Brendan May
@brendanmay
Entrepreneur, investor, board member & advisor on communications, sustainability & geopolitics to firms across the world. Pragmatist. Found mainly in London & SE Asia.
Ann Widdecombe on the abject barbarism of blood sports and why they don’t belong in modern Britain. I’d forgotten this. Superb.
Can’t think of a message less likely to excite glorious, diverse, dynamic and cynical Londoners. ‘Hope in Every Heart’ sounds like some bin fire Cilla Black would sing on a chat show.
Nigel Goldfinger here, enjoying his poverty-stricken life of public service again.
Over on the other side, Twitter is 20 years old and they’re asking for favourite tweets of all time. This is mine.
Quite the move isn’t it, migrating to a war zone to avoid paying VAT on school fees and then letting a severely disabled teacher in a wheelchair cross a city under fire over the weekend to pay him what to her will be loose change. Who makes these people?
“I’m not leaving this house without Peter, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail.”
I would happily pay more council tax if my council replied to imbeciles in this way.
Snapped this statue of President FDR in The Bahamas 🇧🇸 yesterday. He visited regularly. You won’t find a single monument to Edward VIII, who was dispatched there as Governor to keep him miles away from Europe during WWII. His tenure is, unsurprisingly, not remembered fondly.
I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain. From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’. No thanks.
Sunday #Beethoven I am just rediscovering him after a 35 year absence. Apologies for musical typos, I haven’t learnt a score from music for decades. I absolutely love his nobility. #musicislife #piano #sundayvibes
This is superb from Keir Starmer. As a Dad of boys, it spoke to me. As a Prime Minister, he towers above all other options.
The sick irony of pasting their logo over a symbol of remembrance for people who fought and died to prevent the very kind of divisive, hate-driven intolerance they promote.
All the people who voted in Reform because they wanted big government efficiencies, and more money to be spent on pot holes and improving local services will no doubt be thrilled that their new council is spending £75,000 on, er, flags instead. Absolute clown show. 🤡
Thoughts with the people at the BBC who regard this worthy of an ‘in depth’ piece of analysis on their ‘news’ homepage. The BBC has been completely ruined.
The BBC thinks this worthy of its news homepage, but I’m still not seeing much about Reform’s financial relationship with Russia. If we had a serious media we might not collectively drunkenly stagger from one idiocy to the next.
Auto captions on a LinkedIn post I just saw called the President of Egypt ‘Frozen sushi’ and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Always makes me giggle that naive flag shaggers up and down the land fund all this and his many holidays. Utterly gullible fools.
The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.
Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.
Yes, everyone lived in houses like this, although mainly because they had an iron camp bed in the basement for their hour off when not cleaning aristocratic shit out of the bed pans.
This is like one of those pics you used to see in the Guinness Book of Records.