Andy

Cricket, chess and investing stuff. There may be cats.

Ignores opinions espoused by anonymous accounts.

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

T S Eliot (apparently).

Somehow seems especially pertinent right now.

[TVP Berkshire West @TVP_BerksWest]

🚨We are appealing for witnesses to a knifepoint robbery in Reading.

🕛 At around 2.30pm, Saturday 6 June
📍 Stories In The Park in Palmer Park, Wokingham Road

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[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Today’s @independent front page

Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

@CasinoCapital Government would float some business that had been in public ownership. It was priced to sell, so you bought as many as possible and sell straightaway - it was known as "stagging". My broker set up a fund to save the punters the admin - tiresome in those days

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Surprise!

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

@John_Stepek You're half right

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

Wow!

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This should be a wake-up call for the UK…

(Note that this is a per-capita chart)

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

I'm warming to this politician

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is bullshit.

What I ACTUALLY said is we "cannot have another left-wing government. But I'm afraid that Reform has quite a lot of left-wing ideas. They want more benefits. They want nationalisation”
I then said.
On "deals, non-aggression pacts and so on....I'm just saying no. It's just no, no, no, no, no, no, no."

[Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70]

John Healey shadowed me for over 4 years. While i didn’t agree with everything he did i know he tried his best and had the interests of the Armed Forces at his heart. i know he loved the job and it will have not been easy to resign. His loyalty to his Party and PM was not reciprocated by them when it mattered and i think he was left with no choice. i wish him the very best. His resignation was one of principle.

[Jaideep Unudurti @Unudurti]

@AndyHeard2 What about pieces of paper to each other?
https://t.co/fdvUtKWSSO

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The gorilla-philosopher has become an internet star

A 13-year-old male gorilla named Kiyomasa from a Japanese zoo, after quarreling with his partner, went to the corner of the enclosure, sat in the classic pose of Rodin’s “The Thinker,” and immersed himself in deep thoughts.

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

@Unudurti 😜They don't seem to write humour as good as that these days.

[Andy @AndyHeard2]

A country that thinks selling houses to each other is the path to prosperity has very little going for it.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

I don't think it is.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Rupert Lowe, a 68 year old, privately educated, former investment banker, backed by the world's richest man, is trying to convince you he's not the establishment.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Almost like Farage and Boris Johnson lied to us....

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Something isn’t right in our police service.

To fix the problem, we have to first accept that there is one.

[GaryLanechess @garylanechess]

My friend Jimmy Adams (1947-6 June 2026) has died. He had been ill for a while. In recent times he had been writing historic chess books . His latest one is out soon and he recently received an advance copy and he was pleased how it looked. A top guy. #chess

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Murder rates
Ohio: ~50 murders per million people
United States: ~59 murders per million
England & Wales: ~8.6 murders per million
Physician heal thyself.
Motes and planks.

[Prof Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

New: Russia has been blowing things up and killing people in Europe for at least a decade and a half. Stop fearing an escalation that’s already happened and acknowledge what Russian officials themselves now say quite openly: it’s war. https://t.co/7Ofd6HI3ON