Timothy Barber

Features writer, editor, content this and that: watches/culture/luxury etc (especially “etc”). Gloucestershire arriviste.

[Timothy Barber @TimTomato]

@PostOffice Hi. My parcel was guaranteed delivery by 1pm today. It’s now 15:10. No parcel. No way of finding out where it is. Plans reliant on parcel arriving on time now in tatters. What next?

[… @mrmuskisacunt]

‘We go straight to me’, ‘Terror man’, ‘It’s Chip Chapman’. This is jam packed with gold for such a short clip.

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

💯

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

Trying to compile history's maddest takes without this man's incredible output would be like listing the twenty greatest sonnets without including Shakespeare

[Trevor Beattie @trevorbmbagency]

Is there a more lazy, more vacuous, more infuriating public statement than ‘Lessons Will Be Learned’? How about learning a more empathetic and meaningful phrase, you thoughtless incompetent bastards.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Say goodbye to having a lawn in California. Grass is the first step. It’ll be the crops next. Large parts of the US will become uninhabitable due to water shortages. https://t.co/EYKahriQJv

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

As recently as 2015 China exported under 375,000 cars a year, fewer than India, and about as many as Germany and Japan shipped in a single month.

In the currently on pace to export over 4,000,000 in 2023.

https://t.co/8C8dMMBwa4

[Becky Barrow @beckymbarrow]

The saddest story in this weekend's edition? The number of teenagers doing a modern language for A-level has gone into freefall

Since 2013, German A-level -45% and French A-level -37%

https://t.co/AkMMfPB3fS

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Nature is amazing!
A camera recorded from start to finish how a bird built its nest and had its chicks.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

How it started. How it’s going.

[Alexey Navalny @navalny]

19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime.

The sentencing figure is not for me. It is for you. You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. You are being forced to surrender your country of Russia without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist.

[Evgenia Kara-Murza @ekaramurza]

Next comes the strict regime prison colony. This is the father of my kids. I’m so proud of you, my love!

[Timothy Barber @TimTomato]

@fkscholz Say what?

[Brendan May @bmay]

Bloody hell this is really magnificent from @asda Chairman Stuart Rose (formerly @marksandspencer)

More of this. Much more. It’s vital that business leaders speak out in this way. Bravo. 👏

[Timothy Barber @TimTomato]

@rich_thomas99 You’re on the coffee table in our house currently - next to RC Robertson-Glasgow.