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  1. 1967 in the Hoxton Arms with my girlfriend. Really good bitter. The landlord came to us and said we had to leave and returned everything we had spent. A small crowd outside the Music Hall. Two cars arrived- three men went into the Pub. Then both the Krays arrived.

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  2. Brexiters used to say that once we had left the EU, UK politicians could no longer use the EU as a scapegoat for our failings.

    The same Brexiters have since chosen asylum seekers as an alternative scapegoat. And they haven't totally given up on the EU either.

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  3. Labour making work pay by giving 3 million workers a minimum wage pay boost worth up to £1,400 a year

    Driving through the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.

    Breaking down the barriers with an uplift in skills funding, worth £1.2 billion a year.

    Labour get it right 👍

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  4. Top Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed by Israel in Gaza in what appears to be an assassination.

    He was one of the few journalists left alive in Gaza after Israel have killed 232 other journalists in less than 2 years.

    He is the 233rd.

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