Bob Hammond

@Theleaguemag Loving the old pics on here, esp. the Palace ones.

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A little gem on Netflix UK: Kodachrome, starring Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris and Elizabeth Olson. A bit of a tear jerker but funny and uplifting too.

He’s right. Slava Ukraine.

@MoSalah Two legends.

With these pictures showing the bond we shared, I almost felt I could get away with saying nothing about you leaving. It’s been an honour to be your teammate and your friend. You’ve won it all and you leave as a legend. I’m sure we will meet again.

@Alitheeagle1 Any kind of advantage would be great tonight. I'd fancy us to hit them on the break at their place.

Is it too early to leave for Selhurst?! Buzzing for this. Need everyone on it , on and off the pitch ! Taking a lead to Italy will be vital , even if its one goal would be massive. We’re on our way….. #CPFC

A special moment. Liverpool had beaten us 9-0 earlier in the season.

@emyr_wyn Just googled that, Emyr! Yes, I can see why. A rugged and beautiful part of the world.

@BobHammond2 Giving me a little bit of ‘Hiraeth’ there, Bob. Glad you had a good time. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just back from an enjoyable few days in North Wales. Conwy and Beddgelert on the mainland, Beaumaris and South Stack lighthouse on Anglesey. Already plotting a return trip!

Time Bandits (1981) Directed by Terry Gilliam

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

@MattWoosie Enjoyed reading that. Thank you.

What's happening at Palace? Some questions answered 👇🏻 🤔 New manager search 💷 Summer transfer expectations 🏟️ Latest on stadium redevelopment ⚽ Matt Hobbs future 🦅 Ownership ambition + More #CPFC Free to read 🔓 nytimes.com/athletic/71585…

@FordhamRup24348 Will have a look at that. I also noticed there is an Arena on William Golding on BBC iPlayer at the moment that looks interesting.

Just watched the 3 part BBC Arena on Evelyn Waugh from 1987. Quite a cast - Harold Acton, Graham Greene, Peter Quennell, Lord Lovat, Fitzroy MacLean, Nancy Mitford, Christopher Sykes, John Mortimer, and Kingsley Amis saying how much he loathed Brideshead Revisited.

@hollywoodscifi @horrormuseum I think she’s great and that nothing she says is remotely controversial. I’m a fan of the books and movies and am intrigued to watch the TV series.

Curious what you guys think.

@allanglen1 I’ll listen to this with interest. I’ve taken a lot of musical recommendations from the Rebus novels over the years!

Delighted to have Sir Ian Rankin as the first guest on my new Scottish music podcast Scotpop. It'll be available April 2 (Spotify/YouTube links in the comments). (Spoiler alert: no parenting talk - just two Fifers talking about the #skids, #stuartadamson and Scottish music.)

@DCUAlert It's got me intrigued. 8/10.

What would you rate the new ‘SUPERGIRL’ trailer from 1 to 10? 💥

Great stuff but would be wonderful if philanthropists could extend their largesse to universities outside of Oxbridge too. ft.com/content/dad9e9…

@iancampbell251 @anon_opin Good tip. I'm now listening to The Psychedelic Furs session from 1979!

@anon_opin If you type in John Peel Sessions in YouTube you will get a very eclectic and substantial collection. Get your point though ..

The BBC should make all of the Peel Sessions available to stream on the Sounds app. They're recordings of incredible cultural significance and shouldn't be left to languish in a vault.

@afneil Your best monologue yet.

We have yet to feel the full force of oil and gas price spikes and energy shortages.  But they’ve started in Asia, the destination for most oil and gas that went through the Strait of Hormuz. They’re now coming our way, arriving by the middle of April at the latest, as they roll west across the globe.  Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it isn’t going to. Energy shocks unfold sequentially NOT simultaneously.  People and politicians haven’t yet woken up to this. Yesterday on this show we spoke to Greg Newman, an experienced energy trader. He warned of major problems coming down the pike. He’s right. It was a wake up call we’d do well to heed.  What’s already happening in Asia is a harbinger of what’s in store for us. Huge rises in the price of oil and gas. Growing shortages in diesel and jet fuel. Knock on effects on everything from fertilisers for the spring growing season to microchip production.  About a third of the world’s fertilisers, needed for food production, and a third of the world’s helium, needed for chip production, are produced by the Gulf’s petrochemical industries and come through the Strait of Hormuz. No longer.  Western governments need to wake up to the economic tsunami coming their way. The Starmer government in particular needs to get a grip.  The PM and his ministers are dangerously insouciant in the face of what’s about to hit them. They speak in generalities, with no sense of urgency, complacently out of their depth. I fear they have no idea what’s in store.  They talk about average household energy bills falling by over £100 from tomorrow. What they never add is that they will rise by almost £300 come July.  Soon the price of everything from petrol at the pump to food at the check out counter will soar. Central banks will panic at the sight of inflation reignited — and jack up interest rates.  Remember this — every major energy shock in the past has led to recession. Not because energy prices went through the roof but because central banks pushed up interest rates in their wake, killing consumer spending, the property market and business investment in the process. AND ushering in recession.  There is every chance history is about to repeat itself. Especially since we’re now run by people who are wholly ignorant of that history.  Of course, peace could soon break out and, after a rough spring and summer, normality could beckon before winter is again upon us.  But if the Strait of Hormuz is still closed in a month’s time we will all be paying a steep price for a war — Trump’s War — we did not start and did not ask for. And having to deal with an increasingly deranged White House.  2/2

My monologue on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio on Trump’s War: Donald Trump woke up this morning to tell Britain to open the Strait of Hormuz without US help and to ‘start learning how to fight’ for ourselves because America ‘won’t be there to help you.’   Well, we learned how to do that in 1940, Mr President, when your country was nowhere to be seen and only Britain stood with its Commonwealth allies to defend civilisation against the greatest evil the world has ever seen.  For those of you wondering if the Atlantic Alliance still has a future, you can stop wondering. As long as Trump is in the White House clearly it doesn’t.  Meanwhile Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio is impatient with media criticism that the aims of Trump’s War are confusing and uncertain. So yesterday on American TV he helpfully listed them. Write them down, he advised, implying this was the definitive list. So I did: 1. The destruction of Iran’s air force 2. The destruction of their navy 3. The severe diminishing of their missile launching capability 4. The destruction of their factories Which is clear enough — except that it’s not the list with which President Trump started the war. That list clearly included regime change and the end of Iran’s ability to develop nukes.  They didn’t make Secretary Rubio’s list. Nor did the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.  There is further cause for concern. IF Rubio’s list is now the definitive one, then Trump could claim war aims achieved, victory declared even with Iran still in control of the Strait of Hormuz, still able to develop a nuclear arsenal.  Not quite the victory anybody envisaged.  Yet that may well be the route we’re now going down. Late last night in Washington we discovered that Mr Trump was telling aides he WAS prepared to end the war even if the Strait of Hormuz was still closed.  That opening it would prolong the war beyond his deadline. That it was up to the Europeans and the Gulf States to take the lead in opening it because they needed it more than America.  Well, thanks a lot Donald. You start a war without consulting your allies, you change your war aims more often than Keir Starmer performs U-turns and now you talk of ending it, leaving us to hold the baby. Just great.  This matters. Because the longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed the more the global economy faces something close to catastrophe. 1/2

@MrTCHarris @Telegraph Good article Tom. One thing I can't understand is why Starmer thinks a threat not to go ahead with speciality training posts will give him leverage. Maybe that will hurt doctors, but surely it would also undermine his work to build a stronger and more resilient NHS.

Labour has brought the doctor’s pay fight on itself. By me for the @Telegraph (free to read): telegraph.co.uk/gift/6fcd0f4e2…

@lindseyvonn Good luck with your recovery, champ.

No matter how hard I fall I’ll always get back up… one step at a time.