Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 2hOnly a couple but the “better to have EU immigration than from Asia” people you occasionally get. 120
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 3hI used to live in the EU, am naturalising and think Brexit was an act of colossal self-harm. The FBPErs and their casual racism coupled with a desire to see Britain punished harder drive me nuts. 160
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 7hThey fold in to each other, don't they? Like, if you look at something like Kohima, both IJA and British and Indian armies had motivation and spirit, but the RAF and USAAF supplying crucial arms and food was a big contributor to Britain and India keeping their morale up whilst Japan disintegrated. 020
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 10hI was only about an hour late, but when I got on I was told that the restaurant was shut as someone had booked it for a party so no breakfast either. Then got no sleep at all as people were being loud and drunk in the corridors outside our room until about 5AM. 110
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 11hHas anyone ever had a trip on the Cally Sleeper that hasn't gone badly wrong somehow? 220
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 23hI’m still surprised BMW made such an achingly-beautiful car, because just about every other one they have made recently is nowhere near as nice. 020
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026I went to the reopened Simpsons-in-the-Strand and had an outstanding meal from a chef who really understood savoury so well. But it wan't super-spicy, so a lot of people unfortunately write it off. Had some great swordfish in NY recently too, that was a fr cry from fast food US is known for. 210
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Accenture or Cap Gemini about to have some analysts on very lucrative contracts for the next fifteen years. 040
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026In my experience, US and British food are both incredible at their best and unbelievably diverse, but really bad at their worst. For some reason, the food discourse people don’t do the nuance. Probably because there’s a lot of money to be made on other social media by creating ragebait. 250
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Yeah, I think it's about six grand London to Geneva. But if BA's Club Europe is £900-£1000 pp for that flight, then PJs aren't horrific for a family in that sector. (I'm just a pauper who pays in Avios, though, so well beyond me). 000
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Well, yes. You replied to my skeet about how much better transatlantic flying is these days. Although I probably didn't help talking about Singapore First Class. As for short-haul, if you're willing to spend a grand or two, some of the smaller charter airlines are extremely nice. 100
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026True. And if you are a transatlantic flyer, Global Entry and TSA Pre makes getting through that side a doddle. 010
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Go Singapore Suite or Emirates First or even BA’s Club Suite and you will have a much nicer experience than forty years ago. 100
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026I remember going to a talk on the challenges airlines face, and one speaker pointed out that a return from London to New York in 1985 was about £500 in economy, which is pretty much what it costs today. Dislike flight nostalgia people. Everything to do with flying is better now (except security) 240
Reposted by Jon Connorton Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cannot stop giggling at the image of being out with your mates, looking forward to a quite afternoon of nicking heating oil. Sun's out, it's warm, you're mooching round Gloucestershire... Dazza's just got the siphon going and suddenly a small army of armed police appear and start screaming at you. 6476
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Do wonder when the weirdo wellness brigade are going to properly come for GLP-1s. 110
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026I haven’t taken reta, but Mounjaro has done wonders for my blood pressure among other things. 120
Reposted by Jon Connorton Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself. 94143093
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 30/09/2026Every time there’s any article on EVs on social media, you always get a horde of weirdos or boys saying “diesel is much better and that’s what I’m buying.” If they are real, I wonder how they’re going to cope with the US export ban. 150
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026Nice to see Spurs are going to finish above Man City this season. 030
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026Don’t even have to do that. Cycling just declared no winner of several races when Lance Armstrong was convicted. 050
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026How do you maintain supplies in the tundra? Or advance or do anything? Russia can’t properly maintain Russian Far East, so that’s the point of trying to massively overextend just to grab bits of Nunavut and NWT? 001
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026Also the people that talk about Starmer and Burnham’s “Israeli Paymasters”. 010
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026FT Alphaville once again pursuing the real news again. 010
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026Hope you are all having as nice a day as our cat apparently is now the electrician has turned up. 040
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026We did, but getting kids to remember their hymn books in their blazers was such a faff that the school just gave up. 100
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comITYSL: Tim Robinson's Disappointed Head ShakeALT: ITYSL: Tim Robinson's Disappointed Head Shake 060
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026In the chat, it seems to have current events mapped in much better. 000
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Might be prepared to admit that it looks odd in Woking, though. 010
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Surrey Hills and North Downs are challenging! Also very muddy out around the Serpent trails near Hazelmere. 200
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Buy a twenty year old Land Rover County and put a damp Labrador on the back seat? 000
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Dogging very much means one thing in the UK these days. Please do not do an image or video search without safe search on. 1210
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Nice to see Surrey how committed Surrey are to winning the women's cricket. Can't have the Bl*ze winning everything again. 000
Reposted by Jon Connorton Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471173349
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 28/09/2026Not entirely sure how Reform would take "for those in peril on the sea" right now, given their attitude to the RNLI. 1160
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026I'm trying to deal with this by pretending this is some hideous phantom or revenant dragging Yousaf to hell, rather than someone portraying a dead racist as Christ. 030
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026I get people don’t like the Hundred and have my own issues with it, but Jesus Wept you do not have to bring it up in every single conversation about cricket, even ones that have nothing to do with it. Some people are monomaniacal. 020
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026In fairness, it’s cost me nothing because my wife paid for it. 100
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026I have introduced Janna to the game “daughter or inappropriately-aged girlfriend?” 000
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026Very much mugging territory. Seventeen quid for some halloumi and chips, seven pounds a pint, eleven quid for cocktails. But not sure if that’s mugging for central London. And only three quid for a decent flat white. 100
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026Yes, hence why a Liz Truss approach is unpopular with people with financial literacy. 110
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · 27/09/2026I cannot imagine anyone at Kohima, regardless of profession, would not have had a very intimate knowledge of combat. 100
