Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 29/09/2026He's storing all the water at the front, he's a frontrian 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/09/2026Seasonally inappropriate, but there is a brilliant variation of this joke in this track from the Sheeps Christmas album: music.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ZH...music.youtube.comMy Baby Looks a Lot Like Santa ClausYouTube video by Sheeps - Topic 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 08/09/2026I would be very surprised if the Venn percentage of kids who fit into "exclusively Welsh speaking at home, go to an English medium school" is larger than a rounding error. More likely the gap is down to education policy differences and wealth inequality in deindustrialised areas. 011
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 08/09/2026From about 3 minutes of searching: PISA tests students in the language of instruction, and around ~25% of kids are in Welsh medium schools. Only around 18% of the Welsh population describe themself as Welsh speaking. 111
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 02/09/2026Shout outs to For All Mankind for having the ensemble reach an overall conclusion in each series, as well as some personal arcs coming to varyingly terminal conclusions, then doing a hooning great time jump between series. The ~18 month gaps are fine when it's 8-10 years in the story. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 02/09/2026I've only watched the first ep of series 2, but I think I would have preferred they resolve the James plot in the first series and have the second series be Mitchell playing both brothers being made to work together in a hyper-awkward comedy of manners, lol. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 02/09/2026I've never watched any Beast content, but I did watch this long video going behind the scenes on Beast Games, and Jimmy categorically does not "understand games, competitions and people" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwa...youtube.comWhy was I invited to Beast Studios?YouTube video by Folding Ideas 030
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 26/08/2026My strange little brain vividly remembers John Redwood challenging John Major for the party leadership in 1995 (7 years old). Truly a bizarre one to stand out. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 21/08/2026I've had a scan in that specific unit before and if you thought MRIs were normally claustrophobic, well... 040
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 16/08/2026I've almost finished the excellent "Why Q needs U" by Danny Bate, which is stuffed full of weird things about the English language and does a good job of explaining how many of them came to be over 2500ish years. Worth a look. 001
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 15/08/2026I don't have a sleep paralysis demon, but I fear if I ever develop one, it will now be David Advance Plus+ 050
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 05/08/2026Wanted to find out how much more obscure of a columnist/author she is than Séamas, and... 0433
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 27/07/2026By complete coincidence a friend recommended these books to me about 6 weeks ago after following my suggestion to read some Discworld books, before you and Stephen were posting about then. Really enjoyed The Eyre Affair, will certainly read more! 020
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 26/07/2026Yeah, tearing through this at the moment and it's ace. What if alt-history Apollo 13 gradually merged into a more pacey Kim Stanley Robinson novel? Well it would be great, that's what. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 20/07/2026Fair play, having them walk in together to maintain the suspense is really funny. It's like they're waiting to hear who's going to the judges' houses and the production team don't want to give it away. 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 14/07/2026The Battle of Gravelines doesn't really have the same cultural resonance, does it? 050
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 11/07/2026They've got that Hamilton film as well, all those overworked CGI contractors and they couldn't make Burr Kermit? Miss Piggy Angelica? SAM THE EAGLE WASHINGTON?! 020
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/06/2026I know it's not the season for it, but Sufjan Steven's Christmas Unicorn is an incredible exemplar. 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 19/06/2026I want to know whose signatures are on the Strat by the TV. 020
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 05/06/2026One must imagine JD Vance having an absolutely horrible time. 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 05/06/2026FFS. Can't wait to see Johnny Flynn flossing. Jk, I'm not going to watch this show. 120
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 31/05/2026Imagine being the picture editor for this front page and going "y'know what, Streeting has a weirdly recognisable neck." 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 24/05/2026Any time my wife or I make a mistake, we shout to ourselves "I'm the DUMBEST BOY IN SKEWL!!" 040
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 15/05/2026I got it, but resented the purple set being based on at least one homophone that only works if you have an American accent. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 28/04/2026Last one: like in France, you have a second person nominated alongside you on the ballot paper who becomes the stand-in constituency MP if you are elevated to a job in government. Being the Chancellor or even a PPS while also doing a good job as a local MP is not possible. 031
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 28/04/2026The irony of course being that cycling and walking in MK is orders of magnitude more pleasant than a lot of other UK cities. It's easy to drive there, but without being at the expense of other more active means. 110
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/04/2026That QVC sketch on SNL UK had me fully crying laughing by the end. Incredible bit of business. 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/04/2026Lol, this is exactly what I thought of. He and his publisher breathlessly announcing that he'd invented a new genre where one uses speculative science to interrogate contemporary moral/ethical questions. Real florals in spring stuff. 1160
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 02/04/2026Sam here, what's the deal? Surely they didn't sell out ~3k tickets in 5 seconds. 110
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/03/2026Haha, I read the novel years ago and watched the show when it aired, he was by far the most entertaining character! 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/03/2026That's Yabushige delivering the line, not Toranaga. 130
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 05/03/2026The overlap of Chorndler and Phoobe's arms are messing with my brain. Spent a good few seconds trying to figure out what's going on there. 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 05/03/2026Maybe a goofy question, but what does WFA mean in this context? 110
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 02/03/2026You can't get Metanium anymore, they must have finished their last tube. 000
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 25/02/2026I knew you had a Norwich connection (I think we have some friends in common) but did not realise we were at UEA at the same time (I started in 2007). Now when I try to get people to play Jason Statham's Big Vacation I can say "I was at uni with the designer". 010
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 15/02/2026This came up in my YT recs earlier in the week and after laughing hysterically for about 45 seconds (mostly then nose) I then realised it absolutely slaps and got very into it. Hope they come to London! 080
Tony Elford | Conway @tonypconway.com · 14/02/2026Would it please you to know that one of the nicknames for the beeb is Auntie? And that there was a bloopers show for many years called Auntie's Bloomers? 010
