Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦

Diary Editor and History Correspondent of @TheTimes. Political gossip, historical discoveries, variable jokes - [email protected]

[Peter Just @exPremiers]

👏🏻 Great to see @HackBlackburn highlight today's contribution by Rishi Sunak.

🚨 He's already in the top half of ex-PMs since 1955 in terms of parliamentary interventions, with over 50 in just over 2 years.

🧮 64% of them have been about his constituency.

[Scott McCrea Adventures @ScottMcCreaWest]

Here's the picture of the day: Angela Lansbury eating a hamburger at lunch with Basil Rathbone. My day is complete.

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@SlickOG Considerably better than his former opposite number, not to mention the former chancellor who joked about taxing him more for a private jet to California who has not been seen since July

But there is lots of evidence of Sunak doing constituency work

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Despite having more ex-PMs than ever, only one of them is in the Commons

They said Rishi Sunak would be straight off to California

Today he asked a question about parking at a local railway station

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@b_judah Loving this commitment to keeping me
In copy

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@alexmassie @Athersmike Beautiful

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Great line from @Athersmike today:
"Can there ever be a better time to be in this beautiful country than when Australian cricket is tearing itself apart? The answer, obviously, is no."

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

This is pleasing to hear. Enormous credit to @holland_tom, whose idea it was to commemorate #Æthelstan's achievement; and to @alexburghart @MichaelWoodMV @DavidWoodman45 @HackBlackburn @kateferguson4 @MaximColch inter alia for magnifying the mission.
#Athelstan #England1100

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

Booooooom

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Can’t have been many orders of service like this one for Rod Liddle

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Huzzah!

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@kateferguson4 @holland_tom @alexburghart @NeilDotObrien Not to mention the power of Fleet Street journalism!

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@HugoGye @lisanandy @Steph_Peacock @Rebecca_SPaul @holland_tom @NeilDotObrien Thank you!

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

🚨 Breaking Athelstan News 🚨

Culture Sec @lisanandy has asked ceremonials minister @Steph_Peacock to organise a “fitting commemoration” for England’s 1,100 birthday

Tory @Rebecca_SPaul suggested “commemorative coins, stamps, special lessons in schools, Athelstan on Trafalgar Square’s 4th Plinth”

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

The campaign to mark England's 1,100th birthday reaches the Times Diary

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

@norcrosscricket Thems the fools in charge

[Jesse Norman @Jesse_Norman]

"A night of Bacon and Coke." My play of THE WINDING STAIR amusingly picked up by @HackBlackburn for @thetimes today!