Jon Gertler

Over 118,000 young people across the UK approached their council last year because they were facing homelessness. Add your name to make sure No Young Person is Left Out from the support they deserve: campaign.centrepoint.org/page/165406/pe…

Good Start ! Two excellent tier 2 ministerial appointments in Patrick Vallance and James Timpson. Rehabilitation of offenders such an important subject that never gets mentioned - this guy has made a career of it, so really could make a difference given adequate support.

@Kevin_Hickson @richardmarcj NK was so keen to look 'Prime Ministerial'(presidential) that he handed John Major the opportunity to position as the underdog, after 13 years in Government, which he brilliantly took with his soap box

@richardmarcj Do you think Neil would have won in 92 if he had been more ‘authentic’?

This point about Starmer really reminds me of Barbara Castle's criticism on Neil Kinnock's image managers: '[They] made him look like a bank clerk, who wouldn't...make an impromptu speech. He wasn't breathing the oxygen he so desperately needed'

@SeasideFerry You could try holding a Knobbly Knees Competition with copies as prizes ?

Just wondering, if I wrote a book on holiday camp design would people buy it?

@NDemblon @openhouselondon No, not your imagination!- its open for half the year and in the other half the film crews move in

@openhouselondon Yes! It's stunning! I think I may have also seen it in at least one TV show (or maybe that was my imagination).

Have you been inside Two Temple Place? Designed by John Loughborough Pearson, this Neo Gothic landmark on London's Victoria Embankment is one of the many extraordinary buildings to have featured in the annual Open House Festival 🏡🗝️

@spudcambs @LBFlyawayhome Yes - All Gold ! those were the ones to showcase the understated smart taste and discernment of giver and receiver

@LBFlyawayhome My memory of chocolates at Christmas in the 1970s:

I think I can work out which chocolates the artist had in mind. (Wasn’t a fan of the lime one, myself) Artist: BH Robinson 1977

Help homelessness charity @StMungos to decorate their trees this year by adding your festive message: action.mungos.org/write-christma…

@Tsruhyah @LonMidArchSoc Looks great! - Do you have any more events like this coming up ?

@LonMidArchSoc And a big thank you to Robert for his knowledgeable commentaries at the gravesides. Delivered with superb comedic timing where required.

We had a fabulous tour this evening of Kensal Green, one of the Magnificent 7 cemeteries. Just fabulous!

Keep the Kew Herbarium at Kew - Sign the Petition! chng.it/ZTYphfpf via @UKChange

@gsoh31 Stop the Barge Week ?

@NorthCrayMal @lccmunicipal Secret of the Unicorn anyone ?

2nd hand bookshop, Porto.

@LBFlyawayhome Fab! Who can resist the allure of a walled garden....

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘The walled garden’ May, 1958 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

@LBFlyawayhome Wonderful! these really did, and do, set the pulse racing.......

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Story of Ships, 1961 Artist: Robert Ayton

@LBFlyawayhome Which happily in those day was largely confined to the dining car !

The modern world in old Ladybird books. Eating on trains, 1974. Artist: Frank Humphris

@LBFlyawayhome Reminds me of a lovely scene in The IPCRESS File film 1965

The modern world in old Ladybird. The dawn of the supermarket (1968) #FrankHampson

@gsoh31 "We're Allright !"............

@LBFlyawayhome "Boysplaining" ?

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. ‘Changing the battery’ (1962) #HarryWingfield

@lccmunicipal but rural vs urban surely, and less menacing ?

@OldLondonW14 I you're buying I'd like a Tower Champagne Fizz please. If it's my round, the Cog-Wheel looks nice.

It is 1970, you're on a glamorous date in the BT Tower restaurant. There's a cocktail menu. What would you like to drink?

@LBFlyawayhome I'm afraid that for me it was more a case of what I hoped wouldn't be on the menu - we were forced to eat rice pudding, which I have never been able to face ever since.

School Dinners, 1959 (What did you hope would be on the menu? Apple crumble for me) #HarryWingfield