Patrick Kidd

@patrick_kidd

Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: bit.ly/2NvsDFg. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath

thetimes.co.uk/profile/patric… Joined March 2011

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Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd 4d

Edmund Richardson’s excellent biography of Alexander the Great has won the Baillie Gifford Prize. I reviewed it in May for @RobbieTimes. He fought hard and partied hard and had the most expensive hangover in history. Alexander, that is, not Robbie

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www.thetimes.com Alexander the Great: he fought hard and partied even harder The most expensive hangover in history and cat warfare — Edmund Richardson’s retelling of one of history’s great lives is full of delightful nuggets

Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd 5d

Ironic given how much of the campaign Trump seemed to spend talking about bottoms

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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms will win Georgia governor's race and become the first Black female governor in US history, CNN projects. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4sNChoU

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Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd Oct 30

It's the annual London to Brighton veteran car run this Sunday. Wrote this about it last year. If you share my love for pre-1905 bone-shaking, smoke-spewing Gumdrops and Genevieves then get to Hyde Park at dawn to see them head off.

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www.thetimes.com And they’re off … slowly … from London to Brighton Veteran vehicles from over 120 years ago had nine and a half hours to complete the annual 60-mile celebration of the Locomotives on Highways Act

Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd Oct 27

What an astonishing result for Fleetwood Town, putting Arsenal out of the League Cup. And the most delightful thing as I listened to the finale on the radio was when a Hammond organ started to play in the ground as soon as the decisive penalty went in. Sheer seaside jollity.

Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd Oct 26

It’s October 26 and @theivycafe in Blackheath already has its Christmas decorations up. A couple of frosted pines and a large polar bear in a festive jumper. Quite jolly but if you can’t wait until Advent could we at less delay Christmas until after All Souls?