RT @ItsKevinEldon: I’m getting behind these fine people: @StopFundingHate. Deffo got the right idea. Love all round x
KE
RT @JPonpolitics: Sir Oliver Letwin: media’s treatment of judges who made High Court Brexit ruling was “utterly despicable”
Not particularly relevant…but I recently found out that my first college tutor was Sir Oliver Letwin’s dad
I’ve always thought Buckingham Palace is a very disappointing building
I have seen both Johnny Rotten and Joey Essex in the last week. In Salisbury. They were both charming, in their different ways.
Chap from @SpireFM: What have you been up to, Joey? Joey Essex: For the last 26 years I’ve been being Joey Essex #xmasinsalisbury
RT @AddictedToTweed: The moment after Tory MP Alberto Costa asks his PM to guarantee his Italian parents' right to remain in UK post Brexit…
RT @KMFollett: I have asked my publishers not to advertise my books in the Mail. #StopFundingHate
I sometimes see SP1, SP2 etc meaning Service Pack 1, 2 etc….and read it as meaning Salisbury postal code areas
#TodayILearned that in British Cluedo, Dr Black gets murdered, whereas in America the victim is Mr Boddy podcasts.ox.ac.uk/cluedo-an…
Leonard Cohen: To me, [the Nobel] is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. www.theguardian.com/music/201…
#TodayILearned that WW2 double agents were run by ‘the Twenty Committee’. 20 being XX in Roman - a double cross en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doub…
I thought @pilofficial made a glorious noise at @CityHallSalis tonight. May the road rise with you!
Off to @CityHallSalis . I do hope there’s no spitting. :) www.pilofficial.com/info.html
#TodayILearned that the drummer of Amon Duul II also drummed on I Feel Love and wrote Don’t you (forget about me) www.theguardian.com/music/201…
#TodayILearned that production dropped by 10% during the 3-day week
#TodayILearned that a publisher called Hugo Gernsback coined the word ‘scientifiction’ in 1916, then un-shortened it to ‘science fiction’
V interesting talk by @JamesGleick on Time Travel - HG Wells, Rip van Winkle, Stephen Hawking etc www.spl.org/Audio/16_…
Lots of pundits seem very sure about Why Trump Won, but very few of them were saying that he would win before last Tuesday.
Fine words from @theresa_may…..again. www.theguardian.com/politics/…
On this night in 1940 my Gran heard Luftwaffe aircraft overflying Salisbury throughout the night, going from Cherbourg to Coventry #otd #WW2