Twitter accounts of political giants (Michael Ignatieff has had some nice fish!)

by | Aug 14, 2009


Twitter, eh?  Helps us relate to the great and good like never before.  In times past, I would have spent the day vexed by the impossibility of knowing if Michael Ignatieff had anything nice to eat recently.  No longer!

Just ate some of the best salmon I’ve ever tasted: Atkin salmon, a jewel of the region at l’Auberge Beausejour.

And I could not have known that Shashi Tharoor was feeling peeky…

battling a cold and cough so will call it a night. No reason to suspect swine flu, though! Media-led panic is unnecessary&disruptive

…though that doesn’t stop him feeling pretty good about his day’s work:

addressed an overflowing audience at St Stephen’s on Why Foreign Policy Matters. Impassioned plea to young to care about international relns

I bet it was!  Let’s hope they tweet about it…

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