Marcus Potter 💙

Travel Specialist | Pluralist | Liberal Centrist Dad | Historian | Vizsla Owner | Indiaphile 🇪🇺🇬🇧 🇮🇳🇳🇵

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

Fun fact: Jude Bellingham was born in the same hospital as Ronnie ‘The Rocket’ O’Sullivan — Wordsley Hospital, Stourbridge. Not a bad maternity ward. #WorldCup

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

Penguins can’t fly.

Nobody told Penny. 🐧✈️

Our picture book — dreamed up on the school run by my 5-year-old and me — is out TODAY on Kindle. Paperback Friday.

From a pencil drawing on the kitchen floor to this. 👇

https://t.co/cE5zaRY7Oz

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

It’s very obvious what Nigel Farage is doing with the murder of Ann Widdecombe.

He wants to shut down scrutiny of himself and his fellow Reform politicians by claiming that holding any of them to account threatens their personal safety.

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

Another day, another book. This was an idea of Cara’s, developed over many a cycle ride to school. Her drawings plugged into AI to realise her imagination. A story of adventure and never giving up. #newbooks #childrensbook #girlpower

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@Fendweller @ZoeJardiniere @FraserNelson @stluedke Farage is a member of the East India Club which is where to join when you can’t get into the Garrick but are still desperate to be in an old established club.

[The Kathmandu Post @kathmandupost]

BOOK REVIEW: The war that almost changed Nepal’s history

Marcus Potter’s ‘Crisis on the Northern Frontier’ uncovers the forgotten years when the British nearly launched a second invasion of Nepal—and why it never happened.

https://t.co/1MGPlzVQN7 —by Rivash Rijal

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

@Alexarmstrong @rorybroomfield I was a county cricket bowler at Under 14, I couldn’t even land it on the wicket these days.

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@amish973 I’ve just released a short vignette on the EIC and Nepal 1837-46. DM me and I’ll send you an EPUB. https://t.co/zt7xkVU0bp

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

I’ve just released a short vignette on the EIC and Nepal 1837-46 @pratyoushonta. DM me and I’ll send you an EPUB. https://t.co/zt7xkVU0bp

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

Delighted to finally have this in print, something which I started work on in 2003: the East India Company and Nepal 1837-1846. #eastindiacompany #history #nepal #india #HistoryMatters

https://t.co/Q8UM2oChkF

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@jameswoudhuysen Not so, Fraser is increasingly the rational voice in an ever increasingly irrational world. It was a great article.

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@FraserNelson Spot on as always @FraserNelson, although even with the best data, there will always be some who will throw it back with emotion.

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@gideonrachman Very true, and it will be most telling when we have the next election.

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@cathynewman @Keir_Starmer @elonmusk That’s awful Cathy, but don’t let them silence you.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Supermac attended one of Pratt's, Athenaeum, Buck's, Guards, the Beefsteak, the Turf, Carlton almost daily. A member of Pratt's calling in there one evening in the 1960s inquired whether there was anyone in that night: "Nobody at all, sir, only the Prime Minister"

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

This is a good piece about how Brexit has cost the UK its growth advantage compared to most of our European peers.

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

@MichaelOwers1 @JAHeale Oh, that’s a given!

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@MichaelOwers1 @JAHeale He was a member of the Beefsteak and Whites.

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@MichaelOwers1 @JAHeale Boothby wasn’t, but am sure the Savile’s liberal and artistic spirit might have been too much for his politics. That said, his father gave up membership when he was a toddler.

[Marcus Potter 💙 @Marcuspotter]

@JAHeale His great uncle was a founding member of the Savile, along with quite a few other family members, possibly his father too. I always wondered why Supermac didn’t join as well.