Iain Brotchie

[Tony Yates @t0nyyates]

This is how I see what one has to plan sleep around

[Sean Kemp @Sean_Kemp]

It was sadly inevitable that the pressure on Ed Davey to come up with a new stunt a day would eventually lead to him doing something like this

[Marc Morris @Longshanks1307]

English leader's ill-advised trip to Normandy has disastrous political consequences.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@jayforeman Historically liberalism prospered in poorer fringe areas of Great Britain that were not Church of Scotland or Church of England, where land ownership was contentious and yet which were too rural for formation of an industrial working class and attendent trade unions.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@natalie_coupar Lovely news! Wish you both all the best.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@almurray Surely it came from a member of the Tartan Army watching the Scotland football team…

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@dcsandbrook Probably an admirer of Virginia Woolf

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

I demand a second breakfast!

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

Alternate ending to LOTR where Frodo decides to keep the ring.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

Sad to learn that Sinead O’Connor died.
Amazed to see that the Guardian thinks Seamus Heaney is tweeting about it…

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@HeleneBismarck Have been saving Birnam Wood by Eleanor Carron for summer, so while I cant recommend it I am excited that it’s just two weeks until I get to start it! Also Anne Heberleon’s biog of Arendt: On Love and Tyranny

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@AISafetyMemes @stats_feed Iains Assemble!

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@deeplyclassical @alpha_classics Fantastic! Great recommendation thanks. Especially the Veracini concerto.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

Using expat status to vote for the UK entry! ‘Mon the Brits! #Eurovision

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@simonmontefiore They’re basically feeling their way toward NATO

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

Exciting times living in Paris

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@ChristiCorvus Would be interested to see a map of Scotland with more English than Welsh be more Welsh than English, and a similar map of Wales.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@SteveMartinToGo Did she have to bake her own cake?

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@richardmeade13 Bond, of course.

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

For #WorldBookDay my kids are now too big for fancy dress (hooray!) but here’s what I’m reading at today. Reading is for life 👍

[Iain Brotchie @BrotchieIain]

@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory Really enjoyed the Columbus epic and the reading recommendations. I also suggest @LaurentBinetH excellent counter factual novel Civilisations, which sees Columbus trumped by Viking-enhanced natives and the Inca’s heading east!