President Trump said yesterday that Putin had ‘let him down’
Coincidentally this was on the local news this morning - Putin has a history of ‘letting people down’
Ms Sturgess died after coming into contact with Novichok in June 2018, three months after a former Russian spy and his daughter - Sergei and Yulia Skripal - had also been poisoned by the nerve agent in Salisbury. Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report to come out in December - BBC News
I posted this over on Mastodon as part of #JukeboxFridayNight, and it’s interesting enough to me that I thought I’d post it here as well
It’s interesting for me both because it’s fab, and because I was there…although I haven’t spotted 17-year-old me in the video as yet
The Drummers of Burundi at WOMAD 1982
I got this yesterday. I collect postcards of Salisbury, but not usually the Cathedral because it doesn’t really change
I like this though because it’s got the old gas works in it, as well as Old Sarum. The gas works look a lot closer to the Cathedral than they actually were
I wondered what these people could possibly be arrested for. Apparently it’s “on suspicion of malicious communication”
The police said in a statement four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after an “unauthorised projection” at Windsor Castle, which they described as a “public stunt”. The four remain in custody.
I’m still trogging through my Twitter archive, and I found this, from November 2019
The inscription reads: “Mark Radcliffe loved sitting here … and still does thanks to advances in cancer research.” DJ Mark Radcliffe gets commemorative bench after cancer recovery - The Guardian
In July last year I was looking for somewhere to sit down, during our son’s graduation day in Manchester, and found this bench, and took this photo.
No memory of having tweeted about it
www.theguardian.com/science/2…
I’m disappointed to learn that a local MP has joined the odious Reform Party, but I like his line that “you cannot expect to get two ideas in a headline.”
Q: Danny, you wrote David Cameron’s ‘hug a hoodie’ speech. Do you still think that?
Kruger says he is still proud of that speech. He says it was profoundly conservative. It stressed that young people need care and support. But it was also strong on the need for proper crime to get a robust response.
Kruger criticises the way the speech was spun by Andy Coulson. He says he learned from that that you cannot expect to get two ideas in a headline.
#TodayILearned that if you stick ‘##[debug]’ in front of your debug lines in Devops pipelines i.e.
Write-Host "##[debug] Some old stuff"
Then your debug messages come out in a rather fetching purple colour
It’s not the most exciting thing in the garden, but it’s lovely to see a bit of green grass growing again
Those were the days
18 April 1930, the BBC’s news announcer had nothing to communicate. “There is no news,” was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment.
BBC News - ‘There is no news’: What a change from 1930 to today - BBC News
I’ve got very fond memories of the original Reggie Perrin, but the remake is terrific
I didn’t get where I am today by not saying the remake is terrific :)
I’ve got very fond memories of the original Reggie Perrin, but the remake is terrific
I didn’t get where I am today by not saying the remake is terrific :)
I feel this should have been bigger news
The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to “special guest” Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.
Interesting bit in the Guardian about the music of County Clare
‘The soul of Irish traditional music’: a musical journey through County Clare
There’s a celebration of the Irish in Salisbury next month - most of them came over from around Ennis, Clare’s county town
Tickets here
As a runner, I’m proudly as slow as a tortoise in a particularly lethargic mood…but I was a bit disguntled to see these guys coming out of the Limehouse tunnel when I was still on my way to the start line
Near the start of the Big Half - the Tower and the Shard
This is the bit where Tower Bridge splits in two. It’s just over halfway in the Big Half. I think of it as the division between North of the River and God’s Own Side of the River
At the end of the run at Greenwich, where East meets West
I’ve been to the Smoke for a run. The hotel wasn’t in one of the tourist-y bits but I enjoyed having a nose around
I went to see Jaws at the cinema during the week. Great film, obviously, and good to see it on the big screen…but it felt like it came from a different world
When 50 or 60 Men have a Constitution to form for a great Empire, at the same Time that they have a Country of fifteen hundred Miles extent to fortify, Millions to arm and train, a Naval Power to begin, an extensive Commerce to regulate, numerous Tribes of Indians to negotiate with, a standing Army of Twenty seven Thousand Men to raise, pay,of victual and officer, I really shall pity those 50 or 60 Men. - John Adams 1775
This is an interesting perspective on the scale of the tasks facing the American revolutionaries
For me, it also implies a couple of things:
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writing a constitution is hard. It’s especially hard if there are lots of other hard problems that needs to be solved
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maybe a constitution produced under such circumstances should be treated with undue reverence.
Quote from Open Yale Courses HIST 116: The American Revolution Lecture 13 - Organizing a War - Joanne Freeman
I watched both The Hostage and Carry on Columbus
I preferred The Hostage, but Carry on Columbus has a better poster
