Sending my absolute best to @AlokSharma_RDG
RT @MaidenWatford: I cant wait for pubs to reopen, l’ve been locked in the dog & duck for 10 weeks.
#TodayILearned twitter.com/mrmarkste…
An “air bridge” between the UK and Portugal sounds very exciting….like some giant, gravity-defying flume ride
RT @rafaelbehr: Johnson - officially surprised that leader of the official opposition is opposing him.
It’s more fun than “Heroes”
open.spotify.com/track/4qm… #NowPlaying
When one of the government says “we’re following the science” I keep thinking of the Peter Pan song “we’re following the leader”
#TodayILearned that the House of Commons' Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle is the son of Doug Hoyle.
Doug Hoyle beat Roy Jenkins in the Warrington by-election in 1981, at the height of SDP-mania
Via @MattChorley in The Times
They are discussing Black Market Hair-Do’s on @BBCRadio2
Didn’t they do a session for John Peel?
#JeremyVine
I looked this up earlier.
It’s quite a contrast
White rabbits
‘She never had a voice’: Dawn Sturgess’s parents hope TV drama will set record straight
Several years after they invented smart phoned, I STILL feel uncomfortable saying ‘app’ rather than ‘application’
#GrumpyOldManTweet
Last day to do the Salisbury survey
#TodayILearned that “100 years ago, the average UK citizen consumed less than 3 hours of story per week, mostly in a communal setting. Today the same citizen consumes more than 40 hours of story but gets the majority via screen, often on their own.” salisbury2020.com/event/wha…
“The now suspicious Wiechers checked Cummings’ blog on the Wayback Machine, a digital library that tracks changes to billions of web pages.
It showed Cummings had added the reference to coronaviruses between 9 April and 3 May 2020.”
A member of the government helping a chum avoid the rules
How unusual
Was reminded, listening to this, that Grant Schapps, Secretary of State for Transport, is a cousin of Mick Jones, lead guitar and song writer if The Clash
It sounds like they get on
“It’s normal for a prime minister to appear before the liaison committee at least three times a year.
This was the first time Boris Johnson had bothered to turn up in more than 10 months.
And you could see why”