Jake Humbles

Notary public ✍️, 109th Esquire Bedell @Cambridge_Uni 🎓, partner & no.1 fan of composer @sarah_cattley 🎶. Commenting in purely personal capacity

[The Peter Tranchell Foundation @TranchellFndn]

The excellent Ferrabosco Singers are the visiting choir at St. David's Cathedral next week, and will include some Tranchell psalm chants on Thursday 8th and the marvelous Psalm 121 setting as the anthem on Friday 9th @StDavidsCChoir @jhumbles

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Architectural prizes shouldn't be awarded till 10 years after buildings open - then ask folk who use, maintain & operate it how successful it is. I work in a shiny building that won prizes 10 yrs ago & it's a maintenance nightmare with no storage that costs fortune to run

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

This has the potential to be an absolutely incredible appointment.

I need to sit down.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I have many criticisms of Sunak and the Conservatives but we should all reflect that they have shown no hesitation in accepting the will of the people nor any hint of questioning its legitimacy. Citizens of other nations look on enviously.

[Victoria Coren Mitchell @VictoriaCoren]

I do wish the BBC would stop calling the prime minister’s wife “Lady Victoria”. That’s not the form. She’s just Victoria, or “Lady Starmer”. He got a knighthood from his job, he wasn’t born an aristocrat, which seems quite an important distinction for a Labour leader.

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Respect to Jeremy Hunt, who held his seat (just) but is out as Chancellor: this is a decent speech

[Benjamin Carter @revbcarter]

There is something paradoxically satisfying about the UK general election being on July 4th and the US presidential election being on November 5th.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Amazing scenes

[Jake Humbles @jhumbles]

@greateranglia Absolutely appalling treatment of passengers on 2H48 LST-CBG today. Most stops cancelled without announcement, taken all the way to CBG without even being told, no help on arrival there. Had bad days on trains before but never treated so poorly. Heads should roll🤬

[Karen Ottewell @Ottewell]

Cambridge Macebearers - @Loobyloot & @jhumbles before Honorary Degrees today! 🎓🎓🥂🩵

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I don't know who Milo is talking about here, but since he has expressed pride in British culture, here are the ways in which his outfit violates British traditions. 🧵

[YA BOY NOAM CHOMSKY @YABOYCHOMSKY]

pet peeve: when someone finds a pattern that holds for english, spanish, and one other Indo-European language and they think they’ve discovered the holy grail of linguistic universals

[Jake Humbles @jhumbles]

Jesus, who’d be a politician. Absolutely relentless personal attacks, all for a timetabling decision for which he has clearly apologised and which he almost certainly didn’t make himself anyway. I don’t agree with this man politically, but really feel for him here.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Tense.

Do watch in full

[Corpus Christi @CorpusCambridge]

Timeless scenes here at Corpus.

[Karen Ottewell @Ottewell]

Esquire Bedells at Rest 😝 - @jhumbles

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

[Karen Ottewell @Ottewell]

Reception after the King’s Sermon - the Macebearers @jhumbles & @Loobyloot with the Preacher, Mr Al Gore @algore

[Elizabethan Music @ALoverOfMusicke]

4/ a CD of 17thC music from@Peterhouse_Cam by @PeterhouseChoir and @sjjackson32:
https://t.co/gqzd5dyCns

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

@LouHaigh Third option: