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John Rowan
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Unelected bureaucrat. Faceless from Monday to Friday. Does health emergency stuff (critical medicines, COVID vaccines) for the European Commission. Posts likely to be about EU and UK politics, history, Brussels, rugby (Leicester Tigers), food.
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I got a bit nervous when I saw this headline pop up in my inbox, just in case it was me

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Not something they only sing when they're playing against Belgians?

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I just checked that as well, and that would be my reading of it, but as David says, tbc

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I think confirmation of changes to DGs etc will come after the hearings

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I can't remember them off the top of my head but I once saw the VD stats for the Allied forces during WW1 and they were quite staggering.

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I'm going for "a lot" rather than "a bit" there.

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Last weekend's discussion on here on vaccines reminded me of the one time in my life I had the inside track on something that was in the media, and just how much time I spent thinking "that is a really odd way of framing that story"

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I had never heard of Greenland sharks before but apparently they may live to 600 years old, absolutely reek of pee, have a top speed of about two miles an hour, and a 200-kilo shark can survive off the calorific equivalent of one a half chocolate digestives a day.

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Honestly, even one event like this justifies the entire policy. Just think about the amount of grief and heartache that’s been avoided Down with the haters ‘Girl, 5, survives 20mph crash with fractured skull’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wales' 20mph speed limit praised as girl, five, survives crash
Wales' 20mph speed limit praised as girl, five, survives crash

Nanw Wyn Jones was hit by a car on the B4413 in Mynytho, Gwynedd.

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John Rowan
@jrowanbxl.bsky.social
Unelected bureaucrat. Faceless from Monday to Friday. Does health emergency stuff (critical medicines, COVID vaccines) for the European Commission. Posts likely to be about EU and UK politics, history, Brussels, rugby (Leicester Tigers), food.
265 followers699 following457 posts