🏝️ "For all his undoubted intellectual abilities, Cummings has at times shown Celebrity Love Island levels of stupidity. There have been many mistakes but arguably his most elementary error of all has been picking a fight with Carrie Symonds"
❌ "Aside from his Domvotees, the general consensus in SW1 was that Cummings’s short-lived tenure at No 10 was pretty much an unmitigated disaster...He was about as suited to government as Jean-Claude Juncker is to dry January"
👓 "There was nothing 'genius' about him alienating Spads, civil servants, MPs, ministers and the media during the biggest national emergency in peacetime, while undermining the entire Covid strategy by trying to find a branch of Specsavers somewhere off the A688"
🏉 "I appreciate that the pandemic handed a hospital pass to someone who had clearly never been captain of the school rugby team, but Cummings’s act first, think later strategy was always doomed to failure"
🥾 "Johnson should have put a toe up his backside long before others started putting the boot in. That’s a failure of leadership the Prime Minister will continue to have to live with, since he was the one who naively gave Cummings 'special powers' in the first place"
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🇬🇧 More than twenty years after the idea was conceived and double the estimated price, HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on her maiden voyage as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group Deployment, the biggest deployment of UK naval firepower since the Falklands War
Weighing 65,000 tonnes, travelling more than 26,000 nautical miles and visiting a total of 40 countries over seven months, HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail through:
⚓ The Mediterranean Sea
⚓ Arabian Sea
⚓ South China Seas
⚓ Indian Ocean
⚓ Pacific Ocean
📚 On the morning of 9 March, 2019, Hilary Mantel finished writing The Mirror & the Light, the third volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy she had spent 15 years on
🏴 "I wanted to leave the reader feeling that it was a tragedy, but not a disaster. Cromwell changed England, and he probably did everything that he set out to do. So although he must have gone to his execution in great distress, I don’t think it would be with regret"