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- Twenty years ago today, I bought something over the internet for the first time. j.rawle.org/530 It was a CD of Novák's Slovak Suite played by the @liverpoolphil which I'd heard on @ClassicFM but was impossible to find in the shops.
- Plenty of sad idiots on Twitter saying David Attenborough isn't a climate scientist, or even a scientist at all, yet they are perfectly happy to believe what a right-wing politician or journalist with no scientific training says about the climate, vaccines or masks.
- Rare to see anyone in Didcot @sainsburys without a mask, but today every other party stopping seemed to be a couple, despite announcements to shop on your own every couple of minutes. Glad if they do crack down on that. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
- For once, I find myself strongly agreeing with Boris Johnson. Conspiracy theorists such as Covid deniers need to grow up! j.rawle.org/529
- George W. Bush's statement congratulating Joe Biden harks back to his father's belief in civility in politics. j.rawle.org/528
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