rubber bands, even
I’m not aiming to make light of either thing but maybe there is some value in planning out stuff like ‘how to tackle a Zombie Invasion’, to try to start with no assumptions about anything
It echoes someone else saying that we had planned for an epidemic but it had all been planning for a flu epidemic
Catching up with the Blair and Brown doc, and it’s excellent*
Someone says that it wasn’t that there wasn’t enough planning for ‘Iraq after the invasion’, but that they’d planned for the wrong things
My personal view is that Gorbachev, Galtieri and Scargill were much, much more straightforward to deal with than Big Tech, Brexit, and Covid 19
Oliver Dowden @OliverDowden #OnThisDay in 1976 Margaret Thatcher became the ‘Iron Lady.’
What was intended as an insult by a Soviet newspaper came to stand for her strength, courage and determination- at home and abroad
My word of the day today is ‘machinate’.
Poor old Sue Gray
Scope creep from hell
My word of the day today is ‘griddle’.
As you get older, Desert Island Discs anniversaries seem to come around more and more frequently
“Life is like a toilet roll, the closer you get to the end, the faster it spins”
True.
Enjoying the @sodajerker episode with @donmclean
Possibly the first interview I’ve heard in which Don mentions American Pie before the interviewers do
Marvellous
How very dare you.
40.8/100 - Working class 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨🟨 www.newstatesman.com/society/2…
I’m sure I could have told them that for a bit less money
The railways have many, much more serious problems…but ‘bonfire of the banalities’ is a good line
The Independent @Independent Shapps to silence ‘unnecessary’ train announcements in ‘bonfire of the banalities’
My word of the day today is ‘styptic’.
#TodayILearned that Salisbury Market Place was known as ChepyngPlace in 1357
‘Cheap’ was ‘market’, as also, I think, in Eastcheap in London
(Via @INeverKnewThat1’s ‘Great British Street Names’)
“A lot of people think that after Dunblane there was an instant ban on guns. There wasn’t. The parents had a massive, massive fight on their hands and they were told by one Tory in particular that it was all a kneejerk reaction….
#TodayILearned that theatre impresario and Everton chairman Bill Kenwright was in the film Carry On Matron
Today I have been wondering why getting my haircut makes me thirsty