Callum May

Callum May

@callummay.co.uk

News person. The usual stuff.

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England were given a 100pc chance of winning when I checked a probability-based cricket app with eight Pakistan wickets down

Shouid we be looking at #bhafc not just for the champions league but as title contenders? Dion Dublin: “Yeah, why not?” That, for me, seals the deal.

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Spotted near the 30km marker at the Antwerp Marathon, a spectator holding a handwritten sign: “Je hebt zelf voor dit gekozen” (= “You chose this for yourself”)

Discovering that Nick Knowles's personal service company is called "Augustine Goodvibes Ltd", which is presumably what everyone was saying in Canterbury in 600AD

Paper round at a shop owned and run by an elderly man with one female employee. I was 13. Six weeks in, the boss died. The shop closed. I’m lucky that it’s my only compulsory redundancy but what an age.

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A man on the bus tonight tried to pay his fare with one tube from a large crate of Pringles that were fairly obviously not acquired by legitimate means.

The bus driver sensibly gave him short shrift and I think suggested that he didn’t want any knock-off crisps. “They might be stolen but I definitely paid for them,” said the passenger. Let’s hear it for Northolt everyone.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

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Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

BT and EE have merged but changing broadband account from one to the other to take advantage of a cheaper deal is a colossal pain in the hoop.

The scope of judicial review widens even further: it can now be on telly.

Shoaib M Khan@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social

Court broadcasting is being expanded, so Administrative Court proceedings and sentencing remarks by the Chief Magistrate can be filmed for the first time. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Free advice: if you work for a politician, don't have them filmed in front of a big window, and don't put your hand in front of a camera lens

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“Archer was to become a master of both ‘suggestio falsi’ and ‘suppressio veri’”

Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com

This is as magnificent as an obituary as the life of its subject demands. Jeffrey Archer, perjurer, fantastist, charismatic grifter went to prison yet died ennobled; but somehow I still feel nostalgic for this specific breed of untrustworthy wrong'un www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

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This is brilliant. Ever wondered where Core Group Negativr are now? How many of the Cabinet voted against triggering A50? Which Lib Dem MPs have Labour as their closest challenger? It’s all here!

Josh Self@josh.politics.co.uk

Explore 300+ filters, including endorsements in leadership elections going back to 2010, in @politics.co.uk's new Political Profiles database: politics.co.uk/database/

Great fact, one of the Trevor and Simon “We don’t do duvets” characters’ names was “Don Draper”

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