Jack Blackburn
@hackblackburn
History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
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
He’s been Labour leader for an hour, so the bookies are already taking bets on Andy Burnham’s replacement
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
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
They don’t make politicians like John Major anymore From today’s @thetimes.com Diary
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...
Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, has found a hidden door in the House of Lords
Today’s daily dose of joy comes from Laurel and Hardy Have a good night
Dinner at the Tower of London tonight Had this exchange with my wife
Big news this morning A “prototype” of Stonehenge has been found 3 miles from the historic site It shows that solar alignment had been achieved 500 years earlier than previously thought This profoundly changes our understanding of the henge itself
The last thing you see before dying with a slightly fuller head of hair
Tom Tugendhat on how to get people to surrender In this morning’s @thetimes.com Diary
A tribute to Gladys Dickson, the doyenne of the Commons tearoom, leads the Times Diary this morning www.thetimes.com/article/9dce...