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A significant part of this could be put down to major underinvestment by successive governments.
However, I might take slight issue with Helm's: "The rivers are in a terrible state. It does not help to say that they were once even worse. "
As people rush to demand renationalisation, it is relevant to remember quite how crap, literally, our rivers were under government ownership.
As ever with Dieter Helm, excellent. The regulation of natural monopolies is not as simple as it may look, and incoming ministers should be locked in a room until they have finished reading Stephen Foster's seminal, but still relevant, book.
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X ray of a chicken's foot.
And here is a recently declassified x-ray of those bone spurs:
Five generations over 150 years.
And his grandfather came to America, as an immigrant, in 1905 because Bavarian authorities stripped him of his citizenship and ordered him to leave for failing to complete mandatory military service.
As long as they are at least vaguely the right size:
Thank you.
Add together the IQs of Trump and Hegseth, and the sum would still be less than that of Macron.
"Utinam Salonae possetis visere olera nostris manibus institΕ«ta, profecto numquam istud temptandum iudicaretis'"
So are we a step nearer knowing what plants Diocletian was raising, 'with his own hands'?
Gas tends to be mainly supplied on long term contracts, so the increases will take some time to work their way through.
By contrast, as you can see, those using heating oil have been hit immediately.
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Given the rural presence of the Conservative party, and given that many rural areas are not served by mains gas, one might that the party will shortly haemorrhage further support.
Or the secret policeman in Tom Sharpe's 'Indecent Exposure' who unaware of each other's identities, conspire with each other to blow up the town of Piemburg, by setting loose ostriches, each with a time bomb in a condom forced down their gullet.
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With the caveat that, for example, Obama's 'can't do' / 'won't do' attitude emboldened both Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. And arguably led to Russia's subsequent invasion of Ukraine.
And the ladies dressed/undressed by Eulalie Soeurs, I presume?
Surely one wears one's jacket and tie under one's wetsuit:
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But they do have a trans version of subs...
Two, four, six, eight, time to...
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Not an expert but:
βIt is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.β
(Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols.)
Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
βIt is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.β
Don't expect it to go fast. It shares the same 948cc engine with early Morris Minors.
Our cousins in the emergent colonies across the water have a predeliction for calling it 'bug eyed'.
