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@stephentall Hello!

Googles "Patrick Gordon Walker" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Leyt…

@wallaceme It's a brilliant adaptation. Not a big Le Carre fan, I find his style quite leaden, but these stories I love!

This has also prompted me to relisten to the complete BBC Smiley adaptations, with Simon Russell Beale, on Audible. 18 hours of Le Carré goodness for the price of one (one!) audiobook. A delight.

I enjoyed the new George Smiley book - Karla’s Choice - but I’m not sure there were anti-aircraft trains in the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict in which there were no combat airplanes. I wish this was my geekiest episode of pedantry, but it’s not even close.

Decided to go through this systematically. Incumbent government performance in wealthy democracies since March 2022, when Ukraine invasion really spiked things upwards: 🧵

@jamesrbuk 7 (don’t follow him)

What a gentleman😹

So Carlos Alcaraz did THIS earlier today.

Political divisions feel so intractable and immovable, but Jimmy Carter is still alive and his winning electoral map looks INSANE to a 2020s observer.

@DanniMason11 @andyratcliffe9 So, so sorry for your loss. Danni was an amazing colleague at EEF - warm, funny, brilliant, thoughtful - and utterly committed to making a positive difference in everything she did x

This is @andyratcliffe9, Danni's husband. I'm so so sad to have to say that Danni passed away last week after a long illness. Her funeral will take place on 9 October and the details are here: poetic-endings.com/celebrating-th… Please feel free to pass this on to others who knew Danni

@Samfr Thanks for writing this, Sam, it's so sad. Danni was immensely clever, very funny, with real integrity. And with a real passion for evidence and research as an engine for change.

This is terribly sad. I didn't know Danni well but we crossed paths a few times when she was working at the education endowment foundation. She was always full of ideas and enthusiasm.

It remains a great watch 👇

People kept asking me in person to explain the debate over the Olympic boxers, so I figured it was more efficient to write it down for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Late to this, but fascinating account of the 1984 miners' strike, told through three compelling stories 👇 'Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain': channel4.com/programmes/min…

Many of the inputs I have received for my upcoming report on violence against women and girls in sport and which i will present at #GA79 in October, stress the need to maintain single-sex spaces for safety, fairness and basic human dignity. This week at #PARIS2024 we may all witness the damaging consequences for women and girls when the principle of sex separation in sports is not respected. I will be watching the Olympic boxing matches with utmost concern. Determining an athlete’s sex can be simple, accurate, and dignified: it only requires a single cheek swab in a lifetime.

@HorshamDC June?

Just two weeks to go until SkateJam 2024! 🛹 On Saturday 15 June, the professionals from Team Extreme will be back in Horsham Park. Join us between 12pm and 4pm for a FREE afternoon of live demos, music, competitions and workshops. Photographs: WildTrack Photography

Watch Minister James Timpson's first speech in the House of Lords 👇

This will be the first Presidential election since 1976 to not have a Biden, Bush, or Clinton on the ticket.

'Emergency politics podcasts sir... thousands of 'em'

So sad to hear about the passing of Ray Reardon. A titan of snooker. A marvellous man. And this story about his days in the mines is still one of the most astonishing I’ve ever heard…