Peter Robins

@PreachyPreach @simonk133 The existence of Catford Mews and Crystal Palace Everyman probably hasn't helped it

@rcolvile @thhamilton This is fun but misleading. The reason he says she clearly hadn't been close enough to touch it is because he's confident it *was* stone — an earlier paragraph implies he was privy to information about the commissioning of it, though not directly involved.

Blockbuster #EdStone news from @thhamilton. Blows this whole case wide open.

@rcolvile IIRC, Bottomley in this case was another traditional figure in newspaper history: the printer who quickly takes possession when the lads can't pay his bill. (He then fell out with the other partner in the printing firm, who got the FT in the split.)

Historic English newspaper/magazine: for centuries, we have been committed to our mission of fearlessly, objectively telling truth to power Same historic English newspaper/magazine: actually founded by absolute lads to be incredibly rude about people they didn’t like

Disgraceful what’s happened to the @ft (via ⁦@dcsandbrook⁩)

@SnoozeInBrief Whatever the strategy, precision is clearly important to it; there used to be a rival 95p+ shop a few doors down towards the Rye, and it has not survived.

Slightly opaque pricing policy here

@Samfr The change over time is interesting. Telegraph readers were 64% Conservative and 14% Labour in 2005, per the table at the end of this Guardian post, while the Sun numbers look to have barely moved: theguardian.com/news/datablog/…

Maybe they really like the cricket coverage or enjoy the features... politics isn't everything.

These stats are so underappreciated when we talk about press influence on politics. Labour currently lead amongst *Telegraph* readers. People are not defined by the paper they choose to read.

@legalstyleblog @davecykl @HoskingTheTimes The paragraph spacing is indeed weird, but it could easily be a printer's last-minute response to a copy shortfall (or to someone pulling a par out, if you want something more conspiratorial).

@legalstyleblog @davecykl @HoskingTheTimes The type also looks right for the period, and has printing artefacts and page glare that I think would still be fiddly to fake.

Local reporter misses gigantic scoop 85 years ago and perhaps saves Britain

@yngvlgrn @philipjcowley The potentially more interesting thing about induction hobs is that you can buy a plug-in portable one that will heat up steel/iron-based pans faster than a gas burner for not much; there's a Tefal one under sixty quid at Job Lewis right now

@yngvlgrn The boringly generous interpretation is that the writer is a friend of the couple and was a guest

@SnoozeInBrief Correct sequel order: Claudius the God Claudius the Gods Claudius3 Claudius: Resurrection

If they did a sequel to I, Claudius, would it be called II, Claudius

@flashboy @stephenkb @Mr_John_Oxley Dialing a phone?

@stephenkb @Mr_John_Oxley "turning" things on or off?

@CricketErik For N.J Triton read Triton, N.J. etc etc

@CricketErik Mr. N.J. Triton's XI

@PreachyPreach Phase is "the wisest fool in Christendom", I think

@yorksranter @Fornbirkibeinn @PreachyPreach @CentristMum @AlunEphraim @OwenWMichael @BeijingPalmer @marwood_lennox @jkbloodtreasure An obituary writer once told me that the thing he found hardest to convey was: "This person was an unmarried heterosexual." I'd guess "This person was a strongly extroverted non-drunkard" presents the same sort of challenge.

@petrobins @Fornbirkibeinn @PreachyPreach @CentristMum @AlunEphraim @OwenWMichael @BeijingPalmer @marwood_lennox @jkbloodtreasure 5pm gregarious, 7pm convivial, 9pm ebullient, 11pm mercurial, 1am volatile, 3am disgraced

@Griboyedov1 @stephenkb @PreachyPreach @BeijingPalmer @yorksranter And to survive as an image of a figure that may keep getting cited in social history — the 1950s Angry Young Man — "Lucky Jim" has just to outrun "Room at the Top" and "Look Back in Anger". Possible it's managed that already.

@stephenkb @PreachyPreach @BeijingPalmer @yorksranter 'Lucky Jim' does have that going for it, yes. But it's also got several really funny set-piece passages: eg the hangover, or the lecture. I think it will last for those. I can't think of many funnier post-1945 novels written in English (exceptions: 'Portnoy', 'Men at arms').

@stephenkb As some students know, Chelsea is indeed in south London, just across from Brixton tube: southchelseacollege.co.uk/news/

@Zaphod2042 Well, quite.

A while ago on here, a lot of people mocked my claim that Chelsea is spiritually in south London. Glad to have support for this from the constituency's MP.

@JonnElledge @JenWilliams_FT Sometimes it feels better not to know the reason. On a motionless late-night suburban train in London Victoria, I once heard the announcement, "We are awaiting two things: a driver and the police."

@JenWilliams_FT up there with "the next train is running late due to late running"

On York station, where the announcer has just said the train to Saltburn has been cancelled due to a change in the timetable. You might as well just say ‘because we don’t feel like it’. That’s not an actual reason