“I haven’t read Barnaby Rudge – but it’s not one that anyone goes on about too much. I once told Claire Tomalin I hadn’t read it and I think she said: “Don’t bother.””
I hate to disagree….but if I ever meet Nick Hornby, I shall say “Do Bother”
I love the fact that when you see Big Sam or Sam Allardyce trending it’s usually because a Prime Minister has gone rather than a Premiership manager
He could do a job…and probably stop us getting relegated t.co/BzAyJmucn…
Not sure if I said this last time, but anybody I see on here making crap ‘Penny’ puns will be blocked and reported
My prediction is again Penny Mordaunt.
Hard luck Penny! twitter.com/salisbury…
Is it my turn to be Prime Minister yet? twitter.com/salisbury…
#TodayILearned twitter.com/petercmoo…
She did the right thing by quitting and not fighting
#LizTrussPM #LiztrussResign-ed
I’ve always found the ‘czar’ thing to be a bit strange… but it seems even more so that someone would be called a ‘czar’ in 1942, less than 25 years after the last czar had been done away with
It does seem that Mr Henderson was called a czar at the time:
“Leon Henderson, head of the Price Stabilization Division, was appointed as administrator and quickly dubbed in the media as the “Price Czar.” " www.encyclopedia.com/history/u…
#TodayILearned that governments appointing ‘czars’ to control specific things goes back to at least 1942
Jeepers
Thinking about how I can do the @OfficialBigHalf again and ask for sponsorship.
Given I’ve done it before, I’d need to do something different to be able to ask for money
I’m thinking of doing it either:
- dressed as Harry Potter, or Elvis or someone
- in a Tottenham shirt
There’s a bit here about why he’s been replaced screenrant.com/shang-chi…
#TodayILearned that although he was created much earlier, Fu Man Chu appeared in the Marvel Universe, as someone’s dad www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
“As Hunt outlined the biggest U-turn in modern political history to the Commons, Truss flanked him, wearing that sad, faraway smile of a Tory wife standing next to her husband explaining why he’s resigning over a sex scandal”
#LizTrussMetaphorOfTheDay 🥇
My word of the day today is ‘wreak’.
Is she in a fridge?
#LizTrussPM
#LizTrussMetaphorOfTheDay 🥇 twitter.com/faisalisl…
My word of the day today is ‘slouching’.
Seamus was pleased with his new medal t.co/yGaz0SY2O…