Toby Sculthorp

@MVinny69 One if the most charismatic frontmen in history

A wee thought this morning for Lee Brilleaux who died #OTD 1994

Honoured to have been awarded the 2026 British Society for Developmental Biology Lewis Wolpert Medal - means so much; particularly,recognition of my public engagement & impact of our research on Thalidomide & Primodos survivors. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/202…

@N_Vargesson Very many congratulations Neil to you and the team @aberdeenuni. Your tireless efforts in seeking the truth have been inspirational for so many. Top bloke!!

@NoLongerTheFuzz DL - please follow back- I would like to contact you about a public sector project I’m working on and your story really resonates. Thank you!

If this resonates with you — my full story is on Substack. Why I Speak Now. Everything starts there. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/donnalouis…

I’m a former CID detective. I spent 21 years inside the British criminal justice system. And I’m done staying quiet. A thread. 🧵

@stephenpollard Any tips?

Best four days of the year! It's #CheltenhamFestival Wonderful as my favourite week is, it's been bittersweet for many years. My dad and I would spend hours talking about it in anticipation and then discussing every race. It's not the same without him.

@BenFinl97046623 Ray’s - what a store. And now …O tempora, o mores

The first Wes Montgomery album I owned, a beautiful vinyl copy bought in Ray's Jazz, Shaftesbury Avenue, sometime in the early 90s. Those were the days.

It appears #Whitehall inhabits some strange Victorian parallel universe conjured up by #Dickens and #Gilbert and #Sullivan with the lawyers from #BleakHouse dictating foreign policy and the cast of #HMSPinafore running the MOD.

@jfkenney Wonderful story- Collinson sent to an orphanage. #NoelCoward is president becomes his godfather and helps build his career. All detailed in the enchanting play Mr Bridger’s Orphan by Marcey Kahan

Obscure British-Canadian YT of the day: Peter Collinson (ITALIAN JOB) directs TOMORROW NEVER COMES, w/ Oliver Reed, Susan George, Donald Pleasance, Raymond Burr, Paul Koslo, Stephen McHattie & playwright John Osborne! Link in reply:

@AlwynTurner As @GlasgowAlbum points out - he right in the vanguard of the fight against apartheid. And … a huge influence on #GeorgeHarrison so no #GeorgeFormby - no #Beatles. Probably.

This is very good from @MarkUrban01

@Will___lloyd Bunch of crashers. I’m off to Fitzrovia.

@TSculthorp Yeah they’re not a pub friendly group. Strachey not a “boozy” figure. Clive Bell was somewhat “boozy”, came from a more Tory background than the others.

Have never reached a settled opinion on Bloomsbury. Only one actual A grade genius (Keynes). Woolf close but valued for all the wrong things. Clive Bell and Roger Fry are more unreadable than Thomas Carlyle. Cult around the holy sites (Charleston!) and paintings is off-putting and misguided. Their morality is somewhat admirable. Paul Johnson basically blames them for everything that went wrong in the entire 20th century: seems a bit much. Lytton Strachey as good an essayist as Britain has produced. Enormous blind spots on race and class waved away. But would rather bask in Woolf’s diaries than read dull contemporaries like Orwell. Always think about the fact that when Hermione Lee was asked if she had fantasies of meeting Virginia Woolf she said she would have been too afraid to have tea with her.

@Will___lloyd But technically you’re moving away from the Bloomsbury set towards the Camden Town Group

@TSculthorp Queens Larder is alright. Lord John Russell has declined. Better off walking towards Kings Cross to The Boot or The Dolphin.

@JoeYids The programme.

Surely no Tottenham fan is confident of getting anything from today’s game?

@_paullay @jameshawes2 When Mervyn Griffith Jones QC asked if Lady Chatterley’s Lover was a novel you’d want “your wives or servants to read” at the obscenity trial he did so in the full knowledge that they would read it and not just because it was (to borrow from Billy Liar) “a mucky book”.

@jameshawes2 Utter bigoted drivel. Read Jonathan Rose’s The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. England among the most literate nations on earth. The dissenting tradition of Bunyan, Defoe et al, the ‘elitist’ texts of the BCP, KJV, Shakespeare &c, &c, &c.

Working class 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 tends to see education as ‘not for us’: thanks to the Norman Conquest, it requires you to learn what’s basically a different, elite language. This is peculiar to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. At 12, I left a tough but good Edinburgh comp for a 100% white Shropshire comp. It was a shock.

@OldRoberts953 open.spotify.com/track/0A9iQWvs…

Good morning A hundred years of Kenny today! Let’s all thrummock up our nadgers, have a bit of the Barclays, and talk loudly about our bum trouble in a crowded restaurant to celebrate!

@BenFinl97046623 One of the greats

@TSculthorp Absolutely. What a run of films he made in the 70s.

Director and filmmaker Sam Peckinpah was born OTD in 1925. He directed several of my favourite 70s films - The Getaway, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and Straw Dogs, which for some reason was never taken up by the Cornish tourist board.

Margaret #Thatcher once observed “Any man who finds himself on a bus over the age of 26 may consider himself a failure”. And here I am.