Tree of the Day this one in Paris Place Vendôme where it would seem a young couple just got engaged in the old-fashioned way! City of Love and all that
I’ve tuned up the pipes in some strange places but this is right up there. Zoology museum Glasgow Uni. Played at end of speech on mental health. Ode to Joy obviously one of the tunes. Packed house great questions and some lovely people to chat to at the end. Thanks to the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow for letting me beat the drum for mental health and recall the lives of my brother Donald and Charles Kennedy. Speech is on my website
Was hoping to get a 🏴 Tree of the Day but given all my cancelled and delayed Tory trains it will be very dark when we get to Glasgow. So have snapped a few Penrith trees from the train for @rorystewartuk (if he can hear himself away from the football) to enjoy. My winner is the one to the right of the shaft of light pic 1 and a commendation in the team category for pic 2. If you want to hear me and Rory talking about strikes and peers, why @nadhimzahawi.mp thinks Putin was following the RCN strike ballot, background on the Biden Macron talks, and the amazing story of the key role in the peace process played by a Finnish PM and the ANC campaigner who is now the President of 🇿🇦 and in trouble over half a million bucks down the side of his sofa LINK IN BIO I would also like you to note my prediction for the Japan Croatia game Rory was rushing to as we recorded. I am not saying I am the best football pundit in the world but I am in the top one (copyright Brian Clough RIP Genius) Ps He was a football manager Rory. Big Labour man. Won European cups and stuff.
This was a particularly difficult @restispolitics episode to record as @rorystewartuk was struggling to get to a World Cup match. We got there in the end and covered Labour and the constitutional review, my memories of GW Bush, how S Africa President Ramaphosa is facing a bit of bother thanks to half a million bucks down the side of the sofa, and much much more. LINK IN BIO and also with some news re our Albert Hall event next week
A bit of half time hanging out with @caradillonsings and Sam Lakeman at their brilliant Union chapel gig. They’ve been married 20 years … @therealfionamillar and I used to babysit them and their brothers. We are getting old
Our annual trip to hear the lovely voice of @caradillonsings … time to give the football a bit of a break.
Tree of the Day the big Christmas Tree at Somerset House where we went skating with friends. Well in my case hung onto the rail and watched @therealfionamillar whizz round. Fair to say I will never be an ice hockey player
Two sports people who fascinate non sports people as well as sports people @theneweuropean has some great stuff on Eric Cantona. As for the Jeremy Wilson book on cyclist Beryl Burton not read it yet because my 97-year-old mother-in-law liked the look of it when she saw it on our kitchen table, took it home, and loved it!! She has no interest in 🚴♀️ whatsoever but loved the story. Sport transcends!!
I find it baffling that the papers continue to allow themselves to be exploited by No 10 with these PR puffery pictures taken by personal photographers funded at our expense. Sunak is following the Johnson Truss playbook. Wake up media Ffs. It is about exclusion rather than inclusion. The promised accountability it ain’t.
Tree of the Day Brazil who with France are one of the two teams capable of winning the World Cup methinks
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