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Less than before.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Sacrifice - I don't need to wear a poppy or hoist a flag up a lamp post to understand what this means.

It always seems to be about the elites and those behind the lines sending brave young people to do their dying for them.

#fuckwar
#nomasters
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The War Ministry didn't attend his inquest and his widow didn't receive a pension (as he'd died out of service due to a self-inflicted wound). He left a family of six children behind.

Every year I remember his rush to serve and fight and how his family were treated by the navy he served.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The vessel was torpedoed protecting an Arctic convoy in May 1941 somewhere off Greenland. Samuel never recovered from the experience, being discharged as medically unfit due to 'severe neurasthenia'.

He cut his own throat in the bath a month after my father was born in July 1943.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Business as usual
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
They bring so much to our lives....
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So cool, you can see the Roman road that ran past where our house is today in Sadberge, Durham.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'll buy that for a dollar.
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I watch France 24 now just because the word immigrant doesn't appear so often. Used to watch NGK until Virgin took it off their channel list. Lots of gentle views of the beautiful countryside.
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's a stretch to call the stuff Starbucks peddles 'coffee' imo. More like coffee flavoured milk (amongst other flavours).
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
😂 love it
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The name translates roughly into 'flat-topped hill', which it is.

It's a local legend that a tunnel connects the church with the local pub, The Three Tuns which once served as a gaol and that crims were hanged on the village green. The pub cellar still has cells in the basement, so who knows.
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I feel the same way about the propaganda relating to capitalism - 'it may be terrible and cause huge amounts of suffering across the world, but the alternatives are much worse'. I remind myself of this lie everyday. It's time we busted this particular myth once and for all.
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reminds me of this Famalan sketch

youtu.be/IGKPMCAm7Ew?...
Nigerian Prince Emails With Good News: Famalam
YouTube video by BBC Three
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Is basically existence itself in a single cover.
November 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The thing that gets me about this coverage is the phrase 'the King's Private funds'. Given that these monies have been generated through property and wealth taken from the British people and empire means, imho that it's effectively OUR money, not theirs. It's time we took this back.
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It seems now that any benefit to the #netzero and #jobcreation agenda associated with #bluehydrogen production may be lost in favour of yet another power/water hungry carbon-spewing nightmare with next to no workers and little benefit to the local economy.

Once again, the Tees Valley is fucked-over
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM