Congratulations, Liverpool Football Club: reigning English, European, and World Champions. #YNWA
Nonsense
It’s the end of a Vera
BBC: Dame Vera Lynn: Forces' Sweetheart dies aged 103Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103. The singer was best known for performing hits such as We’ll Meet Again to troops on the front line in countries including India and Egypt.
Viral marketing
Typically, my tweets on Twitter receive around 0–1 replies, 0–2 ‘Likes’, and 0–1 ‘Retweets’. Then, last night, I tweeted the following: If only I’d thought to include a shameless plug for my book at the same time! Schoolboy error.
Unfortunate choice of words
BBC: Coronavirus: Three firms still positive despite the virus crisis
Holofernes’ lockdown haircut goes terribly wrong
Martin Luther plays charades
One more time…
Just after the space station had passed over, I saw these really weird lights in our garden. The conspiracy theorists would have a field day.
Wise before and after the event
So, Boris ‘bus-liar’ Johnson’s chief political strategist, Dominic Cumberbatch—or someone with access to the password for his blog, at least—has been caught retrospectively doctoring an old blog post to make himself look far more prescient than he really is. That really is a very cheap trick. But it doesn’t surprise me one iota. In fact,… Continue reading Wise before and after the event
We made that!
I wonder if he takes shorthand
BBC: Labour names David Evans as new general secretary