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Maybe if you are also surrounded by a tank so nobody can see anything?

Rather tricky uphill...

Joking aside, types like that will make up anything to keep us women down. It's good to see people in Iran are starting to question their authority.

The dropdown list on the Ascot tickets website is amazing

Surely they are all 'C(o)unts'?

Captain The Jonkheer wtf?

How many different titles can you buy off those places where you get a title for buying 6" of mud somewhere?

I'll call you whatever you want if you buy my 6".

I lie, you don't need to pay.

Nor do I have 6".

Is it muddy?

Does dirty count?

So novel, I resorted to wiki,
impoverished minor Dutch aristo.

The Guardian is moving to a tabloid format. One step closer to going fully online I suspect

You called?

Our glorious leader.

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Twitter tells me that the Grenfell Tower is on fire. Hoping noone is hurt, but it looks unlikely :(

Sadiq Kahn has declared a major incident.

Twitter tells me that the Grenfell Tower is on fire. Hoping noone is hurt, but it looks unlikely :(

Sadiq Kahn has declared a major incident.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40269625
looks really bad :(

Not my tower, but one of my worst nightmares.

Rest in peace everyone who lost their life. Must have been horrifying.

That looks terrible. Shocking.

Holy fuck, immediately thought of you, VB... Relieved you're OK... Horrific...

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Horrific news. So sad and disturbing.
Going to be thinking a lot about fire strategy. In normal residential blocks the design approach is always to compartmentalise, but maybe it should be to evacuate. Wondering also about the recent refurbishment, especially the current trend for over-cladding 'ugly' tower blocks. All speculation for now.

:(

Horrible...

Terrifying and so sad.

Apparently some people trying to leave the building were told to return to their flats. The pictures of the tower now show just how devastating the fire was. I hope no one lost their lives specifically because of this.

The residents' group had been pretty damning of the Tenants' Association and the local council, and had predicted something like this would happen, which also suggest it may have been avoidable. But that might have affected landlords' profits.