Patrick Kidd

Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: Also churchwarden at @asblackheath

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@Nixon_Gill Sunday and Monday if it goes that far, which the weather suggests it will

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@rcolvile Zak Crawley’s first-class batting average and the number of Tests he played. Perfectly explains the nation’s productivity crisis in which perception of potential doesn’t match evidence, while modern politics is similarly influenced by the “who else is there” excuse

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@jimmy_wizzle And thank you! Really appreciate your comment

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@jimmy_wizzle That’s my job. Just need to convince people to get me to do it more often

[BlackheathRugby @Blackheath_1858]

“Most predictions on social media age as well as a glass of milk on a hot play-offs afternoon in Richmond, but I accidentally called one correctly last August.”

Read @patrick_kidd’s season review on our website https://t.co/GzhqxpfBv5

#blackheathrugby #blackheathfc #club

[Ed Campbell @edcmpbl]

Tell you what it must have been class if Peter Murrell got your name in the SNP secret Santa

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@GrahamBrack @MadsDavies That's an interesting point, although being contactable is sort of part of the role. I suppose you can have a generic warden@stwhoever email address

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@WalkerMarcus @MadsDavies And that is good advice. I just don't think it is an especially big reason why people aren't volunteering to be wardens, whereas I have heard it given as a reason to stop volunteering to do something they'd done for years without DBS out of irritation with the bureaucracy

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@MarkinDowgate We reached it about ten degrees ago

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

The FA has decided there will be no team song in 2026, writes @patrick_kidd. What have we lost?
https://t.co/K0sryFhFvw

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@ThePubParis @thetimes I’d support that! @Blackheath_1858

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone, writes @patrick_kidd. But could they return?
https://t.co/K0sryFhFvw

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@HackBlackburn 24 mixed red and white and prizes for a cricket match and six Bouvet Saphir for me, so technically it could all have gone but Majestic is making presumptions

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

Ten days ago I bought 30 bottles of wine from Majestic. Just received an email from them with the subject line “Time to restock?” How thirsty do they think I am?

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

Some nuggets from my latest review for @Times_Books on a new biography of Alexander the Great

https://t.co/2T6UR6M6aP

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@Oliver___Brett Maybe they’re going to support Everton?

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@jcorrigangolf Come and watch the semi-pro club game instead. I think many sports are better the less money there is

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@pgconnolly54 Oh I have one. But only ten days between topping it up is a little frequent for my budget

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

@PaddyBriggs Good point!

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

Wigmore Hall is 125 years old. For the first 15 years it was called the Bechstein Hall after the piano manufacturer whose showroom was next door. But had to change its name in 1916 when the government banned “trading with the enemy”