And I want cabinet ministers to ‘literally feel slightly worried’ before they launch their own foreign policy initiative behind the Prime Minister’s back
RT @TeaAndCopy: One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six to speak to customer services Seven to hear…
I really enjoyed the new Fast and Furious film last night
Marvellously silly or sillily marvellous
Or both
This morning I have been mainly listening to The Sisters of Mercy
I may be in a slightly odd mood
Possibly favourite bit of cricket writing….there probably aren’t many tweets I remember 6 years on
David Hepworth @davidhepworth My favourite form of cricket - Yorkshiremen hit the ball and Australians fetch it.
Is there a real difference in meaning between re-writing and re-factoring?
#TodayILearned that Don Maclean (the Crackerjack bloke) is a Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Pope St Sylvester (a Papal Kinght).
Was discussing hobbies at work, and, given sport doesn’t really count , I came to the conclusion that my best hobby is ‘seeing if I can get Alexa to understand me while I’ve got a mouth stuffed full of food’
I’m getting quite good at it.
Or she is.
August 1st (or possibly 6th) is the Feast of Saint Peter in Chains. It’s the day on which some land (sometimes ‘Lammas Lands’) became common land every year
This is probably the derivation of the name of Petersfinger, near Salisbury
#OTD #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1973 an entry fee at Salisbury Cathedral was introduced for ‘an experimental period’ of two months
#OnThisDay in 1086 the Domesday Book was presented to William the Conqueror at the Great Gamot at @EHOldSarun
#OnThisDay in 1849 @thetimes wrote of the cholera in Salisbury
“the sickness is not confined to a particular quarter, but pervades the whole city.
Deaths occurred in nearly every street, & some of those streets considered the most respectable have been the most heavily visited”
#TodayILearned that Gavin Williamson is only “the second education secretary to have attended a comprehensive school”
In which Jacob Rees-Mogg “brings his cosplay nostalgia for a world he didn’t experience to Planet Football”
#OnThisDay in 1625 Salisbury Council ‘took rigorous steps to prevent strangers bringing the plague into Salisbury.’
#OnThisDay in 1861 the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia visited Salisbury
26th June, our new Prime Minister:
I think it is a million-to-one against [a no-ďeal Brexit]
28th July, Michael Gove:
The government is now “working on the assumption” of a no-deal Brexit,
I wish I’d put a fiver on it!
RT @petercmoore: @salisbury_matt m.youtube.com/watch
Wondering whether the leader of the Scottish @Conservatives is a doomster, a gloomster or a doubter?
““When she resigned in 2017, Patel spoke of her failure to uphold the necessary ‘standards of transparency and openness’. It appears she has done so again.”