I’m no expert, and I know there’s tough times ahead, but I’m not sure stoking panic at EVERY AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITY! is necessarily going to solve things.
Today, in an amazing victory for the Unite to End MND and the Sunday Express Fund the Fight to Cure MND campaigns, Boris Johnson has told us he’s given the go ahead for £50 million funding to research a cure for Motor Neurone Disease - like
@DoddieWeir5
we are over the moon!
I’ve just helped a woman on her own with a suspiciously heavy pram down two flights of stairs at Liverpool st station. When I got to the bottom I saw there was two very capable of walking dogs in it and no child.
Incredibly powerful words from Doddie Weir, Rob Burrow, Len Johnrose and others in today’s Sunday Express as pressure grows on
@BorisJohnson
@RishiSunak
and
@sajidjavid
to properly fund MND research
Realised that grumpily asking my son & daughter if they ‘think this is Blackpool’ after leaving the kitchen light on all night as they watch UFC has no effect if you have brought them up in the south east and never seen the illuminations
We’ve just realised that what we thought was a tablecloth that my wife inherited from her Grandmother and used as a tribute to her for Christmas day and Boxing Day dinner is in fact a duvet cover.
Not every week you meet a real legend. The Sunday Express is proud to be backing back Rob Burrow, the MND warriors and the
@mndassoc
in fighting for £50 million for a research institute - time to act
@sajidjavid
@BorisJohnson
@RishiSunak
Who would have thought when I sat watching Monty Python’s Meaning of Life with my older cousins as a kid that one day I’d be calling John Cleese a work colleague…
Hastily appointed new Sunday Express chief reporter while working at home. Regretting it as all he wants to write about is illegal mice cheese smuggling gangs and features on how best to wear whiskers this season.
Saying a multiple stabbing is 'not terror related' should not divert attention from a widespread deterioration of the state of safety on the streets of Britain.
Now the ‘kids’ are 21 and 17 I was worrying I was no longer needed. Daughter just asked for my help for the first time in months. There was a daddy long legs in her room. I do now have a purpose.
Brilliant piece with Stephen Darby calling on the government to give £50 million to create a Motor Neurone Disease institute in Week 3 of our crusade - while MPs write to
@sajidjavid
to demand he invest the cash
My mum is clearing out stuff from her house ahead of moving. She’s revealed how she wants things to go to the more ethical charities, although at the moment the Cats Protection league are currently getting everything because ‘you can park out the back.’
Only just realised it’s
#mndawareness
day - tweeted this before but it shows what it did to my dad and why the
@mndassoc
need as much help as possible.
Privileged to have BBC Breakfast’s
@sallynugent
write movingly today for the Sunday Express about her bond with Rob Burrow and his family as he battles MND. Also there’s hope the campaign to get £50m for an MND research institute is making
@sajidjavid
sit up and listen.
We need to bring back 1980s dads. They wouldn’t have let this snow still be here 5 days after it fell. They’d have formed paramilitary-style street-shovel gangs with other neighbourhood 80s dads they never normally spoke to within seconds of a flurry.
Week 2 of our campaign to secure £50m for a Motor Neurone disease research centre with a moving piece by
@CharlotteHawkns
about her father and a response from
@sajidjavid
… but we won’t stop until we get the money!
I’ve just met a man whose job was to pass messages between Harry H Corbett and Wilfred Brambell on the set of Steptoe & Son after they stopped speaking and now anything I achieve in life will be worthless in comparison
Family concerned to hear Durham police are ready to close an investigation into my mother in law being racially abused in the street near her home despite a CCTV and a pic of a potential suspect.
With Big Brother back on I’m already nostalgic for when I spent the early hours of Saturday mornings trying to convince exiting housemates to tell all for £500 to the Daily Star Sunday instead of the £10k from the News Of The World
What’s the point of telling kids to kick down the establishment’s doors if there’s no one there when they get inside?
...Me in the Sunday Express on the threat to social mobility if offices shut forever.
Judging by the fashions at our hotel bar (Ralph Lauren, Tokyo Laundry, Lee Cooper) it looks like all us dads went shopping in a panic at Tk Maxx the day before the flight
20 years this month since we sneaked off Godfather style to get married in Sicily .. luckily for me the bride wasn’t blown up a couple of days later .. after two decades with me Mrs B may not think it was so lucky
If everything in Holland and Barratt worked in conjunction correctly why is there not a generation of strapping, superfit 150 year olds knocking about the place?
Today the Sunday Express is launching a new campaign to get £50million from the government to fund a cure-finding MND research institute - Give us the funds so we CAN cure Motor Neurone Disease |
Just told my daughter that if she beats my GCSE results without having sat the exams, I’ll be stood outside the school gates on results day with a megaphone shouting ‘fraud!’
Having just been in TK Maxx I can reassure that, despite only 80 people in at a time, someone is still chucking hats and bags on the floor, all the Calvin Klein undies have been unboxed and there’s still plenty of weird shoes by designers that sound a bit like Armani..but aren’t
The shameful moment Sky News viewers saw the terrible standard cup of tea I’d made for
@annistherapy
in between paper reviews after she conspired with
@skystephen
to humiliate me
19 years ago this week we headed off to Sicily with a four year old best man and another little ‘un on the way to get married.. think James is trying to say he gives it two years in the picture
Cleaned under stairs and found these. Kids baffled. Told them humans used to fill them with terrible clothes, fly ‘abroad’ to sit round a ‘pool’ belching with other badly dressed British people before spending up to 14 nights drinking heavily to the bemusement of ‘hotel’ staff.
I’m aware bigger conflicts are brewing around the world but our cat Bob (right) and this cat have been staring at each other for 10 minutes in our back garden and I’m concerned it could escalate.
Honoured to have
@LJohnrose
in the paper as part of the campaign to get
@BorisJohnson
and
@sajidjavid
to give £50 million for a MND research institute - we’ll not stop until we get it!
Me and the my feline advice team prepping before the BBC Papers this morning - she wanted me to focus on the dangers of the mice population while I wanted to stick to what was in the papers
I don’t really want to go in other people’s houses again - I’ve already forgotten what my fake, almost bearable, personality that I use in ‘company’ is like
If this report is still being finished tonight it might be done in a rush like Line Of Duty - and it all gets blamed on a minor character from season 1
Bob called a family board meeting after the vaccine news. He wants to know who will pander to his every need all day if we all start leaving the house again.
Sightly concerned Branson's space team doesn't appear to contain a maverick, stubbly, alcoholic, cowboy-hatted space veteran who, though flawed, knows how to deal with aliens.
@LucyABeaumont
@MarkLabbett
I lived in Hull for three years at uni and it’s got the same share of history and tradition that all the north of England has. Anyone who treats Hull as a joke is wrong. I’d end my days there if I could. As long as the Mainbrace was still open…
This is my first ever shed - I was hoping to do a Meghan & Harry and raise the money by selling the rights to a TV documentary about my life but Tyne Tees TV wouldn’t believe I was as popular up there as Jimmy Nail. Looks like I’ll have to find the cash elsewhere.
Now Tesco have removed floor arrows the greatest restored freedom is the ability to walk freely from confectionary to crisps via bottles of pop rather than the opposite, which was just plain wrong.
Here are the contents of just one of my 16-year-old daughter’s school blazer pockets. This is another reason why people of her age shouldn’t get the vote.
Just done the first post-Greek holiday shop buying lots of aubergines, peppers, olives, fruit and yoghurt which I have put in the fridge to turn to a mushy pulp over the next few days when we order out.
As politicians spend the week pontificating about saving the world, closer to home MND remains the ‘forgotten disease’ as
@Rob7Burrow
tells the Sunday Express - he’s ‘devastated’
@RishiSunak
and
@BorisJohnson
didn’t help in the budget..but he won’t give up
Diagnosed with MND at 29 - Jo Knowlton and
@MNDScotland
urge the government to do more to fund the fight against Motor Neurone Disease in today’s Sunday Express - I hope
@sajidjavid
is listening …