Nice story from Sir Ian Kennedy of IPSA on @IainDale’s podcast
An MP was pulled up for including a red rose on a constituency letter, as political symbols are not allowed
His reply:
a) it’s the red rose of Lancashire not of Labour, and
b) I’m a Tory
#OnThisDay in 1849 Dr Finch’s letter about the Salisbury cholera epidemic appeared in the Times.
“I visited this poor human creature in the last stage of spasmodic cholera. She had no covering but a thin counterpane and the skeleton of one blanket.”
I’ve got a set of scripts I use for checking things called CheckSystems.
I do regret not calling them OkComputer
I saw ‘Yesterday’ yesterday at Salisbury @ODEONCinemas
Wouldn’t mind seeing it again tomorrow
Fab.
RT @NomadKeith: @salisbury_matt @BBCRadio4 There are some that work …. one of my favourites is Andy McNab’s ‘embuggerance’
RT @brooky02: After every disappointment comes great joy…. I’ve been a Chelsea fan for 40 years now… I know.
#MUNCHE went a bit Munch
Stuff happens
We had a good go at them. I’d rather that and get tonked than ‘play like an away team’ and lose 1-0
#MUNCHE
#WinOrLoseUpTheBlues
Should have brought Tammy Abraham back 12 months ago!
RT @qqtx: 50p coins.
Ah, for the days when we knew them as £1 coins.
Brexit enforcer Cummings’ farm took €235,000 in EU handouts
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1901 1901, Annie Moberly, daughter of George Moberly the Bishop of Salisbury, saw Marie Antoinette in the grounds os Versailles Palace, more than 100 years after her death
Hamsters celebrating VAR disal lowing the goal like they’ve scored one themselves
#WHUMCI
This is the film
‘Miss Morison’ was Moberly’s pen name used for the first 3 or 4 editions of the book
#OnThisDay in 1901 1901, Annie Moberly, daughter of George Moberly the Bishop of Salisbury, saw Marie Antoinette in the gardens at Versailles.
She co-wrote a bestselling book about it, and there was a film in the 1970s with Hannah Gordon
Kylie, surely?
Dominic Cummings.
Presumably now ‘Russia’s greatest love machine’
#TodayILearned that ‘etymology’ is derived from ‘etymon’ meaning ‘true meaning’
It is itself an example of ‘the etymological fallacy’ - that the historical derivation of a word necessarily helps understand what it now means
I think
Via @D_Shariatmadari
The Labour strategy of ‘constructive ambiguity’…..it could turn out to be quite destructive in the end, couldn’t it?
Memo to the National Lottery
Adverts just featuring people talking about stuff don’t really work in a medium where people generally have the sound turned off
Like twitter