Ashley Prime

@KieranMaguire @Independent spot on: Chelsea’s owners are responsible for this, for turning a social institution into some kind of financial experiment. Made the common mistake of thinking they are smarter than the norms of a 166-year-old sport and have been shown reality.

Chelsea managers sacked by Toad Boehly and Co Thomas Tuchel: Dismissed for refusing to sign Cristiano Ronaldo. Now England manager at World Cup Graham Potter: Sacked after taking Chelsea to quarter finals of Champions League. Now Sweden manager at World Cup Frank Lampard: Interim manager, has just taken Coventry City to Premier League for first time since 2001. Maurichio Pochettino: Sacked after arguing with Chelsea’s 263 Directors of Football and a 6th place finish. Now USA manager at World Cup. Enzo Maresca: Sacked after winning Club World Cup, UEFA Conference League and top four finish. Currently enjoying his payoff and favourite to replace Pep if he leaves City this summer. Liam Rosenior; Sacked after four months. The common issue is that it’s Boehly (former Sporting Director of Soccerball at Chelsea) and Egbali making these decisions. Perhaps, just perhaps, turning Chelsea into a hedge fund experiment isn’t a good idea. Who wants to be the footballing equivalent of Married at First Sight?

@LordRickettsP And for Trump financial reward from Iran as well oil/gas/real estate. Or all three.

Actually Shashank are there not three, since US and Israel have different outcomes in mind? US (probably) wants to exit with a big win for Trump defined in terms of no nuclear/missile threat. Bibi still hankering after regime change/collapse to set him up for his re-election.

@DAaronovitch @paul_astell Milan Malpensa has already been renamed Aeroporto Internazionale Milano Malpensa Silvio Berlusconi. Firstly careful who you choose and secondly no one calls it Berlusconi Airport.

@paul_astell Nah. Let's keep that one. But by all means rename Gatwick or Heathrow

If Farage, Davey, Coutinho et al are so worried about Churchill (and others) disappearing from our increasingly redundant banknotes, why not campaign to have Heathrow renamed Churchill International?

@SVG__Collection Pat Metheny ‘First Circle’

What jazz album sparked your love for the genre?

@TfL Passport to Pimlico

Which Tube station name would make the best name for a movie?

@CorinRobertson Many many congratulations! So pleased to hear this news. Well done to the @fcdo for this excellent appointment.

次期駐日英国大使に任命されたことを大変光栄に存じます。外交官としての初めての赴任地だった日本に、大使として再び赴任できることを心待ちにしております。   日本は英国にとって不可欠な同志国であり、重要なパートナーです。 日英関係の一層の発展に貢献できるよう、誠心誠意努めてまいります。

@SvenTrueNorth @KirstyDuncanPhD Sven, so so heartbroken to hear this news. So many people have written from Canada to let us know. She did everything in life with love compassion and hope. Miss her so so much and a privilege to call her a friend.

My heart has shattered into a million pieces. My best friend, my love, my wife @KirstyDuncanPhD left this world, peacefully, surrounded by love. No words could ever describe the impact she has had on my life. Kirsty, I love you to the moon and back, a million times over. ❤️❤️❤️

Kirsty Duncan brought compassion, humanity, strength and love to everyone she met and everything she did. A total privilege to have known her as a friend. Canada and humanity’s finest.

@JustinTrudeau heartbroken to hear that Kirsty has passed. Was one of the kindest, most loving compassionate people ever met from our time living in Canada. She cared deeply about the other which was reflected in everything she did. A total privilege to have called her a friend. Miss you Kirsty

I’m heartbroken by the loss of my friend Kirsty Duncan. Kirsty was curious, generous, and deeply committed to helping others. She believed in knowledge, compassion, and service, and she brought those values into every conversation and every fight she took on. I learned a great deal from her, and I was lucky to call her a friend. I’ll miss her greatly. My thoughts are with her family, her friends, and all those whose lives she touched.

@LordRickettsP I was in Kingston at the time and as duty officer had to open up for a flash (or may have been a deskby) telegram. Our DA was dispatched to Grenada as he covered the Caribbean.

Although the current chaos is worse, that weekend in 1983 felt pretty full on! And it left worries that echo today. An FCO planner noted that the success of the operation meant that ‘the US rather than the Soviet Union was likely to risk the threat or use of force elsewhere’. End

The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

@CarloCalenda Bravo Carlo Bravo

E mo’ ce lo siamo tatuati per la vita. #slavaukraini

@genesis_news @genesis_band @itspetergabriel @argagallo Even Bob Marley was a Genesis fan @itspetergabriel @argagallo

ICYMI: "Remembering ... THE LAMB". Have you ordered ARMANDO GALLO's book with many unseen photos from the 1975 GENESIS shows? More info and how to get it here: t.ly/74UFW @genesis_band @itspetergabriel @argagallo

@daveainsworth63 @Film4 Near the top of British movies of all time. ‘I shot an arrow in the air, she fell to earth in Berkeley Square’. Arthur Lowe excellent as the reporter.

Film of the day - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Excellent black comedy directed by Robert Hamer and starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson. One of the very best. @Film4 5.05pm this afternoon #RobertHamer #DennisPrice #AlecGuinness

@johnharris1969 I’m not particularly nostalgic but this is what the cost was back in the 1970s.

@Mikehomeseller Eight times but only once with Peter Gabriel on the Lamb Lies Down tour. Munich 1974. Saw the first Genesis concert without Gabriel at the Rainbow, Finsbury Park. Kept all the programmes and tickets.

Did you ever see Genesis live? #mikesquestions #Genesis

@SVG__Collection Easily Pat Metheny, First Circle. Never heard a guitarist/composition even close.

@SimonManleyFCDO As a Resident Clerk, I parked my Renault Five in the Quad over the weekends in the early 90s. Better today.

The Foreign Office “quad” used to be a depressing car park (including our own rather inelegant vehicle when I was working all hours as head of CT). Now it’s a flower-filled oasis of calm amidst the hurly burly of Westminster, echoing St James’s Park down the street. Marvellous.

@PaulBrummell Come on, sugar, tell me so……

Da Ya Think I’m Sixty?

@LordRickettsP Peter, Saw that your father Maurice had been in the Royal Signals in Burma. (My father also Ashley Prime ended up at the Embassy in Paris in the 60s). Burma story included here: far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/Ashley_George_…

The story of my father Lance Corporal Ashley Prime, Royal Signals, who spend 3 and a half years as a Japanese POW. And his ability to forgive and not carry that bitterness through his life. #VJDay80 #cofepow #royalsignals #irukaboys #fepow #WW2japan #bbcnews #lukwesaburak