESWORLD.ORG The world is fearful of possible war once again. This time the hotspot is Ukraine, with the accompanying crisis there and... German navy chief resigns over Ukraine comments WWW.BBC.CO.UK Kay-Achim Schönbach said the idea that Russia wanted to invade Ukraine was nonsense.

A mate of mine has posted this elsewhere, I think it's a reasonable appraisal of what might be going on: So, what's all this Ukraine brouhaha, and why are the Yanks involved? Aside from US assurances to Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would not expand "one inch eastwards", I'm trying, as always, to follow the money and see what the geo-political underpinnings are. Could it be something to do with lucrative US exports of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) to Europe, which are far more expensive than locally sourced or Russian gas? Something to do with the opening of Nordstream 2, which would bypass the current pipeline through Ukraine and cost that country billions in revenue, as well as reducing EU dependence on US LNG? Who can say. Intriguing, though. Links below. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/02/business/natural-gas-us-eu/index.html European natural gas imports WWW.BRUEGEL.ORG Last update: 18 January 2022by Georg Zachmann, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Ben McWilliamsThis dataset will be updated... Gas gap in Europe drives U.S. LNG exports to record high WWW.REUTERS.COM Sky-high European demand drove U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to a record in December, Refinitiv data... How Biden may save U.S. gas exports to Europe - POLITICO WWW.POLITICO.COM Cleaning up fuel producers' climate pollution at home could help the industry avoid "a trans-Atlantic green gas war." Op-Ed: Russia's got a point: The U.S. broke a NATO promise WWW.LATIMES.COM Newly released documents suggest America didn’t deliver on its 1990 deal to limit NATO’s reach in exchange for Soviet...

I'd like to think I'd be able to afford a well fitted shirt if I had a net worth of £200,000,000.

It was about then that I got into them too. Cracking players.

I'll have a word with a mate who's into that kind of thing and get back to you. Cheers Matt.

Luthiers would love a plank of wood like that.

Having been deaf as a post since my teens, I resemble that comment.

Happy birthmas! No idea.

SE England (Kent): There's loads of trees, they grow quicker than elsewhere due to the climate, and there's plenty of money down there.

Yup, if going not guilty, I'd prefer a trial by twelve ordinary people as opposed to three people who want to be Magistrates.

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