By no means the strangest Brexit news of recent weeks

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By no means the strangest Brexit news of recent weeks

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#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay

“Theresa May had that purposeful air of a school superintendent walking up the drive to the Addams family mansion, determined that Wednesday and Pugsley should be enrolled in a conventional educational establishment without delay” www.theguardian.com/commentis…

a) it’s a long time since I’ve heard the word ‘surfing’ used in an Internet context

but

b) I do like the idea of ‘surfing through the countryside '

Five years ago today….what a time to have been alive

My word of the day today is ‘flummox’.

#TodayILearned that in 2017, British households spent around £900 more, on average, than they earned

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Setting aside the politics of the thing I am feeling for the techies at the @HoCpetitions

I hope Mrs May is signing off for pizza on expenses

:) twitter.com/HoCpetiti…

My word of the day today is ‘flounce’.

I try not to re-tweet swears, but…. twitter.com/suzanne_m…

#TodayILearned that Éamon de Valera, future Taoiseach and President of Ireland, escaped from Lincoln Jail with a key that had been baked into a cake. The one key unlocked all the prison’s doors

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…and Sinead O’connor and the Darkness t.co/vW9U8JFue…

#TodayILearned that Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the famous Cheryl Guevara poster, also did album covers for Thin Lizzy

www.rte.ie/radio1/th… t.co/OwhcrMNqi…

I’m not sure how this fits in with Labour Party policy…. or why Mr Corbyn has waited until this late stage to enlighten us on his views

Odd

I wasn’t aware of this.

Jeremy Corbyn would only back a #PeoplesVote on a deal that he sees as ‘credible’ and he would vote to Leave

Via @MatthewdAncona

www.theguardian.com/commentis… t.co/IzDnd8wje…

For the benefit of younger listeners Subbuteo is a table football game…far superior to anything @EASPORTS has to offer

Their slogan was ‘flick to kick’ t.co/mql2NzqTB…

He always beat me at Subbuteo, ‘Cos he “flicked to kick” And I didn’t know

The Undertones name-checking @SubbuteoOficial in the perfect My Perfect Cousin twitter.com/ItsMeHenn…

One day I will get it into my thick head not to use unix-like aliases when running Powershell on a unix-like system

….but I’m not holding my breath t.co/4gyBSEfmH…

Miqdaad Versi on Islamophobia - well worth reading this thread twitter.com/miqdaad/s…

Marvellous @RTEOne doc about how Prince fired all his crew in the morning, did a full, totally unscheduled, 2 hour rehearsal in the afternoon then performed a typically genius concert at @MalahideCastleG

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