Mark Minto

Software engineering leader. Occasional filmmaker. Travel enthusiast. Beer geek. Radio & TV anorak.

[Guardian culture @guardianculture]

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter https://t.co/ThFlYrciMc

[Mark Minto @markminto]

I’m recognised in a few licensed premises around the country, but only two where they remember what I usually order: the bar at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, and the Bird & Signet at Glasgow Airport.

[Matt Deegan @matt]

Today's anniversaries. 75 years of Bruce Springsteen, 50 years of Ceefax and 25 years of the West Wing.

[Nae Pasaran! - Now On Demand @NaePasaran]

The great Bob Fulton has passed away this week at the age of 101. I only got to know him during the last decade of his life, and those years alone could fill up the pages of a wonderfully surreal biography. Bob was larger than life. 1/

[Mark Minto @markminto]

Hearing the Oasis reunion tour might not need to happen after all, since yesterday’s PRS cheque has arrived.

[Fake Showbiz News @FakeShowbizNews]

ITV confirms ‘Take Me Out’ will return in October with Paddy McGuinness replaced by comedian Stewart Lee

[Mark Minto @markminto]

How the mighty have fallen. Great pub when I lived down there.

[pub_queues @QueuesPub]

The Green Dragon, Cambridge

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

“Right, whose round is it?”

Translation: We all know whose round it is and it's not mine.

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Watching something or other at the Olympics - seems to be Junior Kickstart but with horses.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition - they were legally obliged to give 30 days notice.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

That's an excellent deal.

[Mark Minto @markminto]

So now the Deputy Prime Minister is younger than me.

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So now the Prime Minister is younger than me.

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So now the former Prime Minister is younger than me.

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@VictoriaCoren They could stop describing the ministerial car - which is fairly clearly an Audi - as a Jaguar while they're on.

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.@QueuesPub West, Glasgow

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

I, a random, member of the public not standing in the election, am challenging all party leaders to a debate on the best episode of Columbo. If they don't take me up on it I know they are not serious about my vote

[Mark Minto @markminto]

Theorem: There is nobody currently working in government who is old enough (and/or curious enough) to have watched Yes Minister.

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

Yes Minister on bringing back national service

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Ruining his suit as well.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

Rishi dishing out this speech in the pouring rain as “Things Can Only Get Better” is played loudly.

Is this an episode of the Thick of It

[Fake Showbiz News @FakeShowbizNews]

Max Verstappen dedicates his victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to late ‘Supergran’ actress Gudrun Ure.

“I like to think I also have more bottle than United Dairies!” he smiled

[Mark Minto @markminto]

“She chose the name Raiven because her family breeds falcons.” That’s the second time this week I’ve heard that stated as if it made any sense and it still doesn’t. #eurovision2024