To be fair to the Daily Mail <aaaagh!>, and with due respect to @mrjamesob, I didn’t know this
James O’Brien @mrjamesob I didn’t flag this up as a massive scoop when @wesstreeting talked about it in this week’s Full Disclosure because it was already well known & is something he has always been supremely comfortable discussing. The Daily Mail thinks their readers are too stupid to understand this
RT @yokoono: Dear Paul, Happy 80th Birthday and many, many more! From a partner in Peace… love, yoko
#HappyBirthdayPaulMcCartney https:/…
#TodayILearned that “the cockney classic “Down at the Old Bull and Bush”, began life in the United States as an advert for Budweiser, with a chorus featuring the name of the brewer, Anheuser-Busch.”
Via @billybragg and @rocking_bob www.newstatesman.com/culture/b…
#TodayILearned that Garry Kasparov was named after US President Harry Truman
….“whom my father admired for taking a strong stand against communism. It was a rare name in Russia, until Harry Potter came along.”
“The [Smarties book prize ] win led to an interview with Konnie Huq on Blue Peter, which, because it was on TV, revealed that Rowling was a woman. Until then all the fan mail was addressed to “Dear Sir”. All of it. "
RT @RCdeWinter: Did you know that if you hold your ear up to a strangers leg you can actually hear them say “What the fuck are you doing?
My word of the day today is ‘drowsy’.
A fascinating @IainDale discussion with one of my political heroes.
Kinnock says he thought Eric Heffer might have been going to punch him when he walked out during ‘the Militant speech’
And I beat Kid Two on the penalty shootout thing, which is, frankly, ludicrous
…in a beautiful building www.visitmanchester.com/food-and-… t.co/yzd4PymtX…
Had lunch at @MackieMayor which is like food court, but only in the way that Mo Farah is like a weekend jogger
really good food t.co/I8DwWqkXh…
Also went to the @FootballMuseum again, which is always fun, and they’ve now got a real, live World Cup unicorn
I went to lovely Manchester yesterday, for the day
These were my tickets.
I don’t know if it’s fair to see this as a legacy of Thatcherism and privatisation etc, but it’s a bit daft t.co/0Qy43zZ2a…
You know you’re getting old when the Time Lords are getting younger twitter.com/BBCArchiv…
Love this…I think, though, that there are a disproportionate number of paintings of @EH_Stonehenge in dark and stormy weather
The weather in Wiltshire isn’t that bad, really :) twitter.com/Trad_West…
Southampton away in August….yes, please!
Love this…I think, though, that there are a disproportionate number of paintings of @EH_Stonehenge in dark and stormy weather
The weather in Wiltshire isn’t that bad, really :)
My word of the day today is ‘glitch’.
‘Bumpkin’ itself is ““awkward country fellow,” 1560s, probably from Middle Dutch bommekijn “little barrel,” diminutive of boom “tree””
#TodayILearned that Reuben and Richard were once seen as country, bumpkin-ish names and they were shortened to, respectively, ‘Rube’ and ‘Hick’