And tonight… for my final Westminster Hour as a BBC staffer, look who dropped in to talk to me and my marvellous Editor Libby Jukes. Hear Sir John Major’s thoughts on Northern Ireland and politics in general at 10pm
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I HAVE LEFT MY VIOLIN ON A BUS GOING TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. IT WAS EITHER THE 52 OR 452 IN THE DIRECTION OF LADBROKE GROVE. PLEASE HELP IM SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING IN TODAYS PROM
@TfL
@bbcproms
@BBCRadio3
Very moved today
@Hanifkureishi
told me “I see people walking and can’t believe they can ..” Thank you for shining light from this dark point of your life
@BBCRadio4
D day commemorative message! I’ve tweeted about this before - my Dad landed here 1944 - for the first time the French schoolchildren met the modern day Royal Marines on the beach and now I’m finally silent
Dad’s ability to improvise and compose beautiful melodies on the fly has always amazed me.
Tonight, I gave him four random notes as a starting point.
Although his dementia is getting worse, moments like this bring him back to me.
Cluny Lace blames its sales slump on
#Brexit
but why - in reporting their story - am I called a “moron” “posh” and “stupid.” Here is Tim the twisthand - 20 employees in 2016 now 4 - what’s stupid about this?
Very distressing- a woman screaming as she’d had her phone grabbed out of her hand and stolen by a balaclava wearing guy on an E-bike. Tactic is used outside tube stations I’m told but very sad to see her safety so violated in public beyond the loss of her phone
Hi There ! We did a report on Cluny Lace - blaming
#Brexit
for its slump in trade. Why is my timeline filled with people calling me a “moron” “biased” “remoaner” and “stupid?”
#history
I just watched the fishing fleet leave the French village liberated June 1944 by 47 Royal Marine Commando which landed miles East on D Day and marched inland to take the port. My Dad served in that unit and died w/o telling the story but his surviving comrades did !
I’ve met many Bletchley Park veterans - including my own Mum - who’ve told me what was owed to the Poles cracking Enigma and copying the machine parts. For years this part of the story was not well-known by us here in the U.K.
#OTD
in 1905, 🇵🇱 mathematician Marian Rejewski was born. In 1932, he, H. Zygalski & J. Różycki broke the Enigma code, using the revolutionary method of mathematical equations, not, as previously practised, linguistics. 🇵🇱 work aided
@BletchleyPark
’s mass-scale codebreaking effort