Listening to someone saying that FIFA’s money-grubbing has gone too far Then realising that - of all people - it’s Sam Allardyce That’s how bad it is
Jack Blackburn
@hackblackburn.bsky.social
History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
Having read Emily Wilson’s Odyssey review, I hope you all got her central message that Emily Wilson is much more clever than you
I love Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as much as any right thinking individual but…Maverick isn’t even the character’s actual name
Jack Blackburn@hackblackburn.bsky.social · last wk.Every now and then I am inordinately fond of a pun With thanks to @joetwyman.bsky.social, @warmovietheatre.com , @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social
The upside of being reshuffled in this morning’s Times Diary
Every now and then I am inordinately fond of a pun With thanks to @joetwyman.bsky.social, @warmovietheatre.com , @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social
Film idea: an unlikely holiday romance between Harriet Harman and Jacob Rees-Mogg
Ed Miliband has gone from being the government’s greenest minister to being its biggest gas guzzler
The best present you can ever receive is to have a two year old enthusiastically jump on your bed to wish you a Happy Birthday
What a fabulously mad game. More matches should be played by top quality teams who don’t give a toss.
Garry Sobers was a legend He was also inaptly named
Garry Sobers was a legend He was also inaptly named
He’s been Labour leader for an hour, so the bookies are already taking bets on Andy Burnham’s replacement
My son has been taken out to do secret birthday shopping for me He comes back and says “I got you cake” My wife quickly hushes him up before he can say what kind of cake “Is it a secret?” I ask. He nods 10 minutes later, apropos of nothing, he shouts “Caterpillar cake!”
Word to wise. Wearing a jacket and navy t-shirt isn’t necessarily a route to the tap.
Keir Starmer’s handed out the peerages Looks like the knighthoods won’t be far behind In tomorrow’s @thetimes.com diary
There is a spectacularly good museum opening near Cockfosters Trent Park House saw high-ranking German POWs be secretly spied on by Jewish refugees. The intelligence they gained was vital Now the house has been saved from dereliction Me in @thetimes www.thetimes.com/article/41de...
Trent Park — the north London mansion where Jews spied on Nazi prisoners
We get a first look as Trent Park in Enfield opens its doors to visitors, revealing how it was at the centre of a critical wartime British intelligence operation
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The (I hope) definitive update on what Binface can wear in the Commons is in today’s @thetimes.com diary
I’m shocked - SHOCKED - to find that Andy Burnham was plotting a coup a year ago On the right, my Times Diary from last July
RIP Ann Widdecombe - there was something of the Saturday night about her
Why the Revolutionary War didn’t matter #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/576d...
How the Declaration of Independence came about #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/7518...
Why the Revolutionary War didn’t matter #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/576d...
How the Declaration of Independence came about #usa250 www.thetimes.com/article/7518...
It’s #USA250 Why did America declare independence? Why did Britain lose a war it could and should have won? If you’re a little confused, here’s my potted history of the Revolutionary War Part 1: www.thetimes.com/article/7518...
How Britain drove America to independence
From Stamp Act to superpower, a disastrous fiscal policy sowed the seeds of revolution and led to the birth of a nation 250 years ago
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“O God! It is all over!” In the second of @thetimes.com’s series on American Independence, I have toured archives in search of the story of how Britain lost America How America was lost: the revolution Britain could not crush www.thetimes.com/article/576d...
How America was lost: the revolution Britain could not crush
It is 250 years since the mother country’s rebellious child set out to secure independence. But was the split inevitable?
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Six weeks ago, the @UkNatArchives found an exceedingly rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence which they have repaired in time for #USA250 tomorrow Typos, traitors and a sea chase: tale of US declaration found in UK www.thetimes.com/article/acec...
Typos, traitors and a sea chase: tale of US declaration found in UK
Taken after a seven-hour pursuit on Christmas Eve 1776, a spectacular find at the National Archives cuts through the myths surrounding the birth of a superpower
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“O God! It is all over!” In the second of @thetimes.com’s series on American Independence, I have toured archives in search of the story of how Britain lost America How America was lost: the revolution Britain could not crush www.thetimes.com/article/576d...
How America was lost: the revolution Britain could not crush
It is 250 years since the mother country’s rebellious child set out to secure independence. But was the split inevitable?
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