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Chris Atkins

1 year

NEW BOOK ALERT! Since I got out of jail I’ve followed a colourful cast of criminals who can’t go straight. If you thought the prison system was crazy, wait til you see what happens next… TIME AFTER TIME out on 7th Sept, pre order now

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Chris Atkins

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6 months

Do you want to be Transport Minister?

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Chris Atkins

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4 years

Around noon I witnessed appalling anti Semitic abuse towards this Jewish Family on the northern line. Fair play to other passengers who stood up to him. If you recognise the guy please report to ⁦ @metpoliceuk ⁩

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4 years

Child hugs dad on prison visit. Inmate is put in solitary, child banned from visiting indefinitely. Welcome to the British prison system.

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2 years

Makes you proud to be British

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4 years

@metpoliceuk The incredibly brave muslim woman who challenged the anti-semitic abuser has issued a very powerful statement

ilmfeed

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4 years

Her name is Asma and in a statement given to IlmFeed she said, "...as a Muslim woman and mother I know what it's like to be attacked and dehumanised for my faith and I couldn't just watch and see this happen to another family with young children."

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3 years

Cummings blogpost is off the chart

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2 years

Ok here’s my pitch: Murder in the Queue. One death, 64000 unhinged suspects, and only five days to solve it.

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3 years

Nadine Dorries, an MP who admitted fabricating 70% of her blog, has just been put in charge of the media

Nadine Dorries says her MP's blog was '70% fiction'

'I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another,' Tory MP told expenses investigation

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

just remember kids, I got straight A's (which I didn't need as I had a 2 E offer from Oxford) and later went to prison.

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8 months

Daniel Khalife has handed himself in after seeing the rental prices for a 1 bed in Chiswick

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4 years

Cummings is no longer issuing statements through his spokesman Boris Johnson

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Dominic Cummings is expected to give a public statement and take questions later himself, as calls for him to quit and explain himself mount

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3 years

It’s what he would have wanted

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8 months

prisoners released into a job are far less likely to reoffend, McDonald’s should be applauded for this

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McDonald's customers served food by PRISONERS

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4 years

this callous & barbaric approach won't surprise anyone who's come into contact with the prison service. My own son couldn't visit me for 5 weeks because they were checking his criminal history. He was 4 at the time.

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2 years

They should probably keep that lectern where it is

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4 years

So this came in the post today. Started psychology degree with OU while in HMP Wandsworth. Just finished it Oxford Brookes.

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4 months

My New Years message of happiness and wellbeing

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2 years

Where else should we project the queens face? I’m thinking food banks, deportation centres & temporary lavatories for lorries at Dover.

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2 years

Trailer for my new documentary Who Killed The KLF? Available to download today, cinema screenings from the end of April. Time to kick out the Jams

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4 years

I broke accounting law in a very specific and limited way and got 5 years

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"Yes, this does break international law, in a very specific and limited way". This exchange is lifting eyebrows at the moment among Tory backbenchers.

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3 years

Just had my last ever call from my lovely probation officer. As of midnight tonight I've officially finished my license period...

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8 months

Just to be clear, I didn’t organise todays prison break to publicise my new book on reoffending, out today in all good bookshops

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2 years

"Nobody told me it was my birthday"

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4 years

excuse 1 - grandparents looked after kids excuse 2 - shit no, erm, sister looked after kids excuse 3 - don't be silly, Dom & wife looked after kids excuse 4 - dead uncle

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2 years

I can think of no other reason that Bowie isn't touring

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4 years

Ruin a musical by adding a word. I’ll start: Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof.

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3 years

God knows where Hancock got the idea to spent public money on his mistress

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4 years

My entire timeline is now @afneil retweeting his own praise.

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9 years

Twitter fails on many levels but it is definitely the social media platform of choice when news breaks that the PM once fucked a dead pig

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4 years

@metpoliceuk Jewish dad reunites with Muslim woman who confronted his children’s abuser

Jewish dad reunites with Muslim woman who confronted his children’s abuser

Mum-of-two hailed as a hero after footage widely shared on social media showed her coming to defence of Jewish family on London Underground

www.jewishnews.co.uk

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5 years

Arcuri now denies affair with Boris, saying that the London mayor only visited her flat in the daytime for “technology lessons”

Ex-model said Boris Johnson only came round for technology lessons

EXCLUSIVE Jennifer Arcuri, 34, is said to have denied a relationship with the Prime Minister when he was London mayor. The pole-dancing ex-model said he wanted to 'be hip'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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9 years

nigel farage refuses to accept nigel farage's resignation & convinces nigel farage to remain as UKIP leader. farage reluctantly accepts.

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4 years

UK press: “Never mind 1000 dead, Boris had a text from Carrie and is watching Love Actually!” Also the press: “Why is nobody buying our paper?? please stop us going bankrupt!!”

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Govt essentially saying that BAME people can’t handle bad news without rioting

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@SamCoatesSky

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Exc BAME report delayed amid fears its contents could stoke racial tensions By ⁦ @inzyrashid ⁩

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1 year

No, you just put the Benny Hill theme over the police running around Rishi's car

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2 years

one star amazon review for my prison book: "It's the same thing over and over. Nothing new happens." You should try living in there mate.

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4 years

Short film I just made, quite proud of it.

Mayor of London

@MayorofLondon

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By staying at home, you are protecting our NHS and saving lives. Thank you, London. #LondonTogether

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1 year

“Can you present Match of the Day?”

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3 years

Everyone now marching up to parliament square

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2 years

Raab argues that Carrie can take her baby to a place of work in no 10 Gardens. Unlike @stellacreasy who's banned from taking her baby to the house of commons.

Dominic Raab defends Boris Johnson over gathering in Downing Street garden

The prime minister is said to have joined Number 10 staff for a gathering in Downing Street in May 2020 during the first national lockdown.

news.sky.com

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Chris Atkins

@scatatkins

4 years

1 - about 10% of people in prison are on remand, so innocent in the eyes of the law 2 - Lots of guilty people did make really stupid mistakes 3 - we're talking about punishing a child for hugging their parent

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@lordofmymanor

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@jamestaylor1 @janethunter971 @The_MrsD @scatatkins There's a difference between doing something wrong and breaking the law. You don't get sent to prison for simple mistakes!!! Can't do the time.... don't do the crime🤷‍♂️

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3 years

2000 books loaded up today & sent off to the 80 prisons we're now distributing to. Huge thanks to the Wylie Agency, Greene & Heaton, @Sathnam and others #bangupbooks

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4 years

The incredibly brave woman in the anti semitism video I filmed yesterday has made an inspirational statement about the incident.

ilmfeed

@IlmFeed

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Her name is Asma and in a statement given to IlmFeed she said, "...as a Muslim woman and mother I know what it's like to be attacked and dehumanised for my faith and I couldn't just watch and see this happen to another family with young children."

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3 years

Update from my dad marshalling at Surrey vax centre: getting 100 an hour through. One couple aged 103 and 101 in today who ‘never got married to avoid upsetting her parents’

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4 years

Calling all journalists, producers, researchers: please include prison officers in your lists of key workers. Their jobs are pretty impossible at the best of times, and they are facing appalling exposure to the virus.

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4 years

devastating Guardian analysis of the early spread of covid in the uk. backs up Sunday Times claims that the govt was completely asleep at the wheel

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4 years

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden. Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. 1984

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4 years

Re the antisemitism rant. The woman who intervened was Muslim, and she was incredibly brave. As soon as I stopped filming I switched seats with the boy. The abuser got off at Waterloo, shouting that King James was in fact black.

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4 years

From the ministry of justice website

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So I've spent the summer driving loads of books to prisons. If anybody has a stack of books they want shifting, or fancies doing any driving, get in touch...

Chris Atkins: ‘Reading saved my sanity when I was in prison’

Atkins has written a book about his time in Wandsworth, A Bit of a Stretch, and produced a podcast series which features interviews with 20 ex-offenders

inews.co.uk

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3 years

Reoffending rate in Norway - 20% Reoffending rate in UK - 48%

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Nordic prison cells look like $3,000 apartments in San Francisco.

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4 years

@BBCLondonNews @metpoliceuk Yes. I have the full resolution video you can use, send me a DM.

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Hi, I’m Dan O’Mahoney - Clandestine Channel Threat Commander.

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4 years

@lordofmymanor Again, we're talking about punishing a child for hugging. The child will suffer massively. A child.

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1 year

I made a careless error with HMRC and got 5 years

Nadhim Zahawi: Tax error was careless and not deliberate

Labour calls on the ex-chancellor to answer questions after he addresses "confusion" about his taxes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

My lawyer just called “Atkins! How’s it going?” “I’m in the sun” “What the fuck have you done now??!” “No, I’m in the sunshine with my dog”

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4 years

it's almost as if we should join some sort of club with nearby countries to tackle our labour shortages

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BREAKING The UK has such a shortage of butchers, bricklayers & welders that the Govt should allow vacancies to be filled by overseas workers. Migration Advisory Cttee (MAC) also says senior care workers & nursing assistants should be added to “shortage occupation list”

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4 years

Sounds like the broad excuse is 1) We were ill, unlike anyone else in the UK 2) my dad owns all of Durham

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2 years

My mum Vicki passed away this week. She was an amazing woman who taught 1000s of kids over a long career. She also heavily supported me and my brother to go into the arts, when many parents would do the opposite. She leaves behind my dad Patrick, they were married for 53 years.

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2 years

Who Killed the KLF will be on Sky Docs from tomorrow. First showing at 3am Eternal.

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4 years

Firm email from my son’s teacher. Apparently I swore while my 7yo was unmuted and it went round the whole class.

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4 years

Sweeney’s back, investigating the river of sleaze coming out of Jenrick’s door

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1 year

2000 new books packed up and off to prison libraries across England. Thanks to all the publishers who donated #bangupbooks

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4 years

Riverdance comeback looks a bit shit

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4 years

Response to antisemitism video is astounding. Thanks to everyone for sharing. I’ve been in touch with the police and given them all the relevant information, they are taking it very seriously

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2 years

Hearing @RosieisaHolt is doing the morning media round to explain the party pictures

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3 years

Blinding NYE. Woke up with a cute blond in my bed and have no idea how she got there.

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I'm the subject of a Private Eye cartoon, and I can quite frankly die happy

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1 year

Released from prison 4 years ago today. Since completed 2 books, 2 feature docs, a hit podcast, a tv drama and overcome my rampant boastfulness

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3 years

Curious Andrew's lawyer isn't running with the more obvious defence that his client didn't do it

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Brilliant twist. We can’t kill him because he has a life threatening illness.

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer says. The diagnosis raises the possbility that the execution could be delayed.

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8yo: "Why are we cancelling xmas?" Me: "Boris Johnson just announced it?" 8yo: "Why do you listen to a word that fat idiot says?" I had no response

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3 years

Can spies still meet on a park bench as it’s a vital part of their work?

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9 years

Farage "I don't blame a single migrant". no Nigel, you blame all of them #leadersdebate

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3 years

I AM FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY

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4 years

This is my new favourite thing

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Muslim woman praised for stopping man abusing Jewish family on tube

Police arrest man after Muslim woman stops anti-Semitic abuse

Hundreds of people have applauded mother-of-two Asma Shuweikh after she stepped in to stop a man who was reading anti-Jewish passages to two young boys and their father on the Tube.

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4 years

Paging any followers in Durham...

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Lots of women sharing grim stories of having 1 drink with a guy and him endlessly harassing her, which is ironically what Piers Morgan did to Meghan Markle

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Delighted to see that 90% of the people bashing Maitlis for a “fox news style rant” actually work for Rupert Murdoch

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4 years

Another entry into the rapidly expanding series: “People who voted for Boris now surprised that he’s utterly shafted them”

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This is just way too close to home

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Coming out of prison was by far the best experience of my life. You all have this to look forward to, so chin up.

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1 year

Rishi’s maths announcement is strongly reminiscent of the dying days of the Major government. Expect the launch of a new cones hotline any day.

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@Nigel_Farage Go and pick some fruit

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As long as we can rely on British common sense the pandemic is as good as dead

Woman falls out car window while filming Snapchat video on M25

Woman not seriously injured in incident between junction 6 and Clacket Lane services

www.theguardian.com

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7yo has to do a story for English and is rolling round on the floor wailing "I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEAS!" He is so going to be a writer.

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Time to kick out the Jams

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3 years

God I miss being cornered in the kitchen by someone’s boring husband complaining about catchment areas

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If only my barrister had thought of this

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8 months

Can cross “going on the news agents” off my bucket list

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“This guy was up on terror offences, he shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near the kitchens!” Former HMP Wandsworth inmate, Chris Atkins, on the “absolute failure” to risk asses Daniel Khalifa and the incompetencies he'd have exploited to make his escape. @scatatkins

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@BAFTA After Weinstein was exposed @BAFTA stripped his membership saying "this announcement sends a clear message that such behaviour has absolutely no place in our industry." Clearly didn't mean it did you.

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Dom Cummings complaining about govt leaks is like Fred West moaning about his uneven patio

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@Sathnam The Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs

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@mrjamesob I actually filmed this…

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season 7 of The Crown revolves around the royal family watching The Crown and yelling at press officers

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Call it what it is - a floating prison

Good Morning Britain

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Breaking: A three-storey barge, which will be used to house migrants has arrived in Falmouth for repairs and renovations. It is expected to be ready to house 500 people by mid-June.

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