Hello! If you’ve not seen the last couple of editions, you will have missed that I’m holidaying in the backcountry While I’m away I’ll be sharing a bunch of items that I’ve been saving for later. Now read on…
A few months ago, Mr Russ Jones who creates the peerless Week In Tory tapped out a short autobiography while he waited on election results. It was so good, but also so very strung out on a Twitter thread that I don't want to impose that marathon on you. So here it is, copied and pasted into one neat whole: @RussInCheshire’s telling of a truly ripping yarn.
By-election day in Tiverton and Honiton, so let me tell about their former MP, who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He had quite a life.
