Denise Jackson

Mediator

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for #RugbyLeague star #RobBurrow

Life will take six tackles: childhood’s open
field; the scrummage of youth; the day
you find your best position; victory and its
disguises; defeat that you cannot admit;
the hooter that never blows for such as you.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Out of hours plumber £80-£200/hr
Out of hours mechanic £80-£200/hr
Out of hours electrician £80-£200/hr

But Sunak thinks these junior doctors with £100k of debt deserve only £22/hr for extra locum shifts after working a 48 hour week paid at £13/hr.

No wonder they're striking.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An Otwituary for Bobby Charlton

When this world is too full
of goalhangers, how much
we cherish those who burst
from midfield with the ball,
a humble juggernaut; a touch,
SHOOT! Unlikely, unstoppable.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for journalist and broadcaster #GeorgeAlagiah

A familiar face checks into my motel
in another place I cannot pronounce.
Channels jostle - Fox, Bloomberg ,
CNN - and there you are, at ease
in an awkward moment, speaking
like sunshine in service of the world.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for Presenter and Comedian #PaulOGrady

I saw your act; kitsch trollop
shaking a vial of acid, voice
like an old Corporation bus,
yet hints of the queen beneath,
a sideboard stuffed with mercy,
a single lily in a cracked vase.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for Rugby player and campaigner #DoddieWeir

My name’s dauntless.
My name’s dig in and drive.
My name’s defence into attack,
defeat into victory, dark into light.
My name’s dogged. Dreadnought.
Die-hard. Dare. Defy. Dream.
My name’s deathless.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

“The King has asked me to become Prime Minister because this nonsense has gone on long enough.”

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

OK.
5 prime ministers in 6 years.
Serial chaos, serial lies & economic collapse.
Enough is enough.

RT if you want a general election NOW.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for #OliviaNewtonJohn

That final reel was my adolescence frozen,
a teen ache made physical. There was
no getting over you, only unripe emotion,
nothing but a guilty crush to admit to.
Oh, we boys and our hopeless devotions.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for #Seekers singer #JudithDurham

Somewhere
there is a fragile voice,
half-sunshine, half rain.
Somewhere
they are packing the sound
of a carnival into boxes.
Somewhere
there is a mourning town,
many miles away.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

#bbcqt Ordinary working class people often have only one option in a labour dispute where their livelihoods are threatened, and that is to withdraw that labour. Strikes are there to hasten a settlement, not to delay it. Up the workers.

[Stuart Maconie @StuartMaconie]

Starts campaign to have Royal Shakespeare Company relocated to Wigan #bbcqt

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for jockey #LesterPiggott

Your peers knew better the shape
of your backside than your face,
kept like a well-tended grave.

This was the long and short of it all;
a rustle of silks, the rumbling pall
of hooves, the going good, the fall.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for actor #PatriciaBrake

I am not worthy of you, my Venus
in fake furs, scripted and portrayed
as heir apparent to the throne of
Muswell Hill, bursting onto set and
out of it, bristling at lags and lechers,
all spit and spine beneath that sweater.

[Denise Jackson @drjackson1]

@simonmayo Yes.

[Otwituarist @Azjackson]

An #Otwituary for comic/scriptwriter, #BarryCryer

I trace the bones of comedy
up the years, all the way
from lost ghosts of variety
to now: not even one day
without your gag on the lips
of a legend, no theatre, screen
you had not lit with a script,
the joker of the wild routine.

[Denise Jackson @drjackson1]

@emjric @emjric were you a student there? I live in Tayport and work at university of Dundee.

[Denise Jackson @drjackson1]

@emjric Byre Theatre…

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

So Sajid Javid is predicting we’ll have a “normal” Christmas this year.

Is he - the actual health secretary - seriously suggesting that queues of 25+ ambulances outside A&Es (this one is Truro hospital last week) are “normal”?

[Parody Ken Clarke @MrKennethClarke]

Text from Marcus Rashford:

‘To be fair, I often get Gavin Williamson confused with Michael Crawford.’