If you don’t fancy reading @Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count, many of the main points are covered in this podcast episode
There are bits I’m not convinced about, but it’s interesting and worth a listen
“It now transpires the newly revised Commons rule book specifies children cannot go into the chambers – thus parliament has, to date, put more effort into writing rules about this than second jobs.”
- @stellacreasy
Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating it today
My word of the day today is ‘adamant’.
I didn’t know this existed
Black Uhuru and others covering @Ralph_McTell’s Long Way from Clare to Here
The song’s also sung by @TheFureys
Anyway it’s nice
One of the disadvantages of working from home is that I don’t get to spend half the day talking about how good @ChelseaFC were last night
#smug
My word of the day today is ‘scamper’.
They said in the commentary that Thiago Silva was on the bench for Brazil v Argentina
If Brazil are that good there isn’t any point anybody else turning up for the World Cup
#CheJuv
Early days, but Reece James could turn out to be one of our greatest of all time 🐐 #CheJuv
Men against bambinos #CheJuv
Wiltshire comes 254th out of 399
….with the write-up: ‘I was going to type a short review of this but I fell asleep trying.’
Which all seems fair enough, to be honest.
Via @TheWildeRobin
There was a chap, in the early days of blogging who had a great blog, but he shut it all down. Bloggers were nominating each other to list their favourite this, that and the other. I think he saw it as trivial, or intrusive.
I sometimes wonder what he would have made of twitter
My word of the day today is ‘capacious’.
RT @ananson: I went to give blood yesterday in #Salisbury. Really important that we #GiveBlood at the moment as stocks are low 🩸
The PM criticised the creativity of civil servants for not conceiving of the children’s cartoon character Peppa Pig, as he gave a rambling speech to business leaders.. in which he also compared himself to Moses and imitated the noise of an accelerating car www.theguardian.com/politics/…
RT @nlitchfield: Levelling up does seem to be all about making London easier to get to.
My word of the day today is ‘jostle’.
Agree broadly. at least while Mr Johnson is PM..but I’m not sure where it leaves the Liberal candidate for Old Bexley and Sidcup
Should the Watford guy get an extra yellow for taking off the sports bra thing too?
#motd #WATMUN
Man of the match will be a tricky choice #LeiChe