Rob Davies
@byrobdavies
Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
Die Zeit is going for Graf Mülltonnengesicht for Count Binface, for what it's worth. But probably best to just say Count Binface in a German accent.
The major parties refusing to stand against Farage in Clacton feels like a huge opportunity for Lieutenant-Colonel Kojak Slaphead III.
🎶 Baby I want you, come, come, come into my arms / Let me feel the wonder of all of you 🎶
No Charles Tyrwhitt, I don't use "times" as a verb because I am not eight years old.
At this point i can only see Roy Hodgson as Alan Ford playing his gangster characters from Partridge or the Armando Ianucci show.
Well, this is a delight. Never been nominated for the Wincott before. Great company, very surprised and other appropriate platitudes.
Writing on the sanction of Chelsea FC, partly over financial transactions revealed by the Guardian and partners in 2023. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n... This confirms that the PL investigated offshore entities we exposed but also that the probe went much wider than what the club self-reported.
Punk news: BrewDog founder James Watt is no longer describing himself as a "punk" in the LinkedIn profile that the multi-millionaire sometimes uses to rail against being asked to pay more tax.
Weather app is high again, i see. Either that or the West Norwood ice tornado is on the other side of the house and I haven't spotted it yet.
If you want to read Peter Mandelson's full pitch for a job to the billionaire CEO of Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, it's here. It'll make you feel better about all the cover letters you've written over the years for jobs you didn't get.
If Yorick's skull isn't just a big cry-laugh emoji, what are they even doing?