According to a former Tory Cabinet Minister:
“Credibility is like virginity. Once you’ve lost it, you can’t get it back.”
#LizTrussMetaphorOfTheDay www.theguardian.com/commentis…
When politicians talk about ‘the optics’, I tend to think of the things they put on bottles of spirits behind a bar
There’s something pleasingly old-fashioned about a Premiership footballer getting the match ball after scoring a hat trick #motd #LIVBHA
John Major ‘inspired an almost ideological level of ambivalence’
A good line, from Geoff Norcott
#LizTrussMetaphorOfTheDay 🥇
Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield In a sign of the deep splits within the party, one MP likened the prime minister’s supporters to “Branch Davidian cultists still supporting David Koresh as the compound burns down”.
My word of the day today is ‘syllable’.
The upside of #Chelsea not playing much for a couple of weeks….even though I shall only be listening to it on the Chelsea app, I am really, really excited for tomorrow
Working in IT is like herding cats.
Half of the time I’m a proud cat herder and half the time one of the cats
My word of the day today is ‘star-crossed’.
#TodayILearned that Ben Roberts, Chelsea’s new goalkeeping coach was Middlesbrough’s keeper in the 1997 Cup Final
#TodayILearned that the ‘other’ 3 plinthes in Trafalgar Square are occupied by statues of George IV, General Sir Charles James Napier, and Major-General Sir Henry Havelock
Over the last couple of hours I’ve locked myself out of the house and had a BSOD.
My word of the day today is ‘strides’.
My word of the day today is ‘implode’.
Played football last night
Those tiny muscles that control the opening and closing of your eyelids….they don’t ache
But all the rest do
My word of the day today is ‘floundering’.
“The prime minister wants this to be seen as Month One of the Truss revolution. She does not want this to be seen as Month One Hundred and Forty Eight of Conservative rule”
Who can blame her?
Matt Goss is reminding me of Kevin Rowland from Dexys #scd
I just heard someone on a podcast pronounce Michaelmas as Mitchell-mas
I’d pronounce it as Mickle-mas
Have I been saying it wrong?
My word of the day today is ‘willow’.