My word of the day today is ‘miscreant’.
“All businesses push up against their regulatory boundaries – their shareholders tend to hire new chief executives if they don’t”
Tend to agree - corporations often end up doing whatever they can get away with
Writing scripts when I’m properly knackered is almost entirely a game of chance
“The one thing we can say with absolute certainty is that people talk the most frightful bollocks about the royal family”
”Chelsea’s away record this season is the same as Leicester’s and inferior only to Liverpool’s, but the 14 points they have won at home is the same as Aston Villa"
#cfc
My word of the day today is ‘modicum’.
In a neat coincidence, this podcast mentioned Kenneth Tynan (not actually the first person to use the F-word on the BBC) and the next one on my mp3 player mentioned his wife Elaine Dundy (actually author of my favourite Elvis book)
Dear Santa,
Could you get someone to revive Alan Bleasdale’s Elvis musical for me for next Christmas
That should be only two swear words!
#TodayILearned that only two words in English are actually Anglo-Saxon
(Via @susie_dent and @GylesB1)
If I was a royal, I think I’d abdicate if the country I was supposed to be representing elected someone like Boris Johnson t.co/1YTCA9k6m…
My word of the day today is ‘gusty’.
I would like to have met Sergei Skripal.
Spying consumes a huge amount of effort, money, talent and human courage
In its totality it seems a massive waste…which doesn’t mean to say any side could unilaterally stop.
I’m reading @MarkUrban01’s book, the Skripal Files.
Impressions so far, before the horror and the tragedy of what happened in Salisbury are as follows
#ElvisIn5Words
Under-rated then.
More under-rated now.
I still wish it could be Christmas every day
My word of the day today is ‘griddle’.
South Western Railway may be nationalised after firm loses £137m
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced”
- Andrew Carnegie