The @Telegraph says that @theresa_may ‘employs the post-truth politics of Donald Trump’

Not a ringing endorsement. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016…

#TodayILearned that ‘Moby’, as in Moby-Dick and @thelittleidiot, possibly derives from Mocha and Toby. Maybe. www.melville.org/mobyname….

Where Jeremy Corbyn has been during the Tory conference www.politicshome.com/news/uk/p…

#TodayILearned that 1/3 of visitors to @Disneyland are adults unaccompanied by children www.wnyc.org/story/ame… via @studio360show

#OnThisDay in 2012: official ‘unveiling’ of 2nd Milford St Bridge mural

Lead artist was footballing friend Freddie www.fredfieber.com

Remembering ‘doing’ Lord of the Flies at Bishops with a great teacher called Mr Gammon…who we all called ‘Piggy’

#OnThisDay in 2012 @CorneliaFunke’s Salisbury novel Ghost Knght was published. It’s very good!

#TodayILearned that if the Memorial Abraham Lincoln stood up he’d be 28 feet tall www.wnyc.org/story/ame… via @studio360show

#OnThisDay in 1538 King Henry VIII took possession of Salisbury’s Friary and all its contents

I’m sure ‘winning ways’ used to only mean charming manners. Now exclusively used in a football context of a return to form

#OnThisDay in 1981 Crass played at Salisbury’s Grange Hotel, as illustrated by @UhPerry. Support was Dirt and Annie Anxiety. Tickets were £1

RT @Richard1483: Ascending the throne of England this day in 959 was Edgar, a peaceful king & up there with the best when it comes to dance…

White rabbits

Transfer deadline day epitomizes much that is wrong with football these days…..but I do enjoy it

RT @SQLSoldier: @salisbury_matt Marie Antoinette was considerably shorter at the end of 16th of October, 1793 than she was at the start of…

Geezer’s coming home bbc.in/2bBXIWu via @BBCSport :) #ktbffh #cfc

#TodayILearned that Peter the Great was 6ft 7

RT @petercmoore: @nancywisser @Lee_Holmes @salisbury_matt I thought that the hyperbole was an American sporting event. Like the Superbole.

RT @Lee_Holmes: Hyperbole is literally the worst thing to ever happen to the English language.

I just listened to a thing about Delia Derbyshire, so my word of the day today is ‘wobbulator’.