🇬🇧The Crown Commercial Service are some of the unsung heroes in Govt - literally saved taxpayers over £10.4m *a day* last year

A huge achievement by an extraordinarily dedicated group of professionals Cabinet Office Oliver Dowden John Glen MP

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'Scruton, as a lover of opera, was well acquainted with the especial delights afforded by this art form with its stirring music and high drama.' S. P. Cooper
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'Once again we recognize that the beautiful and the sacred are adjacent in our experience, and that our feelings for the one are constantly spilling over into the territory claimed by the other' Beauty

All Talk: Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱 interviews @TrussLiz. Iain said the book was not how he was expecting it to be and that the book is like a potential US presidential candidates book.
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NEW: This evening's Labour group meeting to pick a new leader of Nottingham City Council has been postponed after an intervention by the party's National Executive Committee

Candidates will now have to be interviewed & shortlisted by the NEC before councillors get to vote

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'In 1898...it was taken for granted that young people could apprehend Burke. It cannot be so taken for granted in the graduate schools of large universities today.'

- Russell Kirk Russell Kirk Center

'revelation, understood by Scruton as a form of general human experience, allows to catch a glimpse of that which is beyond the window, by...sensually based experience of either the existence of another person or of the beauty of nature and art.' Ferenc Hörcher mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/4…

'We've got to leave the ECHR, abolish the Supreme Court and abolish the Human Rights Act.' @TrussLiz via Harry Cole and Jack Elsom

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From 1931 to 1945 the Conservatives had Baldwin, Chamberlain and Churchill as leaders. From 2010 to 2024 they have had Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.

an expression ... a saying ... a saw ... about Joy doing something.”

“Joy cometh in the morning, sir?”

“That’s the baby. Not one of your things, is it?”

“No, sir.”

St Mary's Church Attenborough.

Dignity is providing well funded and personalised palliative care not what your advocating.

Cosy moments.

Striking line from the Truss book extracts about politicians in the glare of the spotlight:

'Most children find out about the fallibilities of their parents over a number of years. Mine saw all of mine publicly exposed in very short order.'

'Public inquiries have become major tools of lesson-learning when there are disasters and scandals deriving from human error. It is crucial that they are effective as they can be in ensuring that lessons are learned' Lord Norton of Louth via Constitution Unit
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The chancel of St Mary's is thought to date back to 1042 and was later recorded in the Domesday Book (44 years later). The Church was renovated during the mid Victorian era by a local Liberal politician and architect Richard Charles Sutton.

St Mary's Church Attenborough.

Out for a stroll in #Nottingham 's #Arboretum . The Chinese Bell Tower is from the Anglo-Chinese War (1857-61) and the cannons are from the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-55) in the Crimean War. #History #Britain

In the grounds of #Nottinghamcastle . The building behind me was originally called Memorial Nurses' Home - built between 1921-23 and designed by Evans, Cartwright & Woollett of Nottingham (one of their best). It was built as a monument to the #WWI and centre for training #nurses .