Richard Swetenham

Retired European Commission official

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

Readers of @DalrympleWill's Begums, Thugs and Englishmen (or White Mughals), his edited version of Fanny Parkes' Wanderings of a Pilgrim, may remember that Fanny spent the summer of 1838 in Landour / Mussoorie.

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

@RoryStewartUK @ChatGPTapp This is ChatGPT's comment: That’s interesting! Rory Stewart is known for his thoughtful and in-depth analysis on a variety of subjects. If he mentioned this in the context of dictation or language processing software, it’s quite a compliment.

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

@wallaceme Given the r in Gilbert, the surname is Lord

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@NaturesShotz My guess is Sisikon or nearby on the Eastern leg of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee)

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A companion page https://t.co/j8MfI9Y6aD links to a section https://t.co/Lu3AnRlWRj which deals with Fanny Parkes in a larger booklet.

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

Readers of @DalrympleWill's Begums, Thugs and Englishmen (or White Mughals), his edited version of Fanny Parkes' Wanderings of a Pilgrim, may remember that Fanny spent the summer of 1838 in Landour / Mussoorie.

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

While she was there, she helped her cousin Edmund Swetenham by supervising construction of his house at Cloud End. Mussoorie has celebrated its bicentenary and his family was represented. https://t.co/2dPUYvPZef

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

In vogue Franglais words in the francosphere:

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Think tank, pronounced sink tonk

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

French royal expert on LCI French news channel says that her late Majesty is lying in state in the Albert Hall.

[Alexander Horne @AlexanderHorne1]

Having done so, I would note that the excellent @JoshuaRozenberg has produced a good summary of the main issues, which I won’t repeat here: https://t.co/HDb2IY5hPH
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I would also note that @ProfMarkElliott has published a well informed and detailed blog which covers many of the points that I would have made about Article IX of the Bill of Rights and parliamentary privilege. /3
https://t.co/VfwD91krLy

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@carlgardner Wouldn’t that be the House of Lords Library ?

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@JohnRentoul Eden seems overrated …

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Among the “benefits” of Brexit is the requirement if travelling by ferry to submit passport information for all passengers in advance of travel from and to the UK 24 hours before your sailing.

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@xruiztru @diego_bxl Are you sure about Belarus ? Looks like more than 9 million.

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I must admit that I had to look up the expression “them’s the breaks” used by Boris Johnson when announcing his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.

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@davidallengreen I think his Lordship could avoid dictating the punctuation (brackets, dot dot dot)

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@CarolineLucas @coolkiddo This Tory mini-Minister’s command of economics is masterful “if there is more demand, them you would expect prices to go down”

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@TulipSiddiq @SophiaSleigh He could at least have ironed his shirt ..

[Richard Swetenham @R_Swetenham]

@Tobias_Ellwood I may be a bit thick, or it may be my long absence from British shores (when I left, the Leader of the Opposition was called Margaret Thatcher). What does “it’s time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid” mean ?