The Fact Compiler - Lord Spike of The Shire

Reshuffle speculation from @DavidPBMaddox: Streeting and Reeves out; Rayner, Haigh and Powell back in independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Deckchair shuffle incoming. Maintain course steady. What iceberg?

Ah yes, this must have been a missile Iran developed since Israel killed Khamenei… three weeks ago. Definitely believable.

So Iran actually attacked UK territory days ago. And the government withheld that information from parliament and the public.

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One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️ The entire global pencil industry. There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain. Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before. A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched. The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep. That was 1565. It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍 Word spread fast. The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high. Stealing graphite became a criminal offence. Punishable by transportation to Australia. Because this wasn't just for marking sheep. It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️ England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field. Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks. Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood. The pencil was born. ✏️ In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree. There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been. Did you know that? These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 proudofus.co.uk

As far away from it as possible…

Pothole season is when our past greatness peaks through to taunt us.

An ‘odd dig’ to point out that the effective leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales said NOTHING about the decriminalisation of infanticide?

@Nina_Power_ I was a Beaker Person, but I have evolved into a Nice Chardonnay in a Wine Glass Person.

Are we not Beaker People? Is there an indigenous rights movement for the Beaker People?

@Nina_Power_ Indeed. The English have King Arthur and we Beaker People have Tommee Tippee, ruler of Sippycups and Scourge of the Goblet

@ItsTaz1989 True dat. Little known but defo true. I met him once in the Lamb and Flag.

St George was born in Slough, his favourite song was Three Lions, he would only ever drink draught beer, he never missed a QPR game and hated the Welsh flag.

Stella passed the law that banned prayer in a public place!!!!!! NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!!!

Once upon a time, voices like this would have been viewed as authoritative in such a debate and aided their side. Now though, I think that by and large people see through it (as per the community note) and such advocacy has had a net negative effect:

@Captain_Deltic GBRW?

DfT's idea of a typical "innovator".

Bait & switch on Assisted Dying. 1: get it through the Commons by saying don’t worry about the details, the Lords will scrutinise it; and 2: shrill protests that Lords are “holding it up,” causing a “constitutional crisis” when they give the scrutiny you promised.

It’s the apex of tedious Well Akhtually midwittery to assert that a Greek living in Asia Minor in the 3rd century belonged to a national identity invented in 1967.

@eyespymp The State is ALWAYS at the service of the Party.

Was at Queens Hospital this afternoon, saw Wes Streeting recording a video on the site. Recording party political material using public resources is against the ministerial code. He'll probably claim it was ministerial communications, didn't sound like it.