Peter Dick

Sometime civil servant, public health. Too many interests, too many unread books: history of art, complex systems, various areas of science & public policy.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@Peston Except you don't actually tell us (non-Labour party members) what happens AFTER Burnham is carried shoulder high into No. 10!

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@RaminNasibov The grandmother of someone who lived in my lifetime (Bertrand Russell, the philosopher) knew Bonnie Prince Charlie's wife. Charlie led the Jacobite rising in 1745.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@CCMarimba @MedUniDoc @BadreNicolas Sorry, I've forgotten - what is a 'newspaper'? 😃

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@lewis_goodall Yes, but it would be good to see Camilla knock Trump over with her handbag. 😀

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@thomasforth Not to mention hiding some of the shops away in decorated arcades! How are we meant to find them ? 😃

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@plyons45 Completely agree 👍

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@MartinSLewis @AnthropicAI Not a workplace but it omits the category 'retired old folk using AI to try to understand what on earth younger people are talking about'!

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@simongerman600 Don't we need to know the age range of the sample(s). Those of us in our 70s had Bob Dylan & the Beatles when we were 13 or 14, so of course we still loooove the music 😀

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@DataChaz ALGOL ?

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@donmcgowan I particularly liked Robert Preston's "almost every member of the Cabinet" supporting Starmer is "never a good look for a prime minister".

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@thomasforth I misunderstood your question. But my answer would be - Listen like a grandfather concerned as to how your grandchildren will travel to university in Liverpool or Manchester on the brand new trains just coming into service.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@simongerman600 From my experience, the massive improvement in the quality of non- and low-alcohol beer is a significant factor.
Merry Christmas.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@Dannythefink Those of us of a certain vintage will remember the hit song 'It's Your Party and I'll laugh if I want to'.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@thomasforth Say 'ciao' to the Italian towers. View from the train isn't as good as it used to be.

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@SammyObeid Scottish, lapsed Church of Scotland & only brown after holiday in the Mediterranean - I and everyone of my generation called older people in the family, including my mother's cousin, aunt or uncle!

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@artbookreviews @PippaCrerar Unfortunately I think this is true.

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@SCynic1 @AudreySuffolk @metpoliceuk I don't understand his fourth paragraph about police being put 'between a rock and a hard place'. Don't police, at all levels, have to (and do) make judgements about priorities? Some crimes, however much the law says they should be followed up, are not.

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@bmj_latest @mancunianmedic We've been here before 😱

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@lilminxem I imagine Thames Water (along with its fellow water companies) is pretty good at 'leaking' documents!

[Peter Dick @pdick10]

@thomasforth Those of us of a certain vintage half heard the news on the radio and thought "but isn't he from a Jewish family?"