“All businesses push up against their regulatory boundaries – their shareholders tend to hire new chief executives if they don’t”

Tend to agree - corporations often end up doing whatever they can get away with

www.theguardian.com/sport/blo…

Congratulations @Dan1el42 - very well-deserved! twitter.com/ryanyates…

Writing scripts when I’m properly knackered is almost entirely a game of chance

“The one thing we can say with absolute certainty is that people talk the most frightful bollocks about the royal family”

www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…

”Chelsea’s away record this season is the same as Leicester’s and inferior only to Liverpool’s, but the 14 points they have won at home is the same as Aston Villa"

#cfc

www.theguardian.com/football/…

My word of the day today is ‘modicum’.

In a neat coincidence, this podcast mentioned Kenneth Tynan (not actually the first person to use the F-word on the BBC) and the next one on my mp3 player mentioned his wife Elaine Dundy (actually author of my favourite Elvis book)

www.backlisted.fm/episodes/…

Dear Santa,

Could you get someone to revive Alan Bleasdale’s Elvis musical for me for next Christmas

Ta t.co/DTuw6B7Cb…

That should be only two swear words!

#TodayILearned that only two words in English are actually Anglo-Saxon

(Via @susie_dent and @GylesB1)

player.fm/series/so… t.co/fihK1z4ao…

If I was a royal, I think I’d abdicate if the country I was supposed to be representing elected someone like Boris Johnson t.co/1YTCA9k6m…

My word of the day today is ‘gusty’.

I really like the Christmas lights still being up around the Big Church t.co/OecSOV6vO…

RT @JewishChron: Chelsea commission stadium mural to mark Holocaust Memorial Day www.thejc.com/news/uk-n… t.co/usMDLapbi…

I would like to have met Sergei Skripal.

Spying consumes a huge amount of effort, money, talent and human courage

In its totality it seems a massive waste…which doesn’t mean to say any side could unilaterally stop.

I’m reading @MarkUrban01’s book, the Skripal Files.

Impressions so far, before the horror and the tragedy of what happened in Salisbury are as follows t.co/GDck75De2…

#ElvisIn5Words

Under-rated then.

More under-rated now.

I still wish it could be Christmas every day

My word of the day today is ‘griddle’.