RIP Dawn Sturgess

RT @sophiasample: 3 years since the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury and our world went crazy for the first time. In a way this feels so lo…

RT @BBCWiltshire: Three years since the Novichok attack, scientists from DSTL Porton Down near Salisbury have been reflecting on their role…

RT @MarkUrban01: Three years since the attempt on Sergei Skripal’s life #Salisbury #Novichok

RT @JohnGlenUK: On the 3rd anniversary of the appalling Novichok attack in Salisbury, we remember the victims of this reckless act - Sergei…

On the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s men spreading poison in my hometown, I’m tweeting this again:

When people ask me how to understand the Putin regime, I tell them to read Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

Some bloke on telly just said he was ‘old enough to remember’ something that happened in 2006

That was, surely, just a couple of months ago

My word of the day today is ‘trundle’.

Very much enjoyed this #HitParadePod on Novelty Songs from @cmolanphy …..although no Laughing Gnome?

:)

slate.com/podcasts/…

My word of the day today is ‘jaunty’.

This will be the next one I read I think, having heard @BethanRoberts8 on @WIYElondon

wordpodcast.co.uk/2020/02/1…

RT @Sumblokeintheuk: Medical tip: Eating excessive amounts of Galaxy chocolate after your #COVID #vaccine jab will make you feel better.

If I meet Mr Nadella of Microsoft or Mr-or-Ms Boss of Zoom, I’m going to ask them to make the mute/unmute icon a lot bigger and more colourful and more generally in your face

#TodayILearned the ¶ symbol is called a “pilcrow.”

(Via withoutbullshit.com/blog/usin…)

24 hours late with my favourite (only) Saint David fact

He was baptized by Saint Elvis

RT @lindasgrant: Today the BBC had a debate about whether Jews are an ethnic minority.

Went out running.

Managed to press the button on the pedestrian crossing with my elbow

I probably more pleased with myself about that than I am the running

RT @benjamincohen: I’ve just been on the BBC’s Politics Live where the BBC literally just asked four non-Jews if they agreed with me that J…

Just finished @Baddiel’s book ‘Jews don’t count’

Well worth reading.

Watching McDonald and Dodd….and reminded how, when, I used to work in Bristol, I’d often think people were taking the p*** out of my accent

They weren’t