Chairman Moët

@NanaAnge49 Not yet. Though if a suitable replacement turns up then I'll set myself up on it with the same name.

Just a note that the new Tweetdeck has completely screwed my access to Twitter (and obviously I'm not going to pay to use it). So I'm nearing the end of my time here: if I disappear that's why. Time to find a healthier more productive use of my time, like taking up crack cocaine

@chrisdeerin As I've grown (much) older I've begun to realise that big birthdays aren't actually about you but instead the people who surround you. So now I just smile, sit back and let them get on with it. Then lie about what a great time I had when it's all over.

Given it's my main ambition in life to be left alone, how should I celebrate a big birthday? pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/col…

If I were a friend of Birbalsingh, which thankfully I'm not, I'd be strongly advising her to get off Twitter as soon as possible.

@DavidMorton359 Be very surprised. While I admire the ambition, Ukraine was nowhere near meeting the required accession targets before the war. Now?

Ursula von der Leyen wants Ukraine and Moldova in EU within four years theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

@ProfTimBale @JohnRentoul I find it very hard to think about a post GE defeat next Tory party leader as I still haven't fully got my head around who will be left to 1) stand 2) vote for them

I agree with @JohnRentoul. Frosty may fancy it and himself something rotten but I'll eat a supermarket-size packet of the Kellogs cereal of your choice if he becomes leader. independent.co.uk/voices/if-rish…

@JXB101 @FT Imagine working for a paper that employs Camilla Long, Jeremy Clarkson, Rod Liddle and thinking that it's another newspaper who hates their readers

I also get sent a watch magazine that's meant to cost a tenner for free. If they imagine I'm some super rich, high disposable income, type of person I'm afraid I have some bad news...

In an attempt to save money I cancelled all my magazine subscriptions last year. Strangely some of the more glossier ones still get sent to me. Wondering if there's some advertising rate circulation figures thing that explains this?

If I were Miriam Cates I'd be spending all my resources trying to protect my highly vulnerable 7000 vote majority rather than setting up a new organisation that just make me look even more of a right wing loonie.

If you're in any doubt about what sort of party the Conservatives will become in opposition

I don't really understand economics terms so I do wonder, as someone who has, under various accounts, wasted 14 years of their life on this fucking terrible platform but yet still can't leave, whether I'm just doomed to be an embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy.

I mean changes on this site do have real world effects. I stopped following Chris Hope's account about a year ago as I realised all I was doing was constantly mocking him. After about 3 months I forgot he even existed as I had absolutely no contact with his work outside Twitter.

Trying to think of some of the unintended consequences of the Broken Twitter Era. A collapse in people hate-watching GB News clips? People forget that something called Andrew Lilico ever existed? A dramatic drop in the nation's blood pressure?

Douglas Murray is such a ridiculous dickhead. How does anyone take him seriously?

I do occasionally wonder about Steve Baker. He does genuinely seem to be a man on a journey. Maybe spending time being a minister for NI helps one realise that simple solutions are rarely the answer. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

I mean obviously I'd be able to wear them. I'm just wondering about other older gentleman.

Looking at a luxury male swimwear brand and they have an upper limit on their trunks waist size of 34". A bold move in a market that usually assumes the people with money to fritter away on such stuff are in the older age bracket

Already wondering what a General Election campaign without Twitter might look like

Must admit Twitter being broken seemed a lot funnier last night when I'd been drinking wine...