#TodayILearned that there is an International Elvis Tribute Artist Hall of Fame
I dunno whether to read Hamnet or Troubled Blood next.
I might go for whichever is shortest
RT @hated_and_dead: Tomorrow’s episode is about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
My guest is @ScheckWSJ, who is Co-author of Blood…
Just put kid two on the train.
Still hurts.
#TodayILearned twitter.com/sodajerke…
RT @jsnover: Fun Story: the original name for cmdlets were Functional Units or FU’s.
What can I say? I’m from Boston. 🤣
#TodayILearned
Sodajerker @sodajerker Today we learned that Last of the Summer Wine’s Bill Owen was also a songwriter who wrote a couple of hits for Cliff Richard & Ken Dodd in the sixties. (Or should we say COMPOsed them?)
In honour of Saint George’s Day m.youtube.com/watch
Politically, I’m looking forward to the day when whether you were a Remain or Leave has as much relevance as how you feel about the Corn Laws, or decimalisation, or Article 12 of Magna Carta
I like Nando’s
But I think it’s rather marvellous that after all the thought that went into the branding - the logo, the decor, the music, every element of the experience - it all got kind of subverted by the phrase “cheeky Nando’s”
A rather decent flapjack @Clonehenge by @journalupdate’s Tom Bromley
I was never a fan, but there’s something quite sad about Yeltsin…about his alcoholism and, as come across in the podcast, his knowledge of his own failings
There are parallels with Mr Johnson if you look hard enough
More fascinating stuff on the @hated_and_dead podcast
Tom talks to marc berenson of the @KingsRussia about Boris Yeltsin
My phrase of the day today is “the game’s afoot”.
My word of the day today is ‘russet’.
Brief clip of daughter doing Lady Gaga
Jacob Rees-Mogg is sometimes like a parody account come to life twitter.com/alexiscon…
My phrase of the day today is ‘by dint of’.
My word of the day today is ‘divot’.
For goodness sake