Allan Massie

Author and journalist, and all too aware of advancing years, but still smoking.

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

"May warns Sturgeon against undermining Brexit" . Forza Nicola!

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

A yellow star perhaps? https://t.co/j0VHjNA5C6

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

Brexit News: English golfers shine in USA. Let down by Continentals & Northern Irish.

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

Tourists flocking to buy Leadsom hot air at £80 a bottle. Great export opportunity.
Once again: what a wonderful world!

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

And snow to the Inuits, furs to Siberia, rice grown in Norfolk to Indonesia. What a wonderful world! https://t.co/945b1OT5QG

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

In a sane world. https://t.co/NMl7wZYjK2

[Toby Harnden @tobyharnden]

We'll see, but this from @wpjenna reads like a Trump campaign obituary

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@dlknowles Les Braves Belges. That's where to start.

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@dlknowles In the 1950s Jack Gallagher couldn't get a G&T there. Gin?Yes. Tonic? Yes. Together? No. Or so he told me. Better now?

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

Revolutionary suggestion for ECB: a four-day county match every week from first of May through to fourth week in September.

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@MichaelPDeacon As Dorothy Parker put it, "at this point Constant Weader thwee up"

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@Slate @davidtorrance George II said if the dashing General Wolfe was mad, he hoped he would bite some of his other generals

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Today at Labour conference. Somehow, with each line, this just gets more and more insane. https://t.co/UtRpTqVu3w

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@chrisdeerin They were both fans of Lenin? Yes?

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

OttomanArchive @simonmontefiore. But the Patriarch looks a bit doubtful

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

The Putin Fan Club. My piece @takimag.com. Not much liked by commenters.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Farewell county cricket. English 20/20 cricket will now be organised on a "city" basis. A truly terrible, if also predictable, decision.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Gnawing suspicion that the ECB thinks that if you already like cricket you are part of the problem. They want to appeal to people who don't.

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

Read me - if you care to - on Death in https://t.co/P2iOHK7zIN

[Allan Massie @alainmas]

@JohnRentoul @JakubMarian Greece Italy Spain: low suicide rate owing to climate or Mediterranean diet or EU-imposed austerity?