tomorrow October 11 start of Isle of Wight Literary Festival - now in 7th year Hurrah and welcome to all

The beautiful IoW ferry in 27 seconds..

Trying to give you a sense of scale of this march. They’ve been marching since 12 and these people still circa ½ mile from destination in Parliament Square. It’s a big thing. #peoplesvotemarch

London is home to over a million EU citizens - they are our friends, our neighbours and our colleagues who make a massive contribution to our lives. Retweet to show you agree that #LondonIsOpen and always will be.

My latest The New Yorker piece, in gestation for a couple years now, as you’ll see. Something to read about other than the election, at least. It is on the state of health care information technology. In other words: newyorker.com/magazine/2018/….

The E.U. “is nothing if not expert at using the tensions in domestic national politics to force precisely the moves it most wants you to make”. Sir Ivan Rogers on how May fell into the backstop “trap” blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/the-ni…

A no deal Brexit would be catastrophic. No government has the right to plunge the country into chaos because of its own failure. The majority in Parliament must have its voice heard. That’s why I will be applying for this emergency debate today.

He's making a list, And checking it twice, Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice. Santa Claus is contravening GDPR.

*Elon Musk arriving breathlessly at #Gatwick with a submarine* "Am I too late?"

The significance of this goes well beyond the loss of the EMA from London. It spells the end of UK leadership in the global bio-medical industry, which is strategically central to UK economic strategy. Whatever happens now with Brexit, massive, irreversible damage has been done.

So, we found a live bat in our rare book store. 🦇a thread 🦇

I am struggling to get newspapers to focus on my adult social care policy. So I’m going to take a risk and see if we can get twitter talking about it. Please engage. #rorywalks #askrory

Now Michael Gove is lecturing us about child poverty and opportunities for young people. He was literally the Secretary of State who slashed Sure Start, axed the EMA and wasted billons on free schools and academies leaving our schools with a funding crisis #C4Debate

Why is Johnson so desperate to crash out in October? To break the law, if it avoids seeking an extention on Art. 50? Because the anti-tax avoidance directive comes into force in January. theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/is…

Excuse the long thread, but I have looked carefully at the #BrexitDeal negotiated by Boris Johnson. Here is my analysis: 1/

This is amongst the most illogical thing I’ve ever seen. In order to prevent the spread of a virus you cram thousands of people into a confined space for 7 hours?

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I thought I’d explain what happened today because I’m absolutely exhausted and tbh I think a light needs to be shone on this. Especially given so many people like me seem to experience the same thing.

Feeling disgruntled. As a @PHE_uk employee, we had 5-10% annual budget cuts all 7 years we existed, constantly made to justify our very existence, show value for money, reams of paperwork+++ Now watching govt throwing millions at private companies to do Public Health work. Gross

Retweet if you would like to see Nigel Farage, Mark Francois and Jacob Rees-Mogg serving cups of tea and iced buns to the lorry drivers stuck in Kent #FarageGarage