Mike Draper

Retired academic with an interest in political argument. A Citizen's rights.

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Listening to @bbcr4 ‘THE REUNION’ radio four about SPITTING IMAGE. I haven’t laughed so much since ………!

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Something really interesting on twitter!

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

17 Equations that changed the world. 🧠

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

@rafaelbehr PRECISELY! But then precision is the nub of all the misunderstandings of migration since when?

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

I cannot get used to CONDENSATION ON THE OUTSIDE OF MY WINDOWS on these mornings!

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

@paulmasonnews Agreed. I suspect it’s part terrible scripting by programme editor OR/ AND inability by interviewers to deviate from their rehearsed SCRIPT. That’s the attraction of free wheeling it on podcasts?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Graham Norton responds to the idea of Boris Johnson returning as PM.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Conservative MPs, this is what you’d be voting for

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

🇬🇧 UK Prime Minister recruitment ad.

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Does make you think ‘what’s in a name’. Why not just push everybody one rung up the ladder? We might then have Monarch, President, Prime Minister, Chairman, CEO, First Secretary to ……! At least a new board game.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Jeremy Hunt is coming out of this Today programme interview sounding like he’s the PM, not Liz Truss

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

SO, we’ve had a minor forum of Party members choose a minor political figure leading a pool of remaining weak ‘talent’ to govern a hitherto relatively stable political and economic state. Not to be overstated of course. WTF?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

And this from the Daily Telegraph cartoonist….

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Great!

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Public service broadcasting.

[Mark Steel @mrmarksteel]

The left that is sick of the government now seems to include Jamie Oliver, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the BBC's financial expert, most Conservative MPs, Match of the Day, taxi drivers, the banks and the King. We'll move on to animals next, and then to items of furniture.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Public service broadcasting.

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Reading @KenFollettSpain ‘Never’. Not finished yet so don’t know ending but feel I’m in a parallel universe looking at news front pages and my fiction. Wonder how it will all progress. Following what looks like tit for tat realpolitik in Ukraine.

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

@paulmasonnews TIG ? Meaning?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Oh dear……

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

and look at poodles applauding on cue. Not a good look.

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

*and when I say side of immoral, I really mean edging, probably most definitely, on the side of fascism. And I do not say that lightly. Nor am I just throwing it out around without meaning. I’m using it as the way it’s definitely. She is so close to being a defined fascist.

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

@JJHTweets Yes, agreed. In the eyes of my generation it tells you how powerful the original iconography was?

[Mike Draper @MikeWDraper]

Me thinks we are relying on the wrong sources for analysis of this Truss car crash. PSYCHOANALYSIS might be better than the political and economic tools being used. We have novices elevated to positions of power massaging each other’s egos operating in their own fantasy ‘reality’