Charlotte McCallum

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

On Bob Willis’ birthday, here’s a reminder of him being a legend 😂

[Alexander Verbeek 🌍 @Alex_Verbeek]

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The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting.

RT when it works for you.

[Charlotte McCallum @mccachar]

@bbctms

[Charlotte McCallum @mccachar]

@PickardJE This is excellent 👌

[Vithushan Ehantharajah @Vitu_E]

Mark Wood often holds Chris Woakes' hand during bumpy flights. He also brings chocolate digestive on tour in case Woakes feels homesick.

They car-shared during the 3rd #Ashes Test and then, on Sunday, Wood helped his mate get England over the line

⏯https://t.co/YazNt2BE8f

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🎾THREAD🎾
Have you ever wondered how they keep the courts at Wimbledon so pristine?
Much of it is the hard work of the groundspeople.
But there’s another secret ingredient too.
A mysterious crystal we dig out of the ground.
There’s literally ONE place in the world you can get it

[Richard R Clark 🇺🇦 @rclarkie]

So please RT and spread the word.
If you can manage a wee donation that would be amazing.
https://t.co/CNJGzGbPM9
He's just hit £8000 so to all you that have already donated you're totally brilliant humans.
You can follow him making #TheHopeBowl here -
https://t.co/6UqyI2VEy4

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

Paris: Has Macron lost control of the streets?

The French capital is still smouldering after intense rioting across the city this week. And there's more to come.

@lewis_goodall reports from the centre of the unrest and asks what this means for the future of French politics.

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

really important, timely analysis by @jburnmurdoch on the decline in teenagers' mental health

"the inflection point is ominously consistent: 2010 give or take a year or two — when smartphones went from luxury to ubiquity...."

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This line is so memorable for a reason.

It's a perfect use of "antimetabole" - the repetition of a phrase with its word order reversed.

Here are 8 more memorable rhetorical devices:

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: conservatives have a Millennials problem.

In both UK & US, it’s not just that Millennials aren’t voting conservative because they’re young.

Every previous generation grew more conservative with age, but Millennials are not playing ball.

My column: https://t.co/MyIKv5sZ4o

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Who is Santa Claus, why does he look like that, and where did he come from?

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

“Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.”

Christina Rossetti wrote the poem. Gustav Holst wrote the music.
I play In the Bleak Midwinter. Whether or not you’re celebrating Christmas today, have a good day. @BBCNews @BBCRadio3 #Christmas

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

If you last checked in on AI image makers a month ago & thought “that is a fun toy, but is far from useful…” Well, in just the last week or so two of the major AI systems updated.

You can now generate a solid image in one try. For example, “otter on a plane using wifi” 1st try:

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

You make tea exactly the same way every time, yet you never know if it’s going to be the best cup of tea you’ve ever had, the worst, or somewhere in between.

[Scott Barclay @BarclayCard18]

It's damn rare in sport to finish your career and your biggest rivals cry alongside you.

That's how big Roger Federer is to tennis.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🧵RISING INTEREST RATES ARE A BIGGER DEAL THAN YOU MIGHT THINK🧵
This is important (hence the caps).
I’m a bit worried people are being WAY too complacent about rising interest rates.
They assume that because they’re so low now vs the 1990s, this’ll be a walk in the park.
NO.

[Kent Spitfires @KentCricket]

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[Ali Martin @Cricket_Ali]

Interview: Ben Stokes opens up for the first time about the panic attacks that led to last summer’s break from cricket, the root causes and how he’s come out of the other side https://t.co/KpG0MmQJmR

[Charlotte McCallum @mccachar]

“The cricket format that’s one delivery shy of Cruella de Vil’s favourite number” @secondmentions #TheHundred