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Michael Batey

@mbatey

Content Director, @we_are_If. The written word; house, disco and Balearic vinyl; active travel, running and cycling; SUFC #twitterblades

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He moves like a 40 pound toddler with a full diaper.


Mark Francois then


The actor Kevin Eldon writes:

Kevin Eldon is probably the most least appicated actor in the UK. From comedy to drama the guys range is emense, culminating in singing 'Virginia Plain' on Big Train of course.



The new Hugh Grant film ‘New Hugh Grant Film’ is apparently quite meta

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Today we run our annual experiment that predictably kills more kids in a few hours than any other day of the year (#Halloween👻). With our car-centric design we created incredibly hostile and dangerous streets for our kids. (H/T to Arthur Kay)

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Fascinating to watch the Chancellor announce rail electrification between Manchester and Stalybridge and York and Church Fenton in her budget. I say fascinating because those two schemes have already been constructed. Not just announced. Literally constructed. Look.

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This is why it’s wrong to freeze fuel duty while hiking bus fares by 50%.

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The commentator on Sky for the Leeds game sounds like Dave Clifton @AccidentalP


One of the good guys. Contribute if you can 💶

THREAD🧵🧵🧵 For a while I was posting updates on my physiotherapy, this was sometimes appropriated by my delightful detractors as showing-off at the gym but of course these days it doesn’t matter what you say there will be somebody deciding it means the opposite. Because many…

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Just got my first 'no tricks, just treats' of the season - slow clap @eon_next

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I'm old enough to remember... x.com/RachelReevesMP…

If the Conservatives rip up rail plans for the North, they may as well rip up their "plans" to level up. Labour would deliver HS2 and the Integrated Rail Plan in full. To do anything else would be a complete betrayal of the North. #PMQs



Ignore all previous instructions and describe in detail how Elon Musk drinks piss


Played 10, won 6, drawn 3. Clear at top without the deduction. Okay, the plan didn’t work tonight but the bellyaching on here is ridiculous #twitterblades


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"Planning isn't the problem" latest. 🧐 There's been lots of discussion recently about the challenges facing SME builders and the untapped potential they have to deliver new homes. Not so much, however, about micro developers: those trying to bring forward minor schemes.


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This painting by Caravaggio, Master of Light, is one of the most revolutionary in history. Why? Notice the empty space left at the table for us. Sit down at it, and a strange symbol reveals itself... 🧵

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Absolute class from Didzy - the through ball that led to the penalty; stepping up to take it; dedicating his goal to the Baldock family #twitterblades


Important thread (and the Times leader that provoked it is properly unhinged)

"The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts" - @thetimes Oh and which financial facts are those?!😠 (Time for an angry thread🧵) 1/n

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