Jon Davies

@electricfelix @DougDeMuro @pawlakp may have something to say on it

Norway is absolutely wild⚡️⚡️⚡️ Can ANYONE explain this? TOYOTA is WINNING?! 🚨🚨🚨 calling on @DougDeMuro for help! #alwaysbecharging

@AthleticsWeekly @Popbangcolour☝️

Run GP to transform F1 circuits into world class running venues ⚡️ Backed by Sir Mo Farah, Run GP aims to create an innovative team-based run series involving pro athletes, influencers and celebrities 🏃 athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news…

@KameronMazurek What’s the source for this?

Christadelphian population

@AasmahMir Very sad for us, the listener, but good call for you and your daughter 😊 we’ll miss you!

JOB NEWS: All good things must come to an end my friends. I’ve decided to step down from Times Radio Breakfast at the end of January. I want to say a few things. Joining TR in 2020 was the best decision I ever made. We started something from nothing. And I loved every day. (1/3)

@alojoh This is so helpful. Is there any chance you can do a UK one using UK accounting terms?

Prior version: x.com/alojoh/status/…

Financial analysis and valuation basics (v2) [v2 reflects some good community input to make it better]

@AnEmergentI @InstituteGC People’s Action by any chance?!

Today was my last day at TBI @InstituteGC. I have only very fond memories of a wonderful group of people, willing to think and work ambitiously to lay out how to reimagine the state to place science and technology at the centre of progress. We produced three Blair-Hague New National Purpose reports, and related reports are ongoing. I recommend working at, and/or with, TBI highly. They are unusually willing to back bold ideas and reforms if the arguments are solid. @benedictcooney is not only an excellent manager and director of people, but has an unusually deep understanding of science and technology networks and policy. He has become a very good friend, as have many other colleagues, which I'll highlight more of on a blog later. I grew up watching Tony on the television. He was, to me, the only Prime Minister I had understood to be 'Prime Minister' until I was an adult. I never thought I would have the privilege of working for him. Both he, and William Hague, not only provided detailed direction and input to the reports, but actively and consistently improved them throughout the process. This to me was very impressive, especially as science and technology strategy is quite a niche area of policy, and sometimes my experience is political leaders find the space challenging. I will still be working/helping on some of these papers that are still in train. But there are other things I feel I must attend to. No prizes for guesses what I am about to work on for a while..... After that, I will set to work writing the book I have wanted to finish since 2016, about the brain-body relationship, a book I aspire to write in an unusual metasciencey way....

@Psephizo @mbird12 @AJWTheology Interesting. What do those who posit a late date do with John 5:2?

Could the gospel of John have been the first gospel to be written? What is the evidence and what are the arguments? Why does it matter, and what issues does it raise? @AJWTheology @mbird12 psephizo.com/bibli.../was-j…

Quite funny.

@hardestgeezer @Weatherall26

I’m freeing up the week beginning 17th June to come in to as many schools as possible around the UK and speak to students about the project africa journey, encourage students to get involved with sport and maybe even host a little run. If you’re a teacher or work at a school and would like for me to come in then please chuck me an email at russcooktalks@gmail.com with your schools details, including your town/area in the subject line. (Completely free & open to any UK state school)🫡

@j_amesmarriott Fascinating. Do you think that if economic prosperity had continued at the same pace this wouldn’t have happened?

I wrote about why the future may not be as secular as it seems thetimes.co.uk/article/millen…

@Chloetilley @CalumAM you know you enjoyed the view behind @IanJPlummer at the Chinese Motor Show. Thought you’d enjoy knowing that one of our colleagues was his laptop stand 😂

@Popbangcolour @parkrunUK Great stuff! Do you do it regularly?

Whhaaaat… 🤯 Coventry @parkrunUK - 3 mile / 5k in just over 30 minutes!!! Whaaaaaat. 15miles ran this week. 🏃🏻🙌🏻 Needed to run last nights cocktails & cheesy foods off.

@adb0wen @SuzieyWalker good to see this

This is absolutely brilliant 😂

@JusBrierley @holland_tom Justin, looking forward to being there. I’d love to hear you ask Tom about Peter Williams’ new book on Jesus as a genius!

My conversation with @holland_tom live in London is only 1 week away - Tue 5 March. Here I am with some red London buses to tell you about it… Tix still available here: licc.org.uk/events/the-sur… Can’t be there? Become a supporter and you’ll get early access to the video: justinbrierley.com/support-me/

@alfarojoshua3 @ReligionProf @joshuamdean

David defeating the Ammonites, AI generated by ChatGPT.

Monopoly - I didn't know this! (You'll never look at the game the same way again!) Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape... Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter. Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush. Someone in MI-5 (Similar to America 's OSS) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort. By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war. Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece. As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add: 1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass 2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together 3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money! British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square. Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets... Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war. The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony. It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card!

Picture of the year. Air Freddie. #GuinnnessSixNations

@EverythinTring @DacorumPolice @HertsPolice @TheCourtTheatre Agree! It was not good this evening - loads of cars stopping with tyre issues

@annalapwood @RoyalAlbertHall Fascinating. I’ve often wondered how often (if ever?!) professional musicians make mistakes?

I get lots of questions about what a concert day looks like on various other social media apps, so thought I would share this on here too - a concert day in the life at the @RoyalAlbertHall 😍