My word of the day today is ‘aghast’.
..,at least on Twitter.
“The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet.”
This seems to apply to the #carriejohnson story
I tend to believe the official versions of events
UFOs, men on the moon, the Wizard of Oz & that Pink Floyd record etc..I’m not a conspiracy theorist
However, I refuse to believe a dog sniffed out the Jules Rimet trophy
Unless it was wrapped in bacon
pic from @FootballMuseum t.co/38kl0Tcli…
I tend to believe the official versions of events
UFOs, men on the moon, the Wizard of Oz & that Pink Floyd record etc..I’m not a conspiracy theorist
However, I refuse to believe a dog sniffed out the Jules Rimet trophy
Unless it was wrapped in bacon
pic from @FootballMuseum
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…
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…