RT @ianwalker: I’ve yet to see anything that makes me rethink my describing the government as having a “cosy relationship” with car makers…

A cheery thought for parents everywhere

“You’re only ever as happy as your unhappiest child”

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

“The Brexit dream is dying, suffocated by needless doubt” Johnson writes, invoking – as has been customary – the confidence fairies in whose power we can trust if only we are prepared to wish, wish, wish hard enough.

@alexmassie in blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/b…

I’m from a very old family.

news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/1…

So sad

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2…

People of my age and background will only know of the pies

#TodayILearned that Fray Bentos is a place in Uruguay

www.theguardian.com/travel/20…

RT @montie: Meanwhile, how is Russia doing away from home? news.sky.com/story/pol…

I knew John McNeill - he was a really nice guy

Rt Hon John Glen MP @JohnGlenUK Please come to 56a The Close to support John McNeill’s Garden Fete fundraiser - fear not - big TV & ‘refreshments’ in garden for later…..

Kick off at three o’clock on a Saturday?

What a very odd time for a football match

#EnglandvSweden

Novichok poisonings: search intensifying to find contaminated item #WorldCup

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2…

RT @gsoh31: So in the end the Ultra Brexiteers just folded and went home. They’d never done a stroke of technical and legal work, the feckl…

If Brazil or Belgium can get Mbappe booked he’ll be ineligible to play England in the final

IT’S COMING HOME, I TELL YOU!

Today I have been wondering whether if I had, say, the Heptones streaming constantly all the time all weekend whether they’d have earned a fiver by Monday

RT @Pinotnoirgirl: Anyone else noticed that salisbury is covered in a veil of smoke today? I’m a bit worried they are actually trying to bu…

So @theresa_may, I know you’re busy, but if we reach the semi-finals, will it be #AriseSirGareth?

I quite like this version, though

m.youtube.com/watch

I can’t imagine our own Lord Carrington would have done this

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I spend lots of time listening to speech radio but there are very few voices I could put a name to

“@sajidjavid says the UK has received no help from the Russians.

If the Russians wanted to be helpful, they could say how they disposed of the nerve agent used to poison the Skripals”

#WorldCup

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