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Alan Boyle
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Retired geologist at livuni. Interested in pyrite, pedagogy and #PAFC. Replaced running after footballs with tennis in 2019. #PR, #FBPE - no DMs (will be blocked)
September 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
An unpatriotic traitor?
September 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The original judge was a former Tory candidate for parliament www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/...
Epping migrant hotel judge Mr Justice Eyre stood for Tories in Northern Ireland and England
​The judge who issued the ruling on the Epping migrant hotel is a former Northern Ireland election candidate.
www.newsletter.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
And business confidence is at a 9 year high, while the FTSE100 is at an all time high.
July 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Also, business confidence is apparently at a 9 year high. What is going on?
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
On BBC Breakfast this morning, after a long run of case studies of the negative impact on business, the reporter did slip in the fact that total employment is up. Sky News is about to cover unemployment up. There must be more people in the potential workforce for both to be up.
July 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I don't think there is a charitable explanation, though the #FT is surprising.
June 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." (Huxley, 1825 - 1895)
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Lincolnshire is very flat and the perfect place for Andrea Jenkin’s proposed tents to house migrants.
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Granulites... Autocorrect strikes again
April 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I thought they were granules. I once stood on them with Nick Petford and Mike Cheadle in late 1993.
April 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
He bought AAPL stock before making the announcement.
April 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I have an Airbnb booking next week, but it will be my last.
March 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We got the TGV from Morlaix to Montparnasse (and back) last summer after the Olympics finished, and the train arrived and left on the second at every stop. It was surreal.
February 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's a tart
February 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We were just having this conversation while listening to C4 news. If European countries are to increase defence spending they should all do it through European production. Build the euro economy and stop relying on the USA. King Donald would only limit how US arms could be used, so don't buy US.
February 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Electricity prices in France have just gone down...
February 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
8/10. Only two of those leaving were starters, and all five incoming likely to be starters. Defence looks much stronger. A muscular CF might have made it 10/10. #COYG
February 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Even better if it was Peter Green's version of FM! COYG
February 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM