Monday, 13 August 2018

In Praise of Twitter, a Continuing Series - the New Reporting

Today, I was able, via Twitter, to get an understanding of a story that I haven’t been able to find a straightforward report on in any newspaper to date. Here it is,  a thread setting out what appear to be the facts about Jeremy Corbyn and his wreath laying activities. I should point out that I have no axe to grind about Corbyn - I simply wanted to know the facts, and the Twitter format supplied them admirably, I thought:























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4 comments:

  1. George14 August 2018 at 01:09

    I guess it was Corbyn's and not Bickerton's attribution, but Ramsey Clark was Attorney General during Johnson administration.

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  2. zmkc15 August 2018 at 08:56

    Thank you. I have a friend who is devoted to a multivolume biography of Johnson so she will no doubt be on the telephone to set me straight on that before long. Now I can say, “I know”

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    1. George16 August 2018 at 13:52

      Reading Robert Caro's multi-volume biography of LBJ seems to me a bit like bicycling across North America: I admire the endurance of those who can do it, but have no impulse to try the feat myself.

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  3. zmkc16 August 2018 at 21:19

    Well strangely enough this friend has just bicycled from somewhere in Bavaria all the way to Sarajevo so there may be something in your analogy between the two pursuits

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