Paper Retweet

The Times has printed one of my tweets. Holy fuck. I have been published by The Thunderer. For your infinite interest, the tweet in question is:

I think David Cameron's 'Big Society' is a GREAT idea. I've always wanted health, education & culture to be provided by religious nutcases.

It’s been retweeted a dizzying number of times. Searching back I think I have Mitch Benn to thank, who retweeted it to his umpteen followers.

In April, my equally incisive contribution to the political philosophy of the nation -

The Tories launch their manifesto from Battersea Power Station. From where the Cybermen launched their takeover of the world. Just saying

was massively retweeted and ended up in The Guardian.

Tweets are public domain, I think, and it’s interesting to see them published in a newspaper. It’s a bit odd for The Times to use public domain material and then stick it behind a paywall. Still, there it is.