Titbits – Big Bang blares and political prayers

◆  Cllr Jon Burke has finally been picked up on his open denigration of geeky US sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Bewilderingly, a whole two years after Burke tweeted that the show is “#notfunny”, his colleague Cllr Carole Williams bluntly replied: “You’re wrong.”

Burke quipped back: “Of all the things to force a split in the Hackney Labour group.”

Burke’s recently expanded cabinet portfolio may explain why Williams, the Town Hall’s employment and HR chief, was rifling through his old tweets. 

Good luck getting through all 64,000 of those. That would be enough to make anyone question how and why we all ended up here.

◆ Talking of the cabinet reshuffle, planning and business boss Cllr Guy Nicholson’s promotion slipped under the radar somewhat.

Not so for Nick Perry, chair of heritage group The Hackney Society.

On hearing that the dashing councillor has added culture, libraries, museums and archive services to his brief, Perry, probably the one person you’d want on board if you were Nicholson, remarked simply: “Oh God help us.”