Sean Coughlan

How fair is the honours system? Few of the top honours go to people in the north or to people from poorer backgrounds, despite being framed as for ‘unsung heroes’. https://t.co/Tn76LbcuA1

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On a train with the windows covered in graffiti. So at least can’t see all the graffiti along the tracks.

First Humanitarian Medals awarded. Anna Daniell, one of the first recipients, says it's a positive sign to honour humanitarian workers who respond to international disasters. https://t.co/ZN2IutCGWV

Sad to hear of David Lodge’s death. He captured that post war sense of social mobility and how higher education opened up alongside. Remember interviewing him in the early 1990s at his home in Birmingham. Unpretentious and kind. https://t.co/kH9cHnTDiC

At dentists and had to pre-pay before getting check-up, because people were doing runners after seeing dentist. Never had that before. What does it say about the times we live in? I suppose they’d make a clean getaway.

This must be where the over entitled shoppers go? https://t.co/CxXXozblUu

He must have turned up in the end? https://t.co/6MEnD9cWUB

When Harry met Boris. The Spare and the Hair Apparent? https://t.co/M8YrCPlGDf

The new Prince Andrew Newsnight interview film from Amazon @PrimeVideo has a powerful, bravura performance from @michaelsheen. Alan Partridge meets Richard III. Well worth a watch. https://t.co/Ayf7uwpOJQ

Saw this label in Waitrose. But why would you want to eat a pet anyway? https://t.co/uiWwhSn5E3

Airports are a great case study of how we normalise things that would once have seemed terrible. Customers being barked at to take off their shoes and belts, elderly people being ordered around like prisoners. I know, I know, security, but still grim what becomes accepted.

Irritating when cheapest wine on the menu is so overpriced. In a tapas place yesterday and the cheapest white wine was £40. Kind of an ambush. Not mega fancy place either.

This must be the summer of Cruzcampo. Seems to be everywhere, swigged in every pub. Cheerfully anonymous, reliable booze. Like the house sauvignon blanc of lagers.

RT @ArmandDAngour: Qui docuit cunctos resecare et ponere verba Hic iacet indomitus; non iteratus erit? The man who taught us cut and paste…

Orange wine. Interesting, but it doesn't have an orange taste? Not a bad thing, but not the taste you're anticipating?

RT @LiamConlon2: After a lot of back and forth this week, I’m delighted that community street cleaner Paul Spiers will be going on a well-d…