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Posts by Jack Blackburn

Day off. Time for a luxuriant shower.

Just as I was enjoying a moment of peace after a weekend of solo parenting… a knock on the bathroom door.

Mrs B has forgotten that the window cleaner was coming and I had but seconds left before I ended up in my own George Formby song.

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I feel the word “unite” is here being subjected to a burden it cannot reasonably be expected to bear

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Jesus wept.

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I’m still very impressed

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My two year-old just opened up The Gruffalo and said

“The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler!”

I thought he was a reading savant until he added

“Read by Imelda Staunton”

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No summer of sex please, we’re Tory MPs Plus: Donald Trump as DJ, a schoolgirl’s searching question to the Speaker, a Lib Dem’s lonely marmalade crusade and how Boris Johnson channelled a disco diva

Full article here: No summer of sex please, we’re Tory MPs

www.thetimes.com/article/a4e4...

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Tory MPs decline proposition of “summer of sex”

In my @thetimes.com diary this morning

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Here’s some detail

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Period property drama as Shakespeare’s London house discovered The location of the Bard’s London home has been identified close to his theatre and a pub, raising questions about the playwright’s final years

Home was where the Bard was - location of Shakespeare’s London house had been found

Me in @thetimes

www.thetimes.com/article/862c...

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Just saw Dracula’s Deliveroo

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Is it Swalwell that Ends Well?

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Two years ago today. Missed every day.

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image from inside Artemis II

text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

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Two former prime ministers move fast and break things Plus: minister muscles in on pull-ups challenge; Reform man risks Scottish voters’ wrath; Greg Dyke’s lonely book club; and Lord Puttnam’s touch of mystery

Full article here:

Two former prime ministers move fast and break things

www.thetimes.com/article/1603...

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The Queen’s advice to Liz Truss: “Take your time”

In my @thetimes.com Diary this morning

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Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.

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Marco Rubio realising he has to move to Avignon and be the Antipope

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Marco Rubio realising he has to move to Avignon and be the Antipope

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Brits going to bed tonight

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Nah. It’s just a cycle of sex and death. Sadly we’re on the wrong side of that.

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Of course I’m joking. He’s lost whatever plot he had.

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Bonne chance!

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Twice

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Excellent spelling and grammar though

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Afraid it’s true

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You may not like it, but this is what the language of a master deal maker who is totally on top of the situation looks like

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You: Christ is risen

Political Twitter: Pressures rises on Pilate’s defence spending after corpse evades two soldiers

LinkedIn: Jesus has executed a rebound recovery and is looking at rebranding opportunities

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I’ve just noticed that the label on my lactose-intolerance pills says that they’re vegan

Which seems a bit superfluous

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Britain is broken, you say?

Well today I passed a man who was holding up traffic by riding a penny-farthing on an A-road.

He was dressed in a long coat, wore a deerstalker and was smoking a pipe.

We are so back.

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Andrew Johnson would have if he could have. Amazed Clinton didn’t.

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