Mark Dunn

@qikipedia There’s another lovely Wilde quote about America never having been discovered, merely detected.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. OSCAR WILDE

@hellothisisivan @OldRoberts953 This is going to make me a Drunk Man all over again 🍻

Laughed out loud at Craig Brown’s appropriate anagrams

@slbsn Not an Everton fan but was gladdened by this announcement. Could it work? Attendance will surely be higher than where they play now. Potential for the stadium to host concerts etc?

Except the attendances are about 1,000, not 15-20,000. Not at all economic and, I suspect, abandoned within a year.

@OldRoberts953 @typofoto Our fine four-fendered fr- DAMN YOU

@OldRoberts953 @typofoto 😂 and now I’m infected too

Thanks to a single tweet by @typofoto ages ago, I still can’t see the name Emma Raducanu without hearing it set to the tune of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

@DaleVince We spent a few days in France recently and were shocked at the price of food. But it occurred to us that maybe French farmers are more powerful than uk farmers and/or better treated by supermarkets

It’s so ironic, that supermarkets, who have long been accused of screwing British farmers with their aggressive focus on ever lower prices, should take this opportunity to offer words of support. That’s all it is a PR opportunity. Supermarkets can do more to help British farmers than a repeal of the closing of this tax loophole will do. After all, we all pay Inheritance Tax, farmers do not need to be a special case, the tax can be avoided simply by passing on land and property to family before death. Whereas the commercial abuse of farmers by supermarkets is a much tougher nut to crack. I call on supermarkets to put their money where their warm words are - pay farmers a decent rate for the food they produce. standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

@OldRoberts953 @DrAlexNoonan Saw this at the actual cinema when it was out and loved it. There’s a fascinating article about the pains they took to make it look like it does: filmmakermagazine.com/124994-film-lo…

Just watched this on the recommend of @DrAlexNoonan - and I recommend it too. A Xmas film that’s emotional but not sickly, and beautifully shot. (Released last year but don’t worry, it’s as if it comes from the Before Times.)

Predictions for Manchester City’s season and beyond as the winless streak continues. A thread 🧵👇

@Dadros3 @VworpMeetMCR Absolute pleasure to hang out with you all last night, thanks for making me so welcome. Still in awe of the amazing Davroses (Davri?)

@VworpMeetMCR @mdunn1 Thanks for being so welcoming, and it was great to see people enjoying a common interest. Hopefully we can come another time in the future. Good luck with your anniversary celebrations.

@StevenMcinerney I’ll be in Manchester on Saturday, reckon it’s worth bringing my kit

No Grealish, Doku, Walker, De Bruyne, Bobb or Rodri in the squad. Things look light.

@rail_guns Ouch! Get well soon 💪

The current state of my shoulder 😬😬😬

@edwardburnettt @ManCity Ha ha I guess that doubles the number! Well sir if you’re ever off duty on a Sunday afternoon I’d be happy to buy you a pint and watch Citeh with you.

@mdunn1 @ManCity I moved to Oxford earlier this year and have not met any other blues here!

Bring him home @ManCity.

@City_Xtra @mateokovacic8 I think half the reason we bought Kovacic was to be a big bro to Gvardiol.

Josko Gvardiol on settling in at #ManCity: “I had @mateokovacic8 with me and I'd say he’s like my father, always there for me, takes me everywhere. Everywhere they go, he just says come with us because I live alone, I’m single, my parents live in Croatia but they come often..."

@rail_guns @AnnelieseDodds 👍 will do, thanks!

@mdunn1 @AnnelieseDodds Ours arrived this Saturday, if you get nothing by mid-week then get in touch with elections office at city council and maybe your nearest sorting office / talk to your postman

Fresh take on dogs at polling stations What an absolute pleasure it was to vote for @AnnelieseDodds and a Labour Government 🌹🗳️

@DaleVince @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer Dale, some time ago I saw clips of you talking about your green gas mills before a select committee. Did anything come of that? Could they be part of Great British Energy?

Big news today is that the Great British Energy company is front and centre in @UKLabour's coming manifesto. It’s 1 of the 6 pledges unveiled today by @Keir_Starmer.  I’ve been advocating the public ownership of the new green energy sources that we need to build - for a bunch of years now. This is exactly that - and it makes so much more sense than allowing foreign owned companies and pension funds to extract the financial benefits of our green transition - from our economy.

@StevenMcinerney Hope you’ll be posting your son’s drawings when he’s old enough!

I love those drawings. It's bloody adorable.

@StevenMcinerney Not sure I’d go that far! But there will be a cohort of young adults who are more wise to this stuff. My credulous generation will take longer to cotton on.

@mdunn1 Ah that's actually really reassuring! Hopefully society has fully adjusted to it by the time my little one is that age.

Critical thinking skills are in the bin. Astounds me on a daily basis the very obviously false stuff that people spout because they saw it on the internet. Feels essential that schools should be adapting to this in the smartphone era - kids need to be taught how to process and verify things they see online.