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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde A Procurement Consultant, Proofreader and Copyeditor www.somertonsservicesltd.co.uk

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Can you please give us a clue when a ceasefire is going to be declared.

Following last night’s non-event with Trump and Putin it looks no closer, so this whole (Telegraph) story is unlikely to happen.

16.08.2025 07:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The 3rd party must show:

A direct and lawful interest in the subject matter (e.g. reputational, legal, or professional impact)
That their intervention would assist the tribunal in reaching a fair decision
That it would not prejudice the parties or disrupt proceedings

You fail on all these.

26.07.2025 06:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are specific procedures as regards Rule 49 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024

A person or entity with a legitimate interest in the case may:
Apply to revoke or vary a privacy-related order
Make representations to the tribunal about how disclosure affects them

Not misconduct.

26.07.2025 06:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She isn’t a KC.

Get your facts right.

26.07.2025 06:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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She isn’t a KC.

You might at least try and make some small effort to get your facts right.

There are Scottish Rules of Procedure which you obviously don’t understand, and (as your site is now based in the US to get round the legal issues you have in the UK) you don’t have a direct interest.

26.07.2025 06:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The brilliant England vs India test series should help the fight for Test Cricket’s future.

I am not saying it will, just that it can’t harm having just had such an amazing 5 day match.

16.07.2025 07:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think the Chancellor should increase duty by 1p at the next budget.

The general public won’t notice it, as fuel is fairly low in price now, it will break the ongoing fear, and would add £260m/year for the Treasury, based on current fuel consumption figures.

It would also pay for the WFA change.

16.07.2025 07:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How much is due to:

1) Anti-Musk Sentiment?
2) Engagement Farming?
3) Increase of Hatred?
4) The Lack of Nuance (Either For Me Or Against Me)?
5) The Lack of Moderation (That Works)?
6) No Longer Supplying what Twitter Provided?
7) It Just Isn’t Fun Anymore?

BlueSky might also need to be careful.

16.07.2025 07:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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X is seeing a fairly dramatic fall in active users across Europe.

“We found that X had a total of 94.8 million monthly active users in Europe in the 2025 report, down 13.2% from the 109.2 million it had a year ago.”

I wonder why?

16.07.2025 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Do you think one of his team is deliberately taking the piss out of him?

29.05.2025 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Robert Crampton in @thetimes.com today showing how absolutely mad researchers can be, and leaves me wondering who on earth they talked to in order to get these results… apart from, ummm, some other rather strange Americans.

19.04.2025 07:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also… on what planet is ‘premium economy’ a ‘luxury flight’.

12.04.2025 07:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Absolutely.

As I wrote BTL on the actual article.

There are over 20,000 staff in DEFRA, and 230 odd of these flights in a year doesn’t seem over the top.

DEFRAs spend is over £2.7bn, so this is about 0.02% of their budget.

12.04.2025 07:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad.. It represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust.”

Ouch.

19.03.2025 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Times shouldn’t sit on the fence.

Their review of the live action version of Smow White rips it to pieces, and ends up giving it one ⭐️!

19.03.2025 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Oh what a shame…

X(Twitter) is having problems.

10.03.2025 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It wasn’t something to be proud of. It was wrong.

But we turned up (and our people died) because the Americans asked for support.

NATO turned up in Afghanistan (and they lost people) because American asked and invoked Article 5 (the only time it has happened).

We fought alongside the US.

04.03.2025 21:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What are we allowed to call him after this?

04.03.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely.

03.03.2025 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They would lose even more badly than currently with my ancient bones in their squad.

03.03.2025 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am half Greek and half Welsh.

Adopted into an English family at a few months old via Dr Barnardo’s.

An ex public school boy and season ticket holder at the Oval.

What does that make me?

As English as I can be. I think.

I even support Man Utd and live in Surrey.

03.03.2025 15:23 👍 37 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0

I have a good idea of what Reagan would have done to him.

03.03.2025 13:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@thetimes report on the Utd game was obviously written before the result:

“If Amorim wanted to know why Moyes had managed a new-manager bounce… he only needed to watch the first five minutes of this convincing Everton victory to see the difference.“

Everton victory?

I thought it was a 2-2 draw.

22.02.2025 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI.

A competitor to Mr Musk.

24.01.2025 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.01.2025 16:33 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I hate to have to break it to you, but the real victim is actually Allison Pearson. 😳

22.01.2025 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#LIVLiL

Alan Shearer may have been a great goalscorer… but he is even better at being the commentator of the blindingly obvious.

21.01.2025 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.

Clinton: In serving, we recognise a simple but powerful truth: We need each other & we must care for one another.

Reagan: [American] is hopeful, big-hearted, idealistic, daring, decent, and fair.

Trump:

20.01.2025 07:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Watch to the end.

“I am sorry, darling, I didn’t have time to unload the dishwasher as I was working on a really important time- sensitive project all day”.

😂

11.01.2025 09:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know that is film is not worth my time or energy when the Guardian calls it ‘powerful’.

This normally means it is boring and/or incomprehensible, but the critic can never say they didn’t enjoy or understand it, as they would be terrified of admitting such a thing to their peers.

09.01.2025 13:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0