Seeing a few shares of that Crooked House pub burning down in definitely not-at-all-suspicious circumstances recently has reminded me when Harry Redknapp definitely wasn't involved in something similar down our way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14465722

#Southsea #Portsmouth #CrookedHouse #HarryRedknapp

@hesgen @happy
Seriously impressive article. A masterclass in how to say "These corrupt loathsome scum did it" without actually using those words.
They should cover the Traitorous Rapist Trump trial.

#crookedhouse

How to portray the owners of the Crooked House pub as being crooked without actually accusing them of being crooked. The Guardian lawyers must have had fun with Marine Hyde's copy.

#CrookedHouse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/crooked-house-burnt-out-pub-historic-landmark

Q.: is the #CrookedHouse saga yet on more metaphor for thirteen years of #Tory rule?

[I think you know what I'd say]

The fate of a historic landmark has certainly struck a chord: neglected and then reduced to rubble. Uncanny isn’t it? - Marina Hyde

"Then again, the saga has not been without its happy accidents. The Taylors were incredibly fortunate to have a 14-tonne excavator already on site, the vehicle having been hired the week before the fire. "

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/crooked-house-burnt-out-pub-historic-landmark

#CrookedHouse #Arson?

Why this lament for a burnt-out pub? Is it because #Britain seems a bit of a #CrookedHouse these days?

The fate of an historic landmark has certainly struck a chord: neglected and then reduced to rubble. Uncanny isn’t it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/crooked-house-burnt-out-pub-historic-landmark
#ToryBritain

Oh Crooked House, so beloved and grand,
Your walls and floors left charred and blackened from land.
Your guests will never forget,
The life we shared, the fun we met.
Your memory will never be banned.

#crookedhouse #arson #fire #memory #ode #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/crooked-house-fire-arson-police-b2390415.html

"Excl: The #CrookedHouse is not the 1st pub to meet an unhappy end under the Taylors.
Adam Taylor bought the Sarah Mansfield pub in Willey, allegedly stripped out the interior without permission and won application to build 2 houses in the car park." Lucy Bannerman, Twitter...Times article. More people are digging around and finding things out about the Taylors, national news and press are on it, MPs etc. English Heritage? Not so much.

Annoyingly, a bit I wrote a while back surfaced as a similar short standup routine on Twitter... it wasn't that original, tbh, but odd that was pretty much bang on the same punchline.

But with recent news I think I can shoehorn in some refs to the #CrookedHouse - as a lot of my book is set in Black Country pubs.

#amwriting

Is it’s not crooked, or a burnt out shell is flat! How’s it gone so quick! So suspect and not gonna help the police investigation into how it happened! #crookedhouse

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/

30 minutes into the 2017 adaptation of #CrookedHouse , I finally figure out that this is literally a different book from #TheSecretOfChimneys. No wonder the MC has been switched from "just a guy helping out a friend" to "a detective helping his ex." (So far I prefer Chimneys though.)

#AgathaChristie