Passionate, articulate, visionary - Mike Rowbottom is none of these. A regular dogwalker, Mike also likes reading old football biographies. Micro entrepreneur.
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Whilst Nigel Farage tries to distance himself from Trump and his Iran war, let’s not forget his support for Trump and his Iran war.
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Both the Tories and Reform UK urged Britain to support Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran. Don't forget that.
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I think this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem has some of the best sounds I know in English. When I read him aloud, I really feel it, his interesting rhythms, his sonics. He had a special ear. Try reading him aloud if wanted, it's a cool experience to get Hopkins in your head.
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Powerful message from actor Adam Arkin to Hakeem Jeffries and all establishment corporate congressional Democrats: @RepJeffries @SenSchumer
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float.
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Hitler wanted this painting for himself.
At the end of the war, American soldiers found it hidden inside an Austrian salt mine.
Vermeer treated this one differently. He never sold it.
He kept it his whole life.
When he died broke in 1675, his widow secretly gave it to her mother just to keep it away from creditors.
This is Vermeer’s The Art of Painting, 1666.
Sound on 🔊
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Wow. This is amazing!
The incoming House Oversight Committee chairman @RobertGarcia just outlined the four main investigations that Democrats will be opening when they take back the house in January.
It’s about time!!
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Dear God. You watch this and immediately understand how as much as HRC, Biden, and Kamala tried, none of them really had the skills to make the case against Trump.
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Still, Scott Parker when West Ham are 3-0 down at half-time… (from Mark Noble’s autobiography, still available in all good book shops)
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Not only was Badenoch flaunting her relationship with Vance the day I left, Griffith and Hollinrake were soliciting donations from Elon Musk. Utterly insane. And Cameron is drumming up money for this disgrace of an iteration that bears no resemblance to the party he lead 10 years ago. It is totally unacceptable and they are headed for another rout not recovery. At every electoral opportunity voters say no. Get rid of Badenoch or go down (again).
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Charles and Emily Oxley and their seven children, their faces as they were at the time of their mother's death in 1898, a memorial in Ripon Cathedral. The inscription was added to as each died, the last of them Dorothy, who died in 1990 at the age of 100.
#MonthOfTheDead day 4
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Daisy Cooper 👏👏🔥🔥🔥
🗣️American voters rejected Trumps war mongering unlike the conservatives & Reform who cheered on his illegal war
Every fucking word 👊
#PMQs
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"If James Talarico beating Ken Paxton was a political earthquake, then this is an even bigger aftershock."
Sky's @marthakelner reacts after Gina Hinajosa beats GOP incumbent Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race.
Watch our live coverage ➡️ trib.al/g387SDC
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1965. Alan Sealey scores for West Ham United against TSV Munchen 1860 in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final
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86 years ago this week, the captain who saved Titanic's survivors died. Yet many have never heard his name.
Captain Arthur Rostron was in command of the Carpathia when the call came in that the Titanic was sinking. She was an ordinary passenger liner, built for a top speed of about 14 knots. He turned her round immediately, before the call was even confirmed.
Then he got to work. He shut off the heating so every bit of steam went to the engines, and pushed that old ship past 17 knots through an ice field in the dark. While she raced on, his crew got blankets, doctors and slings ready.
His was the only ship to reach the survivors, and he took about 705 of them aboard.
For his actions, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, and the US Senate inquiry called his preparations "a marvel".
That's the man I'd want in charge when everything goes wrong: he acts at once, and he plans before he arrives. It must have taken a cool head and a ton of courage.
So let's raise a glass to Captain Arthur Rostron, a real hero and a true gentleman. 🥂
