Max Hastings has a way with words:
“Johnson’s glittering intelligence is not matched by self-knowledge.
He sees his place in the nation’s history in Churchillian terms, whereas others…. would cast him as Blackadder in a blond wig.”
A fun fact for pedant’s everywhere
The #WorldCup trophy was designed and made in Italy, so, whatever happens over the next 24 hours, it’s not really coming home
#EngCro
Thailand cave rescue: water pumps failed just after last boy escaped
It will be a two-horse race but whoever plays France will need to play out of their skins to get a result
RT @genghisgirl: Here’s what we think of Trump’s visit in sunny Buckinghamshire. www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/rude…
I feel honoured to have shared a planet with some of these players, let alone a stadium
#FRABEL
#IAmNotWorthy #cfc #KTBFFH
RT @ianwalker: I’ve yet to see anything that makes me rethink my describing the government as having a “cosy relationship” with car makers…
A cheery thought for parents everywhere
“You’re only ever as happy as your unhappiest child”
“The Brexit dream is dying, suffocated by needless doubt” Johnson writes, invoking – as has been customary – the confidence fairies in whose power we can trust if only we are prepared to wish, wish, wish hard enough.
@alexmassie in blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/b…
I’m from a very old family.
So sad
People of my age and background will only know of the pies
#TodayILearned that Fray Bentos is a place in Uruguay
RT @montie: Meanwhile, how is Russia doing away from home? news.sky.com/story/pol…
I knew John McNeill - he was a really nice guy
Rt Hon John Glen MP @JohnGlenUK Please come to 56a The Close to support John McNeill’s Garden Fete fundraiser - fear not - big TV & ‘refreshments’ in garden for later…..
Kick off at three o’clock on a Saturday?
What a very odd time for a football match
#EnglandvSweden
Novichok poisonings: search intensifying to find contaminated item #WorldCup
RT @gsoh31: So in the end the Ultra Brexiteers just folded and went home. They’d never done a stroke of technical and legal work, the feckl…
If Brazil or Belgium can get Mbappe booked he’ll be ineligible to play England in the final
IT’S COMING HOME, I TELL YOU!
Today I have been wondering whether if I had, say, the Heptones streaming constantly all the time all weekend whether they’d have earned a fiver by Monday
