Ben West

Pappa and proud. Sprinklings of media (my career), music (passion), political opinion (hobby)...

[Widmerpool Appreciation Society @AtticumFloreat]

The England squad's World Cup photo, taken by David Yarrow, is quite something.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

The Norwegian squad's World Cup photo, taken by David Yarrow, is quite something

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I think they blackballed me because of this.

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

A lovely Bank Holiday read on how the 15" guns outside @I_W_M got there - having had some involvement in the Museum's governance it's eye opening to see how much bureaucracy had to be conquered to being that vision to reality

[The Force Majeure Groyper @ProgDirectorate]

London can never win a skyline-off with New York on its own. The only effective retaliation is stuff like this

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

How it started How it’s going

[Nicholas O'Shaughnessy @NicholasOShaug1]

77 British generals were killed in World War I. The last, a Major General and alumnus of my old school, was killed four weeks before the armistice.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The longest line of sight in the U.K. has been seen only a few times, and photographed once. In 2015, Kris Williams was atop Snowdon in perfect conditions and managed to snap The Merrick in Southern Scotland. A remarkable distance of 232km (144 miles).

[England @England]

Come Together.

[Adam McKola @AdamMcKola]

0/20. Well done boys, good process.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Sir Laurence Olivier reciting Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is very much an understated masterclass in performance poetry. (Absolute goosebumps.)

[Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe]

This literally is an episode of the Thick of It

[Andy Heaton @Andrew_Heaton]

OH MY GOOD GOD

THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE

[Ian Leslie @mrianleslie]

Peak civilisation https://t.co/r640rnNnOw

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

excellent and important post