Wes Streeting was Andy Burnham's rival for PM, and has now been made defence secretary. I think it was Sun Tzu, in The Art of War, who said, "Keep your friends close, and give your enemies full control of the armed forces."
If you win a new comedian competition, they usually get you back next year to headline. Once, I got to do it because the acts who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd had become too successful. So I got the gig by default, just because I was there. What I'm saying is, congratulations Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
It was on this day in 1976 that the 150 person capacity Lesser Free Trade hall had around 200,000 people from the Manchester area watching The Sex Pistols.
Reminds me that yesterday I saw the new improved outside-station Glasgow Subway dot matrices (that's the plural, don't @ me) in action for the first time. The Subway was shut yesterday, all they did was tell the time.
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Useful next train indicator at Kings Cross station this morning.
When we invented cricket around 911 CE, we had unruly matches that sadly ended in several brawls & murders. We were Argentina on steroids. The Icelandic Sagas documented the lot. Since we introduced our ICC compliant Code of Conduct in 2020, the number of deaths in play has dropped by 85%.