Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏

Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway University of London. Husband, Father, dog owner, etc. Quins and cricket fan. MND sufferer.

[Clive Davis @CliveDavisUK]

Dog cartoon of the year. By @asherperlman

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

From my Chilean son-in-law: Felix Covidad.

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

Wishing everyone a non-isolated Christmas and a negative test New Year.

Have a good one!

P.S. if my card has not arrived, don’t worry. I didn’t send any.

[Jim Salveson @Mr_Jimbob]

Binfluencer (bin·​flu·​enc·​er): The person on your street who always puts their wheelie bins out first on bin day and the rest of the neighbours follow.

I think I may have invented a new word.

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

Clearly doesn’t understand how difficult it can be to get your expenses reimbursed …..

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

Please remember that not everyone who won’t wear a mask is an “arsehole”. Some of us have very poor respiratory systems, and struggle for breath even without a mask on. Some of us can’t wear a mask.

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

I am convinced that back in the seventies I saw a band called Omicron Variant.

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

And he's off!!! 🎉 🏃‍♂️

Kevin Sinfield begins his HUGE 101 mile run in 24 hours for MND.

He's running from Leicester Tigers to Leeds Rhinos for his great mate Rob Burrow.
https://t.co/Dz2gfFz1eL

[Michael Booker @MickBooker]

Today, in an amazing victory for the Unite to End MND and the Sunday Express Fund the Fight to Cure MND campaigns, Boris Johnson has told us he’s given the go ahead for £50 million funding to research a cure for Motor Neurone Disease - like @DoddieWeir5 we are over the moon!

[Richard Frediani @BBCFrediani]

BREAKING: The Government pledges £50 million to MND research after high profile campaign by @mndassoc @Rob7Burrow @DoddieWeir5 @DarbyRimmerMND and many more

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

@BantshireUni
1. PhD students.
2. Lecturers.
3. Professors.

[Sarah Hamstera @SarahHamstera]

@BantshireUni
1. Academics at Open Day
2. Academics on social media
3. Academics teaching your course

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

One of the greatest play on words in the English language.

[DailyPlum @DailyPlum]

Jeeves, in speaking of this Fink-Nottle, had, if you remember, described him as disgruntled, and it was plain at a glance that the passage of time had done nothing to gruntle him.
-The Mating Season

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

We have a cute dog. This look means “when’s dinner”.

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

#AzeemRafiq Unfortunately racial and homophobic “banter” is endemic at club level. Older club members often set a poor example.

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

Internet down in our area. We’re OK, but Openreach have had to dig a hole in front of our drive. They’ve been working on it for four days. @WeAreOpenreach

This suggests an interesting dilemma. Would you rather be with:

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Again this narrative that ignores their culpability - the Chancellor talks about 'levelling up public services' - it was the Tories who chose to decimate them, let inequality grow, child poverty spiral and foodbanks proliferate- where have you been for last 11 years @RishiSunak?

[Bob O'Keefe 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇸🏏 @ProfBobOKeefe]

Corect me if I’m wrong, but all the budget is doing is restoring funding in key areas (health, education) to 2010 levels. As if we haven’t had a Tory government for 11 years? We are erasing the wasted Cameron/Osborne years.

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

Procrastination