Richard Williams

@secondmentions Two for one here #hell-weasel @whippletom

@blagden_david Has anyone ever tracked back to see where the Oxford Union’s officers in 1933 then served?

Always come back to the Oxford Union’s 1933 ‘King and Country’ debate: a bunch of cosmopolitan, idealistic, disillusioned youngsters said they wouldn’t fight their country back then either…yet just ~7 years later, loads of them were doing exactly that. archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/education/chur…

Yes - and such surveys are always nonsense anyway, because they require abstract imagination of a situation that (when it arrives) is anything but. 1/2

@SW_Help @BTP You need to have a look @ claimdesk77887

@Heidi_Labour and @transportgovuk need to get a grip on @SW_Help If you nationalise something you’re responsible for it and need to behave as such Customer service is currently only getting worse without intervention

The British affliction is that our politics are highly responsive to immediate pressures yet chronically impatient, while our deepest problems demand patience and restraint.

School kids 🤝 10 Downing Street Counting the minutes until half term

@SW_Help 17.47 from Waterloo to Chessington South is short formed by not showing that on Journey Check

The UK served on the frontline in Afghanistan and often way beyond it!

There is no footway in the underpass only a narrow ledge alongside the road

@MetCC Not sure worth ringing 999 but there is a guy standing on the edge of the road in the northbound carriageway in the underpass of the A3 at the Malden Junction

@Heidi_Labour Please come and join me on my commute - @SW_Help desperately needs accountability for its service levels this year

Good to speak “trains, planes and automobiles” with @politicshome recently. politicshome.com/news/article/h…

Remember, it's not actually the FIFA economics prize, it's the Swiss National Bank economics prize in memory of FIFA

@David_J_Robbins Who was that and where were they speaking? Thanks

"My housing association is my pension". (Text from a speech given by a Financial Policy Committee member today.)

Wrote about the SW1 nonsense this week

Each Armistice Day my mind goes to two places- very different but both affected by the war and both known by and dear to me. The first is Karlovy Vary, a spa town in the north west of the Czech Republic, once known more widely as Karlsbad, in the Sudetenland.

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed to be as cautious as possible. Politics has changed. Their comms hasn’t.

@NetworkRailWssx How can I make a complaint about your signallers leaving level crossing gates down for extended periods without a reason?

@SW_Help Train is full and standing so probably not

@RichardWillyums Hi Richard, I am sorry to hear this, do you know if the guard is aware of this? ^MC

@SW_Help All the old in-carriage adverts have been left in a massive pile blocking two seats on the 18.24 from Waterloo to Dorking - carriage 77682

The New Yorker, coming out of the bullpen with a zinger