Simon Phillips

@TheRestHistory The Fest is History

Introducing The Rest Is History Festival! 4th-5th July 2026, Hampton Court Palace. Exclusively available to members of The Rest Is History Club.

@hnjsamuels 100% agree

One of my strongest, vibes-only opinions is that it simply does not and should not cost £15bn to repair the Palace of Westminster. The restoration of Notre Dame cost about 5% of that!

@estwebber @danbloom1 Utterly insane.

@TheKentAcorn Victoria Park, London, yesterday.

This is not Autumn. This is drought distress in Islington, London Trees shed leaves to reduce water intake. It’s happening all over England

@O2AcademyOxford @antonnewcombe Any details on show times please?

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (@antonnewcombe) are hitting the road with their mind-bending sound - catch them in Oxford next Wednesday before they tear up Glastonbury! Grab your tickets 👉 amg-venues.com/LyZQ50Vfqn6

@louieruvolo Amen to this! Congratulations Louie 👏

I ran a 22hr 55min, 100 mile Ultramarathon at the age of 58 Dude, you’ve gotta stop thinking your age is the limiting factor

@networkrail it’s very unhelpful for platform details to be removed from the information boards when I still had time to make my train. I was on the concourse at Paddington at 1327 today to catch the 1330, but missed it as no platform info. Now an hour to wait. Very frustrating!

@GWRHelp Thank you, appreciate your reply.

@simonrphillips Hi Simon, sorry to hear that. Although the customer information screens are operated by Network Rail, I can understand how frustrating it is when the information is removed from the system. I'll record your feedback on this - Kathy

@GWRHelp it’s very unhelpful for the platform details to be removed from the information boards when I still had time to make my train. I was on the concourse at Paddington at 1327 today to catch the 1330, but missed it as no platform info. Now an hour to wait. Very frustrating!

@Sam_Dumitriu Are jazz fans considered more vulnerable?!

London's Metropolitan Police have objected to the opening of a new jazz bar in Covent Garden because criminals might target drunk jazz fans leaving at 1am. Let's sack the person at the Met whose job is to object to planning applications and put the money into tackling theft.

@tomlawton @ViralityClips Bullseye! Should probably have used rubber suckers 🎯

@ViralityClips @simonrphillips 🎯

@creeeeeeeeeeg Thank you!

If you use the Notes app on your iPhone and all of your notes are apparently missing after recently accepting the Apple terms and conditions… click on your iCloud account > Apps using iCloud > turn sync this phone off and then back on. You’re welcome.

Kabul Polytechnic University students, 1975. It has now been 678 days since the Taliban imposed a ban on young women attending university in Afghanistan. 📷 Zh. Angelov / Getty Images #LetHerLearn

@stephenkb Whilst reading this article, I Shazamed the music playing in the background. Rather apt!

Keir Starmer's speech yesterday is the first time that he articulated what, exactly needs to "get worse" before the UK gets better. Here's what they were: ft.com/content/d819e3…

@anon_opin Eurythmics

It's Beastie Boys. Not The Beastie Boys. Fuck sake.

@mrjimBob Or contemplating one of the big questions of our time. “Is it a half sandwich, or just a small sandwich?”

The dude from Idles looks like he’s just written on this blackboard and is contemplating his work of art, feeling satisfied with his efforts.

@Gilesyb Wow. Sounds like the perfect material for Tarantino’s tenth and final film!

The Wreck of the Batavia is the most thrilling and gruesome maritime story I've ever read, and it should be a movie

yer da telling the barman 'pint of the usual' in the all-inclusive resort at 7.37 am

@JackTindale @AccidentalP

@HorsleyGreen @anon_opin I’m curious now! Must give it a try.

@simonrphillips @anon_opin The plot isn’t like Sorry though, no manipulation, just a bloke and his girlfriend having REALLY bad luck. Sometimes things turn out well but he seems fairly indifferent when the coincidences inevitably occur and turn everything tits up. Much funnier than Sorry.

Out of all the old UK sitcoms, the least known but best is Chance in a Million. It's on YouTube. An incredibly young Simon Callow and Belinda Blethyn. Incredibly, Blethyn plays a woman in her very early 20s living at home with her parents—but was nearly 40 when the show was made.