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If you're after a nicely-priced gift for the motoring enthusiast in your life this Xmas, might I suggest this little book that I wrote a few years ago? It's just been reissued by @AmberBooks and can be found on Amazon (and elsewhere) for just £9.99. And I'm quite proud of it.
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Normanton church Rutland Water floodlit this evening for remembrance Sunday #LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #rutlandwater
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You know what I love about Celebrity Traitors? It’s brought back communal viewing. Like the 90s when we’d all watch the same thing and spend the next day talking about it. No streaming, just everyone collectively gossiping about the same programme. Glory Days. #CelebrityTraitors
So sad to hear about the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. Aside from loving him as the Earl Grey-drinking captain of the Enterprise, I also saw him in Hamlet at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, alongside David Tennant, in 2008. Both were superb.
I will miss that wonderful voice.
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Despite being one of the most recognizable Shakespearean performers in the world, Sir Patrick remained deeply connected to Stratford-upon-Avon and the RSC throughout his career. His contribution to our company is beyond measure. Our thoughts go out to his family at this time.
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Not only was he a great actor he was a progressive activist who supported LGBTQ rights, universal healthcare, destigmatizing mental health issues, and was fiercely opposed to nationalism. He truly lived the ideals of Star Trek.
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One of the last videos Patrick Stewart made reciting some of his favourite lines from Shakespeare.
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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The music for the Pearl and Dean cinema adverts is called Asteroid. It was written in 1968 by Pete Moore.
I now want a choc ice and a bag of Revels...
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Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
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Don't miss our latest issue, on sale tomorrow! Including @Kevin_McCloud on the importance of classics, the latest on what DVLA changes mean for restos, an MGB GT that's only done 1865 miles and why so many of you (still) love the Triumph TR6...
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The Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Navi Pillay for promoting international law, which is the politest way a Norwegian committee has ever told Donald Trump to fuck off.
Forty six years old… and still performing its ultimate raison d’etre of transporting middle class people short distances to Waitrose.
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Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
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This week, we chat with Francis from The Grand Tour, dig into the DfT’s details on MoT emissions rules, sift through the details on buying a Riley One-Point-Five (a car named before the invention of character limits) and there’s a dive into the Nissan Bluebird and its impact on B
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has hit back at US President Donald Trump by installing a large sign on Canada's shoreline.
The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America. Full story: bbc.in/3UuFqwE
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.