Patrick Kidd

@patrick_kidd

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

Joined March 2011

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 25

"The moment is a fragile thing. It’s fleeting, even unseen by the naked eye. Our job is to make sure we don’t miss that moment." My latest @ObserverUK obituary is on Bob Daugherty, AP photographer who captured the highs and lows of US presidents observer.co.uk/profile/obitua…

patrick_kidd's tweet card. From political leaders to Derby winners, he was always ahead of the pack in the right place at the right time

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Patrick Gibbons@ReleaseGibbons · Jul 26

🎙This week's @spectator out loud: 🗣 Ian Thomson on Haiti's Hotel Oloffson 🗣 @patrick_kidd on Trump & golf diplomacy 🗣 Mike Cormack reviews Irvine Welsh 🗣 Ursula Buchan on the Palm House at Kew 🗣 @RichardBratby on snobbery & Strauss spectator.co.uk/podcast/ian-th…

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 22

Competitors in the Soho Waiters Race try to avoid having a smashing time. My latest Sketches of London piece for ⁦@thetimes⁩ on a fine athletic tradition that’s been going for 70 years thetimes.com/article/ae350c…

patrick_kidd's tweet card. The annual contest, now more than 70 years old, requires waiters to navigate the streets without damaging the bottle of fizz and ashtray on their trays

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Tom Whipple@whippletom · Jul 20

There are two responses named "Operation Halfmoon". It is absolutely imperative - I really can't stress this enough - that no one gets them confused.

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 17

"The grounds are hard, the ball is hard and the men are hard. You need to be harder than they are." (Len Hutton.) I reviewed @RWhitehead61's new book on the 1954-55 Ashes, when England won in Oz despite (gasp) being led by a professional, for @spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-fo…

patrick_kidd's tweet card. Lord Hawke, the grand old man of Yorkshire cricket and stalwart of the MCC, was not one to mince words. A century ago, the administrator rejected calls for the national XI to be led by Jack Hobbs....

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 16

Went to Keighley yesterday to see The Railway Children, which begins with a steam-train ride on the stretch of track used in the 1970 film to a theatre in an old railway shed. A wonderfully creative production which earned a five-star review thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ra…

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 16

My latest London piece for ⁦@thetimes⁩ is on Peter Sweeney, doorman at the Goring for 60 years, who spoke about Liz Taylor complimenting him on his eyes and on being allowed to sleep in the bed where Kate Middleton spent her last night as a commoner thetimes.com/article/6f634c…

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 17

Imagine his wife finding out he likes Coldplay in this way.

UUnlimited L's@unlimited_ls · Jul 17

NEW: CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot from Astronomer caught having an affair on the jumbotron at Coldplay’s Boston concert

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Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd · Jul 17

After being named in the squad for Saturday, and assuming he comes off the bench, Will Stuart will become the 44th to play in a Test for the Lions after earlier playing for @Blackheath_1858, the first since Jeff Probyn in 1989 blackheathrugby.co.uk/club-and-lions/

patrick_kidd's tweet card. Blackheath Rugby was honoured to be visited recently by representatives of Howden, the insurance broker who are sponsoring the British and Irish Lions on their tour to Australia. As part of their...

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