Lucy Beaumont says she’ll lose work now. That says everything about the industry. She’s an awesome human. I hope she works in the industry for years. 🙏

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Incidentally if you look at the base of Nelsons Column today you can still see the effects of that fire and the exploded German gun. People think it's bomb damage... nope its party hard damage. londonist.com/london/histo...

So there’s this… KIRK DOUGLAS talking in 1967 about his love of Westerns in perfect French.

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Badenoch reliably says her stupidest things when she thinks she has come up with a line that is clever. In this case, extrapolating an argument about what should be the norm from an example that is very obviously exceptional.

Butch, Etta, & the Sundance Kid in 1970.

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HEDY LAMARR — born 112yrs ago today — escaped her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top Hollywood star, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth & GPS technology.

Trump deflects from Hegseth by calling "for the people that ran the Vietnam war" to be impeached instead

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Just a reminder that Russell Brand’s My Booky Wook was published in *2007*, in which he admits to having: - stalked a classmate - abused the family dog - smashed a sex workers phone - blackmailed women into sex - spat in a lap dancers face Amongst many other violent, criminal things

Halifax, Yorkshire, 1964, photo by John Bulmer.

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Strands #981 “Idle chatter” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

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They really believe this. They also believe that had they been of fighting age in the early 1940s, they would have all been Richard Burton's character in Where Eagles Dare.

As the Remembrance Sunday commemoration returns to George Square this morning, here's a look at how it was done 99 years ago. The horrors of the Great War were still fresh in the minds of the veterans who took part. 🎥 NLS

Morning.

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Strands #980 “Disciplined combat” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

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Several more police officers were injured and more cars damaged in Newcastle than in Glasgow but BBC Breakfast allowed BBC Scotland the headline space.👇 x.com/ProfJWR/stat...

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Several more police officers injured and more cars damaged in Newcastle than in Glasgow but BBC Breakfast allow BBC Scotland the headline space https://t.co/0bz5Ax5d0a

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I see Telegraph Columnist and GB News presenter has jumped on the "Yeah well, Andy Burnham supported Brand" bandwagon... ...while remaining completely silent about her own colleague's support 🙄 Quick🧵 on the context of that tweet! 1/19

But you don't get to condemn someone for supporting him in 2014 with that argument and remain silent on those who supported him AFTER 2023. People should be judged on their support of him after 2023, far, far more than before the credible accusations came out 18/

took this photo of a crow in the mist above the Thames this morning