Mark Patterson

Journalist, cyclist, LD walker, noted lover, author Roman Nottinghamshire, Roman Derbyshire, Pedestrianism articles

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@WhiteHouse @VP Could have been worse; Elon Musk could have joined in the bullying

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Two euros at Shakespeare & Co in Paris today. Wondering how the French translation, by Stephen Spriel, Clarisse Francillon 'et le auteur' copes with the intricacies. Good cover @malcolmlowry #underthevolcano #french #translation #englishlit #20thcenturyclassic #folio

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

I've been tramping #Dere Street Roman road for years but filled in some gaps today on the route Willington - Esh Winning, Co Durham. Here the wall follows the road heading north & downhill before turning NW towards #Longovicium fort near #Lanchester
#romanroads @Roman_Britain

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@elonmusk I first read this as 'fucking Etonians', which made perfect sense

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@GeorgeMonbiot What does @elonmusk think a twerp is?

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Dey a problum wit a di BBC today @BBCNews #piginenglish #pigeonenglish #patois #BBCBreaking #bbconline #ukprotest #UKRiots #ukfights #Rotherhamriots #southportattack #HolidayInn

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

3am. Candidates examining spoiled ballot papers in the #Harborough #Oadby & #Wigston general election count #ITN #GeneralElection2024

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Nearly 51,600 people voted in #Harborough #Oadby & #Wigston today. That's a 65.64% turnout. Low voter turnout was predicted in this year's GE, continuing a trend since 1997 when the national turnout was 71.4% #ITN #GeneralElection2024
#leicestershire

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Anybody thinking this would be a night of minimal drama should think again as the exit poll forecast for the #Harborough, #Oadby & #Wigston seat puts the final count at a slim 51% Tory/49 % Labour #ITN #GeneralElection2024 #leicestershire

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

If you're a voter in #Harborough #Oadby and #Wigston #Leicestershire, you might like to know that the last ballot box has been delivered to the counting teams. I'm covering this for #ITN #GeneralElection2024

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@nxcare normally I favour humans over machines but not at NEx #Broadmarsh #Nottingham this week where no counter staff knew what a Flexi ticket was and the supervisor who insisted on taking over the booking at the ticket machine got me a £39 ticket for the wrong date. A mess.

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@MarkUrban01 @BBCNewsnight Speaking as an ex reporter - of course journalists and politicians value it, but more don't. Most people find engaging with serious news depressing and stressful so they want fluff. Most under25s don't watch TV news anyway. And Newsnighf is on late so needs dedicated audience.

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@ThanatosArchive The 'hand of Fatima' found all over southern France

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@claudius_appius @rogueclassicist @TheRomanSoc @Roman_Britain @RomanRoadsRA @Classical_Assoc @UoNClassics A one way hike, that one

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Classicists, please help me find examples of individual long walks and epic marches in the ancient world. Just a name or book ref will do. For book research. Thanks @TheRomanSoc @Roman_Britain @RomanRoadsRA #xenophon #alexanderthegreat #Hannibal @Classical_Assoc @UoNClassics

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@DalrympleWill I've never liked #piersmorgan but have to say I agree; he has given considerable airtime to people speaking for the Palestinian cause including some who have been openly hostile to him. He's become the only reason to watch the otherwise dreadful @TalkTV

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

Excellent @BBCWorld interview with @dpatrikarakos of @unherd about watching Hamas' footage of their massacre of Israelis on Oct 7. Folks asking why IDF won't release footage to the world but (knowing even this will be doubted) they've made each journo who saw it into a witness

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@afneil Is there not drone or satellite imagery of the site showing whether the hospital is standing? Hamas immediately claimed that hundreds of people were buried by the 'rubble' implying that the hospital was destroyed. Is it, or not?

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@KingBobIIV @AyoCaesar 1)Israel should ask Egypt to open its border. 2)Gaza civilians who want to leave can live in temp camps in Egypt run and paid by the UN.
3) IDF, as US did in Fallujah, states anybody who remains in Gaza is a combatant.
4) IDF enters Gaza, kills/captures Hamas
5) Gazans return

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@JonRonnquist @DalrympleWill @jimwyman5 When I was a budding hack I thought Pilger's A Secret Country was the kind of in-depth journalism I wanted to write. When I came back to look at him late he'd fallen into the lunatic left conspiracy rabbit hole

[Mark Patterson @greenbelt67]

@DalrympleWill @jimwyman5 Recommendations by Chomsky and Pilger suggest that neither of these books take a balanced approach