Journalist. Bereaved single parent, Quaker, allotmenteer. Guitar, banjo, mandolin, singing. Tree hugger.
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Thomas Penny retweeted
#free Film night tonight (mon 21st} @MycenaeHouse starts at 7.30pm doors open at 7pm,
Check out the trailer youtu.be/J_-nk9-sMus?feature…
🎥🎬brill👀iant film!
#filmnight #blackheath #RoyalGreenwich #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #freestuff
Thomas Penny retweeted
a reminder that 1) Johnson appointed Gray to look into partygate 2) that the final report did not condemn him (it talked vaguely about leadership failures in civil service and Number 10) and 3) that the Metropolitan Police were already investigating in parallel
NEW: Boris Johnson says he now believes Sue Gray had been approached to work for Labour's Ed Miliband *before* she conducted her 'ridiculous and unfair witch hunt' into Partygate. She went on to quit the civil service to work for Starmer
mol.im/a/13898347 via @MailOnline
Thomas Penny retweeted
Boris Johnson: A Putin Victory “Will Make America Weak Again” | Former UK Prime Minister @BorisJohnson called on the US to massively increase support for Ukraine or risk being weakened as freedom is undermined around the world. #CEPAForum cepa.org/article/boris-johns…
Thomas Penny retweeted
As people still go on about the Last Supper bit at the opening ceremony, I’m reminded of the joke about the disciple asking the inn-owner if they can have a table for 26.
Owner (counting): “But there’s only 13 of you.”
Disciple: “Yes but we all want to sit down one side.”
Thomas Penny retweeted
This is a maddeningly misleading headline for an interesting data-backed article by @oliver_wright the main point of which is that Reform in 2024 got hardly any more support among young voters than UKIP did back in 2015. thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Every time I see Farage at the Republican Convention it reminds me of Jerry Lee Lewis.
What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me) youtu.be/BxwZ4RuTCjs?si=f38W… via @YouTube
This reminds me of watching an Earth Day telathon in the US in 1990.
The presenter mangled the slogan and, instead of saying "think global, act local", pronounced that we were to "think local, act global".
It's a perfect encapsulation of US foreign policy.
Thomas Penny retweeted
ALT A cartoon from the webcomic XKCD. A teetering piles of bricks of different sizes representing 'all modern digital infrastructure'. At the bottom right an arrow points to a small brick supporting the whole structure: 'A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003'.
Thomas Penny retweeted
Ordered a Thai takeaway from Rosa’s Thai Cafe earlier. Was an expensive treat as today was my mum’s funeral. Anyway they packed it so badly by the time it got here most of it had leaked into the bag. They don’t seem to be on Twitter but want them to know how shit this was.
Thomas Penny retweeted
Can't help feeling this Covid report is rather more important than the whole Republican convention/Biden will-he-won't-he thing, which is getting so much airtime right now - at least for us over here. theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
Thomas Penny retweeted
I've posted a lot of football content, which isn't exactly Windrush related, for an additional reason. Southgate is one of a vanishingly small number of public personalities, who, at the height of insane BLM backlash and attacks on Black players, stood by them. Didn't tell them
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