Andrew Permain

The Nurodieverse Geordie now living in Kettering. Leicester Tigers fan. MA Museum Studies & BA History from the University of Leicester. Historical Reanactor.

[Matt Gallagher @MattP1Gallagher]

Leclerc causing a red flag to help Hamilton beat Antonelli into T1

What a driver

[Matt Gallagher @MattP1Gallagher]

Oh my fucking god

[Silverstone @SilverstoneUK]

“Don’t push me mate, I’m nearly famous”

Martin, you dropped this 👑

#MonacoGP

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

[Tom Sharpe @TomSharpe134]

🚨BREAKING

List of people fully signed up to the latest version of the Iran deal:

You and me, Darling, obviously
Field Marshal Haig
Field Marshal Haig's wife
All Field Marshal Haig's wife's friends
Their families
Their families' servants
Their families' servants' tennis partners
And some chap I bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard

[F1 TROLL @f1trollofficial]

Spicy battle

[Aamir @AamirAR_]

Shoutout the staff on @easyJet flight 8746 into Gatwick last night. I asked if there was any way I could find out the City result during the flight and they came through. CHAMPIONS 🏆❤️

[Francis @FrancisChipp]

@Charles_Root @Arsenal Alcohol would make a dinosaur extremely unwell you fool.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

[John Nichol ✈ @JohnNicholRAF]

Re-x comp!
Only a week to go until, "BLITZ: When WW2 Came Home" is published.
Fancy a signed copy? RT for chance to win.
OR... the lovely folk @ColesBooks are taking orders for signed AND dedicated copies. Link in next post.

[Leicester Museums & Galleries @leicestermuseum]

5000/1 champions – a decade ago today @LCFC lifted the Premier League trophy 🏆

Our Fearless Foxes exhibition that heady summer, co-curated with @lcfchistorian, celebrated the clubs success and also how #Leicester as a whole embraced this amazing journey.

[North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib]

Seeing my mug on the timeline, not posted by me, just gave me whiplash https://t.co/RhNCI7bLAn

[HMNB Devonport @HMNBDevonport]

💥 This is the moment a 250kg World War Two munition was safely detonated by our #RoyalNavy and #Army bomb disposal experts in Southway, Plymouth.

The Royal Navy team from Bravo Squadron is now getting some rest, but the duty watch is ready for the next task. #AlwaysReady

[Francis @FrancisChipp]

MATFEN HALL EXCLUSIVE🚨: Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe had the rare roast beef sandwich while Jason Tindall opted for the fillet steak ciabatta.

It's understood the managerial duo also shared a charcuterie board less than two hours later.

More to follow.

[James May @MrJamesMay]

I’m sure we have all now seen the footage of Metropolitan rozzers kicking a suspected terrorist in the head, repeatedly, when he was down.

We can all play a part in putting an end to this sort of police brutality. Mainly by not going around stabbing people.

[James Vowles @JV_F1]

I am so happy to share that I will be returning to Goodwood Festival of Speed this year alongside Damon, Luke and Jamie.

Goodwood is an incredibly special event that showcases the best of British motorsport, and it’s an honour to be taking on the hillclimb again.

To see Damon reunited with the FW18 as we mark 30 years since his World Drivers’ Championship is hugely meaningful for the team and for motorsport fans. Moments like these bring together our past, present and future, and that’s something we’re proud to celebrate.

[Dan Jackson @northumbriana]

The proofs are in! One last chance to spot any howlers - and I’m grateful to @tfalex1892 for spotting a few already - before it’s unleashed on the fanbase 🫣

[RAF_Luton @RAF_Luton]

Photo of the Day: Canberra PR9 from 39Sqn taking off from RAF Marham (Norfolk) on the 21st May 2002 using a Nikon D1 and a 70-200 f2.8 lens (125th/sec at f8)

Photographed by RAF Photographer

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The numbers 978 and 979 are only used on barcodes for books. They identify them as belonging to a fictitious country called ‘Bookland’.

[dan barker @danbarker]

Weird trivia: KitKats are named after a mutton pie, invented by a man called Chris, not far from Fleet Street.

Rowntree trademarked the names 'Kit Cat' and 'Kit Kat' in 1911, a couple of years after competitor Maynards release Wine Gums, which competed with Rowntree's own 'Fruit Gums'.

(side trivia: when Wine Gums were first released they were marketed literally as an alternative to wine. Both Maynards and Rowntree weren't keen on people drinking, and Rowntree themselves had a line of hot chocolate called 'Elect' that was marketed as an alternative to beer).

Anyway... until that point, Rowntree had relied largely on just having category name products (hence 'fruit gums', 'fruit pastilles' being such generic names), but started picking up trademarks.

They registered 'Kit Kat' and 'Kit Cat' in 1911, and first used the name 'KitKat' about 10 years later, initially as a short-lived chocolate selection box. They were still not really focused on brands but, a few years later, they hired J Walter Thompson to conduct market research on consumer needs, which resulted in pushing much more into them: Black Magic, Aero, Smarties, Polo were all developed in the years to come.

And... in the middle of that, in 1935, they wanted to launch what they referred to as a "chocolate bar that a man could take to work in his pack up" (a suggestion from a staff feedback initiative). They developed this product and referred to it initially as the 'Chocolate Crisp'. Having moved from generic categories on other products to brand names, they sought something better: At the time, Rowntree had a 'Company Psychologist' called Nigel Balchin, who was responsible for the 'Black Magic' brand. It seems that he noticed they had these old trademarks on the books for 'Kit Cat' and 'Kit Kat', and swapped the clumsy 'Chocolate Crisp' for 'Kit Kat'. The rest is history, and they now sell 5 billion of them a year: chocolate bars that a man (or woman) can take to work in their pack up.

Returning to the pies: The original Kit Kat Club (not to be confused with the Berlin nightclub, or Cabaret destination), from where the inspiration for first trademarking the KitKat name came, was an 18 century literary and political club, with members including the UK's first de facto prime minister Robert Walpole.

In later years the Kit Kat Club met on The Strand, at what is now the newly reopened Simpsons in the Strand. But originally they met in a tavern on Shire Lane (now part of the Royal Courts of Justice). That original tavern was run by a piemaker called Christopher Catling (referred to in a note at the time as 'a Pudding Pye man').

Some readers will know that 'Kit' is a nickname for people called Christopher (eg. Kit Harington is actually called Christopher), and therefore Chris Catling - the pie man - was colloquially known as Kit Cat, and his mutton pies were sold as Kit Cats. As a result of the literary club meeting at his shop, they called themselves 'the Kit Kat Club', and 'Kit Kat' became a way more famous name than a local pie shop may ordinarily achieve.

Therefore, through a series of odd disjointed steps, and a prime minister, and company psychologist, and temperance promoters, KitKats are named after mutton pies, created by a 'pudding pye man' called Chris.