Did you know, it’s 27 years to the day that the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and they bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox 
I love the deep Englishness of “you are not to feel bad about this”
The story’s from an excellent Matthew Engel article on the occasion of ‘Lunch with the FT’’s 18th birthday, another highlight of which is Scottish cyclist David Millar in a week off from training ft.com/content/930857…
Ewart trivia: Wikipedia says he died on 25 October, which – considering his Independent obituary was published on 24th – seems unlikely independent.co.uk/news/people/ob…
One of his best known works is this
https://twitter.com/john_self/status/414402843505065984
...but my favourite (although having a 14-year-old cat makes it tricky to get through it intact) is probably
Didn’t expect this to get this much attention. I have nothing to promote, so
...and maybe rescue a cat. You could end up with an indulged halfwit like this one, which I can recommend
https://twitter.com/MulberryCoates/status/1532976771003465729
(I like to think the person who tagged No Context Brits was trying to be helpful and bring this to a wider audience. Instead, it's getting an audience who know its source, because I blocked those thieving dogfuckers a while ago)
A final thing: that first tweet should say ‘British’ rather than ‘English’
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